The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Amman, Jordan, in collaboration with Hotel Grand Hyatt Amman, organized a Sri Lankan food festival, “the Unique Cuisines of Sri Lanka” accompanied by elegant dance performances.
The center of attraction of the food festival was the wide ranging selection of Sri Lankan seafood varieties like mud crab, black tiger prawns, squids, tuna fish, crab meat and lobster etc. In the vegetable section, koss (jackfruit), kehel muwa (banana flower) wattakka (pumpkin), gotukola, cashew, alukesel (ash banana), pathola, rathu hal (red rice), samba hal (samba rice) plain and egg hopers, string hoppers were featured. Every main item and ingredients were exclusively brought from Sri Lanka.
The prime objective of this food festival was to introduce food and the food culture of Sri Lanka to Jordanians and to promote Sri Lanka as a best tourist destination among Jordanians and other expatriates.
In the course of this successful event, Ambassador of Sri Lanka Mr. A. L. M. Lafeer, interacting with the guests, stated that this food festival would help bring the citizens of the two countries closer. Events of this nature would also help enhancing the people-to-people contact of the two countries, he further said.
The Sri Lankan dishes were prepared by a prominent Sri Lankan Chef, Mr. Nuwanga Siribaddanage who was flown in from Muscat, Oman, for the occation.
A 12 member Channa – Upuli Dance Troupe from Sri Lanka was entertaining the guests throughout the festival for three nights.
Dr. Abdul Al Razaq Arabiyat, Chairman/Director General of the Jordan Tourist Board graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and more than 50 Ambassadors based in Amman also participated in this grand food festival. Besides the large number of expatriate and local guests, diplomatic Corps, senior officials of the Jordanian government, travel and trade personalities too enjoyed the Sri Lankan food.
This food festival was the first of it’s kind organized by the Sri Lankan Embassy in Jordan.
Embassy of Sri Lanka
Amman
20-02-2018
