Traditional Sri Lankan lunch at the home of the only internationally recognized batik artist in Sri Lanka – the late Ena de Silva -contemporary if Geoffrey Bawan. Our best meal so far – cooked by “Mamas” and for sure made with LOVE
Our host: The famous batik artist who once used this beautiful property as her workshop was the daughter of Sir Richard Aluwihare, the first Ceylonese Inspector General of Police and Lucille Moonemalle. The legendary batik artist began her lifelong devotion to art in the 1960s. Together with Laki Senanayake she started producing batik. In the 80s she returned to her ancestral home in Matale where she has been living ever since and where she fYouounded the Aluwihare Heritage Centre in her own front yard, where she trained the villagers in carpentry, wood carving, abstract hand painting, brass foundry, batik, tie and dye and needlework. Her design work was inspired by traditional Sri Lankan art and crafts. #srilankrew #enadesilva #curry
Our bus could not enter the roadway to the house, so we took a tuktuk to get there 🙂 
The mamas that cooked our meal
Rice is a staple food for Sri Lankans. We honour before we eat. That that gives life to us. We always keep it in a higher place. So that brings health and life
A typical meal has only 1 or 2 curries with rice. But because they wanted us to try as many as we can, so we had 22 curries in the buffet plus bread and 3 rice
