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Lunch Packets
The Mahaweli View is a small restaurant at the entrance to the Paradeniya Botanical Gardens near Kandy. The cafeteria in the Gardens was closed so we had to wait for the end of our visit to eat something. We tried a very typical Sri Lankan specialty called the "lunch packet" which is a meal inside a cardboard box. Children take these to school and office workers to their offices. The box generally comes with white rice, various vegetables stacked in each corner, and an egg, or a bit of fish or meat in the middle. Mine had the smallest piece of fish I've ever seen, but it was all very good and fresh.
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