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004 Hard Fish / Umbalakada

Sri Lankan Hard fish is same as Japanese " katsuo-bishi " used for cooking. You can buy dried fish any markets in Sri Lanka. If you were in Colombo, never miss Pettha market to get best quality one.Those are inported from Maldive Islands. When they use dried fish in Sri Lanka ,they break those in pieces and keep it in a dry place such as glass bottles. The broken dried fish is put into Vyanjana of Sri Lankan food. Although mainly used for vesitable dishes , you may use it also at meat dishs. Dried fish is indispensable also at the pol sambol which is the basic food of Sri Lankan cookery. Many Japanese shall be surprised when they get to know the Sri Lankan use Japanese - like food stuff for typical Sri Lankan food.