Cook with Wasantha: Discover Local Sri Lankan Cuisine and Traditional Market Tour

With Wasantha guiding you, uncover the distinctive tastes of local cuisine while gaining insight into cultural customs. This class includes a trip to a community market, selection of unusual components, and instruction on how to prepare 5 traditional meals.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Wasantha’s Sri Lanka Cuisine - Hello! I’m wasantha,
    you will meet me at my restaurant where you will be greeted with a hot cup of ginger tea, and from there we will take a tuk tuk ride to explore the Dutch market and learn the history of the market, there you will be explained about the vegetables, the health benefits and how to choose them fresh,…
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • Lunch included
Meal Options
  • Rice and curry - rice with four different vegetables of your choice and fish or chicken curry
Location
Wasantha's Sri Lanka Cuisine
Yaddehimulla Road
we are located on the way to the jungle beach, just below villa thawthisa, if any confusions finding our place please contact the given number (Whatsapp) Sam's place unawatuna 0094772886761
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Koshalaf2024
Nov 8, 2024
Food - I recently dined here and was absolutely blown away by the experience! The food was a masterpiece, with every dish bursting with flavor and cooked to perfection. From the appetizers to the desserts, each bite was a delight. The ambiance and service were equally impressive, making for a truly
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Navigate65057865204
Oct 27, 2024
Excellent curry - and how to make it yourself - We like curries a lot, but we have never really managed to cook a good curry ourselves. At Wasantha we learned in one afternoon how to make an excellent curry. Wasanath gave us many tips on what to consider. Also our son (teenager) was well guided and had a nice experience. We were limited in time, but Wasantha still allowed us to do this cooking class. Thank you for the flexibility. So that we can cook something ourselves at home, we got numerous recipes. In the future, we will certainly also prepare our own curries at home, which will then be better than what is offered there in most restaurants.
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Heyslimm
Oct 16, 2024
Amazing experience learning how to cook authentic Sri Lankan food - Started with the hustle and bustle of the markets in the morning. Sasa went in great details about what fruits / veggies we would be choosing for our curries. After that, we went to the fish market and picked out the tuna, it was such a lively experience! We then spent a majority of the afternoon learning the techniques of authentic Sri Lankan cuisine and time flew by as we were having fun! After that, we feasted upon the food that we helped cooked and it was a pretty proud and accomplished feeling :) They sent us home with a plethora of recipes and which I am so excited to try once I go back to the states. Thanks Sasa your the hospitality and for sharing your beautiful culture through food
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Janrb4237nz
Oct 15, 2024
Truly amazing - Achtung!! We had a wonderful experience. The trip to the market was really awesome. A lot of useful insights. The cooking was done also really fantastic. Explain everything in detail. We had a great meal and no questions left unanswered. Thank you very much again.
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944timj
Oct 8, 2024
Best food - Best food in SL - unbelievable …..Wasantha and her family run. This unbelievably delicious restaurant in Unawatuna. I've never eaten better. She also runs a cookery school and teaches guests about Sri Lankan cuisine
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854marta
Oct 4, 2024
Delicious experience. - A fabulous class to learn how to whip a 'rice and curry' like a real pro. Wasantha, a 'curry wizard ' with over 40 years of experience, shares 'tips and tricks' (and her recipes) to take curries to the next level. Every dish was delicious and the pumpkin curry was exceptional. Don't miss out!
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Natalie_h
Sep 30, 2024
Authentic homely culinary experience - This is a review for 'Cook with Wasantha' cooking class booked through Viator. Had a wonderful time learning traditional Sri Lanka recipes with the lovely Wasantha and her family at their restaurant/home. The tour started at 10am and we went to the local markets to source our vegetables (we each got to pick one) and then a stop at the fish market for a piece of tuna. The produce was super fresh and we were given a nice cool fruit drink. We returned the restaurant and began prepping to make 4 vegetable dishes and one fish dish. Wasanth knows all her recipes by memory and she is so good at explaining her preparation. We learned how to cook perfect rice (rinse, rinse rinse!) and we requested a deep fried eggplant dish we had tried elsewhere and she made that too. She got us all involved in the cooking. By almost 2pm we had cooked up a storm and were able to sit down and eat with our newly made student friends. Recipes were airdropped to us (handwritten ♥️). My only recommendation is the knives could do with sharpening as they were quite blunt, but otherwise loved this authentic experience and cant wait to make the recipes at home. Also, Wasantha.. please sell bags of your secret spice blend!
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Julia
Sep 28, 2024
JUST DO IT!!! - Sasa, Wasantha’s daughter & heir apparent took us on a one of a kind culinary masterclass of Sri Lankan home style preparation & cooking. Tuk tuk to markets to learn flavours, different uses for all the displayed fruit & vegetables & protein. Back to an idyllic tropical family backdrop surrounded by birds & monkeys to cook 5 delectable dishes from scratch. Each curry a flavour bomb of sight & taste. I highly recommend either dinner or cooking class at Wasantha’s
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Navigate06958250832
Sep 17, 2024
Exceptional class and experience! - The cooking class with Wasantha was beyond our expectations! The trip to the market was fabulous and Sam was very informative on all of the vegetables. We got to choose 4 vegetables and brought them back to start cooking! Wasantha showed us how to make a traditional Sri Lankan curry with each vegetable. The personal touch and overall experience was definitely one of our favourites from our trip to Sri Lanka, I couldn’t recommend enough.
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Shelleycl7250yx
Sep 16, 2024
Traditional Sri Lankan food - Wasantha and her beautiful family were extremely welcoming and although we didn’t do the cooking experience we were lucky enough to watch one already in progress which wasantha explained every detail and very much included us and made us feel involved . Her love for food shines through in her beautiful Sri Lankan cuisine which we had the pleasure of eating at her family run restaurant with her daughters and son and her wonderful husband Sam . Wasanthas is an over all experience which I highly recommended to anyone travelling to Sri Lanka . Thank you Wasantha and family for having us we miss you all and your food already ! What an experience.
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From $39
up to 10 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).