Dinner is amazingly healthy: stuffed tomatoes and zucchini with curry rice, beet salad, avocados, spaghetti, stewed turkey with prunes.

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The curry and rice dishes on sale at the back of the hall add an Indian wedding buffet charm to the proceedings.

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Then he went to a restaurant in the station and ordered rice and curry and a salad.

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Meals in Sri Lanka are referred to simply as "rice and curry", which belies the wide range of delicious dishes.

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They sell lentils, wheat-flour, parboiled rice, curry powders, chickpeas and toiletries.

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Another time it was arctic char with carrot-curry reduction sauce, coconut rice and wilted rainbow chard, eaten in a secret enclave lit by dozens of candles near the pond.

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KaoSarn, a family-run Thai restaurant, is consistently packed with diners who come hungry for its sweet red prawn curry and spiced roast chicken served with sticky rice steamed in a banana leaf.

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Peranakan-style black fatty pork... meat-stuffed cabbage... beef curry... fried yellow noodles... pork and rice sausages...

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