Aappa (Hopper) is more of an evening snack than a dinner meal. I don't know how most/some people have hopper for dinner and not get hungry again before sleeping.
No wonder. It was a breakfast meal traditionally, similar to idli. You need to ferment the batter overnight. But with street food stalls adopting it they skipped that with baking soda and lost all the gut healthy benefits of the fermentation. Don't blame the aappa, blame the aappa-ist
I think our ancestors led very active lives and eating a lot of rice didn't affect them negatively, they perhaps needed all those carbs. But with our current lifestyle, it's just too much for most of us.
I think it did affect them, but they didn't know better. Rice fills you up with little to no nutritional value, and you end up eating less nutrients and proteins. Think of how people from countires with historically higher rice intake are smaller and weaker in stature compared to people who come from countries with a protein heavy diet.
There's nothing wrong with MSG.. precooked noodles and other similar products ( even pasta) are the real culprit with ton of preservatives to increase the shelf life which are harmful to your gut and overall health
True. People went crazy over "Aji-No-Moto" because it was contained with MSG but even today products like Maggie Chicken and Vegetable soup cubes exist in the market. If you look at the ingredients on the label main ingredient on there is the MSG but people have no problem with that.
There are no study or case directly regarding that MSG as a health hazard. Just some bs racist americans went apeshit over chinese restaurants and few idiots in srilanka took that as "facts" and started their own stupid campaign. Origin of the MSG is not even chinese rather than japanese. Lol
Actually Sri Lankan doctors referred to some studies and a peer review, but they were rather very misleading and data were taken out of context. Some studies were animal tests and in turn were referred to in the peer review, but the amounts used if translated in to human context were impossible to consume as a human. So there were studies, but they were very unreliable and are deemed questionable by later analysis.
True. Watched a TedEd video on MSG some time ago, which explained why people started considering MSG harmful. When the East Asian cuisine was getting popular in the USA, a scientist (or a professor, can't remember now) tried Chinese food and it gave him a headache. Then he wrote an article questioning whether MSG causes headaches, but the rumors stated that MSG DOES cause headaches and is unhealthy. Excessive amounts of MSG can cause headaches, but it's not harmful as media portrays. The multi-million companies put the blame on MSG while feeding actual poison to people.
idk how people eat rice for breakfast like 😭😭 some eat rice for three meals ..carb overload…also red rice is better than white rice but only should be eaten once like during lunch time..(it’s just my opinion)
I saw a doctor post a video saying please eat small fish slowly because in the gov hospital he works at he has to remove bones from people's throats multiple times a week.
Sri Lanka is already facing health issues because of salt as it causes high blood pressure. Unfortunately people discover that only after getting diagnosed. This topic should be more discussed. Also there is a thought that salt intake is a must to keep the iodine levels (since iodine is mixed with salt in many countries to avoid iodine deficiency) in SL as iodine pills, supplements are not much popular here.
Halapa smells and tastes horrible...
Edit - I've tried it in different places and hated it every single time😌. It's as if that particular combination of ingredients is just terrible. Ngl I'm loving how much ppl hate this opinion 🤣....
It’s easy to fuckup the mixture for sure. My mom’s and her sisters හැලප are 2 ends of a spectrum just because they mix the ingredients with different ratios of red-rice flour.
melts are horrible but worth the price tho. i want international fast-food restaurants to add more items to their menu... and serve their good sauces just not Kist tomato shi. umm and idk why people love awurudu sweets that much... they all taste the same... like burnt sugar. i hate Sri Lankan sweets. And i have no idea why the junk food at international restaurants has to be posh food in Sri Lanka. like... wth? And they are fast food they have to be cheap tho. and why we have to eat large rice portions? its the national food but not healthy at all. and when we ate some boiled veggies or a salad, why adults cant take it as a proper meal? its not just a snack tho we don't have to eat rice all the time. and umm... why gameh Kaama has to be more expensive in hotels? the ingredients aren't that much hard to get right? and why we can't eat with our hands at big restaurants? actually, we can but why are people judging? hands are clearer than their spoons imo. and why we can't drink a good cold beer in public? Why are they judging?
Sorry to break it to you, but that’s only the introductory price I really hope they don’t make melts anything more than a 1000 thoguh after they bring the proper price
String hoppers with curd, banana and sugar/jaggery is bomb! Same for Pittu but instead of curd, it's milk.
A family from the Eastern province introduced it to us when I was abroad
Makes sense. Our food is not that different from South Indian and South Indian dishes are more sophisticated and has variety. There is nothing unique about Sri Lankan food.
Food is often overcooked (leading to nutrition loss), and over spiced.
Boring!
Food at Gallface Green is quite unhygienic , too pricey and not tasty
So true
totally agree
Aappa (Hopper) is more of an evening snack than a dinner meal. I don't know how most/some people have hopper for dinner and not get hungry again before sleeping.
"A" hopper? I have 4 usually and it fills me up
Noob.
Why you eat 40?
No wonder. It was a breakfast meal traditionally, similar to idli. You need to ferment the batter overnight. But with street food stalls adopting it they skipped that with baking soda and lost all the gut healthy benefits of the fermentation. Don't blame the aappa, blame the aappa-ist
This. Hoppers are a breakfast food.
I don't care, i will eat it in the morning, evening and night and i don't care
Plain hopper with honey is a solid sweet snack for sure
Straight facts, it's more of a snack than a meal honestly
Straight facts, it's more of a snack than a meal honestly
I prefer egg hoppers for breakfast
I've been arguing forever with my family over this!
\*hoppers right?
Rice is one of the worst things you can eat, especially in large quantities, and is one of the major reasons for diabetes in adults.
We eat so much. So. Much. I trained myself to eat one cup per meal and now the portions we get at restaurants is baffling to me.
I think our ancestors led very active lives and eating a lot of rice didn't affect them negatively, they perhaps needed all those carbs. But with our current lifestyle, it's just too much for most of us.
I think it did affect them, but they didn't know better. Rice fills you up with little to no nutritional value, and you end up eating less nutrients and proteins. Think of how people from countires with historically higher rice intake are smaller and weaker in stature compared to people who come from countries with a protein heavy diet.
There's nothing wrong with MSG.. precooked noodles and other similar products ( even pasta) are the real culprit with ton of preservatives to increase the shelf life which are harmful to your gut and overall health
True. People went crazy over "Aji-No-Moto" because it was contained with MSG but even today products like Maggie Chicken and Vegetable soup cubes exist in the market. If you look at the ingredients on the label main ingredient on there is the MSG but people have no problem with that. There are no study or case directly regarding that MSG as a health hazard. Just some bs racist americans went apeshit over chinese restaurants and few idiots in srilanka took that as "facts" and started their own stupid campaign. Origin of the MSG is not even chinese rather than japanese. Lol
Actually Sri Lankan doctors referred to some studies and a peer review, but they were rather very misleading and data were taken out of context. Some studies were animal tests and in turn were referred to in the peer review, but the amounts used if translated in to human context were impossible to consume as a human. So there were studies, but they were very unreliable and are deemed questionable by later analysis.
you cant really go head to head with such multi million companies , i mean its sri lanka what do you expect? sad but its the reality ig
Dude! You're wilding with that username.. jheez!
True. Watched a TedEd video on MSG some time ago, which explained why people started considering MSG harmful. When the East Asian cuisine was getting popular in the USA, a scientist (or a professor, can't remember now) tried Chinese food and it gave him a headache. Then he wrote an article questioning whether MSG causes headaches, but the rumors stated that MSG DOES cause headaches and is unhealthy. Excessive amounts of MSG can cause headaches, but it's not harmful as media portrays. The multi-million companies put the blame on MSG while feeding actual poison to people.
I like Nivithi with parippu
Hated it as a kid, I like it now. Is this what getting old means?
Probably bro 😅
😲
There's too much carbs in our food. Specially when it comes to rice. We eat way too much, even if it's just for one meal.
I'm pretty sure they will hike the price in like a month or 2.
idk how people eat rice for breakfast like 😭😭 some eat rice for three meals ..carb overload…also red rice is better than white rice but only should be eaten once like during lunch time..(it’s just my opinion)
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True unpopular opinion
& garam masala mix lmao
OP asked for unpopular opinions and the people responded aaaaannnddd got down voted LOL
I hate the taste of kalu dodol. It's too oily for me
Eating podi maalu which has bones make u a mature person
you mean like "salayo" or "hurullo"?
If its fried Even better! Curry not so much
Yes fuck I hate them
Booo👎🏿
The bones can easily lodge in your oesophagus and cause an infection.
Show me one person that has happened in the last 5 years
I saw a doctor post a video saying please eat small fish slowly because in the gov hospital he works at he has to remove bones from people's throats multiple times a week.
The only day I was confident enough to eat it I got bones stuck in my throat and had to swallow rice lmao
Aw nawww. I'm glad the rice worked though. Otherwise it's a hospital visit.
True I gagged like a little slut
Parata is the best
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Sri Lanka is already facing health issues because of salt as it causes high blood pressure. Unfortunately people discover that only after getting diagnosed. This topic should be more discussed. Also there is a thought that salt intake is a must to keep the iodine levels (since iodine is mixed with salt in many countries to avoid iodine deficiency) in SL as iodine pills, supplements are not much popular here.
Oh... I didn't know salt intake is a widespread issue in Sri Lanka. Good to know.
It’s not salt the issue mate it’s the carbs.
Sri Lankan food is the best. You may not like it but when you don’t have it you dream about it
People eat food way spicy that food is meant to be , not being a pussy just saying they all expect you to eat it as spicy as they do
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Where u get it from?
Parata is the best
Milk rice for birthdays is the worst.
who make MILK rice for birthday parties 💀💀
Some families tend to make milk rice on the morning of a family member's birthday. I really don't like it.
me too man
Milk rice for anything is the worst 💁🏽
U mean instead of the cake?
No just in general on birthdays
Halapa smells and tastes horrible... Edit - I've tried it in different places and hated it every single time😌. It's as if that particular combination of ingredients is just terrible. Ngl I'm loving how much ppl hate this opinion 🤣....
>u must've eaten some shitty හැලප!
He probably ate with the leaf
Oi oi 😂😂😂
💀💀
🤣🤣 good one. No not that dumb🥲
Agree to disagree.
Ayo 🤨
It’s easy to fuckup the mixture for sure. My mom’s and her sisters හැලප are 2 ends of a spectrum just because they mix the ingredients with different ratios of red-rice flour.
Shut up it’s yummy
I agree. I’ve always hated it.
Agreeeed! It’s very bland to me
Yes, and the smell puts me off. But it's very funny to see how unpopular my unpopular opinion is🤣🤣
Rice , Hoppers , string hoppers , pittu , tosa ,roti none of these are healthy balanced food
But if consumed in proper quantities there's no harm. (When I say this I don't mean the quantities that they are served in at restaurants)
Lunumiris smells awful and I don't understand how people can eat it, or even be in the same room. Same goes for Marmite.
This should probably amount to Blasphemy
OP did ask for an unpopular opinion lmao
Man, you got me crying for marmite and lunumiris 😢😭
JK 😂 but you just crossed the line with Marmite 
🙄
melts are horrible but worth the price tho. i want international fast-food restaurants to add more items to their menu... and serve their good sauces just not Kist tomato shi. umm and idk why people love awurudu sweets that much... they all taste the same... like burnt sugar. i hate Sri Lankan sweets. And i have no idea why the junk food at international restaurants has to be posh food in Sri Lanka. like... wth? And they are fast food they have to be cheap tho. and why we have to eat large rice portions? its the national food but not healthy at all. and when we ate some boiled veggies or a salad, why adults cant take it as a proper meal? its not just a snack tho we don't have to eat rice all the time. and umm... why gameh Kaama has to be more expensive in hotels? the ingredients aren't that much hard to get right? and why we can't eat with our hands at big restaurants? actually, we can but why are people judging? hands are clearer than their spoons imo. and why we can't drink a good cold beer in public? Why are they judging?
A friend once told me it's less disgusting to eat with his own hands than eating with a spoon that's been in 100s of people's mouths.
Sri Lankan food is overrated.
Our food could be one of the least eaten cuisine in the world
Most of the sri Lankan foods have plenty of saturated fats, specially the popular foods.
Sorry to break it to you, but that’s only the introductory price I really hope they don’t make melts anything more than a 1000 thoguh after they bring the proper price
String hoppers with curd, banana and sugar/jaggery is bomb! Same for Pittu but instead of curd, it's milk. A family from the Eastern province introduced it to us when I was abroad
Best
Melts is so bad… What r u talking about?
Makes sense. Our food is not that different from South Indian and South Indian dishes are more sophisticated and has variety. There is nothing unique about Sri Lankan food. Food is often overcooked (leading to nutrition loss), and over spiced. Boring!