Sri Lanka - Hoppers & Kottu - Street Food

Sri Lanka - Hoppers & Kottu - Street Food - Hoppers and Kottu are probably the most famous of Sri Lankan food. Available it seems everywhere, these cheap tasty street foods are amazing.
Hoppers (appa) are a range of dishes based on a fermented batter, usually made of rice flour and coconut milk with spices. The dish is pan-fried or steamed. The fermenting agent is palm toddy or yeast. Hopper variants can be either savory (such as egg hoppers, milk hoppers, and string hoppers), or sweet (such as vandu appa and pani appa).Savory hoppers are often accompanied by lunu miris, a mix of red onions and spices.
Kothu (chopped) or koththu roti (Sinhala: කොත්තුරොටි, Tamil: கொத்துரொட்டி) is a Sri Lankan dish made from Godhamba roti (a type of Sri Lankan roti) and vegetables, egg and/or meat, and spices; the bread is described as similar to parotta and roti canai. A common dinner dish, kothu has become popular in North American cities such as Toronto, as well as in New York City's Little Sri Lanka neighborhood. “Kottu Roti” translates to “chopped roti” in Tamil. Generally, the consumer chooses what and how much of the amount of ingredients are included if someone else is preparing. Kothu is considered the Sri Lankan equivalent of the hamburger, in terms of its popularity.
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