F loating just below the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka is a stunningly verdant island cloaked in jungles. Roads lace their ...

A local food expert shares the best meals in Sri Lanka, coconut curries, fresh seafood, fried shorties, street food like kotthu, local tea, and more in Colombo, the highlands, and beaches.

The recently introduced “Mud Crab Fishery Management Regulations, 2024,” by the Ministry of Fisheries in Sri Lanka that aims to prevent the overharvesting of mud crabs is a testament to this.

A shift to better farming practices is possible, but Sri Lanka’s abrupt switch to organics offers a bitter lesson in how to change food systems in a sustainable way.

In his 2019 election campaign, he promised to move Sri Lanka to organic farming in a decade. He made good on that promise last spring, issuing a blanket order to ban all imports of agrochemicals.

Sri Lanka is well known for our giant mud crabs (also known as lagoon crabs), but funnily enough, we don’t often get to eat them in Sri Lanka because [most of the catch] gets exported to ...

In Malaysia, the wild-caught mud crabs are flown directly from Sri Lanka every two days. Each delivery takes 12 hours from the time the crab is caught to the time it arrives at the restaurant.

Found in the shallow, brackish waters off the Sri Lankan coast, mud crab is one of the country’s most popular exports. And since fancy seafood diner Ministry of Crab opened in the capital, Colombo, in ...