China Doll. Everything Is Great. Except The Food
As much as I love this logo… I love China Doll, the brand at least. They have, IMHO, the best logo in Sri Lanka, the best restaurant website (by far), efficient online ordering, everything. I also...
View ArticleColombo Criticism
My original headline for this review of Sea Fish was ‘THIS PLACE SUCKS’, but peeps wanted to tone it down. Very few people in Sri Lankan media do bad reviews. Perhaps bad isn’t the right word, let’s...
View ArticleThe Book Fair
The Colombo International Book Fair is mad big and kinda awesome. They estimate that like a million people come there, which seems high, but not impossible. We went to check it out yesterday and...
View ArticleThe Corruption Of Sri Lankan Girls As Barmaids
I’m kidding with the title. I think women as barmaids and waitresses is great. It’s just that Sri Lanka/Colombo has so few of them. Except O! Bar (at Dutch Hospital) which has girls working the bar...
View ArticleThe Hidden Farm In BMICH
We were checking out the Colombo International Book Fair (Sinhala/Tamil) and stumbled upon this random farm in the middle of BMICH. Not in the building itself, but to the east side. The CIC and...
View ArticleYAMU In The Daily FT – Froyo And Books
YAMU is featured in the Daily FT (newspaper) each week, which is cool, but I wonder if people read it. So here it is, you can read it. Our rough plan here is to produce awesome content online which...
View ArticleMcRice. Is Nice (IMHO)
McDonald’s is adaptive. In India they serve a paneer burger (McAloo Tikki, which I’ve heard is good) and have just opened their first all vegetarian restaurant. In Sri Lanka fast-food businesses can...
View ArticleThe Old And New White Horse
The White Horse bar, or brand at least, is old, dating back to colonial days. Generations of people have gone through that bar, wherever it is, drank with mates, met biological mates, gotten in...
View ArticleWorld Largest Kottu Tomorrow, Inshallah
Iraj’s Kotthu video. Pretty funny, especially the Prabhakaran part. UPDATE UPDATE: It’s rescheduled for Friday at 4 PM. Same place. UPDATE: This event is probably not happening. The Ministry Of...
View Article5 Customer Service Fails (In SL)
This winkle (bike shop) on my street has amazing service. Go to a shop with walls, however, and you’ll get active retardation. These are some things that annoy me about customer service in Sri Lanka....
View ArticleThe Orange Soda Taste Off
Most orange drinks in Sri Lanka CONTAIN NO FRUIT, retaining only the taste of orange in their own unique chemical creativity. Coca-Cola’s Fanta is the reigning king of all that is fluorescent and...
View ArticleThe Beer Index
How much does a beer cost? Seems like a straightforward question, and Rs. 140 is printed on the bottle (the big one, the Lion Larger if you will), but it’s not. A beer at a dodgy bar will cost about...
View ArticleGetting To The Cricket Match (R. Premadasa Stadium)
The marvelous six beer holder. Just did a short user guide on R. Premadasa Stadium, where the World Cup Final will be. Right now B tickets are going for like Rs. 20,000 (they cost Rs. 1,540) on the...
View ArticleLazy Customer Service
The flipside of stalker customer service is the lazy kind. Where they don’t care or act like you’re quite rudely interrupting them. The most recent personification of this has been the staff at the...
View ArticleRaw Beef Sushi
The Gyuu No Tataki at Nihonbashi, which I can’t even look at directly without drooling. Sushi, typically raw fish on rice, doesn’t surprise me anymore, but the idea of raw beef on rice does. Yet it is...
View ArticleMilk And Cookies (ie, Biscuits)
Milk and cookies, or as colonials would call it, milk and biscuits. These consumer degustations are extraordinarily popular in Sri Lanka, especially the biscuits, and are available in every kade. You...
View ArticleMcRestoration At The Colombo Racecourse
I’m all for the government’s urban renewal program which began with the Cinnamon Gardens police station and culminated in the lovely Dutch Hospital. Thus I was looking forward to the renovation of the...
View ArticleYAMU Mobile (Beta)
Janith’s finished a beta version of the YAMU mobile site. You can check it out at yamu.lk/m. It should detect your location (after asking) then you can click ‘Find Places Closeby’ [sic] to do what it...
View ArticleDredd 3D: A Review
This film has just stopped playing at the Savoy, which is a shame, because it’s really good. I caught it a few days ago and it’s really surprisingly good, and better for being in 3D. Too many action...
View ArticleDog Ice Cream (YAMU)
Il Gelato is selling dog ice cream for Rs. 280 a cup (80g). For reference, a liter (1,000g) of Elephant House is Rs. 220. Which is to say, this is expensive ice cream. I’m not one to say that people...
View ArticleThe Marley Concert
Bob Marley is a trishaw God here. The most popular international non-prophet in Sri Lanka would probably be him or Che Guevara. Right now, Che Guevara seems to be winning (judging by trishaw art) but...
View ArticleThe YAMU Android App
I haven’t been blogging much, I know. It’s partly because we’ve been doing a lot of work on YAMU, especially shipping 1.0.1 of the Android app today. It’s on the Google Play Store now. Inosh Perera...
View ArticleThe One Plate Project Part 2
Along with JWT and Anything.lk, YAMU is doing the One Plate Project again. This time we’re offering an ethnic shuffle of actual lunches. The premise is that Sri Lankans share food normally, you give a...
View ArticleThe YAMU Apps
The Greatest page on the app. I’m going to stop apologizing for long absences. It happens. We just shipped two new apps for YAMU, which would be a feasible excuse, if I’d done the shipping. But nay,...
View ArticleYAMU.tv
We just shipped a new thing at YAMU. It’s called YAMU.tv. As the name implies, it’s a place to watch video. Basically, it’s a page that will always have something fresh to watch, everyday, all from a...
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