Starter Kit. Idea 99 of 500. Cluster 4
Street-food walks in Colombo, Jaffna and Galle with a guide who knows every stall's history
The mechanism, from the book
An app that tells people what is happening tonight converts a day visit into a 2-night stay.
The first step
Eat your way down one street in Colombo, Jaffna or Galle and write the history of five stalls, asking each owner's permission to bring guests. Then run a paid walk for four visitors, paying each stall for the food. The visitors' reviews, and stall owners wanting you back, are the proof.
- Who pays first
- Food-loving visitors who want to eat street food safely, with someone who knows which stall and why.
- What leaves today
- Visitors avoid street stalls they do not understand; a guided walk sends their spending straight to the stall owners.
Ask first
- the area Medical Officer of Health. Ask what checks street-food stalls already go through.
- Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority. Ask whether a walking food tour must register as a tourist service.
Check before you spend
That the stalls chosen are clean and willing, that guests with allergies are protected, and that the guide is licensed to lead tours.
Find out these three numbers
- What will visitors pay for a two-hour food walk?
- How many stalls would welcome a small group?
- What does food for one guest cost per walk?
A comparison from the book
Sri Lanka House. Chapter Seventeen
"Eat Sri Lanka in 60 minutes: Jaffna, Kandy, Galle, Colombo, the East Coast"
Every kitchen on the island, side by side, is the book's own food idea.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
From the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? by Dr Maheshika Halbeisen. The idea and the mechanism are the book's; this kit was written for the site.