Sentence examples for string hoppers from inspiring English sources
noun
Rice vermicelli, as prepared in the cuisines of Sri Lanka and South India
String hoppers are also available, an essential side dish for mopping up the spicy curry sauces.
Her family, she said, "had hoppers and string hoppers, and we had bacon and eggs on Sundays".
Threads of rice flour called string hoppers are sizzled with vegetables and curry and the result, a string hopper kottu, is something like a Southeast Asian stir-fried noodle.
The hotel does a Sri Lankan breakfast of "string hoppers" (nests of noodles topped with sambal and curry sauce) that's a filling way to kick off a day of swimming or sightseeing in the city.
In Toronto, where more than two hundred thousand Tamils live, the string hoppers (nests of roasted rice-flour noodles, served with a variety of fiery curries) are varied and delicious, while the tacos are, on average, mediocre, because the Mexican population is a tenth the size of the Sri Lankan one.
For breakfast Sri Lankans make string hoppers, a steamed nest of vermicellilike rice noodles, and soak them with kiri hodi, a coconut broth infused with cinnamon stick, curry leaves, rampe, fenugreek, turmeric, onion and green chili: all the essential flavors of Sri Lankan cooking.
We add a string hopper (vermicelli with a mildly spiced coconut gravy to tip over it, and a topping of shredded coconut with the pungent kick of dried, crumbled Maldive fish).
On my first two visits, nearly all meats were wildly overcooked — even the chicken in an otherwise pleasant string hopper kotthu (think of rice noodles squeezed through a sieve, or chopped, then cooked like fried rice).
For $11, eat all you can of fragrant chicken, mutton and kingfish curries; eggplant with pineapple, sweet green bean, warm beet and mellow garlic curries; torn stir-fried rice noodles called string hopper kottu; yellow rice with cinnamon; and shredded coconut and fiery onion-chili sambols for condiments.
Besides business cards, you will need two good quality rackets (always have an extra in case you break the strings), a ball hopper or basket that stands upright and that can hold at least 50 balls, cones, pen and paper, sunblock, sunglasses, hat and tennis attire.
Yet even though the British are inveterate island-hoppers, few have discovered the string of pearls on Malaysia's east coast.
