Bojoon.com takes Serendib to a place in Sri Lanka where an English Spring of gentle sunrays, invigorating breeze and colorful flowers pervades year round – Nuwara Eliya. A favorite haunt of the British during the colonial days, Nuwara Eliya still emulates the lifestyle of the English gentleman with its horse race course, Tudor-styled mini-mansions and log fires. St Andrew’s Hotel seems to accentuate the best of Nuwara Eliya – from its beautiful gardens filled with brightly colored flowers of all sorts, century-old architecture, stone-walled wine cellar and cozy rooms with its own attic.

The hotel’s executive chef, Lal Fonseka, takes great pride in his culinary creations. To him, his dishes must complement the character of the hotel and the region. His Fried Ice Cream in Strawberry Sauce is a classic case in point. Vanilla ice cream balls are coated in a cashew nut batter and quickly deep fried to be served with strawberry sauce and wild berries. The acute senses evoked by the extremes of hot cashew coat with the oozing icy vanilla ice cream and the sweetness of strawberries contrasting with the sourness of wild berries is just awesome. Charles I, who paid an enormous pension to His chef to keep his ice cream recipe – supposedly the first ever ice cream – a secret, thereby keeping ice cream a royal prerogative, would have died for chef Lal’s Fried Ice Cream in Strawberry Sauce!