translate English to French: The discovery was unexpected. Whilst salt fish is common and very much a part of the Sri Lankan diet as a punchy “rice puller” (a spicy condiment to accompany curries, also known as a sambol, which whet the appetite) the fact that locally produced smoked fish was still very much part of village diets today was new to me.
Ce fut une découverte inattendue : alors que le poisson salé est un plat courant, à la base du régime alimentaire du Sri Lanka et utilisé comme un puissant condiment épicé pour accompagné le curry (on l'appelle sambol, « qui stimule l'appétit »), j'ignorais que le poisson fumé de production locale puisse encore faire partie de l'alimentation des villageois.