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  "description": "A Saturday food crawl in Pendle Hill: sambar vada, crispy hoppers, and filter coffee with pazhampori to finish.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-12T08:12:11.000Z",
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    "Pendle Hill",
    "Lathu's Pure Vegetarian takeaway",
    "Suprabhatam",
    "Cinnamon Leaf",
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  "textContent": "Jo woke up on the Saturday morning with a hankering for hoppers. The eating kind, that is. Hoppers (or _appam_ as I've known them) are a staple Sri Lankan/South Indian dish consisting of a thin, crispy, bowl-shaped pancake made from fermented rice flour and coconut milk. Pendle Hill and Toongabbie have a pretty sizeable Sri Lankan population and of the two Jo decided we’d go to Pendle Hill.\n\nHeading to Pendle Hill from Acacia Gardens was pretty easy. We walked over to the nearby bus stop to catch a bus to Blacktown. From Blacktown station we took the train to Pendle Hill.\n\nPendle Hill Way\n\nPendle Hill was only three stations away so it didn't take long, probably would have been like 10 minutes to get there. Once we reached Pendle Hill, we got off and we started walking towards our first stop - Lathu's Pure Vegetarian takeaway. We had our first food stop here and despite the name, they did have a few tables to sit at. Lathu’s is a vegetarian place and among all the choices, we had sambar Vada each. The Vada was pretty good. Being dipped in sambar, I couldn’t say if they were crispy or not. The sambar had a unique flavour, quite different from the Bangalore or Chennai sambars that I’m used to.\n\nSambar Vada & a display of the available food\n\nSlightly fueled up on the vadas, we went walking down the road aptly titled Pendle Way. Walking down the Pendle Way was like walking through market street back home as a kid - lots of folks walking about, some huddled talking to each other. A few places were blasting some music and in the midst of all of that I even heard a Suprabhatam being played somewhere. We entered a small bakery and picked up a loaf of whole grain bread to take home. From here, we crossed the road and went over to have the main dish - hoppers at Cinnamon Leaf.\n\nMuch like Lathu's - Cinnamon Leaf is also a small, unassuming restaurant with a few tables and display of the available items. They had a wide variety of items - hoppers, rice, biriyani, roti and more. We ordered the hoppers pack which got us one egg hopper, three plain hoppers with a meat curry (we opted for lamb) and a sambol. The hoppers were amazing - soft, crispy and done right. The egg hoppers were even better, and after having the lamb curry, I told Jo we should take home the string hoppers (_idiyappams_) and the lamb curry so we can have it for dinner!\n\nHoppers at Cinnamon Leaf\n\nWe'd been eating for a while but I still hadn't had coffee yet. We saw Sree Flavours, a Kerala restaurant which had _pazhampori_(banana fritters) and south Indian filter coffee, so we walked in. I noticed they also had egg puffs, so another item we picked up to take home.\n\nPazhampori and Egg puffs\n\nAll in all, a good day's eat (quite calorific, I might add).",
  "title": "Pendle Hill Sri Lankan food run",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-12T08:12:12.251Z"
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