@Tropicalsenior I do love the international district too, but for spices i bring most of them from Sri Lanka when i travel or there are couple of websites that import Sri Lankan products into US.
@pastrygirl Unfortunately there are no Sri Lankan restaurants in Seattle or close by, There is one restaurant in Vancouver which has several Sri Lankan dishes "Kurumba Restaurant" in Port Moody, I have only been to that once and tried the Chiken Kottu and Beef Kottu and they were so good, I would say very close to good ones you find in Sri Lanka. Kottu is very popular dish in Sri Lanka.