We started Lakdiv Foods after realizing that it was very difficult to find the spices, authentic Sri Lankan product plus daily essential items in one shop. Our usual grocery shopping day will be several  trips to several different stores, and sometimes there would still be something we just couldn’t find.

This is certainly the case we Sri Lankans face in New Zealand. We used to wonder why there wasn’t one specialty shop that had a wide variety of authentic Sri Lankan products with other essential items, and eventually we decided to open that shop ourselves.