one job at a time in Pettah and later tried to make a living by selling things one by one. He also acted a comedy character in a stage play done in the village. On the day of the Great Eclipse on June 20, 1955, he was working at a hotel in the Ibbanwala Junction area. After working at the hotel for a short time, he left for another job and eventually ended up as a tourist dealer in Pettah. However, he had to return to the village because of the 1956 communal riots. In 1956, Pabilis got a job as a coal miner in kitchen at the Mount Lavinia Hotel through wife's elder brother. The first salary is forty rupees. At the hotel he met a chef named Uncle John. He made a curry dish from temple tree leaves. Seeing this, Pabilis walked all over Sri Lanka and found different types of food resources and culinary methods. As a result, more than 365 vegetables have been found in the country so far by Pabilis Silva. He also found 76 fruits, including carrots, beetroot, kohlrabi, and pepper. He got his first promotion to the position of a third grade chef. After fifteen years, he was the chief chef of Mount Lavinia. He always researched and searched for old food recipes. Later he made new dishes. That's his secret. Pabilis currently holds two Guinness World Records. That is, the world's largest milk rice and the world's smallest recipe book. The world's largest milk rice made by using 1,000 kilos, is 62 feet long, 5 feet wide and 1.5 inches high. Also the length and breadth of the world's smallest recipe book is 1 cm. It weighs 5 milligrams and is titled "Sri Lankawe Raja Bojana" in Sinhala and English. The idea of adding Sri Lankan medicinal foods to make a culinary encyclopedia came at his young age. A few of colleagues and Pabilis Silva used to go to other people's estates and pick coconuts and eat them. One day he broke a coconut and took it to the sea and washed it with seawater. It tastes really good and then continued to do so. It was a starting point to try new things. With that idea for more than 40 years ago, Silva published a culinary book Mahasupavanshaya. In the book, 90% of the edible plants in Sri Lanka are published