Myanmar Travel Information

Myanmar offers a variety of noodle dishes: friend noodles. noodles in broth. noodles in starch soup. coconut milk noodles Chinese Muslim style and noodle salad. But an indigenous dish of noodles is ganing in popularity. It is Shan “soaked noodles” which come either in the wet type or dried. The Shan noodle base is the […]

Customarily the end of monsoon in Myanmar heralds an ideal climate stretching to around six to eight months for travel. The rainy season has ended as the cold season begins. The sky is clear and sunny and the weather is cool. Of course it is cooler in the hilly regions in the upper reaches of […]

Ingredients 2 ounces dry seaweed agar 2 cups sugar 2 medium or 1 ½ pounds Coloring grated coconut How to cook Soak agar in water 2 hours ahead to swell. Grate coconuts. Put grated coconut Into a clean wet cloth and squeeze pure cream from it. Keep this pure cream separately. Extract pure coconut milk […]

Myanmar “athoke” is rendered as “salad”. However. it is more various and diverse than what is generally understood as salad. There are the fruit salad. the leaf salad. the fish salad. the meat salad. the many kinds of noodle salad. and to top it all. there is the “rice hand-mixed salad”. popular. readily available. easily […]

Rakhine nationals on the Bay of Bengal coast have a special way of making mohinga. the national dish. It is cooked different. served different. tastes different and is consumed different. It is worthy of its different name. Rakhine mone-ti. It may be enjoyed as a mixed salad accompanied by a soup or as noodles in […]

PUMPKIN LEAF SOUP WITH DRIED SHRIMPS Ingredients 4 cups tender pumpkin leaves 1 ½ teaspoons salt and stalks 1/2 cup powdered dried shrimps 1 small onion 1/3 teaspoon pepper 4 garlic cloves A few sprigs pinsein (Indian Basil) 5 cups water How to cook Prepare leaves by breaking off 2 or 3 long sprigs of […]

Characteristic of Burmese prawn curry is that the prawn heads are left on. as tasty essences are inside them and should ooze out during cooking. With simplest cooking and fresh prawns. this makes the curry most flavorful. Ingredients 3 pounds (or) 9 prawns of 5-inch 2/3 cup oil 1 tablespoon fish sauce 1 teaspoon ginger […]

There is a set of kitchen equipment which the Myanmar housewife can not do without. It is the set of pestle and mortar for the pounding of food. The pestle and mortar come made of three different materials. The basic set used in heavy work when the ingredient has to be thoroughly pounded is the […]

Ingredients 2 1/2 cups potato. boiled and sliced 4 to 5 tablespoons tamarind 1 large onion. sliced juice. thick 3 green chilies 3 tablespoons cooked oil 4 sprigs mint Salt to taste 2 tablespoons roasted gram flour 1/2 cup fried onion How to cook Slice potatoes to less than 1/4-inch thickness. Soak sliced onion in […]

Myanmar people living with a coastline that is one thousand four hundred miles long. where the sea washes the beaches of five states and divisions and teems with luscious lobsters. delicious red snappers. pomfret of singular pleasure. and squid of exotic texture. should be expected to love seafood. Yet it is otherwise. Why? It is […]