Myanmar Food

Myanmar Food is very diverse and has influence from many regions and ethnic including Chinese and India. Like many other countries in Asia, the major food is rice and curry. Meals are often served with meat or fish, soup, salad, savory dishes and vegetables. All dishes come at one for family orientation respect.



Regional Specialities
Thanks to the diversity of geography, seafood is very popular in port cities such as Yangon, Kawthang, Ngapali or Ngwe Saung. Fresh sea-catches with special recipe becomes more and more famous for every foodie to these areas. 
While Inle lake also offers specialities from lake fish, for example Htamin Jin: rice, boiled fish, potato and tomato.
In inland and northern Myanmar, chicken, mutton and fish are the staple foods, although other meats are sometimes served.
The famous Shan noodles is often served in curries or soup. 

 

Table Manner
Tables in Myanmar are generally round and low, so get ready to sit on the floor. And no wine or spirits are served at meals. Traditionally, Myanmar people eat with their fingers, but forks and spoons have become increasingly popular.
Soup usually comes in a large bowl to be apportioned among all the diners. Myanmar people regard soup as indispensable to the meal, as they generally drink nothing with meals. When soup is not available, a hot cup of green tea is served instead.
There are many different styles of soup. You’ll see clear, sweet broths with meat or fish and vegetables; bitter, peppery soups that usually go with salads; sour soups with tamarind pulp or tomato, intended to cut the richness of a particularly heavy meal; thick bean soups splashed over rice.
Salads in Myanmar also differ from their Western counterparts. Raw, boiled or preserved vegetables are thrown together with cooked meat or fish, sliced onion, tamarind juice, chili powder, fish sauce, fried shredded garlic and dried prawn, all mixed thoroughly by hand.
Myanmar people love snacks, which they often eat for breakfast or tea-time. Most snacks are made of rice or glutinous rice, milk or grated shreds of coconut and sugar or jaggery.

 

Myanmar Highlighted Dishes 
Noodles
Khauk Swe Thoke: Noodle salad
Kyarsan Chet: Spicy chicken soup with vermicelli.
Mohinga: Fish soup with rice noodles
Ohnnoh Khauk Swe: Rich coconut soup with noodles and chicken

Rice
Bein Mont: Rice pancake
Mont Sein Paung: Steamed rice cake
Mont Lone Gyi: Rice dumpling with coconut filling
Kauk Nyin Paung: Steamed glutinous rice

Desserts
Jaggery: Palm syrup candy
Kyauk Kyaw: Seaweed jelly, usually topped with coconut milk
Laphet: Pickled tea leaves with a dash of oil, sesame seeds, fried garlic and roasted peanuts
Shwe Kyi: Rich semolina cake
Shwe Yin Aye: Coconut cream sherbet
Thagu or Thagu Byin: Sago or tapioca pudding sweetened with jaggery and enriched with coconut

SOME TIPS
-  If you are alergic to any type of grain, vegetable and meats, you should inform the restaurant or tour operator in advance.
- Do not drink tab water, it is not safe
- There are more restaurants of recommendations in our website. look further for better reference