Myanmar is widely famous as the land of striking gilded pagodas, temples, scenes, and sunrises. This country is also known as the paradise of various food. Many dishes are affected on South and Southeast Asia and are not found in any other cuisine, there’s much to discover. Myanmar restaurants tend to emphasize of a single dish or culinary style as its characteristics. Most of the varieties can also be called Myanmar street foods as they can also be found easily almost everywhere on the street and night markets. In this article, we offer the lists of Myanmar food for tourists trying when they come to Myanmar.
1. Tea leaf salad
Perhaps the most famed Burmese food is lephet fermented tea leaves. One of special factors in this salad is combined salad of pickled tea leaves, normally, the tart leaves are eaten on their own. There are many elements to get the perfect food. For example, the sour, shredded cabbage, sliced tomatoes, a splash of garlic oil and pungent slices of chili are mixed together.
The dish is available. It can be a snack and combined with a plate of rice, a meal. It is also known as a stimulant: Burmese people said that eating too much laphet Thoke can prevent sleep.
2. Shan-style rice
It is well-known in Myanmar as nga htamin or rice with fish. This food is a traditional dish of the main Buddhist ethnic group. It has been cooked by turmeric and crashed into a disk with a garnish of fish fresh water and the garlic oil.
To make the hot dish, leek roots, cloves of raw garlic and fried pork rinds, nga htamin are served with oily and tasty to become a snack.
3. Burmese curry
You are seeking for the culinary experience, you should visit a traditional restaurant in Myanmar you will get more than a meal. The most important element in is curry. You have chosen a meaty curry, a little oil on pork, fish, shrimp, or beef. All tastes are evaluated differently.
There are many elements cooked to be eaten with sauce and various herbs such as rice, bread salad, some fried vegetables, a bowl of soup and a big plate of fresh vegetables. Ngapi dips are the liquid sauce – a mixture of dried chili pepper, garlic and dried prawns fried in oil. Especially, you will enjoy many dishes that make the experience in all the ingredients and flavors of Myanmar.
After finishing a meal, you will be served with a traditional dessert Burma – a lacquer tray containing tea leaves and pickled walnuts, or a piece of jaggery pot.
4. Burmese tea shop meal
Myanmar Tea Shops are not just places to enjoy small cups of sweet tea or milk.
When you come to any tea shops, you will enjoy cups of milky tea and various cuisines of Myanmar. They not only serve baked sweets but also they offer meaty steamed buns and dim sum. Additionally, deep-fried savory snacks, deep-fried bread are served with a potato curry or baked breads.
They also serve many traditional foods which reflect the ethnicity of the owner of the store. Tea shops offer the world of noodles or rice as a traditional Burmese htamin thoke, a type of rice salad.
Additionally, Muslim tea shops already serve fried bread served, fried salty snacks with potato curry of Southeast Asia. The latter also often serve desserts South Asian style. Besides, Chinese tea shops often offer candy and baked buns and meat products sum so dark.
5. Burmese sweet snacks
In contrast, collectively known as “mon” sweet dishes, sweets West Burma is not eaten as dessert but as appetizers, usually taken with tea in the morning or afternoon.
The tastes of Moun are not same to candy in Southeast Asia as they are not usually full of sugar. They are made from coconut, coconut milk, rice flour, tapioca and fruit.
Burmese sweets have made from biscuits crumbly semolina flour with coconut milk, butter and raisins; and moun pyit thalet. And Burmese-style crepes are served sweet or savory, with a consistency holes.
6. Deep-fried stuff.
Myanmar has many of choices with fried food in oil – in Myanmar, it is virtually impossible to avoid fried foods. You can find many kinds of snacks on the street or in tea shops. There are many delicious foods offered when you come to Myanmar. For example, deep-fried samosas, spring rolls, savory fritters, noodles topped are more popular.
You can find snacks on street-restaurants and tea shops including samosas, spring rolls, pretzels, candy, bread – fried. Many noodle dishes are topped Akyaw, crispy fried ingredients.
From almost recommendations of clients, this food is very delicious because it adopts warm crust, a soft, slightly damp inside with a sweet bitter tamarind-based dip.
7. Shan-style ‘tofu’ noodles
The dish doesn’t include tofu, but noodle has the taste like tofu by it is made from chickpea flour. The sticky yellow stuff is served over thin rice noodles, marinated chicken or pork. This food is one of the popular dishes of ethnic Shan in Northern Myanmar. Rice noodles are mixed with chunks of marinated pork or chicken. It is covered many parts of pickled vegetables and broth. It is visually stunning, if you are a fan of savory flavors, you can try once time.
8. Chinese and Indian Food
Myanmar not only borders both India and China but it is effected on the culture of two countries. Thus, some foods are influenced. These food are setted for now but it is important to know they are there, and in abundance. You are seeking for many restaurants in Myanmar of Chinese or Indian. They are willing offer a ‘safe option’ with the less adventurous eaters of Burmese food. Chinese and Indian influences can be seen on street level where you can easily pick up snacks of flatbreads, samosas, and wonton wraps.
9. Mohinga
Mohinga is an unofficial national dish of Myanmar. Rice noodles made from herbal fishing and hearty shallot-based broth are served.
Mohinga is a popular snack at any time of day which is loved and sold by mobile vendors on street, it is a popular snack at any time of day or night.
The face of this food includes the sliced hard-boiled egg and akyaw, crispy fried vegetables, hard paste lenses. The dish has the taste with lemon juice and chili flakes.
10. Shan-style noodles.
The dish is combined of rice noodles with marinated chicken or pork, garnished and garlic oil. And another element served are pickled vegetables. It is said that Shan-style noodles are more simple than the most of Burmese noodle dishes, but it is reassuring comforting and always delicious. A “dry” version, with the broth served on the side, is also common.
11. Myanmar Curry rice meal.
The local set-meal is not just comfort food but an experience in itself. It comes with slightly oily curries. You have some option to try the dishes like chicken, fish, mutton, beef, or pork. It is mixed with the rice and six vegetable side dishes and a garlic chili dip. The variety of elements in dishes and spice levels are different from place to place.
12. Mandalay Mee Shay
It is a specialty of the Eastern Shan State Myanmar prepared rice noodles with a meat sauce. Two main types, the normal Mogok Mee Shay and the Mandalay version, are most famous varieties as the preparation in a bit different depending on region and available everywhere. The pork and chicken meat are more popular than others. Mandalay Mee Shay uses medium rice noodles and has a thicker, oilier meat sauce. Toasted chickpea flour is added to give a thicker mixture. It is garnished with balanced bean sprouts and crisp fried garlic.
The top restaurants you should go to
Firstly, Rangoon Tea House is a huge favorite for its authentic Burmese food with a modern twist. The chief tends to make the beautiful of bowl. For example, Myanmar’s national dish is impressed with the number of traditional tea concoctions available on the menu as well.
Secondly, Green Elephant has designed following the Artist from 1920. It is a luxurious dining establishment offering the best in traditional, home-cooked Burmese and Thai fare. According to Cherie’s antiques, you find the Green Elephant restaurant impeccably and exquisitely decorated. This is authentic, quality Burmese cuisine served with style.
Thirdly, Padonmar Restaurant moved to its current location, within the high-class residential area of Dagon Township, in 2010. There are popular foods such as talapaw, a traditional soup mixed with fish, basil and aubergine. The building is an elegant 50-year-old house. You will enjoy the background with gold-leaf wood carvings and colorful paper lanterns. The restaurant offers a hut and garden area, which has a wonderful atmosphere.
Fourthly, the House of Memories is known as a piano bar. Restaurant is played an important part in the country’s history. The food is served with high quality of Burmese, Chinese and Western food. It includes many types of rice dishes. In the evening, you can choose the cocktails while relaxing to the gentle tones of live piano music.
Fifthly, the Moon Vegetarian restaurant is the perfect place to refuel in the middle of a long day of sightseeing. It is an extremely popular vegetarian restaurant, regularly called the best in Bagan. The extensive menu has freshly prepared food, including tamarind leaf curry, guacamole and poppadom. With friendly service and good prices.
Sixthly, L’Opera is the foremost Italian restaurant in Rangoon, and probably in the whole of Burma. All the meals are very delicious by many foods like handmade pasta, pizzas and cured meats, cheese. This is all topped off with an impressive selection of Italian wine. During enjoying views of the lake and the soft sound of guitar being played in the background, you have a perfect meal in the beautiful tropical garden. If you like the spirit of atmosphere of Italy, you can enjoy events such as the Carnival of Venice masked party.
