Over the past several years, a friend who moved to Atlanta from San Francisco has often repeated a lament to me. “I just can’t find any Burmese food here,” she would say. I found it to be a surprising ...

Matt Kyin already has a full menu of Burmese dishes for the restaurant he dreams of opening someday. There’s just one problem: Most people he meets can’t find Myanmar on a map, let alone name a single ...

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EIGHT NEWS AT NINE ON METV. WELCOME BACK. A METRO RESTAURANT OWNER IS USING FOOD AS A WAY TO SHARE STORIES FROM HER HOMETOWN. IN TONIGHT’S PROJECT COMMUNITY. KCCI’S NICOLE TAM INTRODUCES US TO BURMESE ...

Indian, Thai, and Chinese cuisine are all widespread and well known, but a cuisine that incorporates qualities from all three, Burmese food, isn’t nearly as popular in Oregon. Corvallis’s restaurant ...

Lahpet, the Burmese fermented tea leaf salad, is a specialty of a pop-up by the same name in New Orleans that is helping support Burmese refugees here and across the globe. If you know much about ...

Among the plethora of restaurants in New York City offering Asian specialties, the cuisine of Myanmar — which was until recently isolated under a military dictatorship — tends to get crowded out. One ...

The first thing you notice about Yoma is the sign in the window reading “Thai Food.” That’s there to attract people who know a lot about pad Thai and mee krob but probably nothing about Yoma’s real ...

With Myanmar opening to the outside world, visitors are discovering a cuisine that’s been largely hidden from sight for the past 50 years. With an emphasis on rich, predominately savory/salty flavors, ...

Ask Delyn Chow, the chef-owner of the new Daw Yee Myanmar Corner in Silver Lake, to describe Burmese food, and instead he’ll list off a slew of influences: Thai herbs, Indian spices, Chinese noodles.

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A Buddhist monk reads aloud from a list of names. One by one, a representative from each of 53 families comes forward to receive plastic bags of rice, instant noodles, biscuits, blankets and ...