A FOOD TRADITION
Burmese Cuisine
Myanmar’s lowland cooking tradition combines rice, noodles, fish, fermented ingredients, pungent salads, and richly seasoned curries.
Dishes linked to this cuisine
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Danbauk
Danbauk is a Burmese biryani-style rice dish of seasoned rice cooked with meat, ghee, onions, garlic, ginger, and warming spices.
Ginger Salad
A Burmese salad centered on fresh ginger with cabbage, tomato, peanuts, sesame, garlic, and citrus.
Htamin Jin
Htamin Jin is a Burmese fish-and-rice dish in which cooked rice and seasoned fish are mixed with aromatics and vegetables, then commonly shaped or served as savory portions.
Kyauk Kyaw
A Burmese coconut jelly dessert made by setting sweetened coconut milk with agar.
Kyay Oh
A Burmese noodle soup built from rice noodles and pork in a savory pork broth, commonly finished with egg, garlic, scallions, and fish sauce.
Laphet Thoke
A Burmese fermented tea-leaf salad combining laphet with cabbage, tomatoes, garlic, nuts or seeds, oil, and sometimes dried shrimp.
Mee Shay
A Burmese Shan-style noodle dish of rice noodles topped with seasoned minced pork and tomato sauce, commonly garnished with soy sauce, garlic, peanuts, and herbs.
Mohinga
A Burmese fish noodle soup made with a seasoned fish broth, rice noodles, aromatics, and chickpea flour, often garnished with boiled egg and fresh herbs.
Mont Di
Mont Di is a Burmese rice-noodle dish strongly associated with Rakhine cuisine, commonly served as a fish-broth preparation with flaked fish, aromatics, herbs, and chili; dry salad-style forms also exist.
Mont Let Saung
A Burmese chilled dessert of soft rice-flour dumplings served with palm-sugar syrup, coconut milk, and often sesame seeds.
Mont Lin Ma Yar
A Burmese street snack made from rice-and-chickpea batter cooked in small molds with egg and green onion toppings.
Mont Pyar Thalet
A traditional Burmese sweet filled or topped pancake made from rice flour with a jaggery-sweetened coconut mixture and sesame.
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