Misleading at times. My mom's family left Burma in 50s to seek asylum in India. She met my pops who has over sees British passport as born in Kenya and moved to England.. his mom was Indian and when his pops died in Kenya easier for her to bring young family in India and they met somewhere in Bombay. Loads of immigrants from Burma to India, then mixed and had kids abroad
As an Indonesian, I’m fortunate to have plenty of options when I crave Thai or Vietnamese food. But watching this video, I find myself longing for something I can’t easily find-Myanmar cuisine. It's thanks to Myanmar food that I discovered the delicious versatility of chickpeas and learned that tea leaves can be transformed into a dish. I truly miss those unique flavors. Sending my heartfelt wishes to our friends in Myanmar for peace and the return of their democracy.
I just had an Indonesians dish that has fried chicken and rice cooked in coconut milk it was one of the best dishes ever. Burmese food is just food food for westerner but for many Thai they are afraid go speak up regarding too many Burmese immigrants coming and opening business in Thailand.
Thank you for your wishing from Myanmar. Me too, wishing to say welcome and served with Myanmar food, to my Asian old and new friends, after getting liberty.
I can describe Myanmar to the world even though I am not Burmese. 😊🙏 The people that I knew are dignified, kind, resilient, generous, and patient. I usually complained that the Burmese are too nice to start a revolution against the Military. I don’t know any one from the military so my thoughts here are only for the people that I had known for many, many years. I miss all the gentle people who lended me their support with much care and kindness. I even got used to see men in long skirt 😂 Once, at the main market in Yangon, I saw an elderly lady selling oranges. She just had 4 in a Bamboo tray placed on the ground. Wanting to support her I offered to buy 2 oranges. My Burmese friend explained to her that I came from the States to learn about the religion, language, and people of Myanmar. She looked at me, smiled and said something. My friend translated that she wanted to give them to me as gift. I protested but had to accept her gift to show my respect and consideration toward her. That the Burmese people I knew and never forget. I used to complain about Burmese food-too much oil, the vegetables cooked to a stew, too much shrimp paste, the rice a bit dry, on and on. Now I’m addicted to their Mohinga. Wherever I went, I looked for a Mohinga place-in a middle of the market, in a private house, in a wooden shed by the freeway, or at the intersection of the city streets. I didn’t care. Just want my Mohinga. Yangon, Bago, Mandalay, Puyin oo Lwin, Sagaing hills or the village an hour bike away, I tried them all. I have to admit, I like the Yangon’s Mohinga the best, Right now I am still waiting to return to that sunrise over the Irrawadi, that bike ride in the morning fog in Maymio, that quiet sweet dawn in the bamboo forest in Bago, that cool peaceful evening at the Shwedagon pagoda. Every night I pray for peace to return to that beautiful people in that beautiful land. 🍁🙏🍁
You have truly expressed your admiration, respect and love of the Burmese folks you were blessed to have met in your comment. Like you, I too pray for peace to return to the ordinary people of Myanmar.
The men wearing long skirt is not actually a long skirt. It is our traditional wears for men called " Pasoe ". It is usually wear when we go to Pagoda, some traditional wedding and funerals as a form of politeness. Most of our schools are also required to wear " Pasoe & White Shirt " as a school uniform.
Your words are like the scenes of a painting. Burma must have made a deep impression on you. I hope to see and experience the country one day and pray for the long suffering Burmese to find peace
I'm a Thai citizen and I LOVE Burmese food, especially the Tea Leaf Salad... well, some of the Thai dishes are originated in Myanmar anyway (like Khanom Jeen from Mon people, for example)... Thai people love eating and we love to try anything that tastes good!!!
I live by a Large city in the US that has over 25,000 population of Burmese peoples. I've worked with hundreds and they are a very friendly and giving type of people. It started with them letting me try some snacks and to almost requiring me to sit and eat with them because They knew i enjoyed it and could tolerate the spicyness. Their food is extremely unique and hits a lot of the flavor profiles you hear from thailand, india, and southern china. One of the most unique qualities i've noticed is they still live financially like they are poor and do not buy expensive things but would rather give away their extra money.
Most of Myanmar people are Buddhists. Lord Buddha said, "Desire is the root of all Evils". Of course, we want to be rich for comfort as we desire but it is not necessary for the meaningful way of life. Sharing is caring, live the life meaningfully. You will understand more of Myanmar people when you visit the country. Smile.
I remember when I lived in Maryland in the early 2010s there was ONE burmese restaurant near where I lived. I was just starting out and didn't have a lot of money, so it was always a big treat to go there. The only thing I remember with any level of detail is the fermented tea leaf salad. That was at least 10 years ago and I can still remember the taste exactly! So good.
Mandalay in Silver Spring? They had to close down for a while during the pandemic but they've reopened. It's been too long since I ate there, I need to get some Burmese food.
@grammar_antifa it's possible... this was like 12-15 years ago now so I'm a little fuzzy on details :) it would be great if they are still open though, it was such a great place
As a Taiwanese , we do have one Burmese street that located in Taipei City. The cuisines and tea culture are so fascinating and amazing .Will definitely recommend you to come and experience in Taiwan.
Honestly wow. You guys somehow manage to deep dive and explain historical, sociological and geo political context within 40 mins OG short form long form. You're probably aware of this already but a huge percentage of 'Indian" reatuarants are staffed largely by Burmese of Nepali descent especially around Phahurat and Rattanaokosin and their food has a lot of tasty Nepali/Burmese elements.
Thank you so much for the passion you bring to your content and for shining a spotlight on Burmese cuisine. As a displaced student and the first in my family to study abroad, adjusting to life in a place where everything is different-the culture, the food, the language, and societal values-hasn't always been easy. Whenever I have to deal with stressful days in work or school, the thing I crave most is a home-cooked meal, made with love and care. What I appreciate most about your video is how you connected the story of Italian immigrants and their pizza to the rise of Burmese cuisine. Kudos to all the pioneers and brave individuals from Myanmar who took the risk to bring our cuisine to the global stage. I hope that one day we'll see Burmese food spots around every corner, just like Italian pizza stalls.
Living in San Francisco, I've been fortunate to have traditional Burmese food available since before the turn of the century. It's been trendy here for two decades. For me it tastes like a tour of Asia, gathering influences from India and sweeping east all the way across SE Asia. If I had mohinga every day of my life, I wouldn't complain.
I always have a box or two of Burmese fermented / pickled tea leaves salad with crunchy fried assorted beans and peas for toppings (Laphet Thoke) in my kitchen pantry. (Available on Amazon in the USA.) … Sometimes at home, I will add fresh Thai spicy papaya salad or Ukrainian “Korean” carrot salad to the mix. Next time I’ll try stuffing the salad mix into a Vietnamese rice paper roll. 🌶️😋😛👏🏻👍🏻😂
You can add sliced tomatoes. After one bite of tea leaves salad, I suggest you should eat it together with garlic. While I was writing this cmt, I decided that tmr I will have this salad for sure.
YAAAY! SO so glad you went back to do more Myanmar cuisine and explain why it's about to go global! Tons of new places have opened up north in Chiang Mai too and I'm trying to find them all and try them. There's a few places that have been here for a long time, some which I need to try, totally off the map and near the factories like what OTR has gone to before. There's an old one that's been a bit of a community center with a library, a few traditional tea houses and a great fusion place with some amazing house items. Yes! I love it! The texture! big time; from strange mushy tofu to all kinds of fried beans and seeds. And this cuisine dose vegetarian and vegan right without even mentioning it! no pretention just necessity being the mother of invention. (Dig the new music too.)
As a fellow burmese citizen who is lucky enough to be living in foreign country, I want to thank you and your channel for always sharing the love for our cuisine and for reminding the world about the ongoing political turmoil which is causing endless suffering and unspeakable killings across the country. I cried when u said the world has forsaken us cause that's exactly how all of us feel like so thank u for bring awareness on military coup. Wishing peace and success to your channel and to all burmese finding ways in this dark hour.
After your previous video on Burmese food, I looked up to check if there were any restaurants in the area. Turns out there’s a single Burmese restaurant in Vancouver. Tried it, and it was amazing!
I found you through your video on the history of noodles, and your content has been incredibly informative and enjoyable to watch. This video was no different, and I sincerely thank you for it. Even though I, myself, am Burmese, I never thought that Burmese cuisine was anything to write about. It might be because I immigrated to Australia as a child, and so rarely had Burmese cuisine outside the confines of my own home. As Robin described at the end, I thought it was best chalked up as just "oily" stall food. I didn’t really think that it could be elevated beyond that level, with the exception of maybe three dishes. I think the way the Rangoon Teahouse takes classic Burmese flavours and puts its own spin on things is definitely the best at proving me absolutely wrong. Dishes like Lahpet Thoke, which I would consider closer to a bar snack than a salad getting heralded was something I really didn't expect. The idea that Burmese cuisine's lack of international presence gives leeway for it to be pioneered is something that should have been so obvious, yet never crossed my mind. Once again, I would really like to thank your team for this video, and for giving me insight into my own culture in ways I never expected or took for granted.
If anyone's in Chiang Mai and would like to try authentic Burmese food, I recommend Zinme Tea House near Wat Ket. Their Mohinga and Nann Gyi Thoke are sooo good!
I need to comment to boost this video after liking it, because this is one of the best videos you've ever made! I know I said this a couple of times on other recent videos as well, but I think that's just a testament to both the quality of your videos and how diverse Bangkok is and continues to be.
Similar things may be happening in the USA but from the *opposite* angle & not in big coastal cities. Here, often people are exposed to cuisines of Burma via indigenous refugee diasporas, especially the *Karen (K'nyaw) people,* plus others like Chin, Kachin, Karenni, & Lisu people (I'd guess Mon, Rohingya, & Shan refugees also are doing so quietly). In my area, there's old-school-style Karen-owned markets which sell Burmese, Karen, & Thai foods including snacks & hot soups, as well as Thai restaurants owned by Karen, Karenni, & (most invisibly) Lisu refugees, as well as a couple of explicitly Burmese restaurants, including one which seeks to introduce it to wider audiences and do "fusion" with popular local American food. In the menu of these ostensibly Thai restaurants owned by refugees from Burma, there are often Burmsese dishes tucked away in hidden corners of the menu. There's one particular Karen-owned restaurant which makes Vietnamese Phở, Lao-style papaya salad, Korean bulgogi 불고기, Burmese Khao Soi soup, and Karen Kaw Naw soup. However, there's still a difference between what restaurants serve and what, say, a Karen refugee family will serve you if you visit their home as a guest. There's plenty of dishes from Burmese indigenous diaspora communities which you can't really find in restaurants, such as Karenni sausage (which uses a unique, difficult-to-source spice). I think that this is because these communities tend to be low-income (even being stereotyped as "thugs"), which means that their incredible traditional foods are often disparaged. Due to the popularity of ngapi (nyaw eu in Karen), a fermented fish paste, the dominant culture in the USA views foods from this area as "dirty" and "smelly." Some have even been kicked out by landlords over their use of traditional foods like ngapi/nyaw eu. So, I suspect many of these people worry that less-known Chin, Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Lisu, Mon, Rohingya, & Shan foods are "unmarketable" to a "wider audience." It reminds me strongly of the stigma that kimchi 김치 & fish sauce used to have until maybe 2014. I hope that this changes. I think that it might be changing. Already, one Karen-owned restaurant has received great attention from even "mainstream" food blogs/periodicals, and I've seen one Lisu-owned restaurant with a very compelling, innovative use of pickled tea leaves. And the indigenous cultural backgrounds of many refugees who resettled in the USA are likely to add unique nuances from the specific cultural POVs which would be distinctly different than if the restaurant was opened by someone from a middle-class, Bamar background. The same has already started to prove true in the USA for Hmong cuisine, which has influences from China, Laos, Thailand, & Vietnam in addition to its own indigenous roots, and now Hmong cuisine even has a celebrity chef representing it (Yia Vang). As your video alludes to, U.S. cities you wouldn't even consider to be major destinations for *any* food diversity (often in "fly-over country") are where the cuisine of Burma could be a "dark horse." I'd say that St. Paul, Minnesota is the biggest hub (in a state which has the highest-per-capita population of Karen refugees), but medium-sized towns and other metros have introductions to Burmese cuisine (even if only via occasional festivals), including Albert Lea, Austin, Marshall, Willmar, & Worthington, MN, Lincoln & Omaha, NE, Des Moines, Marshalltown, Sioux City, & Waterloo, IA (possibly the tiny towns of Columbus Junction & Storm Lake, too), Huron, SD, Milwaukee, WI, Rock Island & Rockford, IL (as well as Chicagoland suburbs of Aurora, DeKalb, & Elgin), Elkhart, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, & South Bend, IN, New Bern & Raleigh/Durham, NC, Bowling Green, Lexington, Louisville, & Owensboro, KY, Springdale, AR, Kansas City, KS/MO, Cincinnati, OH, as well as less-surprising areas like Amarillo, Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, & Houston, TX, Seattle, WA, & San Diego, CA. Surprisingly, New York's biggest opportunities for exposure to Burmese food may be in culturally Midwest-adjacent "rust belt" cities like Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, & Utica; New York City seems to have far less in the way of per-capita options for Burmese stuff, because especially Karen & Karenni refugees mostly (seem to) live in the other smaller cities. P.S. I may not be an expert, but *feel free to contact me if you wish to explore the food of indigenous refugees from Burma in my state.* I may be available to show you.
Very thorough insight! I had a hunch the majority of immigrants would be the Kachins as that is the case for Thailand even if they advertised themselves as "Burmese" due to "strength in unity". Nice to see the Midwest hosting quite a number of diverse ethnicities!
@@realneonbluegamer there are some Kachin people in my area, but the Karen people are the largest of the indigenous diaspora from Burma, and I suspect the Karenni are the second-largest, with Kachin, Lisu, Mon, & Rohingya being far-lower. Also, the civil war has forced factions with different goals to stand in solidarity against the Myanmar government. Who knows if even Burma (the preferred term of the rebels) will exist if the rebels win. IDK. For example, the Karen people want to have an independent nation (Kawthoolei), like many indigenous populations want. So, perhaps we will even have multiple independent nations later. Finally, I really hope the many different indigenous ethnic diasporas of Burma become less-invisible soon!
I like Burmese food, it is brigthening up the wide range of delicious Asian food ! This year we found in Bangkok Pratunam some new Myanmar restaurants - i `m happy you do this video as always with super interesting researches ! Just Thankyou a lot OTR ❤🙏i appreciate your work very much 👍
Thanks to your videos, I have been to Kalyana, Shwee Htee (twice!) and Mandalay Food House. And I don't even live in Bangkok. With the video drop, I have to find an opportunity to visit Rangoon Tea House someday! The background information and context surrounding Myanmar and Burmese cuisine in Bangkok makes me appreciate every trip to Burmese restaurants.
thanks for this video OTR, since Myanmar have been under coup for three years now and we are feeling depressed so this video will put smiles on every Burmese people faces. Have a great day and stay safe everyone!
I'm burmese and im so happy burmese food is finally getting its flowers! I hope to see more dishes from all the ethnic groups from myanmar get more recognition as myanmar is a beautiful nation with a lot of different cultures. Good to know that people who escaped an awful and tragic situation are thriving, wishing for an equitable and democratic myanmar free of genocide and politicide 🙏
RTH (Rangoon Tea House) is one of my fav restaurants back home. I remember when things were good, me and my friends would have cute little dates there everyday. RTH was in our daily routine. Their mohinga, mutton biryani, duck puff, truffle mote lin-ma-yar, charshu bao and si-lone tea are our favorites dishes from them. Oh and can’t forget their cocktails menu. Superb! They also had their own Gin brand. We would start with some tea and snacks then change to the gin and went back home drunk. 😂 Good old days. Seeing RTH again in Thailand makes me homesick more. Can’t wait to go back home.
In 2016 I visited Yangon, Bagan, and Mandalay. My trip to Myanmar will always be one of my all time interesting and memorable experiences. I can’t say I came back loving the food. I’ve seen but not sampled the Burmese food stalls in the Phra Khanong fresh market. These upscale food venues make me want to give Burmese food a second chance.
We are at the Rangoon Tea House as I write this comment. Wow! Just wow. In general Burmese food is good and for many different but this place takes it to another level. Oh, and thank you Adam and company for another excellent video.
Christchurch in New Zealand has been lucky to have the Boddhi Tree since 2001, since 2012 renamed Rangoon Ruby. I always think fondly of the myriad of different flavours and especially textures, the Tea leaf salad with lentils. It was always very popular with the locals and I really should go again. Thank you for your deep dive on the subject!
Actually Burmese cuisine is similar to Filipino flavors. Not spicy, very savory and flavors are very pronounced. Balanced w/o the subtleness. I love their Mohinga and Laphet
hey glad you like our food..funny enough that I have been thinking that Filipino food looks similar to ours and might even taste similar though I have only watched videos. For eg, pork adobo looks very similar to typical Burmese pork curry and I wanna try it so much.
My favourite food migration is the kebab family. When I was living in Tbilisi Georgia in 2012 I saw shaurma, kebabi, doneri, and the most local, mtsvadi. It's interesting enough when two branches of a food family tree cross paths in one place but that was the only time I saw four cross paths.
Love your channel! Love your content! I knew nothing about Burmese food before watching this and now can’t wait to try it when I get to Bangkok this winter. thank you thank you thank you!
Man what a great video! Thanks for showing the world the cuisine of our beautiful country. I hope one day when the war is over, You and your team gets the chance to come visit Myanmar and try even more authentic food.
A well presented video, very enjoyable and informative. Tq for the added geopolitical snapshots as well. Looking forward to more from your channel. P.S. just subscribed 😊.
I am lucky there are several Burmese restaurants in California. I first tried it about 16 years ago and just loved the tea leaf salad and am now familiar with more dishes the cuisine offers like mohinga which I really enjoy eating. I doubt any of the Burmese restaurants in California are as good as the ones in Thailand though, since its a neighboring country.
so great to see you dig everything abt us our stories of Myanmar people.Now still in Myanmar facing bad things every day but hoping we will have a peaceful days like before.A little moti has got from ur video.I hope the team can visit & get to see the real taste of Myanmar food.Really thanks for your video,Worth to watch it.
Thanks for creating a video on our traditional cuisines. They are so good and so tasty. Anyone who ever gets to Thailand or Myanmar, give yourself a go to nearby Myanmar restaurant. Myanmar ppl will be so friendly just tell them to recommend you something. You wont regret it. For sure.
Used to work with a gentleman originally from Burma. He introduced me to a salad made out of tea leaves. I have never had anything as unique since then and will never forget its exquisitely delicate taste.
This is great to see. When I moved from San Francisco to Bangkok in 2015, I was surprised that there were fewer Burmese restaurants in BKK (on Google Maps) than in SF, where it has become trendy to a degree. There was a pan-ASEAN themed restaurant at Gateway Ekkamai with Lapat and Mohinga that I frequented but it has since closed. So glad to see neighboring cuisines breaking through in BKK!
Amazing to hear Shan and Burmese food is taking off in TH. There were some signs of increasing popularity after the pandemic. But still, i believe it's probably the most underrated food in SE-Asia. Thanks for the inspiration 🙏
Great video. The introductory montage on migrant food in the USA left out all the layers of Mexican food that spread from the west to the east in the USA and even BKK, Paris, London, Berlin, and Hong Kong.
Very intriguing, ingredients and combinations that I have never considered. I'm not a fan of upscale and trendy places, but I'm glad to see that Burmese/Myanmese dishes are coming into the mainstream. Personally, I prefer the street stalls and the migrant foods wherever I happen to be, and however "oily" they happen to be, but I'm glad that you shared this eye and mind opener video. If you know of any cookbooks or food history books dealing with genuine Burmese dishes, I'd be glad to try to find them. I'm sure some of the ingredients might be hard to find here in the Eastern US, but at least there would be some inspiration to give these flavors a try.
Ah, the first section about 'refugee food' - Somali food is amazing and I will travel to the 'hood for it. I don't care if I'm often the only non-Somali - it's too delicious. As is Burmese and yes, the restaurants often started by refugees. Had it in two cities now :) - There's a quite good successful one in Wellington, New Zealand which has been around for 20+ years founded by a refugee. Hopefully will be 3 soon in Bangkok!
I loved going to Burma Superstar which has been in San Francisco for over 30 years. I will try a couple of these Burmese restaurants in Bangkok on my next trip.
No no no no! I cant watch this, I am not prepared! Burmese food is my home food for celebrations. I am Indian but my parents were born and brought up in Rangoon. They were amongst the thousands of pre-independence Indians settled in Burma who had to leave during the uprising of 60s. So there are pockets of Burmese refugee centres in some regions of India where most of the people still fondly remembers their time in Burma and make and enjoy the food they used have there. They can even speak Burmese. Just imagine, bunch of Indians, in India, speaking and eating Burmese while nobody surrounding them has any idea of whats going on! That was the household and atmosphere I grew up in and though I can't speak Burmese, the food is very special to me, its home. I always thought why is it not hitting main stream, and finally I got this video, but I am not ready for the big reveal! 😢
It would be interesting to see a similar deep-dive video for Indian restaurants. I believe everything should start from street vendors to Michelin-starred restaurants, with the deep cultural impact and exchange and rich history associated with them.
I went to Burbrit original in Yangon around 10 years ago (riverside). I love it and really enjoy. Just know it's in Bangkok now. I'll definitely going to try soon.
Here in Portland, OR there are at least ten Burmese restaurants. My lady friend and her g'grandchilden have been to one and it is definitely worth the trip. (Of course what the kids found fun was that the food is brought to you by a robot.) The food certainly resembled Thai cuisine but it's unique unto itself. Right now the kids are so involved in school and extracurricular activities that we aren't going out much and by the time all that madness slacks off it will be OYSTER season here in the PNW. But eventually we will go back--and I'm looking forward to it.
I am glad Burmese food is getting its flowers in Bangkok. I've sought out Burmese food over 10 years ago and it was limited to Sukhumvit Soi 1 near Bumrungrad Hospital. Their culinary profile is quite unique despite drawing from the same influences as its SE Asia neighbors. I went to Yangon and enjoyed FEEL and was happy to see it pop up here. Now, Tea Leaf salad can be found at some Thai restaurants.
Superb production quality as always! Any chance you guys are doing video(s) about khao soi? There is a place called ใบบัว hidden away in Huai Kwang district. They serve excellent beef khao soi alongside great assortment of burmese/shan/northern thai food. I have a feeling that you will love this place.
"Boris, this on you now. I just can't," then reaches for another dish. That was a hella lotta food, for real! Thank you for your service. 😆 I watched this because I've never heard of Burmese food. I just googled "Burmese restaurant Atlanta," and the first thing to come up was a Yelp article for, "The top ten Burmese restaurants in Atlanta." I think it has arrived.
I certainly welcome it, the more the merrier. Growing up you would hear about the Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and more recently Korean restaurants as Asian restaurants to be found in Bangkok. Strangely not that many Indian or Burmese restaurants, and no Cambodian restaurants at all as far as I can recall.
In queens in new york city. Theres a Burmese counter spot in the food court of the Queens center mall called Burmese Bites, and its actually really good
I'm alway vouching for the open society where people are just fellow human. every single days, I have to listen to my aunt spilling racist words toward Myanmese and other nearby countries. It's so tiring living with a racist like that. No, reasons cannot reach her.
Was spoiled with some amazing Burmese food near where I lived in San Francisco for years- now I'm in Los Angeles and I don't see as much burmese food available, but I hope to findsome soon
I live in a large urban area with a few authentic Burmese restaurants, and they seem to be busy most of the time I’m there with lots of customers. It isn’t surprising, as there’s much to love about the food beyond the tea leaf salad, although that’s a pretty delicious item I rarely pass up. The chickpea tofu is something I now make at home. I do think Burmese food is accessible enough for people in the US to embrace, especially those who love other southeast Asian cuisines.
Oh, I like unique food experiences! Had Sabahan food while in Sabah and that is a HIGHLY overlooked and rare cuisine indeed, even within Malaysia, outside of Sabah! So many unique dishes and tastes as well. I wish that cuisine would spread because WOW essentially. When in Bangkok, I got to somehow book a spot at Luka! My holidays centre around two things: Seeing overseas friends/family and food LOL. Lying on a beach all day really isn't my thing, tasting and experiencing unique food is!
Locations:
Rangoon Tea House: maps.app.goo.gl/SZuAQFXXnKYTKe6J9
ThaNaKa: maps.app.goo.gl/qWskrN5B9WweGkia7
Luka: maps.app.goo.gl/ojJFRLQH7d3XxezN8
Burbrit: maps.app.goo.gl/DcsX1Yz3Wau5Do648
Mandalay Food House: maps.app.goo.gl/5kLHEKJFZTarv1oe9
Tapin Shwe Htee: maps.app.goo.gl/seU89rkt78xqD7MGA
Yoe Yoe Lae: maps.app.goo.gl/H6d1MvfJi31f8ctT6
lethwei and burmese food
Misleading at times. My mom's family left Burma in 50s to seek asylum in India. She met my pops who has over sees British passport as born in Kenya and moved to England.. his mom was Indian and when his pops died in Kenya easier for her to bring young family in India and they met somewhere in Bombay. Loads of immigrants from Burma to India, then mixed and had kids abroad
maps.app.goo.gl/QNfGJqE8JU5bWYA79?g_st=ac
Interesting...Why leave out America's finger in the situation?
@@t3dwards13 ...because not everything is about America?
As an Indonesian, I’m fortunate to have plenty of options when I crave Thai or Vietnamese food. But watching this video, I find myself longing for something I can’t easily find-Myanmar cuisine. It's thanks to Myanmar food that I discovered the delicious versatility of chickpeas and learned that tea leaves can be transformed into a dish. I truly miss those unique flavors. Sending my heartfelt wishes to our friends in Myanmar for peace and the return of their democracy.
Terima Kasih Banyak
Democracy in a main land is like day dreaming even in Thailand. But I still hope.
Teriyaki kasih, kita tak sama bangsar, agama, tetapi kita sama suka makan padas😂😂.I dari m'sia,but lehir Di burma. Tq
I just had an Indonesians dish that has fried chicken and rice cooked in coconut milk it was one of the best dishes ever. Burmese food is just food food for westerner but for many Thai they are afraid go speak up regarding too many Burmese immigrants coming and opening business in Thailand.
Thank you for your wishing from Myanmar. Me too, wishing to say welcome and served with Myanmar food, to my Asian old and new friends, after getting liberty.
I can describe Myanmar to the world even though I am not Burmese. 😊🙏
The people that I knew are dignified, kind, resilient, generous, and patient. I usually complained that the Burmese are too nice to start a revolution against the Military. I don’t know any one from the military so my thoughts here are only for the people that I had known for many, many years. I miss all the gentle people who lended me their support with much care and kindness. I even got used to see men in long skirt 😂
Once, at the main market in Yangon, I saw an elderly lady selling oranges. She just had 4 in a Bamboo tray placed on the ground. Wanting to support her I offered to buy 2 oranges. My Burmese friend explained to her that I came from the States to learn about the religion, language, and people of Myanmar. She looked at me, smiled and said something. My friend translated that she wanted to give them to me as gift. I protested but had to accept her gift to show my respect and consideration toward her. That the Burmese people I knew and never forget.
I used to complain about Burmese food-too much oil, the vegetables cooked to a stew, too much shrimp paste, the rice a bit dry, on and on. Now I’m addicted to their Mohinga. Wherever I went, I looked for a Mohinga place-in a middle of the market, in a private house, in a wooden shed by the freeway, or at the intersection of the city streets. I didn’t care. Just want my Mohinga. Yangon, Bago, Mandalay, Puyin oo Lwin, Sagaing hills or the village an hour bike away, I tried them all. I have to admit, I like the Yangon’s Mohinga the best,
Right now I am still waiting to return to that sunrise over the Irrawadi, that bike ride in the morning fog in Maymio, that quiet sweet dawn in the bamboo forest in Bago, that cool peaceful evening at the Shwedagon pagoda. Every night I pray for peace to return to that beautiful people in that beautiful land. 🍁🙏🍁
You have truly expressed your admiration, respect and love of the Burmese folks you were blessed to have met in your comment.
Like you, I too pray for peace to return to the ordinary people of Myanmar.
The men wearing long skirt is not actually a long skirt. It is our traditional wears for men called " Pasoe ". It is usually wear when we go to Pagoda, some traditional wedding and funerals as a form of politeness. Most of our schools are also required to wear " Pasoe & White Shirt " as a school uniform.
Thank u so much for such kind words and I also hope to return to my country some day
Thank you so much for ur comment, it make me proud of myself as a Burmese..
Your words are like the scenes of a painting. Burma must have made a deep impression on you. I hope to see and experience the country one day and pray for the long suffering Burmese to find peace
I'm a Thai citizen and I LOVE Burmese food, especially the Tea Leaf Salad... well, some of the Thai dishes are originated in Myanmar anyway (like Khanom Jeen from Mon people, for example)... Thai people love eating and we love to try anything that tastes good!!!
Careful, you might start a war if you talk about who made what dishes 😂
And each of the four regions of Thailand has a different soup base.
I live by a Large city in the US that has over 25,000 population of Burmese peoples. I've worked with hundreds and they are a very friendly and giving type of people. It started with them letting me try some snacks and to almost requiring me to sit and eat with them because They knew i enjoyed it and could tolerate the spicyness. Their food is extremely unique and hits a lot of the flavor profiles you hear from thailand, india, and southern china. One of the most unique qualities i've noticed is they still live financially like they are poor and do not buy expensive things but would rather give away their extra money.
I noticed they're quite religious, whether Buddhist or Christian, and are generous enough to donate what little they have to temples or churches
Most of Myanmar people are Buddhists. Lord Buddha said, "Desire is the root of all Evils". Of course, we want to be rich for comfort as we desire but it is not necessary for the meaningful way of life. Sharing is caring, live the life meaningfully. You will understand more of Myanmar people when you visit the country. Smile.
What city? I'm in the US too. So hard to find Burmese food
Probably Fort Wayne, IN. They're populated in cities like NYC, Buffalo, Utica NY, Houston TX, LA/Daly City/Fremont CA, Battle Creek/Lansing MI.
That’s true… we don’t spend much for ourselves but rather give away and donate to those in needs. That’s our culture
I remember when I lived in Maryland in the early 2010s there was ONE burmese restaurant near where I lived. I was just starting out and didn't have a lot of money, so it was always a big treat to go there. The only thing I remember with any level of detail is the fermented tea leaf salad. That was at least 10 years ago and I can still remember the taste exactly! So good.
Mandalay in Silver Spring? They had to close down for a while during the pandemic but they've reopened. It's been too long since I ate there, I need to get some Burmese food.
@grammar_antifa it's possible... this was like 12-15 years ago now so I'm a little fuzzy on details :) it would be great if they are still open though, it was such a great place
As a Taiwanese , we do have one Burmese street that located in Taipei City. The cuisines and tea culture are so fascinating and amazing .Will definitely recommend you to come and experience in Taiwan.
Where is this located in TPE?
@@jatc11yey At huaxin street,zhonghe near nanshijiao mrt station
Honestly wow. You guys somehow manage to deep dive and explain historical, sociological and geo political context within 40 mins OG short form long form. You're probably aware of this already but a huge percentage of 'Indian" reatuarants are staffed largely by Burmese of Nepali descent especially around Phahurat and Rattanaokosin and their food has a lot of tasty Nepali/Burmese elements.
Thank you so much for the passion you bring to your content and for shining a spotlight on Burmese cuisine. As a displaced student and the first in my family to study abroad, adjusting to life in a place where everything is different-the culture, the food, the language, and societal values-hasn't always been easy. Whenever I have to deal with stressful days in work or school, the thing I crave most is a home-cooked meal, made with love and care. What I appreciate most about your video is how you connected the story of Italian immigrants and their pizza to the rise of Burmese cuisine. Kudos to all the pioneers and brave individuals from Myanmar who took the risk to bring our cuisine to the global stage. I hope that one day we'll see Burmese food spots around every corner, just like Italian pizza stalls.
Living in San Francisco, I've been fortunate to have traditional Burmese food available since before the turn of the century. It's been trendy here for two decades. For me it tastes like a tour of Asia, gathering influences from India and sweeping east all the way across SE Asia. If I had mohinga every day of my life, I wouldn't complain.
Also in india we see new Burmese high dine restaurants across big cities.
Something I've never heard of before.
In Myanmar we have many Indian food restaurants 😊😊😊
I always have a box or two of Burmese fermented / pickled tea leaves salad with crunchy fried assorted beans and peas for toppings (Laphet Thoke) in my kitchen pantry. (Available on Amazon in the USA.) … Sometimes at home, I will add fresh Thai spicy papaya salad or Ukrainian “Korean” carrot salad to the mix. Next time I’ll try stuffing the salad mix into a Vietnamese rice paper roll. 🌶️😋😛👏🏻👍🏻😂
You can add sliced tomatoes. After one bite of tea leaves salad, I suggest you should eat it together with garlic. While I was writing this cmt, I decided that tmr I will have this salad for sure.
YAAAY! SO so glad you went back to do more Myanmar cuisine and explain why it's about to go global! Tons of new places have opened up north in Chiang Mai too and I'm trying to find them all and try them. There's a few places that have been here for a long time, some which I need to try, totally off the map and near the factories like what OTR has gone to before. There's an old one that's been a bit of a community center with a library, a few traditional tea houses and a great fusion place with some amazing house items. Yes! I love it! The texture! big time; from strange mushy tofu to all kinds of fried beans and seeds. And this cuisine dose vegetarian and vegan right without even mentioning it! no pretention just necessity being the mother of invention. (Dig the new music too.)
As a fellow burmese citizen who is lucky enough to be living in foreign country, I want to thank you and your channel for always sharing the love for our cuisine and for reminding the world about the ongoing political turmoil which is causing endless suffering and unspeakable killings across the country. I cried when u said the world has forsaken us cause that's exactly how all of us feel like so thank u for bring awareness on military coup. Wishing peace and success to your channel and to all burmese finding ways in this dark hour.
After your previous video on Burmese food, I looked up to check if there were any restaurants in the area.
Turns out there’s a single Burmese restaurant in Vancouver. Tried it, and it was amazing!
I'm a burmese living in Yangon and your video of our food has made me happy and proud. Thank you !
I found you through your video on the history of noodles, and your content has been incredibly informative and enjoyable to watch. This video was no different, and I sincerely thank you for it. Even though I, myself, am Burmese, I never thought that Burmese cuisine was anything to write about. It might be because I immigrated to Australia as a child, and so rarely had Burmese cuisine outside the confines of my own home.
As Robin described at the end, I thought it was best chalked up as just "oily" stall food. I didn’t really think that it could be elevated beyond that level, with the exception of maybe three dishes.
I think the way the Rangoon Teahouse takes classic Burmese flavours and puts its own spin on things is definitely the best at proving me absolutely wrong. Dishes like Lahpet Thoke, which I would consider closer to a bar snack than a salad getting heralded was something I really didn't expect. The idea that Burmese cuisine's lack of international presence gives leeway for it to be pioneered is something that should have been so obvious, yet never crossed my mind.
Once again, I would really like to thank your team for this video, and for giving me insight into my own culture in ways I never expected or took for granted.
As a Thai, Im so great that weastern cares about Myanmar. Feels so sad for the myanmar people.
If anyone's in Chiang Mai and would like to try authentic Burmese food, I recommend Zinme Tea House near Wat Ket. Their Mohinga and Nann Gyi Thoke are sooo good!
I need to comment to boost this video after liking it, because this is one of the best videos you've ever made! I know I said this a couple of times on other recent videos as well, but I think that's just a testament to both the quality of your videos and how diverse Bangkok is and continues to be.
In my bias opinion this is the best episode ever... Now I can plan my next Bangkok trip proper....
Similar things may be happening in the USA but from the *opposite* angle & not in big coastal cities. Here, often people are exposed to cuisines of Burma via indigenous refugee diasporas, especially the *Karen (K'nyaw) people,* plus others like Chin, Kachin, Karenni, & Lisu people (I'd guess Mon, Rohingya, & Shan refugees also are doing so quietly). In my area, there's old-school-style Karen-owned markets which sell Burmese, Karen, & Thai foods including snacks & hot soups, as well as Thai restaurants owned by Karen, Karenni, & (most invisibly) Lisu refugees, as well as a couple of explicitly Burmese restaurants, including one which seeks to introduce it to wider audiences and do "fusion" with popular local American food. In the menu of these ostensibly Thai restaurants owned by refugees from Burma, there are often Burmsese dishes tucked away in hidden corners of the menu. There's one particular Karen-owned restaurant which makes Vietnamese Phở, Lao-style papaya salad, Korean bulgogi 불고기, Burmese Khao Soi soup, and Karen Kaw Naw soup. However, there's still a difference between what restaurants serve and what, say, a Karen refugee family will serve you if you visit their home as a guest. There's plenty of dishes from Burmese indigenous diaspora communities which you can't really find in restaurants, such as Karenni sausage (which uses a unique, difficult-to-source spice).
I think that this is because these communities tend to be low-income (even being stereotyped as "thugs"), which means that their incredible traditional foods are often disparaged. Due to the popularity of ngapi (nyaw eu in Karen), a fermented fish paste, the dominant culture in the USA views foods from this area as "dirty" and "smelly." Some have even been kicked out by landlords over their use of traditional foods like ngapi/nyaw eu. So, I suspect many of these people worry that less-known Chin, Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Lisu, Mon, Rohingya, & Shan foods are "unmarketable" to a "wider audience." It reminds me strongly of the stigma that kimchi 김치 & fish sauce used to have until maybe 2014. I hope that this changes.
I think that it might be changing. Already, one Karen-owned restaurant has received great attention from even "mainstream" food blogs/periodicals, and I've seen one Lisu-owned restaurant with a very compelling, innovative use of pickled tea leaves. And the indigenous cultural backgrounds of many refugees who resettled in the USA are likely to add unique nuances from the specific cultural POVs which would be distinctly different than if the restaurant was opened by someone from a middle-class, Bamar background. The same has already started to prove true in the USA for Hmong cuisine, which has influences from China, Laos, Thailand, & Vietnam in addition to its own indigenous roots, and now Hmong cuisine even has a celebrity chef representing it (Yia Vang).
As your video alludes to, U.S. cities you wouldn't even consider to be major destinations for *any* food diversity (often in "fly-over country") are where the cuisine of Burma could be a "dark horse." I'd say that St. Paul, Minnesota is the biggest hub (in a state which has the highest-per-capita population of Karen refugees), but medium-sized towns and other metros have introductions to Burmese cuisine (even if only via occasional festivals), including Albert Lea, Austin, Marshall, Willmar, & Worthington, MN, Lincoln & Omaha, NE, Des Moines, Marshalltown, Sioux City, & Waterloo, IA (possibly the tiny towns of Columbus Junction & Storm Lake, too), Huron, SD, Milwaukee, WI, Rock Island & Rockford, IL (as well as Chicagoland suburbs of Aurora, DeKalb, & Elgin), Elkhart, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, & South Bend, IN, New Bern & Raleigh/Durham, NC, Bowling Green, Lexington, Louisville, & Owensboro, KY, Springdale, AR, Kansas City, KS/MO, Cincinnati, OH, as well as less-surprising areas like Amarillo, Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, & Houston, TX, Seattle, WA, & San Diego, CA. Surprisingly, New York's biggest opportunities for exposure to Burmese food may be in culturally Midwest-adjacent "rust belt" cities like Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, & Utica; New York City seems to have far less in the way of per-capita options for Burmese stuff, because especially Karen & Karenni refugees mostly (seem to) live in the other smaller cities.
P.S. I may not be an expert, but *feel free to contact me if you wish to explore the food of indigenous refugees from Burma in my state.* I may be available to show you.
Very thorough insight! I had a hunch the majority of immigrants would be the Kachins as that is the case for Thailand even if they advertised themselves as "Burmese" due to "strength in unity". Nice to see the Midwest hosting quite a number of diverse ethnicities!
@@realneonbluegamer there are some Kachin people in my area, but the Karen people are the largest of the indigenous diaspora from Burma, and I suspect the Karenni are the second-largest, with Kachin, Lisu, Mon, & Rohingya being far-lower. Also, the civil war has forced factions with different goals to stand in solidarity against the Myanmar government. Who knows if even Burma (the preferred term of the rebels) will exist if the rebels win. IDK. For example, the Karen people want to have an independent nation (Kawthoolei), like many indigenous populations want. So, perhaps we will even have multiple independent nations later. Finally, I really hope the many different indigenous ethnic diasporas of Burma become less-invisible soon!
I like Burmese food, it is brigthening up the wide range of delicious Asian food ! This year we found in Bangkok Pratunam some new Myanmar restaurants - i `m happy you do this video as always with super interesting researches ! Just Thankyou a lot OTR ❤🙏i appreciate your work very much 👍
...so sad what is going on in Myanmar, it is a cruel War - we just hope for Peace ✌
How could a place surrounded by India, Thailand, China and the sea not have amazing food? Can't wait to try Burmese food. Thanks for a great video.
Thanks to your videos, I have been to Kalyana, Shwee Htee (twice!) and Mandalay Food House. And I don't even live in Bangkok.
With the video drop, I have to find an opportunity to visit Rangoon Tea House someday! The background information and context surrounding Myanmar and Burmese cuisine in Bangkok makes me appreciate every trip to Burmese restaurants.
As a Thai, bangkok-ian this is really fascinating.This makes me wanna try Burmese food asap🤤
thanks for this video OTR, since Myanmar have been under coup for three years now and we are feeling depressed so this video will put smiles on every Burmese people faces. Have a great day and stay safe everyone!
Dude, thanks for giving Burmese food and people from Burma the spotlight they so rightfully deserves. So much love for and joy from what you do ❤🎉😊
All the very best to the entrepreneurs from Mayanmar...👍👍👍
I'm burmese and im so happy burmese food is finally getting its flowers! I hope to see more dishes from all the ethnic groups from myanmar get more recognition as myanmar is a beautiful nation with a lot of different cultures. Good to know that people who escaped an awful and tragic situation are thriving, wishing for an equitable and democratic myanmar free of genocide and politicide 🙏
RTH (Rangoon Tea House) is one of my fav restaurants back home.
I remember when things were good, me and my friends would have cute little dates there everyday. RTH was in our daily routine.
Their mohinga, mutton biryani, duck puff, truffle mote lin-ma-yar, charshu bao and si-lone tea are our favorites dishes from them. Oh and can’t forget their cocktails menu. Superb!
They also had their own Gin brand. We would start with some tea and snacks then change to the gin and went back home drunk. 😂
Good old days.
Seeing RTH again in Thailand makes me homesick more.
Can’t wait to go back home.
In 2016 I visited Yangon, Bagan, and Mandalay. My trip to Myanmar will always be one of my all time interesting and memorable experiences. I can’t say I came back loving the food. I’ve seen but not sampled the Burmese food stalls in the Phra Khanong fresh market. These upscale food venues make me want to give Burmese food a second chance.
Been away from home for 19 years, currently living in Chicago. Thank you for the shout out to our amazing people and cuisine. ♥️
We are at the Rangoon Tea House as I write this comment. Wow! Just wow. In general Burmese food is good and for many different but this place takes it to another level.
Oh, and thank you Adam and company for another excellent video.
Thank you. Please have more episodes like this. Burmese food is so unknown that we have so little content on RUclips.
Christchurch in New Zealand has been lucky to have the Boddhi Tree since 2001, since 2012 renamed Rangoon Ruby. I always think fondly of the myriad of different flavours and especially textures, the Tea leaf salad with lentils. It was always very popular with the locals and I really should go again. Thank you for your deep dive on the subject!
Actually Burmese cuisine is similar to Filipino flavors. Not spicy, very savory and flavors are very pronounced. Balanced w/o the subtleness. I love their Mohinga and Laphet
hey glad you like our food..funny enough that I have been thinking that Filipino food looks similar to ours and might even taste similar though I have only watched videos. For eg, pork adobo looks very similar to typical Burmese pork curry and I wanna try it so much.
My favourite food migration is the kebab family. When I was living in Tbilisi Georgia in 2012 I saw shaurma, kebabi, doneri, and the most local, mtsvadi. It's interesting enough when two branches of a food family tree cross paths in one place but that was the only time I saw four cross paths.
Such a good video. Great music, prescient commentary, and shows how history is reflected in new developments. Please know that what you do matters.
Thank you so much for this opportunity to allow the world to see our cuisine. Appreciate your work!!
Another OTR video. You beauty. A big thumbs up before it even starts.
Love your channel! Love your content! I knew nothing about Burmese food before watching this and now can’t wait to try it when I get to Bangkok this winter. thank you thank you thank you!
Could not agree more, Burmese food is so outstandingly good that it deserves a place among the best foods in the world.
I just ate at the Burmese food stall in Phahurat AND at Kalyana in Pratunam THANKS to your previous videos about them! So good!
Man what a great video! Thanks for showing the world the cuisine of our beautiful country. I hope one day when the war is over, You and your team gets the chance to come visit Myanmar and try even more authentic food.
Drop everything, teerak! It’s a new episode of OTR!!!
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A well presented video, very enjoyable and informative. Tq for the added geopolitical snapshots as well. Looking forward to more from your channel.
P.S. just subscribed 😊.
Thankyou so much for making this video! Love from Myanmar!
Awesome video! Great production value and music and history lessons! I'm super excited to try Burmese food!
Burmese food is having a moment in my household right now. How timely. 😮
I am lucky there are several Burmese restaurants in California. I first tried it about 16 years ago and just loved the tea leaf salad and am now familiar with more dishes the cuisine offers like mohinga which I really enjoy eating. I doubt any of the Burmese restaurants in California are as good as the ones in Thailand though, since its a neighboring country.
Thank you OTR ❤, love your presentation of histories and food together.
so great to see you dig everything abt us our stories of Myanmar people.Now still in Myanmar facing bad things every day but hoping we will have a peaceful days like before.A little moti has got from ur video.I hope the team can visit & get to see the real taste of Myanmar food.Really thanks for your video,Worth to watch it.
Thanks for creating a video on our traditional cuisines. They are so good and so tasty. Anyone who ever gets to Thailand or Myanmar, give yourself a go to nearby Myanmar restaurant.
Myanmar ppl will be so friendly just tell them to recommend you something. You wont regret it. For sure.
Living in Hong Kong i have always wanted to try burmese food but there is NO BURMESE RESTAURANT😢😢😢😢 burmese chefs heres your chance to shine
Used to work with a gentleman originally from Burma. He introduced me to a salad made out of tea leaves. I have never had anything as unique since then and will never forget its exquisitely delicate taste.
My very next task after this comment is to find a Burmese restaurant in Sydney!!
Another outstanding vid!
They got one in blacktown!
Thank you for another gem of a video. What an amazing channel this is.
Really glad to see your amazing informative content, well done OTR
This is great to see. When I moved from San Francisco to Bangkok in 2015, I was surprised that there were fewer Burmese restaurants in BKK (on Google Maps) than in SF, where it has become trendy to a degree. There was a pan-ASEAN themed restaurant at Gateway Ekkamai with Lapat and Mohinga that I frequented but it has since closed. So glad to see neighboring cuisines breaking through in BKK!
Amazing to hear Shan and Burmese food is taking off in TH. There were some signs of increasing popularity after the pandemic. But still, i believe it's probably the most underrated food in SE-Asia. Thanks for the inspiration 🙏
Burmese salads number in their thousands! The most diverse in the world!
yep, far better than Western salads!
Didn't know that and I'm Burmese. Thought our salads are just normal 😅 You guys make me so proud of us especially during times like this thank you 🙏😊
I'm a Burmese and we made salad out of everything LoL
Burma needs more love for sure. They could use it.
Bro literally got me tear after watching this.Thank you or ကျေးဇူးပါ 🙏🇲🇲
Great video. The introductory montage on migrant food in the USA left out all the layers of Mexican food that spread from the west to the east in the USA and even BKK, Paris, London, Berlin, and Hong Kong.
Thanks- yeah I mean it left a lot out; it’s impossible to encompass everything, so we just focused 95% on pizza and mentioned a couple other examples.
I was eating Burmese food regularly in the SF Bay Area back in the 90's. I had it for lunch a couple times a week.
Very intriguing, ingredients and combinations that I have never considered. I'm not a fan of upscale and trendy places, but I'm glad to see that Burmese/Myanmese dishes are coming into the mainstream. Personally, I prefer the street stalls and the migrant foods wherever I happen to be, and however "oily" they happen to be, but I'm glad that you shared this eye and mind opener video. If you know of any cookbooks or food history books dealing with genuine Burmese dishes, I'd be glad to try to find them. I'm sure some of the ingredients might be hard to find here in the Eastern US, but at least there would be some inspiration to give these flavors a try.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR CHANNEL TO BRING UP ABOUT BURMESE CUISINE. THANKS A LOT.
I am super happy to see people around the world enjoy our food.I promise myself, one day I will become president of Myanmar.
Thanks for covering about Myanmar’s cuisine
Ah, the first section about 'refugee food' - Somali food is amazing and I will travel to the 'hood for it. I don't care if I'm often the only non-Somali - it's too delicious. As is Burmese and yes, the restaurants often started by refugees. Had it in two cities now :) - There's a quite good successful one in Wellington, New Zealand which has been around for 20+ years founded by a refugee. Hopefully will be 3 soon in Bangkok!
Great work as always, I hope to one day see Burmese food recognized on the global level!
I loved going to Burma Superstar which has been in San Francisco for over 30 years. I will try a couple of these Burmese restaurants in Bangkok on my next trip.
No no no no!
I cant watch this, I am not prepared!
Burmese food is my home food for celebrations.
I am Indian but my parents were born and brought up in Rangoon.
They were amongst the thousands of pre-independence Indians settled in Burma who had to leave during the uprising of 60s.
So there are pockets of Burmese refugee centres in some regions of India where most of the people still fondly remembers their time in Burma and make and enjoy the food they used have there.
They can even speak Burmese. Just imagine, bunch of Indians, in India, speaking and eating Burmese while nobody surrounding them has any idea of whats going on! That was the household and atmosphere I grew up in and though I can't speak Burmese, the food is very special to me, its home.
I always thought why is it not hitting main stream, and finally I got this video, but I am not ready for the big reveal! 😢
I love watching this video. It makes me want to visit to Bangkok and eat all Burmese foods like he did.
Thank you so much for your content of our native food. I'd love to watch for more
Thanks for bringing up our culture to be more popular!
In 1956 Crab Rangoon was famous in USA . Rangoon is the former capital name of Burma(Myanmar).
Yep but I believe that dish was invented by Trader Vics
It would be interesting to see a similar deep-dive video for Indian restaurants. I believe everything should start from street vendors to Michelin-starred restaurants, with the deep cultural impact and exchange and rich history associated with them.
I went to Burbrit original in Yangon around 10 years ago (riverside). I love it and really enjoy. Just know it's in Bangkok now. I'll definitely going to try soon.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
I can't wait to share this with my Burmese friend!
Here in Portland, OR there are at least ten Burmese restaurants. My lady friend and her g'grandchilden have been to one and it is definitely worth the trip. (Of course what the kids found fun was that the food is brought to you by a robot.) The food certainly resembled Thai cuisine but it's unique unto itself. Right now the kids are so involved in school and extracurricular activities that we aren't going out much and by the time all that madness slacks off it will be OYSTER season here in the PNW. But eventually we will go back--and I'm looking forward to it.
I am glad Burmese food is getting its flowers in Bangkok. I've sought out Burmese food over 10 years ago and it was limited to Sukhumvit Soi 1 near Bumrungrad Hospital. Their culinary profile is quite unique despite drawing from the same influences as its SE Asia neighbors. I went to Yangon and enjoyed FEEL and was happy to see it pop up here. Now, Tea Leaf salad can be found at some Thai restaurants.
Fascinating !
Superb production quality as always! Any chance you guys are doing video(s) about khao soi? There is a place called ใบบัว hidden away in Huai Kwang district. They serve excellent beef khao soi alongside great assortment of burmese/shan/northern thai food. I have a feeling that you will love this place.
Thank you for featuring Burmese food.
"Boris, this on you now. I just can't," then reaches for another dish. That was a hella lotta food, for real! Thank you for your service. 😆
I watched this because I've never heard of Burmese food. I just googled "Burmese restaurant Atlanta," and the first thing to come up was a Yelp article for, "The top ten Burmese restaurants in Atlanta." I think it has arrived.
Thx Bro
Bringing Myanmar food to the world
I certainly welcome it, the more the merrier. Growing up you would hear about the Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and more recently Korean restaurants as Asian restaurants to be found in Bangkok. Strangely not that many Indian or Burmese restaurants, and no Cambodian restaurants at all as far as I can recall.
Thank you OTR❤
Thank you guys for doing another video of Myanmar food episode 🎉
In queens in new york city. Theres a Burmese counter spot in the food court of the Queens center mall called Burmese Bites, and its actually really good
I'm alway vouching for the open society where people are just fellow human. every single days, I have to listen to my aunt spilling racist words toward Myanmese and other nearby countries. It's so tiring living with a racist like that. No, reasons cannot reach her.
I'm guessing you're Thai?
Was spoiled with some amazing Burmese food near where I lived in San Francisco for years- now I'm in Los Angeles and I don't see as much burmese food available, but I hope to findsome soon
I live in a large urban area with a few authentic Burmese restaurants, and they seem to be busy most of the time I’m there with lots of customers. It isn’t surprising, as there’s much to love about the food beyond the tea leaf salad, although that’s a pretty delicious item I rarely pass up. The chickpea tofu is something I now make at home. I do think Burmese food is accessible enough for people in the US to embrace, especially those who love other southeast Asian cuisines.
Thanks for sharing our Burmese foods😊
This is a new topic about Burmese food, this is the ground zero. Thanks for the video.
Thank you OTR!
Oh, I like unique food experiences! Had Sabahan food while in Sabah and that is a HIGHLY overlooked and rare cuisine indeed, even within Malaysia, outside of Sabah! So many unique dishes and tastes as well. I wish that cuisine would spread because WOW essentially. When in Bangkok, I got to somehow book a spot at Luka! My holidays centre around two things: Seeing overseas friends/family and food LOL. Lying on a beach all day really isn't my thing, tasting and experiencing unique food is!