World Recipes and Travel Itineraries
The Burmese Roasted Eggplant Salad is a common dish throughout Myanmar. The locals usually eat at places known as ‘tea shops’ or ‘tea houses’, which specialize in all the traditional foods of Myanmar at incredibly low prices. As a foreigner it’s not too difficult to have […]
Shan-Style Cauliflower Curry This is a quick and easy Shan-style curry dish that you can prepare in under 15 minutes. Popular in Myanmar, Dan and I enjoyed this dish several times, mostly in Shan State. You can tweak the recipe to your taste, adding in […]
Shan-Style Vegetable Tempura Vegetable tempura’s are a great appetizer and a fun party snack. Most tempuras are highly breaded, using an unhealthy flour. The Shan-style vegetable tempura that we learned how to make in Myanmar, uses rice flour and very little of it. You could […]
Shan-Style Tofu Curry This isn’t your typical curry. It’s not soupy and it’s not spicy. This curry is unique to an area of Myanmar called Inle Lake. The reason it’s unique is because they use a special kind of tofu that is only made in […]
Ferment your own tea leaves, and then use them in the Burmese Bean Salad ! ___________________________________________________________________________ Directions: 1. Begin with a dry, whole-leaf green tea, preferably organic. 2. Soak in hot water for 15-20 minutes, then remove and take out the harder stems and sticks. 3. […]
Burmese Bean Salad (Burmese Fermented Tea Leaf Salad) Known as ‘Lahpet Thohk’ in Burmese language, the Burmese bean salad is one of my all-time favorite dishes from any country. Having traveled to Myanmar in the Summer of 2015, I quickly fell in love with their […]