Yangon’s crumbling footpaths are lined with people indulging in its exciting and diverse street food, but Myanmar’s culture of hospitality means you’ll inevitably be invited in for a home-cooked meal, ...

At a charming Kayan restaurant overlooking Yangon’s Pazundaung Creek, the waiter uses a cleaver to crack open a clay mound. He extracts a bamboo-wrapped chicken, dripping in its own juices. It’s been ...

Burma's cuisine combines influences from south-east Asia, China and India. Snacks range from favourites such as samosas to more unusual offerings such as bat skewers but meals tend to be spicy and ...

Two days after the end of Chinese New Year, Rabbit Bakery is still busy churning out pastries for eager customers. Inside the cramped room in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, shop owner Aung Kyaw Moe ...

Founders of Lahpet in Spitalfields, Zaw Mahesh and Dan Anton, are well versed in Burmese cuisine. Zaw grew up in Yangon, the country's capital city, at a time when it was tightly controlled by the ...

My first stop is Gekko, a Japanese restaurant with a cosy cocktail lounge. The Asian bartending grapevine had given me a list of places to visit and people to meet. One of them is Jen Queen, who, to ...

Millions of people in Myanmar are seen standing in line to get food aid efforts to support residents living in poor communities in Yangon. Myanmar's economy and banking system have been paralysed ...

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