Hta- ma-ne is a mixture of glutinous rice, roasted sesame seeds.roasted peanuts, coconut slices and a generous amount of cooking oils.Flavoured with ginger,hta-ma-ne gose well with the cold weather of the harvest season. It is said that the world hta-ma-ne comesFrom hnan-ma-me; hnan in Myanmar is sesame seeds and ma-ne-ne means large in amount.The snack…
To prepare gourd fritters, tender gourd chips dipped in rice batter are fried until they become golden brown. It is a tradition of Myanmar to eat bu-thee-gyaw together with lettuceAnd a sauce made from tamarind pulp in which crushed chillies and garlic are mixed. A plate of bu-thee-gyaw with lettuce on the side, with a…
A popular Myanmar street food with a rather unusual name is mont-lin-ma-yar. Literally the world means husband-and-wife pancakes. Like most Myanmar snacks, rice is used as the main ingredient to make this. It is made from rice batter in the form of two small hemispheres, each facing the other forming a loving couple. It is…
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To make a kauk-hnyin-baung, glutinous rice is steamed. There are two kind s of glutinous rice: white and black is delicious and crispy. It can be taken with boiled peas soaked in sesame powder with salt. It goes equally well with fried chicken or fried fiish. City folks usualy have it as breakfast with hot…
Mont-hin-gah, rice noodles in gravy, is the most popular Myanmar snack. It can be taken as a snack as well as a full meal. To make mont-hin-gah gravy, a variety of ingredients are required but the main ingredients are flash, sliced pith of banana stem, roasted rice flour, roasted pea flour, lemon grass, ginger, onions,…
With the booming of the beauty industry, there are more choices for beauty products such as make-ups, lip care, masks, creams, moisturizers, spray deodorants, aftershave balms and countless others than in the past. In spite of new products and brands being created every day, thanakha is a unique beauty product of Myanmar. It is inseparable…
