Myanmar traditional foods and curry
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@Sawmatt It all looks very nice indeed. I haven’t been to Myanmar, so all these would be new to me. It would be quite good to have more information about each one of these dishes or food.
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Myanmar Traditional Food are Mohinga, Attho, Kaushwe and it is eaten as regular Breakfast or Dinner.
Some take these even as Lunch.
The Lunch will be usually the delicious Burmese cooked rice with Fish fry & Curry.
The food is also taken in a simple mixture of dry prawn garnished with ground chilli, fried Garlic & Onion salted to taste.
Fried fish & Prawns and even crabs /lobster are available at reasonable price on Street Shops - at the corner of every street of the down town Yangon.
The vegetarian items for breakfast is
1.Moseymow, (Puttu in Tamil, or sweet rice cake - not the indian Idly)
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cooked White Gum Rice (Kaugnee mow) salted shredding of coconut added with sesame seed or Peas or even Sugar
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Cooked Black Gum Rice is also a tasty stuff often eaten with sugar or Jaggery.
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Mowpato with Cocunut shreddings & other puddings Rice cakes of different colour Yellow, Brown
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The Halwa (called DholDhol) made from Black Gum Rice Powder is the tastiest Sweet in Myanmar - Tastier than the Chocolate. One cannot resist eating it one more piece.
Among several snacks Gyinthot made predominantly with Ginger, peanuts, peas, bean nuts, Coriander leaf, raw onion, fried garlic, & chilli is a good digesting snacks. we will reach a saturation point eating this one .
There are several other food cultures of the Tamilians, Bengalis, Chinese, Muslims.
The items are also liked by the Burmese as well.