Famous for its jaw-dropping cities of ancient pagodas and lush jungle sceneries, Burma has been attracting growing crowds of tourists since it began opening up in 2011. Less well-known? Its food.

Chef Zin Zin Htun’s rendition of the dish is a delicious introduction to the culture and cuisine of Myanmar. Zin Zin's Tea Salad dish. Photograph by Sarah Banks. The Local newsletter is your free, ...

Indian, Thai, and Chinese cuisine are all widespread and well known, but a cuisine that incorporates qualities from all three, Burmese food, isn’t nearly as popular in Oregon. Corvallis’s restaurant ...

The first thing you notice about Yoma is the sign in the window reading “Thai Food.” That’s there to attract people who know a lot about pad Thai and mee krob but probably nothing about Yoma’s real ...

When trying an unfamiliar cuisine, there is often a dish that serves as an entry point. For Thai, it’s pad thai. For Vietnamese, it’s pho. For Burmese, it’s tea leaf salad. On two recent visits to ...

There’s a new food option for customers stopping at the Grand Rapids Downtown Market. Myanmar Meals has opened inside the ...

Banny Hong wants Orange County to try something different. As the co-owner of Irrawaddy Taste of Burma, a restaurant that opened three months ago in Stanton, Hong is offering something the area had ...

EIGHT NEWS AT NINE ON METV. WELCOME BACK. A METRO RESTAURANT OWNER IS USING FOOD AS A WAY TO SHARE STORIES FROM HER HOMETOWN. IN TONIGHT’S PROJECT COMMUNITY. KCCI’S NICOLE TAM INTRODUCES US TO BURMESE ...

Paolo Bicchieri is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups. Customers clicking onto the ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- The country of Myannmar, formerly known as Burma, is barely understood in the U.S. Even less so is its cuisine, since there are only two Burmese restaurants in the state.

Over the past several years, a friend who moved to Atlanta from San Francisco has often repeated a lament to me. “I just can’t find any Burmese food here,” she would say. I found it to be a surprising ...

Everyone who has been to Singapore knows it as “little Asia,” a diverse island-city but few know that there is an enclave of Burmese population in Singapore, which is estimated in the tens of ...