Recipes

Faluda and kyet thar thoke— Burmese falooda and spiced chicken salad. (Photographs by Martin Poole)

With chapters on snacks, salads, curries, rice, noodles and sweets, the simple recipes are perfect for a quick weekday family meal or a comforting slow cook on a weekend.

Sticky rice balls and tapioca in jaggery juice, a dish known as mote kyar si. (Hsu Myat)

This Myanmar dessert is another Thingyan favourite, a sweet treat to celebrate the Burmese New Year.

Expect to see lots of mote lone yay paw in Yangon over Thingyan. (Hsu Myat Oo)

Mote lone ye paw, meaning ‘round snack that floats on water,’ is a treat brought out especially for the Burmese new year festival Thingyan.

My mother and my grandparents in Sagaing region regularly use different kinds of beans, which are easy to prepare and taste delicious with mango salad, chicken curry, dried fish and other dishes. Let’s try it with dried fish.

I learned how to cook steamed egg curry by watching my mother, who often made it for us. 

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