Random Yangon

Final Yangon, Myanmar post with random pix.  Would love to go back…

Lunching Out in Yangon

For my final meal in Yangon, Myanmar, I went to a restaurant that was clearly targeted at expats which generally speaking is not necessarily my destination of choice but this turned out to be great food.

Tea leaf salad, one of signature dishes of Myanmar. This was beautiful. I could not stop eating!

To Supermarket! in Yangon

One of my favorite activities in any city is visiting the supermarket.  City Mart was in a walking distance from my hotel in Yangon.

Whoa. Huge rice cookers

Dining Out in Yangon

For my final evening in Yangon, Myanmar, I was very fortunate to have the company of a young Myanmar lady Pinky who I was told had spent a lot of time visiting my aunt in Osaka on weekends with friends while she was attending college in the Japanese city.  I was amazed by her excellent Japanese and ecstatic for her taking me to a home cooking kind of restaurant, very popular with locals.  Let’s admit that Myanmar cuisine is not particularly sophisticated but the food here was amazingly tasty.

You can choose from the menu but you can also go up to the serving counter and choose your dishes.

After-meal sugar. Tasted like our “nikki” candy, something related to cinnamon.

Scenes from the Shwedagon Pagoda

The most visited pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar by locals and tourists alike is the Shwedagon Pagoda which stood tall in the far distance outside my hotel window.

Inside its premises.