Those are bags of crickets - fried &
honey-roasted. It's a local delicacy. Nope, we didn't try it. (I very nearly
did ...).
Staple food is rice & curry, strongly
influenced by Indian & Thai cuisine, hence quite spicy and oily. But
delicious! They use coconut milk a lot. I like mohinga, a breakfast offering of
rice noodles, herbs, bits of fish & fish crackers, and boiled egg. Reminds
me of laksa, but less heavy.
Their desserts are extremely sweet! Like
eating pure sugar. They have all sorts of rice cakes, too.
They sell lunch on the street, like
Vietnam. They give you a stool and you're ready to go.
They have the same fruits that we do -
guava, pineapple, mangosteen, rambutan, and mango. There are bananas
everywhere. They have sweetened mangoes and flatten them in sheets and eat them
bit by bit like candy.
Read about the Gilded Bronze Buddha in my Yangon Journal 6.
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