Pork delicacies......Chinatown...

၀က္သား ဒုတ္ထိုး

 (pork on a stick)

it's in chinatown, it's on the sidewalk.....baskets and baskets of pork paraphenelia....

small intestines, large intestines, heart, liver, kidneys, snort, ear, tongue, larynx....

ehehehehe...i can see u cringing, vomiting...but really, it's quite, quite tasty...

HOW THEY ARE PREPARED : all these parts have been washed and marinated with light soy sauce, a little sugar and salt..then boiled down with water until they are all nice and tender and sweet tasting...then they are sliced when the customer orders, and pierced and served on a piece of bamboo stick....just dip them in the hot broth, and then the spicy chilli-garlic sauce and enjoy...

When we are done eating, the stall owner counts the number of bamboo sticks to calculate the bill...VOILA!

a typical Burmese meal

think oil, think chilli, think fish paste...hahaahah.....not for the weak-hearted folks, for sure!

We Burmese try to incorporate a handful of tastes into our food repertoire, 
a little saltiness here, a little bitterness there, a whole lot of oiliness everywhere....

a typical Burmese meal would center around a low, round table, surrounded by ALL family members.....

the dishes u ask?.........

a meat curry (either with a thick onion and chilli based gravy OR a thin soupy one), 

a veggie dish (either fried greens or a spicy salad), 

a soup (mostly tamarind based veggie soup OR a creamy bean soup) and 

for the "piece-de-resistance"  Ta Da!!!...

ငါးပိရည္ခ်ဳိ (burmese spelling) 

for fermented fish paste boiled with water into a gravy like substance 

and mixed in with pounded fresh garlic, roasted tomatoes and green chilli...

it's in fact a spicy dip accompanied with fresh crunchy cucumber/boiled veggies/fermented veggies.....

and to wolf all of the above down with...RICE, RICE and more RICE...

YUM !!!

the reason for eating - simple pleasure...!

Hi guys !
I've never had my own blog but often fantasized what it would be like to have such a throng of followers that you are bound to duty to update on every little thing that happens in your life !  GOSH !  I'd be a celebrity ! 

But what would i say ?
What would they say ?


Then i found my passion....FOOD!  Its varieties, its colours, its taste, its diversity.....so enticing, so tempting, so delicious.....

As i'm Burmese, i'd like to try and infuse my share of our traditional food contribution to this Big World Wide Web information vault!

Hope you'll enjoy!