All the grub I chowed down on in Burma. The food was amazing. Salads, pickles, stews, nuts, everything in ingenius and healthy combinations. Seriously, Burmese food may just be the best yet. Don't drip saliva on yourself.
La pa tot, or fermented green tea leaf salad. Usually consisted of some combination of fermented green tea leaves mixed with cabbage, peanuts, tomatoes, and other crunchy bits to give it texture. Utterly amazing. Sometime we ate this with rice twice a day.
Another amazing salad with potatoes, red onions, chives, cabbage, and other stuff.
Potato salad with black sesame seeds and chives. Are you noticing a pattern here? A lot of Burmese food is yummy fresh or fermented salads.
And some Burmese food is actually Indian food! Like these paratha-like pita things. After these things appeared, I pretty much boycotted rice.
Sugar snap pea stir-fry with dipping sauces. Mmmmmmm...
Another version of la pa tot, this time with bamboo.
Tofu and veggie stir-fry. Always a delicious standby.
Chow-mein, or at least the Burmese version of it. If you need a huge plate of carbs to keep you going, this is what you want.
Fried ball of potato with veggies and spices. Kinda weird, but pretty good.
Another Indian dish – puri, or puffed fried bread, and thali, which are the side dishes; in this case a carroty pickle, potato dahl, and mysterious white stuff. All delicious, but my intestines complained within an hour of eating this. Makes me scared to go to India.
Little Chinese dim-sums with my couchsurfing host, Darinne. Thanks for putting me up for a few days in Yangon, and having a final breakfast with me before I left!
Best fried stuff and samosas on the planet! Middle of nowhere, Myanmar.
Chris continues his futile quest to find a good burger abroad, and ends up being a caricature of Americans in the process!
Red sticky rice with chickpeas and caramelized onions. Amazing, and for breakfast.
Yet another variation on la pa tot. This one was heavy on the nuts and seeds.
Cilantro and red-onion salad. Thumbs up.
Terrible noodles, but watching this lady grab all the ingredients with her hands and throw them into my bowl was an experience. Notice the lack of plastic gloves, and know that there were no handwashing facilities nearby.
This tomato salad was one of my favorite things. Tangy, creamy, filling.
Roadside cafeteria food! Healthy and delicious.
Coca cola hasn't quite established a monopoly on the carbonated beverage market here.
Big plate of rice with mint leaves and fresh veggies, surrounded by roasted peanuts and three different pickled dishes.
La pa tot, this time in its elemental form.
Awesome donut thingies. And a fly.
Deep fried whole bird carcasses. I didn't sample these.
Veritable hush-puppies!!!! ! I'm home!
More puri and thali.
Huge veg buffet. We paid a couple bucks each, and the food just kept coming.
Notice the okra. I'm in Arkansas.
Eminently masticable variation on la pa tot #4.
Fried roti with chickpeas in a garlic sauce. OMG.
I think this was bamboo. I'm not usually a fan of eating bamboo, but this was pretty good.
Peanut salad. Yum.
Egg-plant stir-fry. Always good. Hard to mess up, but I recently learned that they are basically devoid of nutrition. True?
More fried roti with a different kind of pea. We often had something like this for breakfast. Keeps ya goin.
