Hi Linsi,

Thanks for your private message.

I love to taste different food and whenever I travel, I will look for a roadside stall.

Not only they are good and cheap but also according to the local taste.

One of our well known and best like breakfast is called Mok-Hin-Ngar( for Burmese ethnic people). It is a rice noodle with fish soup with banana stem. ( we have a similar type in Thailand called Kha-nom gyin

Another dish for breakfast is called “Ohn-Nooe Kauk Sway”. It is flour noodle in chicken soup with coconut milk. This similar noodle can also be found in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore called Lak sar

Another one is called “Let-Toke-Zone”. It is a kind salad comprise of rice, flour noodle, rice noodle, vermicelli, mixed with boiled potato, onion, sliced cabbage, roasted bean powder, papaya, tamarind juice and fish sauce (of course with chilly powder). In order to have the good taste, you will have to use your fingers to mix all the ingredients to eat.

During my school years, the above cost less than 1kyats (our local currency) now it cost around 300kyats.

One of the most popular food for the wealthy is now DIM SUM. Again during my school year, I used to go and eat at a place called Khin Thit Sar, on Latha Street. At that time it will cost about 5kyats but now it will cost more 10,000kyats of course it will depend on what you eat.

I can’t afford to go there anymore.

Will contribute more from other countries too.

Truthseeker

truthseeker wrote:

QUOTE:
Hi Linsi,


Another dish for breakfast is called “Ohn-Nooe Kauk Sway”. It is flour noodle in chicken soup with coconut milk. This similar noodle can also be found in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore called Lak sar


Truthseeker

hi Truthseeker,

this is a nice one, thanks! Lak sar? I know a particular malaysian dish which is Lak-sa and i know how to make one-- boy! it's so delicious!

Also Rendang!- do you know it? my goodness! I also know how
to cook it, i also learned to cook curry and i know
it has three different kinds. the yellow, green and red curry!

it makes me feel hungry-

truthseeker wrote:

QUOTE:
Hi Linsi,




Another one is called “Let-Toke-Zone”. It is a kind salad comprise of rice, flour noodle, rice noodle, vermicelli, mixed with boiled potato, onion, sliced cabbage, roasted bean powder, papaya, tamarind juice and fish sauce (of course with chilly powder). In order to have the good taste, you will have to use your fingers to mix all the ingredients to eat.

During my school years, the above cost less than 1kyats (our local currency) now it cost around 300kyats.

One of the most popular food for the wealthy is now DIM SUM. Again during my school year, I used to go and eat at a place called Khin Thit Sar, on Latha Street. At that time it will cost about 5kyats but now it will cost more 10,000kyats of course it will depend on what you eat.

I can’t afford to go there anymore.

Will contribute more from other countries too.

Truthseeker

goodness! the salad seems a healthy food totally meat free.
asians do use hands in eating, we have the kamayan resto in makati, a popular fine dining place where dinners eat with their hands, but they are also provided with water and lemon

even in KFC the chicken is considered finger food
and they provide wet napkins to clean the hands afterwards.

looking forward to more exotic cuisines.

Some people put some dried prawn powder but I do not put it.
People in our country ( most of the Asian countries) also put MSG but I avoid using MSG.

Hi Linsi, a great subject to talk to ..

Talking about Kamayan, I dunno, maybe I've been there.. it's like Indonesian food, I like halo-halo dessert very much.
Rice cake with durians is delicious.. yum yum..
Thai food are great too, even tho I dunno the names.. hehe..

From my hometown, there's FISH CAKE, it's very very nice.. we have it with chili soup.
If there's any chance that you would travel to Indonesia or Bandung, tell me please, will take you to have fish cake and some Padang meals, it's more like Malay or Indians, with curry.

hmm.. why now suddenly I wanna have rendang .. I think I still have it in my fridge .. hehe ..

I wonder where truthseeker is?

it's been quite time when he last posted-

but since this is the topic about local foods
particularly asian foods

perhaps we can also feature japanese foods





NOT JUST SUSHI ANYMORE
Noodle makers cook up growing demand overseas


OSAKA (Kyodo) With Japanese cuisine now long established on the world's culinary scene, more people outside Japan are developing a taste for one particular type of Japanese food — noodles



Japanese and other Asians frequent Japanese restaurants in the United States. "After becoming quite accustomed to eating sushi, now more Americans of non-Asian descent are also showing interest in Japanese noodles," an official at a Japanese food trading company said.

In Hong Kong, affluent consumers are ordering higher-end udon varieties at upscale restaurants, including "sanuki," which originated in Kagawa Prefecture. Japanese noodles have also become the fast food of choice for many citizens patronizing more reasonably priced eateries.

read more...
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20071018a5.html



<br><br>Post edited by: linsi, at: 2007/10/19 16:12