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How to Make a Ramen Burger - Recipe 26 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
Ramen Burgers Hot on the heels of the cronut comes the Ramen Burger. Made popular by Keizo Shimamoto, writer of the blog Go Ramen! and now ramen chef in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this culinary mash-up...
I Don't Like Crickets ... Sous Chef and the Rentokil Restaurant 15 Aug 2013 | 03:32 am
I have small hands and all Growing up in Britain as a Burmese child was weird in a lot of ways. One of these was that my diet was entirely Burmese at home. I didn't really cook or shop for food for ...
Shan-Burmese Cauliflower and Carrot Pickle Recipe 12 Aug 2013 | 06:49 pm
Spicy Shan Cauliflower and Carrot Pickle Pickling is in my blood. As you know, I'm Burmese, but Burma aka Myanmar is made up of over 100 ethnic groups. A large part of me is Shan, one of the more pro...
Let Thohk Sohn Recipe - Burmese Rainbow Salad 7 Aug 2013 | 02:49 am
A friend of mine was mocking the recent craze for food mash-ups - cronuts, doissants, townies, what have you. She suggested the world should come up with a dish combining noodles and rice called "nice...
Mogok - the Valley of Rubies (Part 3) 4 Jun 2013 | 01:05 pm
At a Shan khao swe noodle stall in Mogok My mother’s family is from Mogok, a gem-mining town bordering the mountainous Shan State, remarkable for the fact that it’s where ninety per cent of the world...
Back to Mandalay (Part 2) 3 Jun 2013 | 09:58 pm
My grandparents' cook on the left and nanny on the right "No! you won't 'eed nothin' else But them spicy garlic smells, An' the sunshine an' the palm-trees an' the tinkly temple-bells; On the road...
A Burmese Background (Part 1) 31 May 2013 | 12:58 pm
Larking around in Bagan, the land of pagodas Burma or Myanmar? Myanmar or Burma? Apart from the fact that it makes my ears bleed to hear people butcher the pronunciation of its official name (it’s “M...
Burmese Creamed Corn with Fried Onions 20 May 2013 | 05:53 pm
Burmese Style Creamed Corn with Fried Onions Like many South East Asian countries, dairy isn't a big thing in Burma. A number of factors are involved: little pastoral land, a historical lack of refri...
Gong Bao Chicken, Burmese Style 10 May 2013 | 02:34 am
Gong Bao or Kung Pao Chicken As a child, my musical tastes were dictated by my parents. Having arrived in the UK just before I was born, their choices largely consisted of the "safe" Western music th...
Magnum and Cornetto Chocolates Review - They're Teeny Tiny 8 May 2013 | 02:54 pm
Magnum Chocolates and Cornetto Chocolates from Wall's Much as I hate to admit it, I'm a sucker for a gimmick, especially the type sitting at the checkout at your local supermarket (yes, I know they'r...
