Burmese Restaurants

Eating establishments that offer the cuisine of Burma which is heavily influenced by tastes from Thailand, China and India and features soups, a wide variety of hot and spicy curry dishes that are served with rice, cooked and uncooked vegetables in a sauce made from nga-pi (dried and fermented fish or shrimp) and mixed green salads. Fish, shellfish, lamb, pork and poultry are common ingredients; beef is rarely served. Specialties include pork with tamarind, coconut chicken, mohingha (curried fish with rice vermicelli and heart of banana) and kaukse-hin (a complex dish of noodles topped by curried meat and gravy served with a variety of side dishes and condiments including hard-cooked eggs, mushrooms, dried prawns and fish sauce).