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Mingalaba! .. มิงกาลาบา! As we mentioned in the first part of our blog on Burmese street food, Myanmar adopted food culture from their neighbours and merged them with their cuisine and tastes. Most Burmese...
Having lived in Bangkok for over ten years before moving north to Chiang Mai, I thought I’d tasted just about every Thai dish known. Our new neighbor Aunty Dang proved me wrong and has...
(Updated St. Valentines Day 2017) The Shwedagon Pagoda Our first trip to Myanmar was a one-week whirlwind style adventure. Although I had already committed to making photographs with a fisheye lens, we hadn’t decided...
There are some really wild legends about how this pagoda came into being, but I’m going to skip all of that, because this pagoda is interesting enough, without fantasy. Historians estimate that...
During the daytime at the Hot Air Balloon Festival, or “Tazaungdaing Festival”, in the Shan State of Myanmar, large animal-shaped hot air balloons are sent skyward. This is done with great pride and pageantry,...
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