Category: Burmese cuisine

Category: Burmese cuisine

** Burmese cuisine

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* Burmese cuisine

* Burmese cuisine

Category: Burmese cuisine

Category: Burmese cuisine

Category: Burmese cuisine

Category: Burmese cuisine

In Burmese cuisine, fritters are called a-kyaw (), while assorted fritters are called a-kyaw-sone ().

Mawlamyine is famous for its tropical fruits and for its cuisine as indicated in the popular Burmese expression, " Mandalay for the speaking, Yangon for the bragging, and Mawlamyine for the eating ".

Because it flourishes naturally in waterways and requires little, if any, care, it is used extensively in Burmese, Thai, Lao, Cambodian, Malay, Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine, especially in rural or kampung ( village ) areas.

Category: Burmese cuisine

Category: Burmese cuisine

Burmese cuisine includes dishes from various regions of the South-East Asian country of Burma ( now officially known as Myanmar ).

Owing to the geographic location of Myanmar, Burmese cuisine has been influenced by China, India and Thailand.

Burmese cuisine is characterized by extensive use of fish products like fish sauce and ngapi.

Burmese cuisine also includes a variety of salads ( a thoke ), centered on one major ingredient, ranging from rice, wheat and rice noodles, glass noodles and vermicelli, to potato, ginger, tomato, kaffir lime, lahpet ( pickled tea ), and ngapi ( fish paste ).

The countries that border Myanmar, especially India, China and Thailand, have influenced Burmese cuisine.

Chinese influence in Burmese cuisine is shown in the use of ingredients like bean curd and soya sauce, various noodles as well as in stir frying techniques.

Burmese cuisine is full of condiments, from sweet, sour to savory.

Category: Burmese cuisine

Category: Burmese cuisine

Eid ul-Fitar lasts for only one day among Burmese Muslims, who call the day Eid Nei ’ ( Nei ’= day ) or Eid Ka Lay ( Ka Lay = small ) or Shai Mai Eid ( Shai Mai = a meal of sweet vermicelli served with fried cashews, coconut shreds, raisins, and milk that is traditionally eaten by Burmese Muslims during Eid ).

* Cho, a Burmese given name meaning sweet commonly used at the start of a name in female names and at the end for male names

* How to Bypass Internet Censorship, also known by the titles: Bypassing Internet Censorship or Circumvention Tools, a FLOSS Manual, 10 March 2011, 240 pp. Translations have been published in Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Vietnamese, Burmese, and Spanish.

In 1774, in the Burmese city of Rangoon, the Burmese King Hsinbyushin ( known in Thai as " King Mangra ") decided to organize a seven-day, seven-night religious festival in honor of Buddha's relics.

Tensions exist between the two countries due to border disputes and the presence of over 270, 000 Burmese Muslim refugees ( known as Rohingya ) in Bangladesh, however.

Burmese Pythons have been known to prey on leopards, with an adult cat having been recovered from the stomach of an 18-foot specimen.

* Burma followed a policy of autarky known as the Burmese Way to Socialism under dictator Ne Win, who ruled the country from 1962 to 1988.

Chickpea flour is also used to make " Burmese tofu " which was first known among the Shan people of Burma.

As an activist, Lumley is best known for her support for Gurkhas, the exiled Tibetan people and government, the Kondha indigenous people of India, and the Prospect Burma charity, which offers grants to Burmese students, for whom she broadcast a BBC Radio 4 charity appeal in 2001.

The family is known from fossils of the extinct genus Paleoleishmania preserved in Burmese amber dating to the Albian ( 100 mya ) and Dominican amber from the Burdigalian ( 20-15 mya ) of Hispaniola.

The Burmo-Siamese War ( 1785 – 1786 ), also known in Siam as the " Nine Armies War " because the Burmese came in nine armies, broke out.

Undaunted by this defeat, King Hsinbyushin tried again to conquer Siam, and in October 1775 the greatest Burmese invasion in the Thonburi period began under Maha Thiha Thura, known in Thai history as Azaewunky.

) Reconstruction of Vietnamese, Old Chinese and ancient Tibetan and Burmese have suggested that these languages originally did not have phonemic tone, but later developed it ; the process of tone development is known as tonogenesis.

Eighteen months later, Burmese fishermen found an undercarriage leg and wheel ( with its tyre still inflated ) which had been washed ashore at Aye Island in the Gulf of Martaban, off the southeast coastline of Burma, some south of Mottama ( formerly known as Martaban ).

During the reign of King Rama II, nearby areas ( including Thalang, now known as Phuket ) were occupied by the Burmese and so many people fled to Kraphu-nga.

Burmese cats are known for being sociable and friendly with humans, as well as very intelligent.

The earliest records of a type resembling Burmese come from Thailand, then known as Siam.

These were the Vichien Mat ( Siamese ), the Si-Sawat ( Korat ), and the Thong Daeng ( Copper, now known as Burmese ).

Champagne coloured cats ( known as " chocolate " in the UK ) appeared in America, but breeding was impeded by the refusal of breed clubs to acknowledge that Burmese cats could be any colour other than Brown.

Hypokalaemia, a genetic disease, which is characterised by low serum potassium levels, is also known in the UK Burmese and can similarly be traced to certain bloodlines.

Burmese orthography originally followed a square format but the cursive format took hold from the 17th century when popular writing led to the wider use of palm leaves and folded paper known as parabaiks.

Many Hindu gods are likewise worshipped by Burmese Buddhists, including Saraswati ( known as Thuyathadi in Burmese ), the goddess of knowledge, who is often worshipped before examinations.

In Burmese he was known as Pantanaw U Thant, in reference to his home town of Pantanaw.