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Saturday. Probably the best day of the week! I woke up quite early feeling really relaxed although I got home late from the movies. I had an appointment with to co-workers at city hall in order to get some food from their homecountry: Myanmar (former Burma or Birma). I never heard of this cuisine before and because I like strange food, this was a must-go!

We met at City Hall station and headed for a mall nearby, whose stores are mainly owned by Myanmar people (Peninsula Plaza). Of course I have absolute no clue about the Burmese alphabet and their language, so Thura, one of my co-workers handled all the ordering. They got a large variety of specialties of Myanmar. I cannot pronouce or even clearly identify the names of what it was, but it was really nice. Very different to most of the other stuff I had before! The Burmese cuisine is definitively worth trying!

Unlike most other asian food, they serve a lot of salad! We got some cabbage-tomato salad with a mango-lemon dressing and a topping with peanuts. As appaetize there was also deep-fried burmese tofu, which is not made from soybeans but from chickpeas – and this gives a really unique taste! It was served with a tamarind-lemon-chili sauce which made a very nice combination. As main dishes they ordered a kind of fish-soup with noodles – interestingly seasoned and very thick, then one of the national dishes, a kind of bean relish. Besides that we had king prawns with a light chili sauce. The most special dish was the stewed pork with a kind of bean paste – This taste was 100% new to me. This bean paste is usually mixed with rice, beacuse the flavor is too strong. As dessert we had a coconut jelly with mago topping.

I don’t have photos yet, because my Laptop is in repair, but I will add them later.