Food of Myanmar
Burmese food blends influences from India, China, and Thailand with its own tastes: fermented tea leaves, fish sauce, chickpea flour, and plenty of fresh herbs and pickles. Meals feature rice, a curry, a soup, a salad, and relishes, all shared. Noodle soups like mohinga are breakfast classics, and salads are famous for their crunch and tang.
- Main dishes (10)
- Breakfast (5)
- Street food (5)
- Soups (4)
- Salads (5)
- Desserts and sweets (5)
- Drinks (5)
- Fruits and produce (6)
Staples
- rice, fish, chickpeas, noodles, tea leaves, peanuts
Signature flavors
- fish sauce, turmeric, garlic, ginger, tamarind, peanut oil, chili
Main dishes
Fish noodle soup.
Key ingredients: rice noodles, catfish, lemongrassFull guide →Rice noodles with chicken and pickled greens.
Key ingredients: rice noodles, chicken, peanutsFermented rice with fish.
Key ingredients: rice, fishBurmese-style chicken in onion gravy.
Key ingredients: chicken, onion, turmericRich pork cooked with ginger.
Key ingredients: pork, ginger, garlicFried split pea fritters.
Key ingredients: split peas
Coconut chicken noodle soup.
Key ingredients: egg noodles, chicken, coconut milkSamosas crumbled in salad.
Key ingredients: samosa, cabbage, chickpeas
Thick rice noodle salad with chicken curry.
Key ingredients: noodles, chicken, chickpea flourFreshwater fish in turmeric gravy.
Key ingredients: fish, tomato, turmericBreakfast
Fish noodle soup.
Key ingredients: noodles, fishFull guide →Fermented rice and tomato salad.
Key ingredients: rice, tomatoSoft flatbread.
Key ingredients: flour
Flaky flatbread with curry.
Key ingredients: flour, gheeSweet sticky rice cakes.
Key ingredients: glutinous riceStreet food
Fried split-pea fritters.
Key ingredients: split peasNoodle soup.
Key ingredients: noodles, porkCouple snack pancakes.
Key ingredients: rice flour, quail egg
Fried pastry with potato.
Key ingredients: potato, peasFull guide →Chickpea tofu served with tamarind.
Key ingredients: chickpea flourSoups
Sour vegetable soup.
Key ingredients: vegetables, tamarindThick fish soup.
Key ingredients: fish, noodlesFull guide →
Noodle soup.
Key ingredients: egg noodlesRoselle leaf soup.
Key ingredients: roselle leavesSalads
Fermented tea leaf salad.
Key ingredients: tea leaves, peanuts, beansFull guide →Ginger salad.
Key ingredients: ginger, peanutsMixed salads with fried toppings.
Key ingredients: vegetables, limeTangy tomato salad.
Key ingredients: tomato, onionCrunchy sprout salad.
Key ingredients: sprouts, limeDesserts and sweets
Pearls in coconut milk.
Key ingredients: tapioca, coconut milk
Cold coconut dessert with jelly.
Key ingredients: coconut milk, jellyRice balls in palm sugar syrup.
Key ingredients: rice flour, palm sugarSago pudding.
Key ingredients: sago, coconutSemolina cake.
Key ingredients: semolina, coconutDrinks
Strong sweet milk tea.
Key ingredients: tea, condensed milkFresh.
Key ingredients: sugarcaneRoselle drink.
Key ingredients: roselleFresh sap.
Key ingredients: palm sap
Rose syrup dessert drink.
Key ingredients: rose syrup, vermicelliFruits and produce
Sweet varieties in season.
Key ingredients: eaten freshFull guide →
Sweet pods.
Key ingredients: eaten freshFull guide →
Grown in Tanintharyi.
Key ingredients: eaten freshFull guide →
Sweet and aromatic.
Key ingredients: eaten freshFull guide →
Large citrus.
Key ingredients: eaten fresh
Used pickled in salads.
Key ingredients: lahpetDish guides from Myanmar
More cuisines of South-Eastern Asia
Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
- Mohnga: Charles Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ohn No Khao Swe at Sapphire Asian Cuisine (10988302274): Gary Stevens, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Nan gyi thoke: Yee Mon Thant 04, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Triangle paratha (cropped): Nithyasrm, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Samosas, snack food at Wikipedia's 16th Birthday celebration in Chittagong (01): Moheen Reeyad, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Khow suey: Tizbad2k, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Green tea and peanut nibbles (10808703485): ReflectedSerendipity from United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Shweyin-aye: Wagaung at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Faluda: Randhirreddy at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mangos - single and halved: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- The jackfruit is holding on to the tree: This work was made by Tushar Hossain and released under the license(s) stated below. Please feel free to use it for any, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Durian in black: مانفی, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Berthe Hoola van Nooten48: Berthe Hoola van Nooten (1817-1892), Pieter De Pannemaeker (lithographer), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pomelo fruit: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Csinensis: AxelBoldt at en.wikipedia, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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