text: Lahpet Thoke is probably our most iconic dish– made with pickled tea leaves (lahpet) mixed with crunchy nuts and beans, dried shrimp, sliced tomato and shredded white cabbage to create a piquant and savoury salad, bursting with flavour and textures. This is served at the end of most meals, but is also eaten as a snack or dished out when visitors come round.
  Burmese tofu is made from chickpeas, while Shan tofu is made from split peas – neither type is made from the more standard soya beans. You can have our tofu in the form of fritters which are crisp outside and fluffy inside (tohu kyaw), served with a tangy tamarind dip. It’s also sliced up into a salad (tohu thoke) with a piquant dressing, or even served while it’s still warm and molten (tohu nway) over a bowl of spicy noodles.
  Talking of fritters, our street food is glorious but our vendors are the absolute best at producing a kyaw (fried snacks), which are light, crunchy and grease-free – gourd fritters, urad dal fritters, prawn fritters, onion fritters, whitebait fritters and of course the tofu fritters mentioned earlier.
  Overall though, Burmese food is a feast for the senses – the aroma from a bubbling pot of pork and green mango curry; the vision of a rainbow salad of rice, carrots, and coriander; the crackle and crunch of a handful of split pea fritters; and the sensation of noodles silky with turmeric chicken sauce.