All eight components of a Burmese tea leaf salad, lap pat dok, arrive precise and orderly. Each is on its own lonesome, waiting to mingle with its plate partners. Even the lemon wedge on the side ...

Welcome to our weekly column, Lunch Box. It’s pretty simple: every week, one of D’s writers will report back on a fun place to get lunch. Think of it like being in a book club. If you want to join the ...

The seasoned restaurateurs behind Silver Spring’s Mandalay Restaurant plan to break into fast-casual dining this fall with Bandoola Bowl, a new Burmese salad shop that’s headed to Georgetown.

You should never refuse Burmese pickled tea leaf salad. Doing so would make you a tactless ignoramus in what is now Myanmar. “Anywhere you go, any meeting, anybody’s house, it’s a sign of hospitality ...

On a blustery January afternoon at Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst, as shoppers hustled through the food court past McDonald’s, Panda Express, and Sbarro, Myo Lin Thway repeatedly flung a palm-sized ...

This underrated Burmese restaurant will add new dishes and drinks at its larger home, which is just half a mile from its ...

We’d like to take a moment to congratulate chef Susan Feniger on her brand new cookbook, STREET Food, which highlights the globally diverse dishes from her Hollywood restaurant, STREET. Let’s face it, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When Thamee officially opens to the public next week in the former Sally’s Middle Name space on H Street NE, the owners of the Toli Moli bodega in Union Market hope to introduce a new audience to a ...

1 of 9 — The Aiya restaurant in Mae Sot, a small Thai city on the border with Myanmar, is run by Myat Thu, a Burmese dissident. 2 of 9 — Paintings of Burmese street scenes decorate the walls of Aiya.