Tasty Street Food Snacks in Yangon

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One of the things that you should try in Myanmar is to explore street foods. Trying street food is the best way you can get yourself familiar with local people’s livelihood. With that said, here are my top 5 street snacks to try in Yangon: 

Samosa Salad 

The samosa is originally from India. In samosa salad (samusa thoke), chopped samosas are mixed with fresh vegetables and served with a chickpea soup. It tastes fresh even though it can be a bit oily, and it is one of Burmese people’s favorite street foods. This salad style is mostly sold at street stalls across the city rather than in restaurants. 

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Mote Lin Ma Yar (Couple’s snack) 

Mote Lin Ma Yar is another Burmese street snack that I would like to recommend. They are known as “Couple’s snack” because two pieces are put together to form a complete snack. They are very similar to a Vietnamese snack, Banh Khot, and a Thai snack, Khanom Krok. They are made with coconut cream and sugar. The main ingredients are rice flour, water, onion leaves and bean. You can also get Couple’s snack with quail eggs. 

Mohinga 

Mohinga is a fish-soup with rice noodles (rice vermicelli). It is considered as Myanmar’s national dish. Usually we have it for breakfast because it is light on the stomach. The main ingredients of mohinga are chickpea flour, crushed toasted rice, garlic, onions, lemongrass, banana tree stems, ginger, fish paste, fish sauce and catfish or other types of fish. We eat mohinga with fish cake and crisp fritters, such as split chickpea or gourd fritters, or slices of Chinese fried dough sticks. 

Gangster Snack (Lan Ta Ye Mont) 

The direct translation of Lan Ta Ye Mont is “Gangster snack”. It remains unknown why it is called so. The snack looks like Dosa. There are two types of it: sweet and spicy. The sweet one is made with rice flour, palm sugar, coconut and black beans; if you love eggs, you can add them too. For the spicy one, we use rice flour, vegetables, garam masala and chilli. 

Burmese Pancake (Bane Mont) 

Bane Mont is one of the famous street snacks as well. It is a Myanmar-style pancake. The main ingredients are palm sugar, rice flour, egg, poppy seeds, peanuts, coconut and butter. 

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