Among the plethora of restaurants in New York City offering Asian specialties, the cuisine of Myanmar — which was until recently isolated under a military dictatorship — tends to get crowded out. One ...

US fast-food firms could flood into Myanmar after the easing of US-imposed sanctions to improve bilateral trade and allow more financial transactions to take place. The US Treasury, for instance, has ...

The boom in tourism in Myanmar has inflated local demand for international food brands, while the local food manufacturing base remains very limited in scope. Tourism is expected to continue to grow ...

The first thing you notice about Yoma is the sign in the window reading “Thai Food.” That’s there to attract people who know a lot about pad Thai and mee krob but probably nothing about Yoma’s real ...

A fast food boom is luring Southeast Asia’s top palm oil producers to Myanmar to meet surging demand in the formerly-isolated state. Palm oil imports surged 60 percent in the past six years to 750,000 ...

Ask Delyn Chow, the chef-owner of the new Daw Yee Myanmar Corner in Silver Lake, to describe Burmese food, and instead he’ll list off a slew of influences: Thai herbs, Indian spices, Chinese noodles.

Banny Hong wants Orange County to try something different. As the co-owner of Irrawaddy Taste of Burma, a restaurant that opened three months ago in Stanton, Hong is offering something the area had ...

February marks the third-year anniversary of a coup in Myanmar. Amid widespread conflict abroad, those from Myanmar living in Ashland, Oregon, find ways to support their friends and family. Angela ...

BUKIT MERTAJAM: A female cook from Myanmar was stabbed to death after an argument with fellow countrymen over the quality of ...