Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant? Burmese -- yeah. Yeah. That have same-- that have that same kind of complexity, that just keeps it so exciting?
Is he the biggest snake? Burmese python are usually considered in the top five of snakes, as far as largest.The reticulated python and anaconda usually are the two that we hear the most about being largest.
thousands of Rohingya displaced. The Burmese , interestingly enough, do not think of the Rohingya as Burmese , or Myanmar, residents. They originally came from Bangladesh, and some of them have been there for hundreds of years.
Here is a woman who has really fought for human rights, but has steered clear of this, because it's a hot potato. The Burmese , there's this enormous hatred for the Rohingya, and this is a case where she wants to run for office, and run for president potentially, and if she makes a statement about the Rohingya, she's going to lose a part of the electorate.
And this singer was there. It was a Burmese singer hanging out in Vietnam. And he plays, "Rock Me, Mama." And he sings it beautifully.
I purchased it from a gentleman who operated Burma Superstar. It was a failing Burmese restaurant. It just happened one day, I was eating there on Saturday afternoon about 1:00.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. I hate to see Burmese who go a fusion route.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. It was another Burmese restaurant called ..
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. I think people want Burmese food.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. You should give Burmese food.
And on the right-- I'm not sure how well you can see that-- but that is a man in a cage in Indonesia. He is a Burmese man. He is a slave.
So I trained for about 10 years. First in the Burmese tradition, and then for about five years in the Tibetan tradition. So I trained first as a layperson, then as a novice monk, and then as a fully ordained monk in the Tibetan tradition.
They've got their sights set on 60 million people who are going to buy toothpaste, and television sets, and computers. I think also the Burmese military was nervous about the Chinese influence. I think also that the generals wanted to be free to travel, and I think the generals wanted to send their kids to
can speak the language. And there are huge Burmese communities here in the United States. The people there are educated.
Right up along the border so we can get very cheap labor, half the price of Thai laborers. And these Burmese young people come up to the border to work, and there are about 4,000 or 5,000 who cross the border every morning, get in trucks, and go to the factories where they're sent to work like day labor.
All right. Well, this is Julius Squeezer. And Julius Squeezer is a Burmese python. Now, we get this question a lot with him.
And it was in a busy space. I'd simply just wanted a Burmese restaurant to stay Burmese , and to eat Burmese food with my family and friends. So I went there on Monday, looked at it, and thought about it, and called him back on Tuesday.
Curries are a little bit different from Chinese curries, Korean curries, Indian curries. I think the closest to Burmese curry, I mean, if I have to compare, would be Southern Indian curries, light, a little bit lighter in flavor, masala, spicy.
Everybody eat it, but they don't know how it's made. And if you have any Burmese friend, ask them. I challenge you, that they will know how it's done.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. So New York needs more Burmese restaurants.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. And I think the future of Burmese food is being able to go deeper into the regions of the country and having maybe a restaurant that's dedicated strictly
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. So we have our own Burmese beer.
I can now register sensation on the left side of my body, the location of sensation. If we use Amharic or Burmese or Sinhalese or Telugu, they can't put sound to it.
If you decide to go during the rainy season, this is what it looks like. piece of infrastructure and but the Burmese kind of don't use it or can't use it because of the tolls.
And he just really fell in love with the food, the people, and the story. And when we were talking about doing a book on Burmese food, he said what about Armenia? And I said, well, these photographs-- and I don't know if anyone's peeked through the book, but the images are really captivating.
And at the lower end of the spectrum, you have what have tended to be predominantly refugee populations, right? Vietnamese, Burmese , Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian, and Bhutanese. And the gap is just enormous, right?
If you look at limited English proficiency, huge differences between Indians, and Sri Lankans, and Pakistanis who do not have as high language needs versus Bhutanese, Burmese , Vietnamese, Thai, et cetera, that have significant needs for translation and other kinds of assistance when it comes to dealing with officials, dealing with agencies that communicate predominantly
It's part of the Golden Triangle region. Right. And then the Burmese government, they are all-- there are four military groups. They're always there fighting.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. Salad can mean a lot of different things in Burmese cooking.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. I'm curious-- what do you think the near future of Burmese food is in the United States in terms of how people are aware of it,
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. I think people are just beginning to discover Burmese food.
I will look her up. Yeah. Burmese , I love Thai, I love Middle Eastern.
He is a slave. This was a picture taken this past March when hundreds of Burmese slaves were found being forced to work on Thai fishing boats.
If you decide to go during the rainy season, this is what it looks like. By the way, the Burmese government took all civil servants and moved them to Naypyidaw, which is sort of the Brasilia of Myanmar.
And so it was so meaningful to us when he got to the part about Johnson City. And we just felt like we were at home in Vietnam with this Burmese folk singer singing your song. And would you also take a look at this and verify it and all that?
I'm thinking, shit, what am I going to eat now? And in those days, there were no Burmese restaurants. There was Burma Superstar, and there was Mandalay.
And no one knew Burma. No one knew Burma Superstar, Burmese food, or anything. So to make the long story short, I was just thinking, OK, you know, like, I wanted to know what's going
Because the Burma borders Thailand, India, China, Bangladesh, and so forth, you get a lot of different spices from those places. And at the same time, Burmese food is uniquely Burmese . The tea leaf salad, mohinga, that you can't get anywhere.
A savory caffeine. Just get a little packet of tea leaf. So we asked everybody in San Francisco, Burmese people, how do you ferment the tea? How do you make the tea?
But it doesn't necessarily have to be the only way to have your daily sit. And my own experience-- So I spent about five years training quite strictly in the Burmese school, which is very, very serious. And it's all just kind of straight mindfulness.
It's very good tobacco. Yeah. I think another photo was a statue, a Burmese statue over there.
Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant? Yeah. Indonesian food. Burmese , like you mentioned, as well.
And then they denied it. That's fine. But then genuinely enormous courage shown by her and many of the Burmese around her.
And then they denied it. She was finally, as a result of many of the protests by Burmese of many different kinds over the years and it then finally led to the release of Aung San Suu Kyi.
I mean, before World War II, the biggest rice exporter in the world was Burma, which is just kind of crazy to even fathom. Right. So the diversity with the population-- and just because Burmese food is interesting. Because the Burma borders Thailand, India, China, Bangladesh, and so forth, you get a lot of different spices from those places.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. But if they have guests, they try to avoid taking you to a Burmese restaurant, because they're everywhere.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. So going back to your question, I think the people are beginning to just discover Burmese food.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. One more question. So you mentioned the diversity of Burmese cuisine in the various provinces.
Now, you're working with a tea co-op, a newly-formed tea co-op, that's now giving more power to the farmers themselves. But we really haven't really-- in the last 20 years, we opened four Burmese restaurants.
So that was the core ingredient of that story. And they depend almost entirely on Cambodian, Laotian, Burmese , Rohingya, import, undocumented, indebted labor.