Sometimes a place has wonderful things to see and do, but I don’t gel with the overall vibe and that’s the Mandalay I met. Vegan food was available, as everywhere in the country, and the one wholly vegetarian restaurant I tried was pretty good. Also one of the guys who…
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Vegan in Old Bagan, Burma
After an eventful bus trip from Nyaungshwe (outdoor toilet break, cloth for door, massive hole in cloth, enough said) that involved many hours literally (hey look, this is how you use that word) sitting in the middle of the road while a broken down lorry was fixed, I arrived in…
Vegan Around Inle Lake Myanmar + Sev Recipe
This post is continued from Vegan in Nyaungshwe with Strangers. The next day I woke up in Nyaungshwe (Northern Burma) bright and early to spend the day in a boat. Inle Lake supports a strong workforce of both fisherman and artisan craft workers. The latter put their skills to use…
Vegan in Nyaungshwe with Strangers
After a surprisingly comfortable overnight bus from Yangon I woke up caught unaware by that thing where it’s too early and not only are people talking to me but I am expected to say words back to them. Thankfully one of the bonuses of solo travel is the ability to…
Mawlamyine for the view, not the eats
When I imagine my own life’s version of Melancholia, the setting is Mawlamyine (all I can really think about is melamine, which I adore). Beautifully sullen, a little grotty, everything in its place only not quite. The sunset over the river is one of the loveliest I’ve seen, yet simultaneously…
Nang Htike for Tea Leaf Salad in Yangon
Nang Htike Bogyoke Aung San Street (between 46th and 47th) Yangon Myanmar (Burma) I visited Nang Htike after reading the Vegetarian Survival Guide to Burma, and it’s well worth stopping in. The English isn’t tip top, but thut-thut-lo (Burmese for vegetarian) is understood. My visit was during a school break,…
Vegan Shan Food in the Heart of Yangon
999 Shan Noodle Shop No. 130 B 34th Street Kyauktada Township Yangon Myanmar (Burma) I hit a bit of a snafu at 999 Shan Noodle shop when I was initially served a dish with meat and a juice with milk, but the manner in which it was remedied and the…
Vegan finds and friends in Yangon
During my flight into Myanmar my seat neighbour, an NGO worker in Yangon, described the city as a place operating as if it existed fifty years as in the past. Her examples included descriptions of men in longyi skirts and women’s faces smeared with thanaka paste (a 2,000 year old…
