The Thingyan Festival is a harvest festival celebrated with home-cooked traditional dishes with fresh ingredients. For being our neighbouring country, the cuisine of Burma shows a lot of similarity to ...

The Burmese restaurant and tea room is all decked up for the Thingyan Festival, with a special menu featuring traditional flavours, tropical drinks and desserts All photos by Soumyajit Dey Every year, ...

This month, a number of Thai, Nepalese, Burmese, and Sri Lankan restaurants across the country will kickstart festivities to mark their respective new years. We have seen the boom of small-seater ...

Mid-April marked Thingyan, the traditional Burmese new year. Normally a time for energetic water throwing, leisure travel, and raves, the water festival has lost much of its cheer since the coup of ...

Burma Burma is celebrating the Thingyan Festival, the Burmese New Year, with a limited-edition menu. This unique menu, available only until May 19 for lunch and dinner, showcases a variety of Burmese ...

Another staple is dua mon, pickled/ brined vegetables found on every table of feasting families and made from vegetables to taste sour, spicy, salty, bitter and sweet, which helps in digestion.

A decorated elephant is sprayed with water as people celebrate Myanmar's Buddhist New Year water festival, also known as Thingyan, in Yangon on April 13, 2026. - AFP YANGON: Crowds across Myanmar ...