Myanmar 74 Yangon The sprawling street market

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Myanmar
Yangon
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The sprawling street market
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Downtown Yangon is a dilapidated mixture of
broken sidewalks, crumbling colonial era
buildings and food vendors. Merchant Street is
particularly crowded with vendors selling
anything from spicy cherries to savory crepe-like
pancakes filled with goodness. Burmese food is
neither Indian nor Thai, but a delicious flavor
palate of its own. The city is an amalgamation
of British, Burmese, Chinese and Indian
influences, known for its colonial architecture,
which although decaying and beyond appreciation,
remains an almost unique example of a 19th
century British colonial capital
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The sprawling street market covered everything
from food to clothing to household goods or to
art, each sold for a few dollar bills, mostly
spread on the ground or on makeshift crates.
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New high-rise buildings were constructed from the
1990s (and some are eerily unoccupied and left as
ghost skyscrapers as seen along Upper Pansodan
Rd) as the government began to allow private
investment. Meanwhile, former government
buildings such as the massive Secretariat
Building, have been left to rot as the capital is
shifted to Naypyidaw. Yangon continues to be a
city of the past, as evidenced by its
longyi-wearing, betel nut chewing pedestrians,
with their friendly or even familial attitude
towards strangers, its street vendors, and its
pungent smells.
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The betel (Piper betle) is the leaf of a vine
belonging to the Piperaceae family, which
includes pepper and kava. It is valued both as a
mild stimulant and for its medicinal properties.
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Paan is a stimulating and psychoactive
preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut
and/or cured tobacco. Paan is chewed and finally
spat out or swallowed.
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Paan has many variations. Slaked lime (chunnam)
paste is commonly added to bind the leaves
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In Myanmar the betel nuts are chopped into small
pieces and mixed with spices. Often people in the
street spit bright red gobs of betel nut juice
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Myanmar is a rural and agrarian country, with
traditions and customs deeply rooted. This notion
of forecasting the future on Celestial Beings
traveling in space riding on animals seems a
strange but charming custom. The Celestial Beings
come to visit the abode of humans annually during
the Thingyan or the Myanmar New Year time. By
tradition every Myanmar household places small
jars of Eugenia leaves and flowers in front of
their houses to welcome this august visitor
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The unrest in Myanmar during the first decade of
the 21st Century has been widely monitored by
journalists reporting on human rights violations
slavery, prostitution and drug trafficking earned
Myanmar the dubious title of Southeast Asias
Columbia. Despite this strife, respect for
tradition has never been stronger in this ancient
nation. The people of Myanmar place a great deal
of importance on the folkways, rituals and belief
systems of their ancestors, finding peace and
comfort in timeless traditions. In every temple
they do offerings of bananas, coconuts and
Eugenia sprigs to Lord Buddha
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Thanaka
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Coconut water is the clear liquid inside young
coconuts (fruits of the coconut palm). In early
development, it serves as a suspension for the
endosperm of the coconut during their nuclear
phase of development. As growth continues, the
endosperm mature into their cellular phase and
deposit into the rind of the coconut meat.
Coconut water has long been a popular drink in
the tropics
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Coconuts for drinking are served fresh, chilled
or packaged in many places. They are often sold
by street vendors who cut them open with machetes
or similar implements in front of customers.
Coconut water can also be found in ordinary cans,
tetra paks, or plastic bottles (sometimes with
coconut pulp or coconut jelly included) In
recent years, coconut water has been marketed as
a natural energy or sports drink due to its high
potassium and mineral content.
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Beans Sprouts that are type of the tender edible
shoots of germinated beans. The sprouted beans
are more nutritious than the original beans and
they require much less cooking time and,
therefore, fuel.
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