One of the joys of visiting Myanmar is taking tea break – tea is such a big part of the social culture in Myanmar. Read more here: http://migrationology.com/2014/08/11-things-to-do-in-yangon-myanmar/
On my first trip to Yangon, Myanmar, I immediately noticed how tea was an important part of the culture. Everywhere you walk, you’ll see people sitting on small plastic stools, socializing, doing business, watching tv, and just hanging out with colleagues, friends, and family, while drinking tea. At nearly every time of the day, from morning until late at night, you’ll find local people drinking tea.
As a tea drinker myself, I quickly fell in love with the friendly Myanmar culture of drinking tea and socializing, all while sitting on tiny plastic chairs and tables. When you arrive at a tea stall in Yangon, they will immediately serve you a pot of Chinese tea – that’s the standard in Myanmar – no matter if you sit down at a restaurant or stall, you’ll be served hot tea. What I learned on my first day in Yangon, years ago, is that tea is served for free, so it’s intended that you’ll then go ahead and order something else while you sit there.
You can choose to drink a different type of more deluxe tea, like a chai style milk tea, or a coffee. On this particular tea break, one mid-morning in Yangon, Yinga and I were just walking around and decided to stop. I mostly wanted to just drink the soothing Chinese tea, but I also decided to order a hot black coffee. The coffee, I think was instant coffee, so it’s wasn’t of the best quality, but it was alright. It was served with a wedge of lime, which was an interesting combination. Along with our coffee and tea, we also ordered a small plate of samosas and a small plate of spring rolls – two popular snacks that are available on the streets of Yangon.
Everything was alright, but what I like even more than the snacks and the beverages is just the culture and atmosphere that revolves around a tea break in Myanmar. I think it’s one of the most interesting and joyous parts of traveling in Myanmar. So when you visit, be sure to stop at a road-side stall, enjoy some tea, and some small snacks.
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I’m from Myanmar ??
You are great
The best food right? Love my country food
Hi mark Hru. U done nice video. All the best
Hello Mark How are you?
I from Myanmar
You must stir the coffee. There are sugar and coffee powder at the bottom of the coffee cup.
How can the coffee ☕ likes mud?
Ww good
Congratulations!
Did you ever get sick! How did you deal with any stomach bugs?
Mark, correction "countries''
That durian t-shirt though! ♡
You look like Obama mate
Burmese is its wonderful tea drinking culture.
"acid upon acid" thought the same thing ? but i really like your videos theyre really helpfull for me since im going to travel to yangon and mandalay in august !
tea culture is very popular …people talk about daily politics, sports and listen musics there.. actually .tea shops are where we have appointment with our friends and talk business there… if you are in the indoor tea house, they play some musics as well 🙂
မင္းေမဂ ်ီးေဒၚ ငတ္ေနတာ ရက္ ၄၀ ရွိၿပီ စားျပေနတာမ်ား သြားရည္ေတာင္က်တယ္ ။ မင္းေတာ္ပါတယ္ကြာ။ ခံစားခ်က္ကေတာ့ အတိအက်ပဲ။
making me hungry…
Who's the camera man
Love that Durian Shirt. King of desserts!
You are awesome Mark .. "Acid upon Acid".. What ????? That's my favorite quote from now on 🙂 .
Mmmmmm lemon coffee…… think I'll pass on that one.
drinking coffee in burma is like ordering steak at McDonald lol
why they serve tea with coffee, & coffee with lemon ? (o.o) i guess i would rather make a limey tea, than a limey coffee !
Me and my wife spend our one hour at night watching ur videos! You have a very unique skills of describing the taste of the food…we both love it…and oh yes "your head swing" when u love the food. You should file for a copyright 🙂 Love the idea of sitting in a cheap food outlet like this and enjoying simple but amazing flavors of a town
I love your videos. Also love how honest you are…coffee, mud..lol ty both
Love Myanmar tea