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My yangon...As August draws on, the clouds darken over Yangon City, lashing the tin roofs and umbrella tops alike. The eye of Indra seems fixed on this vast settlement in the Irrawaddy Delta, like an archer over the field of battle. Indra is not the only entity to be watching and waiting eager to join the fray. Investors both foreign and domestic are circling, clasping fists full of dollars ready to swoop in - keen to take advantage of Myanmar’s predicted economic boom.
Who are they? Where are they from? What do they want? These are all questions on the tips of most Yangoners' tongues. But the most pertinent question, and one that is so important it is barely whispered as is comes with so much hope, is will they make our lives better or worse?
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Features
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08 Plot Ahead
10 We Love township
12 new Opening
14 escape to
18 Kids
20 trends
22 Best of
24 Business
40 shopping
38 Health & Beauty
28 Meet
45 dining
52 night Life
26 Property
42 Art
41 Best of
Business specialYour guide to Yangon. Find out about Yanogn's most interesting businesses, business people and more...
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57 Below
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In search of yoma
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a natural Resources town
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Myanmar Urban Development Conference (MUDC)
(August 3 to 5) Sule Shangri-La Hotel
Pool Tournament (Entry 5,000Ks)
7pm to 10pmThe Fat Ox Bar, 50th Street
(Middle), Botataung Tsp
Myanmar Green Energy Summit 2015
Sule Shangri-La Hotel
Cocktail Night & Enjoy Life 8pm
B2O Bar and Bistro , No.98, 20th Street, Latha Tsp
Japanese Food & 90sMusic Classics
7pm to 11:45 pmGekko, No.535, Merchant Road
Exhibition Opening of Htein Lin: The Story Telleer
6:30pm to 7:30pm Goethe- Villa, No.8, Ko Min Ko
Chin Road, Bahan Tsp
Yoga Class, 4:45pmL’Opera Italian Restaurant &
Bar, 62D, U Htun Nyein Street, Mayaygone Tsp
Al-Anon Family Group7pm
Acacia Tea House, No.52,Sayar San Road, Bahan Tsp
Netball in Yangon4pm to 6pm
ISY, No.20, Shwe Taung Kyar, Bahan Tsp
Zumba (Entry Fee 7,000Ks) 6:45pm to 7:45pm
British Embassy Club, Between Alan Pya Pagoda Road &
Gyo Phyu Road
Salsa (Every Wensday)8pm
I Salud Salsa Club, 7CWingabar Road, Bahan Tsp
All you can eatDim Sum Lunch
11:30 amRoyal Pavilion Restaurant
Myanmar E Power 2015(26-28), Tamadaw Hall,
U Wisara Road
Food & Music Night with DJ Bay Tar
7pm to 11:45pmUnion Bar & Grill, 42, Strand
Road, Botahtaung Tsp
Builder Myanmar 2015 (13- 15), Tamadaw Hall, U Wisara Road, Dagon Tsp
Yangon Running Club6:15 am to 9:30 am
Balance Fitness 2, No.103, Corner of University Avenue
Road & Thanlwin Road
Food & 80’s Music Night7pm to 11:45pm
Union Bar & Grill, No.42, Strand Road
Myanmar Cosmetics Beauty Spa Exhibition and
Conference (August 7 to 9)Tamadaw Hall, U Wisara Road,
Dagon Tsp
4th Myanmar International Plastics, Rubbers, Packing ,Printing
& Food tech Industrial Exhibition(14 to 17), Myanmar Event Park,
Shin Saw Puu Road, Sanchaung Tsp
Acoustic Music Show7pm to 10pm
Off The Beaten Track, Inside Kandawgyi Nature Park
Revival Workshop Service9:30am
MCC, Mindhamma Road, Mayangone Tsp
next month get ready to tie the knot with our wedding issue . . .
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Burmese Beats (Myanmar Hip Hop)
8:30pm Mojo, 135. Inya Road,
Bahan Tsp
Kizomba Dance Workshop10:30am to 5pm
7th Joint Bar & Grill, Shwe Asia Building, Mahar Bandoola Road,
Corner of 48th Street
Fire Safety & Prevention Seminar
2pm to 5pmMGHRDC, Insein Township
Saturday Night Live7pm
Novotel Yangon Max, No.459, Pyay Road, Kamaryut Tsp
Wine Down with M0-Town7pm to 10pm
Union Bar & Grill, No.42,Strand Road
1st Myanmar Financial Inclusion Conference
9am to 3pm National Theater Yangon,
Myoma Kyaung Street
Burmese Launguage Club4pm
Pansodan Gallery, Pansodan Road, Kyauktada Tsp
Thai Buffet with Myanmar Dance & Puppet Show
6:30pm Kandawgyi Palace Hotel
Sunday BBQ at Australian Club5:30pm
Australian Club, No.18,Shwe Taung Kyar Road,
Bahan Tsp
Capoeira Class6pm to 8pm
Institut Francais de Birmanie, Pyay Road, Sanchaung Tsp
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KamayutWe Loveyangon’s “college town”, Kamayut, is dotted with education institutions, the best known of which is yangon
university. It is also the home of the Myanmar Radio and television headquarters. this connection to
learning and media gives Kamayut a youthful energetic vibe, and strolling down its border with Inya Lake
you can often see young couples and groups of students chatting, playing music and winding down after
class. It is also an affluent township with grand houses, fine restaurants and even a yacht club. From boats
to books Kamayut has a little bit of something that will capture anyone’s interest.
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Sharky’sUsing only local Myanmar produce and under the leadership of the enigmatic Sharky, Sharky’s manages to produce cheeses, breads, gelato, yogurts and more. Part delicatessen and part restaurant Sharky’s now has expanded to a few outlets across Yangon. If you are looking for quality European food produced in Myanmar this is it. 117, Dhamazaydi Road, 01 524 677
Coffee CirclesA popular open style coffee shop that has a good choice of coffees. They also serve food, cakes, juices, shakes, as well as alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails. 107, Dhamazedi Road, 01 525 157
LV PubThis pub/café has a pool table and a private karaoke room. Decked out in retro black and white it is a relaxed place to spend an evening with friends. 132, Diamond Condominium D, Nar Nattaw Street, 09 731 42 857
Shwe Kuang HotPotA large spacious family restaurant with ample parking. The best thing about Shwe Kaung Hot Pot is the spicy soup and secret dipping sauce. Nar Nat Taw Street, 09 500 1121, 01 537 731
Happy Café and NoodleIf you want to enjoy traditional Shan cuisine in a green open atmosphere this restaurant is your place. As the name suggests noodles is what they
are most renowned for and the prices are more than reasonable. 6am - 8:30pm, 104-B, Inya Road, 01 536 985, 01 536 985
Fuji Coffee House & RestaurantFuji Coffee House prides itself in regularly introducing new coffee flavours to Yangon and the Japanese food isn’t bad either. 116, University Avenue, 01 535 371, 01 512 561
KOBE-YA Japanese BBQ RestaurantA solid Japanese BBQ restaurant that has a selection from beef cuts and BBQ dipping sauces to accompany. 11am to 11pm, 615/B, Marlar Steet, 01 535 072
The Muses Café & RestaurantThe Muses Café & Restaurant is very spacious, neat and tidy. The wine selection is surprisingly good and service is generally excellent. 10am to 11pm, 485 (B) Pyay Road, 01 503 380, 09 731 45470
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Novotel Yangon Max Hotel Yangon’s newest 5 star hotel, Novotel Yangon Max, comes complete with all the trimmings a gym, pool, karaoke bar world class and much more. The Hotel has a series of function rooms the first of which is enormous. Due to this the hotel is suited to hold events, conferences and weddings.
459, Pyay Road , Kamayut Tsp, 01-2305858
Royal Pavilion Chinese RestaurantThis is Novotel’s flagship Chinese restaurant that has an excellent lunchtime Dimsum menu. 11:30 am–2:30pm (Morning), 6:30pm–10pm, (Evening), 459, Pyay Road, 01 230 5858, 01 230 5868
shopsJunction Square shopping CentreJunction Square is Yangon’s largest shopping mall.It includes a food court and 3D cinema hall as well as a variety of fashion shops including Springfield, Converse, Lee Cooper, Giordano and Timberland. There are also ATM machines, free Wi-Fi and a money changer. 9am to 9pm, Kyun Taw Road, 09 200 11076
things to do
Boat ClubBest known for its Friday night happy hours between 5pm and 10pm when all are welcome. The location, which overlooks Inya lake, is gorgeous and a great spot to unwind away from the heat and stress of the city streets. If you want membership you need to be sponsored by a current member. 132 Inya Road, 01 535 298
Yangon UniversityYangon University is located along the southwestern bank of Inya Lake. The construction of the modern campus was completed in 1920. One of its most interesting features is Judson Church, which was named after Adoniram Judson, a 19th-century American missionary who wrote the first Burmese-English dictionary. Corner of Pyay Road and University Avenue Road
Seinn Lann So Pyay GardenOne of Yangon’s best secret getaways, Sein Lann So Pyay Garden, is perfect place to step away from city life and enjoy the beauty of Inya lake. Ideal for all age groups, friends and family the garden has a few restaurants, a children’s play area and lots of hidden quiet points. On some evenings there is also a traditional Myanmar dance show. Inya Road
Inya Day SpaCelebrated and famous not just for its treatments but also for its quality all-natural premium spa products, the Inya Day Spa is Yangon’s one-stop high-end beauty solution. All the products used in
the spa can be purchased and taken home, so you can enjoy their benefits in the comfort of your own home. Open daily 10am to 8pm, 16/2, Inya Road, 01 537 907, 09 301 73497
Myanmar Yachting FederationThe Yangon Sailing Club has an ambitious program of developing both sailing and rowing in Myanmar. You can both sail and row out on Inya Lake - just don’t fall in! 132, Inya Road, 01 521 003, 01 516 201, 01 505 077, Fax: 01-501 501
Places to stayEspace Avenir HotelEspace Avenir Hotel offers good views of Yangon City and Shwedagon Pagoda. 523, Pyay Road , 01 505 222, 01 505 213
Summer Palace HotelA nice simple hotel with a garden that is an ideal spot for a traveler to chill out after a busy day. 437 Pyay Road
Savoy Hotel129, Dhammazedi Road, 01 526 289
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ေလေအးေပးစကမား၊ နရကပပနကာမားႏင မးခးေရာငေဖာေဖာနရ၊အလငးေကာငးစြာ ေပး ႏငေသာေလးေထာငပ မးပြငေလးမားႏငသန႔ရငးသပရပေသာအခနးတြငေလးေထာငစားပြမားကရငးလငးစြာ ခငးကငးထားသည။ စား၀ငးတြင ထငမ သညႏင စပယပနးရန႕အခါးရညအးက ျပငဆင၍ဧညခပါလမမည။ဆင၏Menuတြငနာမညႀကးေသာ၀ကန႐းၾကကဥထမငးေၾကာ(PorkChopFriedRice–Ks.3,000)အပါအ၀ငအေၾကာ၊အသပ၊ဟငးရည မးစ၊ဟငးရြကေၾကာမးစ စသညတ႐တဟငးလာ(ChineseFood)မးစကမာယႏငပါသည။သ႔ေသာ ျငားလညး ဆင၏အထးတလညနာမညႀကးေသာစားစရာအျဖစ ေရာကလးေပါငး (Xiao LongBao)၊ဖကထပေၾကာႏငအခပြေပါကစတ႔ကစားဖးခလငေတာေမႏငလမမညမထငပါ။
ေရာကလးေပါငး(XiaoLongBao)အတြငးထတြငအသားႏင ထးကေသာဟငးရညအရသာပါသညေပါကစ ႏးႏးညညကေလးမားဟ
ဆႏငသည။ဧညသညမာမျပလပေပးသည။မနအကာဂခနးထတြငဂသားကအတြန႔ကေလးမားျပလပ၍အဆာသြငး၊ဟငးရညသြငး၍သတႀကးစြာ ျပလပရ သည။အထးလက၀င၍ေပါငးအးထတြင၆မနစခန႔ ေပါငးၿပး စစေပါငး ၁၀ မနစခန႔ ၾကာသည။ ပစြန၊၀ကသား၊ ဂဏနးႏင ပစြနႏငလြနေပါငးတ႔မ ႀကကႏစသကရာမာယစားသးႏငသည။ယငးသ႔ေရာကလးေပါငး စားရာ၌ စားပြေပၚသ႔ခလာေသာ ပပေႏြးေႏြးေရာကလးေပါငးကတျဖငညႇပယၿပးပဂလးကေလးျဖငခ၍ဥးစြာတျဖငထးေဖာကရသည။ထြကကလာေသာဟငးရညပကဇြနးျဖငခယ၍ေသာကရသည။ၿပးေတာမအကာႏငအသားတ႔က စားသးရသည။စားပစားနညးကလညး ဆငတြငသ႐ပေဖာစာျဖငခတဆြေဖာျပထားသည။ကယအေလးခနထနးသမးလၿပးအရသာခ စားေသာကလေသာကနးမာေရးလကစားသမားအတြကအထးသငေတာသည။
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ရညရညကေလးႏငအရသာရေအာင ေၾကာသည။၀ကသားတစမးတညးႏင ေၾကာေပး၍သကသတ လြတစားလလငထင၀မမနညငးစမးဖကထပေပါငး(Steam Vegetable Dumping) ကသ႔အရြကစထားေပးသည။ဧညသညမာမေၾကာ၍၁၅ မနစခန႔ေစာငရသည။အခပြတြငႏမးကပေပါကစ၊ပေပါကစ ႏင ခစေပါကစဟ၍ ရသည။အရသာရေသာ ႏးညသညေပါကစေသးေသးေလးမားသာျဖစသည။
StartingOpenDate:2015Address:No.4,NyaungTongRoad,
SanchaungTsp,YangonTel:01-502582
Xi Yang Yangရနကနၿမ႕၊စမးေခာငးၿမ႕နယ၊ေညာငတနးလမးထသ႔ေရာကလငXiYangYangRestaurantဆငမထင၀မနာမညႀကးစားစရာေရာကလးေပါငး(XiaoLong
Bao)ကႀကဆေနပါလမမည။ယငးေၾကာငဂပန၊ကရးယားလမးအပါအ၀ငကမၻာအႏ႕မစားသးဖးေသာႏငငျခားသားမားတကးတကန႔၀ငေရာကစားေသာက
သညကေတြ႕ရ၏။တဖနထင၀မမတ႐တစားေသာကဆငျဖစေသာေၾကာငအျခားတ႐တဟငးလာမားကလညးၿမနၿမနယကယကမာယစားသးႏငပါသည။
စငစစအားျဖငေရာကလးေပါငး(XiaoLongBao)စားစရာသညရနဟငးအစားအစာျဖစသည။တ႐တျပညမႀကးမထင၀မသ႔သြားေရာကဖြငလစၿပးမနာမညႀကးလာ
ခရာယခအခါတစကမၻာလးနးပါးအႀကကေတြ႕ၾကသည။ျမနမာႏငငတြငမယခဆငသညပထမဆးဖြငလစေသာဆငျဖစသည။
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taungoo was a capital of an ancient Myanmar kingdom. this powerful kingdom was the seat of seven kings that ruled in the 15th and 16th century. now taungoo is a main business city in the Bago Region.
Getting thereTraveling from Yangon to Taungoo by car takes about 3-4 hours. Due to its midway location between Yangon and tourist attractions in the north of Myanmar, such as Mandalay and Inle, it is a popular overnight tourist stop when traveling to those destinations by car. Hiring a car from Yangon will cost 150,000 kyats one way.
You can catch buses from Yangon to Taungoo at Aung Min Glar Bus Station. A ticket with Say Ta Man Bus Linecost 3,400 kyats and buses leave at 6, 7, 9, and 10 am, and 1 - 8pm on the hour, every hour. Some buses can drop you on the main road in front of Pun Swe Taw Hotel where motor taxis are waiting. The motor taxis cost is between 500 – 1,000 kyats for a one way trip into town.
Taungoo has a train station located in the southeastern corner of the city center. It is a major stop on the Yangon-Mandalay route. Train leaves from Yangon Station at 6am and costs 5,000 kyats, the journey takes 5 hours.
Getting AroundMotobike Taxis are the best way to travel around Taungoo, and a trip from the south part of the city to north part of the city will cost between 500 to 700 kyats. If you rent the motorbike by time, the fee is 3,500 kyats per hour.
What to seeKandawgyi LakeLocated in the centre of town, Taungoo’s Kandawgyi
Lake is a tranquil spot to walk around. There is a small activity park on one side and you can rent paddle boats to take out onto the lake.
Japanese cemetryTaungoo was the site of some major conflicts during WWII in which many invading Japanese soldiers lost their lives. There is a small memorial to honour the dead and a steady stream of Japanese visitors make the long trip to pay respect.
Ngwe Taung Monastery This small 60 year old monastery is located infront of the Royal Kaytumadi Hotel and is easy to miss: lookout for the redbrick gate way and a sign over it, which reads “Ngwe Taung Monastery” in Myan-mar. There is a small steep covered passage up to the monastery and within the grounds you can see so many plants. The presiding monk, U Tatetha, told us “this Monastery is built by wood, but also this place is a white ant-hill. The white ants destroy the monastery. So, Ngwe Taung Monastery needs donors for long term restoration.”
There are few monks in this place but it is really pleasant religious centre. Royal Kaytumadi Road
Where to eatZABUAYE Myanmar Food A recently opened restaurant, that used to be a grocery shop, which is very cheap. Rice and any curry costs only 1,000 kyats and a sour fish salad costs only 300 kyats. Despite being open for a short time the shop has become known for its sour soup
BusinessTaungoo is 220 km from Yangon, with mountain ranges to the east and west. The surrounding mountains provide Taungoo’s main industry: forestry products, such as bamboo, teak and other hardwoods. The city is also known for its areca palms, whose nuts are commonly refered to as betel nuts. In Myanmar the habit of chewing betel nuts is common practice and can be likened to chewing tobacco. In Taungoo the betel nut is said to have a particularly good taste and Taungoo betel nut is famous amongst betel nut eaters. Betel nut is a major product of Taungoo and there are many betel nut shops and a lot of sellers of betel nut ingredients. There are over 50 ingredients in betel nut. Interestingly, part of these ingredients - the betel leaf, is imported from Hinthada and Yangon, as those regions provide the best quality betel leaf. Nonetheless, Taungoo’s association with good betel nut is so strong that there is even a Burmese proverb that equates unexpected good fortune to a "betel lover winning a trip to Taungoo".
prepared with various kinds of vegetables and beans, and also its steamed fish curry. As a dessert they offer jaggery. The restaurant is not only cheap but also neat and tidy, with good service. Open Daily: 10am to 7pm, Location: Market Street, 09 9724 85333, 09 4281 96912
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Harmony Coffee BarProbably Taungoo’s most trendy spot, Harmony serves Western, Chinese and Shan food. Nothing costs over 2000 kyats. The setting is a very cool fusion of US rock bar and Asian takeaway. Lots of Taungoo’s young IT couples drape themselves on the steel chairs and there is even a small book stand. The restaurant has an English menu and the staff are super efficient and very polite. Most clients go for the Chinese or Shan food and take advantage of the complementary soup, complete with free refills. The most popular dish is the lemon fish. Cigarettes are offered but they don’t sell alcohol – though I imagine you can bring your own, if the mood takes you. 54 U Phan Phyu Street, 5th ward, 05 424 724
Stellar Food Center A three-roomed fan cooled restaurant with a Kachin style of cooking (I say Kachin because it’s spicy). There are two specialty curries called Pauk Ka Ya, and Saw Hla Kyi, however I wasn’t brave enough to try them. For the less bold they also serve Chinese food, Shan food and give free desserts. You can wash it all down with a Tiger or Myanmar Beer. A great place for family and young people to come and eat.Opening Hours: 10am–10pm, Shwe Kyaung Street, Myasigon Tharthanabeikhman, 05 424 845, 09 535 089 9
Where to stayRoyal Kaytumadi Hotel The most famous hotel in Taungoo is the Royal Kaytumadi Hotel. Hotel room prices start from 35,000 kyats and during the rainy season they have a 10% discount. Prices are bumped up a little for foreigners. The hotel is located on the lake and, as such, has a few special lake view rooms. Dotted around the hotel are five statues including one of Tapin Shwe Htee, a past King, and also the legendary tragic romantic couple of Taungoo, Nat Shin Naung and Yarza Dartu Kalayar, whose love was forbidden by the king. The hotel also exhibits two preserved traditional Myanmar boats.
On top of a pool, spa and gym, the hotel has a lodge for seminars, which also doubles as a wedding hall for local Taungoo residents. For tourists the Hotel can arrange motor and paddle boat trips across the lake as well as trips around Taungoo.
Taw Win Kaytumadi Road,05 424 761, 05 241 45, 05 251 46 rsvroyalktmd@ kmahotels.com,www.kmahotels.com.mm
than daungClose to Taungoo is Than Daung Hill Station, which was once used by the British colonialists as a summertime retreat. Than Daung is split into two areas, Than Daung Gyi and Than Daung Lay. The closest area to Taungoo is Than Daung Lay, which is about 45 minutes away by car.
Most Taungoo hotels can organize a day trip for roughly 30,000 kyats. Once there you can enjoy scenic walks along the forested mountainside streams and even sample some traditional rice wine (2,000 kyats). The Royal Kaytumadi Hotel is setting up a small hostelry and restaurant that charges 25,000 kyats per room for any visitors who wish to stay overnight.
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ExplorE Yangon
Although a mainly abstinent country according to the World Health Organisation - Myanmar's alcohol consumption is the
lowest in South East Asia - there does seem to be a surprisingly large number of venues where beer can be consumed.
With this in mind and putting my real ale pretentiousness to one side for a moment, I set my sights on getting a taste of the newest
brew on the streets – Carlsberg’s Yoma, and in that process also trying and reviewing some old favourites. Apparently the word Yoma
means “mountain-range” in Myanmar, which explains why I received a few strange looks from patient waiters as I asked them (in Myanmar)
that I would like one beer, and could they inform me where the nearest mountains were. Most of them just gave me a Myanmar beer and pointed
north.
So it is natural that I start my journey of discovery with Myanmar Beer, the most popular beer in the country with a market share of 64%. With its pale golden colour and strength of 5% it has a delicately hoppy yet weak aftertaste. Occasionally you’ll get a bottle that smells sour or stale, but the draught version is the best option with a head that stays with you until the end. It’s a good beer; I wouldn’t turn one down if you were offering.
Myanmar Brewery has number of other beers. ABC Stout which is a real grandaddy of a brew; thick, sweet, chewy, like a shot of liquorice mixed with a can of coke served from a freshly polished boot. Many people mix ABC with lager to make a drink they call an Irrawaddy; others just add a squeeze of lime to counter the sweetness. At 8%, you’d be wise to drink it with care. Their Andaman beer range didn’t fare well in the tasting though, the Gold Lager (4.5%), is like soda water served from a glass that once sat unused at a beer festival, and their Andaman Gold Special (6.5%), looks and tastes waxy like a melted aromatherapy
candle, mixed with fizzy water and served in an old paint can.
They also produce Myanmar Double strong and Barons Strong which I wasn’t able to source, and so can’t comment on, oh and one other beer you might have heard of called Tiger.
I’ve drunk a fair amount of Tiger Beer in my time in Myanmar, but that’s not because it is a great beer, it’s not. It’s very fizzy, very refreshing and particularly thirst quenching especially when consumed alongside a spicy curry, but other than that there isn’t a lot going for it, other than it’s a convenient alternative to Myanmar beer.
Dagon Beverages Co, the other big player in the beer market produces Dagon beer, Dagon extra strong and Skol beer. After an unfortunate personal incident involving Skol Special lager back in 1993 I decided to forgo that particular brew, you’ll have to try that one for yourselves. But Dagon beer on draught is lovely, however in a can it has a tart and gluey taste, leaving your tongue feeling as if it has licked a lot of postage stamps. Dagon extra strong is not a dark beer as the name and strength (8%) suggests, but a pale lager with a kick like an amateur footballer. I only tried this one in the tin, and the overriding taste was distinctly of the container.
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My search continued for the elusive brew, whose advertising claims that drinking Yoma is “like the feeling of leaving your luggage behind”. Having experienced arriving at Migaladon and finding out that my luggage is still at Suvarnabhumi, I can equate that feeling to the urge to drink more beer, though I’m not quite sure if this is the emotion that they are aiming at.
The other brewing company in Myanmar is Mandalay, they produce Mandalay Lager, which is less gassy than it’s peers and has a magnificent strong fruity, hoppy flavour. It’s not easy to find on draught outside of Mandalay, but try a bottle if you see one in the supermarket, you’ll be surprised as it is by far the best beer in Myanmar by a long way. Their other brew is the interesting Spirulina Beer that is practically a health drink made from algae - a superfood harvested from the crater lake of Twindaung. That explains the hint of a fish tank that hasn’t been cleaned for a while taste. However if you can find it, it’s worth a try, sadly the word on the street is that it is no longer being brewed.
Having consumed more beer in one afternoon of investigation than the average Myanmar person does in a year, I headed to the familiar haunt of 19th street to reassess my strategy. To my surprise I accidentally stumbled upon the holy grail of my quest in the place where I least expected it.
The Green Dragon at number 90b 19th street is a little spot I’ve walked past a thousand times and never paid any heed to. It is opposite the dodgily named Willy Massage Parlour and is the only place on the street to sell Yoma. As Ma San San Win proudly poured me a glass from their brand new condensation covered pump she explained that she was very pleased with the success of her new brew, she’s tied to Carlsberg and only sells Yoma on draught and Tuborg
in bottles, and is doing alright by that.
As I’d been stalking Yoma for a fortnight now I was a bit nervous to taste it at first. You should never meet your idols - you’ll always be disappointed.
I won’t lie to you, I wasn’t disappointed, and though Yoma isn’t amazing it certainly wasn’t unpleasant. With an aroma of newly cut grass, it had a subtle sweetness, a hint of woodiness and a good long aftertaste that in fact was not that dissimilar to the draught Budweiser that I cut my drinking teeth on many moons ago in the only bar in my home town that would serve us youngsters. With a slightly stronger abv of 5.4%, Yoma seems to have a little something extra about it than Myanmar and Dagon beers, and as it is the drinkers of these two beers that Carlsberg are targeting that’s not a bad thing. Priced competitively at 700 Kyats for a draught beer, unless you are drinking it in some overpriced swanky bar, it is definitely worth seeking out and sampling a glass or four.
As I’d come this far I figured I might as well try the other new kid on the block from Carlsberg - Turborg. At 5% this is the beer aimed at attracting customers who prefer Tiger. Lets leave it at that - and in fact that’s what I did. I was as disappointed from the lack of fizz from the funky ring pull cap, as I was by its flavor of dust that had passed its sell by date. Turborg was the only beer in my quest that I didn’t finish. Tiger has nothing to fear from it, which is a shame and seems a bit of a wasted opportunity.
What next?
Well Heineken is about to launch their new beer; they’ve named it ‘Regal Seven’ which sounds like a brand of cigarettes from the 1980’s, but will it rock the Myanmar beer-drinking world? I hope so, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
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KidsExplorE Yangon
Myanmar is famous for its handicrafts and one of the most popular forms of craftsmanship is the production of toys. Myanmar traditional toys include elephants, small red cows, tigers and other animals made of paper and wood.
My yangon writing duo sithu Linlet and Hla Phone aung visited shwedagon Pagoda to find out more…
We arrived and saw a cute girl playing w i t h paper toys in front of the Myanmar traditional paper toy shop. We took a photograph and bought some toys. And we talked about traditional paper toys. The shop owner buys the toys from a production shop: Lamin Mask and Paper Toys Shop. So we went and interviewed the owner.
They have owned the shop since 2009. Mostly, they send the paper toys to Shwedagon Pagoda and Pomelo toy shop. They make 40 kinds of paper toys. First they make a mould with bamboo or wood, then they stick paper soaked in rice paste glue around the mould. The mould is then left to dry in the sun. Afterwards the paper is cut from the mould and painted in bright colours. The moulds need to be dried by sun shine, so they work more in hot season. The toys cost 1,000 - 80,000 kyats.
Initially paper toys were made for children to play with. But then, travelling troupes, set builders and ceremony performers started to buy a lot of paper toys and paper instruments such as swords, arrows & bows, daggers etc. for their shows.
Now, they have started to get foreign customers such as tourists. They are very happy since foreigners like their toys.
Sadly, in Yangon, these days relatively few children buy traditional toys as they prefer and electronic toys instead. But they are still bought by performers and foreigners.
Pyit-Taing-Htaung Translated as up-whenever-thrown this is the Myanmar version of a weeble (they land upright whenever they are thrown). They come in pairs and usually it’s a male and female. The female has a different hair style.
Shwe-Zee-Gwak or 'golden' owls also come in pairs. They are believed to bring good luck to a shop or home and are not necessarily for play. Some people hang mini versions of Shwe-Zee-Gwak in their cars
Po WaYote Is an exaggerated version of a young happy and healthy boy.
Hla Phone Aung & Sithu Linlet
some examples of traditional toys
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Yangon trEnDS
The Ideas Incubator
Pun + Projects, the brainchild of Ivan Pun-a young, intelligent and ambitious entrepreneur has established itself as an ‘ideas incubator’ for different business and event concepts in Myanmar.
With a company concept that has always been to promote and develop the arts, culture and food scene in Yangon; Pun + Projects also strives to have a strong design focus, that is very well conceived and thought out; and in particular look aesthetically pleasing, down to the smallest facet.
Since 2013, when the company was set-up, Pun + Projects has grown to encompass deliverables that distinctly include creating and executing their own projects, sponsoring events and facilitating the projects of other innovators. This sponsorship or support is potentially all-inclusive and can range from developing design ideas to creating business models.
Most notably projects have included the highly popular restaurant, Port Autonomy, as a modern take on the Myanmar beer hall; TS1, as an art space to provide a creative outlet for local and international designers; La Carovana, a fine dining restaurant that serves contemporary Mediterranean cuisine; and The New Boris, a discreet and hip cocktail bar. All projects have gone through various transformations and continue to do so, as a way of responding to a
quickly evolving Yangon; subsequently absorbing new layers and features to each project.
The flagship project TS1, developed into a communal art space, a pop-up retail venue for new Myanmar products and a third dining component next door, in the form of the original Port Autonomy, all based at Lanthit Jetty. Up until the establishment of TS1, development of this river side area was practically unheard of and Pun + Projects paved the way with the also new-to-Myanmar concept of a “pop-up” umbrella, under which they could experiment with these spaces for commerce, culture and cuisine-demonstrating the possible development of remarkable downtown Yangon areas.
As is often the case with pop-up concepts, the location has changed and the project concepts developed but none of which are still located at the Transit Shed No.1. Port Autonomy has re-located to No. 22 Kabar Aye Pagoda Road and TS1, although in somewhat hibernation, its impact as an art space has firmly made its mark in a number of ways-most notably, its introduction of
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the simple, yet incredibly effective “white cube” exhibition space, full of natural light. This first-of-its kind opportunity for Myanmar artists and Pun + Projects commitment to not charging for its use was greatly appreciated by both the artists and visitors who engaged with this space.
Just like the retail space that sold “Myanmar Made” products; such commitment to promote Myanmar products continues to permeate throughout Pun + Projects as much as possible, from the food its restaurants serve to the teak table in the head office, that was created, designed and built in Myanmar.Even though Pun + Projects is now an organisation with 60 employees, the inspiration engine room is driven by a small team of international and local creatives with a wide range of experiences, skills and expertise; all hoping to up the ante on Yangon’s aesthetic elements and facilitate the chance for the wider community to embrace them.
The team is nimble, adaptive, young, creative and not at all bureaucratic; and they all readily tell me the fluidity of their roles and relish in the results and outcomes of their tight team-work efforts. One of the more defined roles of the team is that of the group’s executive chef, Kevin Ching. It is due his talents that currently most of their projects fall within the F&B space. Dressed in his uniform of black T-shirt and baseball cap, he is the mastermind behind the gastronomic goodness, Port Autonomy (PA) and their newest hope, La Carovana.
The team has had a substantial experience of trial and error in a drastically fast-moving business landscape. They are now grasping a good idea of what works and how to execute it. Despite being
a young team the company is now mature in its outlook and its ability to deliver projects.Their current upcoming projects include a variety of more commerce, culture and cuisine concepts; always within an extended framework of collaboration.
Having started as something new and previously unseen in Yangon, Pun + Projects is now a professional player in Yangon’s art, culture and hospitality world. As for the future, their hopes can be best summed up by the company’s founder Ivan, whose original intent remains"I would like for us to be known as being a dynamic and creative young company that strives to create innovative and thoughtful projects; and most importantly with an uncompromising commitment to excellence".
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commitment to promote Myanmar products continues to permeate throughout Pun + Projects
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BrunchPort Autonomy
လမးသစေဘာတတား၊ဥးပလမး၊ဆပကမးၿမ႕နယ
Tel:09250064694 တနဂၤေႏြBrunch:11:00amto5:00pm
Brunchတြကအစားအစာႏငေသာကစရာမားရႏငပါသည။ၾကကေၾကာ၊ကငခထမငးေၾကာ၊ကရးယားဆမးဒြစစသညမားရရႏငပါသည။
Governor's Residence
တနဂၤေႏြBrunchတနဂၤေႏြBrunchကနနက၁၁နာရခြကေနညေန၃နာရခြအထရႏငပါတယ။ၾကကကင၊ငါးကင၊ပစြနကင၊အမကင၊ဆတသားကင၊အသးအရြကကငစတအကငမးစရႏငပါတယ။ေသာကစရာအျဖစ၀ငရႏငပါတယ။ေစးႏႈနးကေတာယအကစေဒၚလာ၆၀ပါ။
No.35TawWinRoad,DagonTownship,Yangon,MyanmarPhone-01229860,Email:[email protected]
Hummingbird
တနဂၤေႏြBrunchကနနက၁၀နာရခြကေနညေန၄နာရအထရႏငပါတယ။
No.76,PhoneGyiSt,LanmadawTsp,Yangon,Myanmar
Phone-09250292074
one of the newest trends to hit the city is brunching, the perfect weekend meal for when you have woken to late for breakfast but not quite late enough for lunch. My yangon takes a look at some of yangon's newest and best brunches.
Sithu Linlet
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Kandawgyi Palace Hotel (Agnes)
တနဂၤေႏြBrunchကနနက၁၁နာရခြကေနမြနးလြ၂နာရခြအထရရႏငပါတယ။ေစးႏႈနးကယအကစ၂၉ေဒၚလာျဖစျပးေသာကစရာSparklingWineတစခြကပါ၀ငမာျဖစပါတယ။Phone-01382917,371261,[email protected]
Sule Shangri-La
တနဂၤေႏြBrunchကေန႔လည၁၂နာရမ၃နာရအထရႏငပါတယ။ေသာကစရာအျဖစ၀ငရႏငပါတယ။ေစးႏႈနးကယအကစ၃၆ေဒၚလာျဖစျပးမမႏစသကရာအစားအစာတစခကယေဆာငစားသးႏငပါတယ။ဘယာ၊၀င၊အေအးစတာေတြလညးပါ၀ငမာျဖစပါတယ။
CaféSule 223SulePagodaRd,Downtown Tel:01382919,01242828ext:6421,6422
Novotel
TheSquareစားေသာကဆငမာတနဂၤေႏြBrunchကေန႔လည၁၂နာရမ၃နာရအထရႏငပါတယ။ဟတယရ႕ငါးလႊာမာရၿပးBeerန႔Wineန႔Cocktailsကေသာကခြငရရမာျဖစပါတယ။အထးအစအစဥေတြအေနန႔ကေတာတ၀ငးေလးခေျဖာေျဖမာျဖစၿပးမကလညျပပြ၊န႔ကေလးေတြအတြကမကႏာေဆးခယေပးတယအစအစဥရပါတယ။
5thfloorofthehotel,459PyayRoad,012305858,09251185989,[email protected]
Inya Lake Hotel
တနဂၤေႏြBrunchကနနက၁၁နာရခြကေနမြနးလြ၂နာရခြအထရႏငပါတယ။ေသာကစရာအျဖစ၀ငရႏငပါတယ။ေစးႏႈနးကယအကစ၂၉ေဒၚလာျဖစျပးေသာကစရာSparklingWineတစခြကပါ၀ငမာျဖစပါတယ။
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A Natural Resources Town:The Solution to Yangon’s Real-Estate Fears?
Myanmar real-estate is seeing investment matched by no other commodity or
opportunity in Myanmar. Why is it so expensive, so highly valued, and even more expensive than real estate in New York City? The answer can be sought out and explained in various ways, but to cut it short, there is nothing else to really put your money safely in. Cars used to be as valued as land with import taxes of up to over 200% of the car’s actual price during the previous governmental era. Nonetheless, car prices rapidly decreased within a span of a year, and those that had bought their cars for twice the actual prices suffered significantly. They weren’t getting any of that money back, their only hope - using the car for what they had bought it for. This is not the case for real estate. At least, not yet, it’s not too late to prevent the real estate market from behaving the same way as the automobile market did, as Yangon is still in its early stages of urban city development.
As more and more Foreign Direct Investments come in, more and more commercial buildings will be bought and occupied, with hopes of bringing in more entertainment and attractions to the golden land. This is not to say that everything is running smoothly; there is news being circulated that the sales for apartment rents and purchases have decreased this year. This decrease in the purchase of high-end luxury apartments has set back many
projects, but yet has not completely stopped them. As each day passes, more and more apartment complexes are being built and constructed across the whole city, with a range of prices depending on the location and standard of the apartments.
A concerning part of Myanmar’s rapid increase in real-estate value is that it parallels to the Lost Decade, which is a Japanese real-estate bubble in 1990s. At that time many investors believed in gaining profit after the globalization of Tokyo and nearby areas. This was due to rapid economic growth in Japan until the late 1980s. Considering the Japanese economy is still affected and suffering from 1990s real-estate market crash, preventative measures are prudent.
So then, how do we separate the high conce- ntration of real-estate investment on Yangon? One suggestion is creating a new natural resources town. A natural resources town is when a government develops a city far from other large
urban areas for the natural resources. Recently many countries all over the world are actively building plans to enter into Myanmar, and one of the main reasons is the natural resources. For instance, the Korea Development Institute has been writing many academic articles on natural resources opportunities in Myanmar. Many foreign companies would be eager to move into a natural resources town. Plus, many foreigners and Myanmar people would move into the city to follow the new job opportunities. Plus, the population concentration control would be a bonus. A great example of a natural resources town is Dallas, Texas in the United States.
Building a city from scratch is something Myanmar has done before – the capital Naypyitaw being the shining example. Could repeating the exercise with a focus on locating the city close to key natural resources be an eloquent solution to Yangon and Myanmar’s Real-Estate fears? Only time, commitment and investment will tell.
More and more commercial buildings will be bought and occupied, with hopes of bringing in more entertainment and attractions to the golden land
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Can you tell us the first steps you took to build your business?Initially you could say I had to make a decision in my life, one to pursue a career in corporate governance or two to set up a private limited company. I chose to work in corporate governance and corporate management and later my brother asked me to join his company as his CEO in 1994.
However later, in 2002, I founded my own not-for-profit organisation, and then in 2007 I retired from my brother’s company and started a consultation business helping SME’s rebrand, find new partners and get new capital.
if you have problems at work how do you solve them?Important and urgent matters happen in work everyday. If you concentrate on important issues everyday then urgent issues seldom arise. Most problems are created by oneself when you failed to do daily, your important thing.
so you think your staff follow your leadership? You don’t demand leadership, you create an image or a brand people can follow – you must create that in your brand. Good people work for a reason above pay. It is up to you to create that reason.
What do you think about Csr, and how much importance do you give it?Business is about understanding your stakeholders – taking care of them is CSR. It is the most important thing as your stakeholders are who you will be working and living with. It must be part of your operational thinking not a created programme. For example, how do you throw away rubbish in your office? Is it recycled or just thrown out - it should be automatically recycled. CSR should be an unconscious good process throughout your organisation.
How do you balance work and your
Martin Pun is the brother of well-known Myanmar business tycoon serge Pun. However not only is he an extremely
successful and accomplished businessman is his own right but he is a committed philanthropist, who has spearheaded
efforts to solve social and environmental issues in Myanmar from HIv awareness to disaster relief.
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between product, community programmes, and in values. Also GE, they have a good leadership programme.
is this life your dream? if not, what was your dream in childhood?If I lived again I would live the same life again. No one should have regrets, as everyone’s life is their own creation. Everyone to an extent has a choice of what their life could be, it is up to them to think “IF IT IS TO BE! IT IS UP TO ME! Mentality” There are so many people looking for good people to depend upon, search and you should find the opportunity. Do understand, many people wait for an opportunity to happen to them, when it doesn't happen, they blame it on luck. The correct question should be “What have you done to find your dream opportunity”?
How important is the support of friends and family?Totally important, they are your inner stakeholders. Even god needs friends and family!
What is your hobby and do you have enough time to pursue it?No one has enough time to pursue his or her hobby. Hobbies take time and money and no one has enough time AND money. But, selective hobbies need to be pursued if not bad habits will replace the time and money hobbies take. A good hobby is the only thing that can replace bad habits.
What advice would you give young people?Never underestimate anyone younger because one day they will be adults. Second, most of the time you have what you need to succeed in your own hands. Don’t blame your parents if you don’t succeed. Nowadays with the Internet no one can blame a lack of information or education. Know what you want out of life - it is your choice.
if you had 100,000 Kyats in your pocket to spend in Yangon, how would you spend it?Use it to buy your own time and spend your “purchased time” to help someone who needs your time. It could be children, employee, gardener or a stranger. Do not feed someone a fish, teach someone how to fish. It takes time to teach someone to fish.
Can you share a funny experience you have had in your business life?In 2002 I started a workplace HIV education programme. We now have offices all over Myanmar. HIV affects people with money and jobs. What’s more if the breadwinner is the person sharing the educational information to a family it makes it more acceptable. If the breadwinner comes back and mentions what he learns about any issue, the whole family listens, not when a youngster brings the same information back.
I guess the funny situation I see quite often due to my work is listening to an entire family, children, parents and even grandparents all in the same room talking about HIV education and sharing knowledge on avoiding needle sharing and using condoms to protect oneself.
personal life?It is a personal choice on how you perceive life. Each individual decides what is life? Some feel work is life, others not. I don’t balance as the two are the same. They should be together. I don’t believe in such things as ‘quality’ family time, how do you define ‘quality’?
What is your business goal?The ability to create leadership in and around your own community. If your business can create leaders in the community then you are a success. Leaders in business, CSR, creating jobs etc., I feel satisfied when an ex-employee phones and tells me he or she is now a director at another company. I want to create leaders and directors of the future.
What brands do you admire?I admire brands with good programmes. For example Unilever, they have a good balance
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In preparation for the launch they have but one of Yangon’s most advanced and modern kitchens on Bogarlay Zey Street, at the back of their new Mexican restaurant Tintin. The kitchen is state of the art contains a huge bone cutter and meat grinder, four convection ovens, a French pastry oven, a four square metre pastry table, woks, grills, huge tanks of spare water, an ice cream machine and much more.
The kitchen has been internationally designed to allow smooth and quick drainage, clear lighting and a voltage stabilizing generator. It has also been designed with hygiene in mind which 57 below group takes very seriously as their head of business development Tim reus puts it; it is their “responsibility to take care of guests”.
The kitchen will also be a training ground for both new and experienced chefs working at 57 Below group. With the lure of many new hotels and restaurants opening up you might
you would have heard of the union bar, you would have heard of gekko, you definitely would have heard of Parami Pizza and you might just have heard of tintin. What you probably haven’t heard is that they are all managed and operated by the same group, 57 Below, who are about to launch their latest project – a catering service.
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expect that 57 Below would be worried about losing staff and in fairness a few have moved on, however the retention rate is markedly better than you might expect due not only to competitive salaries but their commitment to training and opportunities for career progression within the company.
From the outset part of 57 Below’s mission was not leach or take money but to provide training, skills and career opportunities for their staff. Many of their cooks cycle between restaurants to get used to cooking new styles of food. They also receive regular english training. This commitment to training has reaped rewards with many of the key positions in the various restaurants being now filled by Myanmar employees that have grown within the company.
It is partly due this confidence in their staff that they now feel ready to launch a catering arm of their business. What 57 Below hopes to provide in their catering service is quality food presented and served well at good fair prices. They can organize everything from food to staff as well as being able to tailor make the service to suit a client’s need.
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The types of food they will offer mirrors the food they produce in the restaurants namely Italian (Parami Pizza), Japanese fusion (Gekko), British (Union Bar), and Mexican (Tintin). However they also will provide Asian and more generic Western dishes as well.
57 Below group moves on from strength to strength and with their current track record as vindication the newest venture will undoubtedly be a huge success.
57 Below CateringPh : 01 392 263
E-mail : [email protected]
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ရနကနၿမ႕ရ႕ လစညကားတစမးေခာငးၿမ႕နယ၊ ရငေစာပဘရားလမးမာဖြငလစထားတ Organic Nail Artက ဖြငလစတာ ၁၀ ႏစေကာၿပလ႔ သရပါတယ။Nail Artသးသန႔အျပင Cleansing ၊ FootMassage ၊ ဖေယာငးသြငး၊အေမႊးအမင Waxing လပေပးတာေတြပါ ရၿပး ေတာ၀ငစငတာမာ တစဆင၊မႏေလးၿမ႕မာလညးႏစဆငဖြငလစထားပါေသးတယ။
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ရနကနန႔မႏေလးရ႕ကြာျခားခကကေတာမႏေလးကဆယေကာသကအလာမားၿပးလကသညး၊ေျခသညးအျပငေျခေထာကCleansing၊ေပါငးတငတာေတြ၊Waxingေတြလာလပၾကတယလ႔OrganicNailArtမေဒၚ၀ငးစႏၵာကေျပာပါတယ။ရနကနကေတာလလတပငးအလာမားၿပးCleansingန႔NailArtအလပမားၿပးေပါငးတငတာ၊Waxingအလပနညးတယလ႔ဆပါတယ။
ဒဇငးပငးမာလညး ရနကနက ဒဇငးအလဖက ဥးစားေပးၿပး မႏေလးကေတာအပေပးစကန႔ပေဖာရတGelTypeလမးပၾကကၾကတယလ႔သရပါ တယ။ အဒ Gel ကေတာ ေစးႏႈနးအနညးငယ ၾကးျမငျပး တစေခာငးလငကပ၆၀၀ခန႔ကသငပါတယ။။လကမႈပညာလ႔ေျပာလ႔ရတNailArtအတြကလကသညးတစခလင ကပ ၄၀၀ ကသငၿပး ပါ၀ငတ ပစၥညးေပၚမတညကာကပ၅၀၀၊ကပ၆၀၀ကသငတယလ႔သရပါတယ။ဥပမာ-စနစကပတာမးမာအေရအတြကေပၚမတညျပး ေစးႏႈနးကသငတာပါ။ ကနၾကမးကေတာ ထငး၊တ႐တ၊ကရးယားန႔USကပစၥညးေတြအသးျပတယလ႔ဆငကေျပာပါတယ။
အမားစကမပကလြယတေျခသညးကလာေရာကျပလပၾကျပးအပက လြယတလကကေတာပြရမပလာလပၾကတာမားပါတယ။ေျခသညးNailArtကေတာ တစလေကာ တာရညခၿပး ေရထရတလကကေတာ ႏစပတနးပါးခန႔တာရညခကာေရသပမသးရတသဆရငေတာေျခသညးနးပါးခတယလ႔သရပါ ေသးတယ။
ဆငရ႕ကယပငဒဇငးသးသန႔ရသလ ကယပငဖနတးတာ၊ အသစထြငတာေတြ၊ေနာကဆးထြကသမဒဇငးေတြပါေလလာတယလ႔သရပါတယ။ကယထြငရင ထြငသလ ရတာျဖစလ႔ ဆငရ႕ ဒဇငးအေရအတြက သတမတလ႔ မရပါဘးလ႔သရပါေသးတယ။
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ရနကနကေတာအမတ၃၇၊ရငေစာပဘရားလမး၊စမးေခာငးၿမ႕နယ၊ဆငခြ၂-အမတB-1၊(56/57)၊ေတာ၀ငစငတာ၊ျပညလမး၊ဒဂျမ႕နယျဖစပါတယ။
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Health&
Beauty
1st Lady Beauty Salon | 1A/42, U Zana St, Myathidar Housing, South Oakkalar Tsp| 850 001 7, 850 023 4, 09 506 662 2
Beauty Concepts | Unit-G11, No.231 Pyay Road, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 508 468, 01 508 469, 01 508 470
Beauty Choice | 65 Yae Kyaw Road, Pazundaung Tsp| 01 200 720, 09 450 061 156
California Skin Spa | 32. B Inya Myaing Road | 01 535 097
Inya Day Spa | 16/2 Inya Road, Kamaryut | 01 537 907 / 01 503 375
D Spa | 682 Thitsar Road (Ponnami Bus Stop) Ward 6 South Okkalapa Tsp | 09 25925 6686
La Source Beauty Spa | 80-A Inya Road | 01 512 380
Lemon Day Spa | No. 96 F, Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp | 01 514 848 / 09 732 08 476
London Bliss Spa | Taw Win Centre | 01 860 011
Beauty Box Spa | 14, Tamainbayan Road | 09 503 5556, 09 254 228982
Muguet Japon Spa | 1 F, New World Building 126 Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Sayar San Quarter, Bahan Tsp 09 732 29 205
Nacha Spa | Near City Mart, Shin Saw Pu Road | 094 211 65 929
Shangri-La Spa | Taw Win Centre | 09 315 51844
Central Hotel | 6th Floor, 335-337 Bogyoke Aung San Road Pabedan Tsp | 01 241 007 Ext. 533
Genky Physiotherapy Clinic | 285 Bo Aung Kyaw Road (middle block), Kyauktada Tsp. | 098 615 036
Mizu Aoi Health & Beauty Center | No.14, Ground Floor, Block 19A, Boyar Nyunt Street, Dagon. Tsp
813 Hello I |59 & 63 Ground Floor, Seikta-thuka Street, Kyaukkmyaung, Tamwe Tsp. | 01 50 070, 097 308 1713
Hello II | 28 Maharsocial Street, Hledan, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 539 813
Iris | 570/A, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd.,Ward (8)| 01 664918, 09 421 066 911
Magic House | (Rm 1/B), Bldg 16, Ariyta Maggin St., Ward (14), Yankin Tsp | 09 515 209 1
Spa Paragon | 51 (Rm 106), Shwe Hin Thar Tower (B), Pyay Rd., Ward (11) Hlaing Tsp| 01 507 344 Ext.112 09 526 164 2
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YANGOODS CHAnt CHAn BOOK PuBLiCAtiOn
They opened in May and launched as a Burmese Vintage shop, rejuvenating Myanmar heritage from early the 20th century. Some of the products they offer are printed pouches and bags, printed cushions, copper boxes, bracelets, vintage style notebooks, printed tin box sets, metal calendars, table mat sets, printed crystal balls, pop magnets etc. Their handicrafts and souvenirs can be used to decorate your home and office, as a gift and for use in daily life.
Yangoods Managing Director, Ms. Jean Curic said, “We have 48 designs and will be creating more and more products. The smaller items cost 10,000Ks the largest item is the Big Bag which costs 50,000Ks.”
64,Baho Building, Bo Gyoke Aung San Market, Pabedan Township, 09 737 805 01, 09 253 741 581, [email protected]
“I was working at the Art Magazine as an executive editor and designer. I left this job, and then went back to my hometown, Taunggyi, because I wanted to get back my poet’s lifestyle and give time to my son. Another reason was to start a publishing company by myself ”
His friends, Phoe Saung and Moe Thet produced the first book with him, a poetry book titled “Rice’s Ghost”. They printed 500 copies and the book contained 20 poems. Now they print a variety of books - poetry, essays, short novels, religious features, and youth features.
In a year, they publish over ten books. The last published book was “Young and Move”, written by Min Soe. They don’t care about profits; they care about “mainly the love of literature” and their target is "good books will be published.”
Now, he is publishing a book titled ‘Aung San’ ideology’ written by Thisar Ni, the famous modern writer, and a poetry book by six poets.
27, 1st Floor, 17th Street, Lathar Township09 43064319
What is a creative idea and reveals a bit of Myanmar History and Culture - yangoods.
yangoods takes early 20th century designs and changes them into souvenirs.
He is a writer and poet. His name is soe Min aung, he wanted to own a publishing company because he loved literature. so he started his own publishing company, naming it after his son, Chant Chan in 2014.
khIt Yangon
Yangon's retail startupsas the city booms new shops are popping-up left, right and centre.
My yangon takes a look at a few of them....
VALuE MYANMAR TRADITIONALWater Proof Pathein Umbrellas
The owner, Ko Than Htwe Zaw says, “Large sizes are 10 feet, 8 feet and 6 feet, and decorate restaurants and hotels. In my shop there are many sizes and colors. Most clients are from Europe, Korea and Malaysia.”
“If residents buy more than 5 umbrellas, we offer maintenance services for two or three months. After maintenance, the umbrellas are good as a new. For foreign customers, we teach them the techniques of how to maintain the umbrellas.”
“There are two types of Pathein umbrellas. One is made with satin, it is called a Satin Umbrella for beauty. It is not water proof, only for good looks. The other type is water proof, and called the water proof oil umbrella. This is made with cloth and local organic glue. I can say our Pathein umbrellas are 100 percent handmade. Local people like the Satin Umbrella and foreign people like the water proof umbrella. A water proof umbrella will last in a house a long time and 3 years if used outside.”
“Most of the foreigners like the colors of red, orange, yellow and sometimes green. They like dark colors. In the tourist high season, we show the making process. Foreigners like the demonstration and other shops don’t do it.”. “Now, this place has become a photo corner, everybody wants to take photos in here!”
Kandawgyi Natural Park, Near Karaweik Barge, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township, 09 262 007 075, 09 791 665 [email protected]
shop
value Myanmar traditional sells two types of Myanmar traditional Pathein umbrellas, satin and water proof. Both come in all sizes and all colors. the shop is located in Kandawgyi natural Park near Karaweik Barge. these colorful umbrellas are between 4 inches to 10 feet high and cost between 3 to 120 usD.
41My Yangon | Issue 12
CICI Office Wear for the Modern Myanmar Women
At the time, she was an intern at Myanmar Marketing Research and Development Ltd., and Yee was torn about what to wear - traditional clothes or a formal office look? As a young woman who had just started working, she was not a big fan of going to the office wearing the same old clothes. That’s when she came up with the business idea of ready-to-wear women’s garments for the modern Myanmar woman. Fortunately, her parents have been in the fabric business for over twenty years (Ma Rosy from Rosy’s Chin Fabrics), and supported her idea. With the help of her parents’ factories she launched a small fashion show as a social enterprise. Yee showed clothes with a mix of ‘modern office look’ and traditional cloth. The feedback from the show was very positive and Yee dove into the business in earnest by hiring a product designer, three designers and a sales department.
Cici officially opened up last year, and has expanded nicely. MY Yangon met her at her shop on the corner of Shinsawpu & West Myaynigone Street. She was wearing a formal but stylish one-piece dress. Yee looked like an ordinary women in twenties.
She energetically explained her business and vision. When asked about business she said “we broke the sales record last month! Sales are increasing but it’s still not at a point of satisfaction.” Yee said she had started to sell office uniforms with a customized printing service. Also, she told me about the plan to expand the product range and start selling accessories in the near future. When asked about the difference between Cici and competitors she shared her ambitious vision to, “educate modern Myanmar women through how they dress and help them gain confidence.”86/B, Corner of Shinsawpu Street & West Myaynigone Street,Sanchaung Tsp, +95 1 523096, +95 9 73233728
after graduating from the swarthmore College, Hilary yee, Ceo and founder of Cici, came back to Myanmar. she found herself wearing the same us clothing over and over again.
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Galleryလငယတ႔၏အားမာနကျပေနေသာပနးခပြတစချဖစသညColourCurrentArtExhibitionကလာေရာကခစားၾကညမရာက
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ပနးချပခနးဖြငျဖစပေလးသခငပါတယ။ပနးခအေရာငးဆငေလးေတြ ဟစပစပ၊ ဒစပစပန ႔ေလာကၾကညေနရာကတစေနရာတညးမာပကယကယ၀နး၀နး ျပသေရာငးခႏငရင သပေကာငး မာပေတြးမခပါတယ။ႏငငျခားသားအမားဆးသၾကတဒလန၀ေဒးလမးမာ ဖြင ျဖစခတာပါ။တျခားစပြားေရးႏငႏႈငးစာရင စတခမးသာတ လပငနးပါ။ ၂၀၁၄ ခႏစ၊ၾသဂတလ၁၀ရကေန႔မာပနးခေဇာလမငးရ႕OneManShowကေနစတငဖြငလစခတာပါ။
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ပနးခဆရာေတြအဆြမားတေဆးကသတထားမလား။ဟတပါဗာ။Acrylicန႔ဆြတာမားတယ။၀ယရငလြယ တယ။ ေစးႏႈနးကလညးသငတယ။အေျခာကလညးျမနတယေလ။ဆေဆးကေျခာကတာၾကာတယ။ဆြၿပး၃၊၄ရကေလာကေစာငရတယ။အဒAcrylicေဆးကၾကာရင ပလတစတစလ ခငၿပးအပကအစးက နညး ပါတယ။
တျခားေဆးန႔ဆြပေလးလညးေျပာျပပါဥး။ေရေဆးကထနးသမးတာေတာေတာဂ႐စကရတယ။
Acrylic ေဆးန ႔ သႏငေရာၿပးဆြတာလညး ရတယ။သပနးခသကသကလညးရတယ။ဗဒၶဘရားပေတာေတြကဒလနညးေတြသးၿပးဆြတာေတြ႕ရလမမယ။
ဒျပခနးထမာအမးအစားမတတ ပနးခပေတြ မားပါသလား။မားပါတယ။AcryliconCanvas၊Vinyl၊Modern၊Abstract၊Realismန႔အမးအစားမတတပနးခပေတြစလ႔ပါပဗာ။
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ပနးခကားေစးကြကအလားအလာကေျပာျပပါဥး။အရငထကအမားႀကးေကာငးလာပါတယ။ဗလခပေစးမာလညးဆငေတြတးလာတယ။မးတြငးမာအေရာငးပါးေပမယပြငလငးရာသမာပေရာငးရပါတယ။ေစးႏႈနးကေတာေဒၚလာ၁၀၀ကေနသး၊ေလးေထာငအစားစားရပါတယ။
အနာဂတရညရြယခကက။ဒအခနးငားစားရငသနးသး၊ေလးဆယရေပမယ၀ါသနာအရ ဒအႏပညာအလပပ လပမာပါ။ ဓာတပျပပြအပါအ၀ငအႏပညာန႔ပတသကတအလပေတြေပါ။
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Downtown50th Street Bar and Restaurant | Western/Bar | 9-13 50th Street, Botataung Tsp | 01 397 060
365 Café | Café/Western | No.5 Thamada Hotel, Ahlanpya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 243 047, 01 243 639-41 ext. 32
999 Shan Noodle Shop | Shan | 130 B, 34th Street | 01 389 363, 01 384 779
H APK | Thai | 392-396 Shwebonthar Street, Pabedan Tsp | 01 250 437
H Aung Mingalar Shan Noodle Restaurant | Shan | No. 34 Bo Yar Nyunt Street & Corner of Nawaday Street, Dagon Tsp | (no phone number)
H Aung Pyae Phyo Indian Foods | Indian | No. 37th Street, Corner of Mahabandoola Road (Middle block), Kyauktada Tsp | (no number)
Bar Boon | Café/Western | Just outside FMI Center, 380 Bo Gyoke Road | 09 420 321 058
Bharat Indian Restaurant | Indian | 356 Mahabandoola Road, Seikkantha Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 01 382 253
Café KSS | Café | 470-472, Mahabandoola Road, Cor. Bo Sun Pat Street | 01 253 126, 09 431 67288
H Cherry Man | Myanmar/Indian | 78/80 Latha Street, Lower block | 01 374 891, 01 389 705
H Coffee Club | Café | 232, Sule Pagoda Road (Inside E-city phone shop), Kyauktada Tsp | (no number)
Coka Suki Restaurant | Thai/Hotpot | 104/108, Kyee Myin Daing Strand Road, Ahlone Tsp | 01 229 904 ext. 229 905
H Easy Café & Restaurant | Asian | 30A/C1, Bo Yar Nyunt Road | 01 220 722, 01 246 755
Fat Man Steak | Western | Bo Yar Nyunt Rd, Dagon Tsp | 09 420 305 666
Feel | Myanmar | 124, Pyihtaungsu Avenue Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 732 08 132
H Frozee Gelatto Creamery | Ice Cream | No. 23 Nawaday Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 1233 874
Fu-Rin Japanese Restaurant | Japanese | No. 210, Anawrahta Road, Lanmadaw Tsp | 01 211 702
Gallery Bar & Restaurant | Café/Bar | 223 Sule Pagoda Road | 01 242 828 ext. 6430 or 6431
H Gekko | Japanese/Bar | 535 Merchant Road | 01 386 986, 09 431 902 32
H Green Gallery | Thai | No. 58, 52nd Street (lower block), Botahtaung Tsp | 09 313 151 31
Harley’s | Fastfood | 285, Ground Floor, The Corner of 6th Street & Anaw Ya Htar Road, (2) Ward, Lanmadaw Tsp | 09 250 086 204
Harley’s@Pansodan | Fastfood | 380 Maha Bandula Road, Kyaukada Tsp | 01 376 745
Heaven Pizza | Pizza | 38~40, Bo Yar Nyunt Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 855 1383
n Heiwa | Japanese | 207,32 Street (Upper Block), Pabedan Tsp | 01 375931
n India Kitchen | Indian | 297 Mahabandoola Road, Botahtaung Tsp | 01 389 367
Ingyin Restaurant | Indian | Anawratha Road (30th St) | (no number)
Junior Duck | Chinese | Nanthidar Jetty Compound, Pan Soe Tan Saikkan Strand Road, Kyauktada Tsp | 01 249 421
Kanpai | Japanese | 207 Bo Aung Kyaw Street, Botataung Tsp | 09 421 739 599
Kinsakura Restaurant | Japanese | BAK, Olympic Tower, 1st Floor, Bo Aung Kyaw Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 09 514 7840
H Kosan Café | Bar | Branch 2-Café/Bar-108, 19th Street (Upper Block), Latha Tsp | 01 503 232
H Linkage Restaurant | Myanmar/Asian | 221, 1st Flr, Mahar Bandoola Garden Street | 09 495 836 18, 09 430 529 16
Lotteria@China Town | Fastfood | No 827, Corner of Hledan Street and Mahabandola Road, Lanmadaw Tsp | 01 230 3097
n Lotteria@Central Tower | Fastfood | 79/81, Room (001/002), between 39th and 40th Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 09 258 521 385
n Marry Brown | Fastfood | 180-182, Mahabandoola Garden Street (Middle Block), Kyauktada Tsp | 01 384 780
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Maru Grill Restaurant | Japanese | 134 Shwe Taung Tan Street (Upper Block), Lanmadaw Tsp | 011 221 568, 09 420 308 350
H Miyoshi Ramen | Japanese | 42/E, Bo Yar Nyunt Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 420 098 866
H Mondo | Japanese | 26 (B) Yaw Min Gyi Street | 01 252 261, 09 450 066 782
H Monsoon | Asian | No. 85-87, Theinbyu Road (lower block), Botataung Tsp | 01 295 224 My Garden | Asian | Ahlone Road | 01 372 822
Nam Kham Shan Restaurant | Shan | 37th Street, Corner of Mahabandoola Road (middle block), Kyauktada Tsp | (no number)
Nan Yu | Indian/Cantonese | 81 Pansodan Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 01 252 702
H Nepali Food House | Nepalese | 63, Bon Sun Pet Street, Lower Block, Pabedan Tsp | 09 402 552 245, 09 731 423 86, 09 517 5640
Nilar Biryani | Indian | 216, Anawratha Road, Pabedan Tsp
Nooch Restaurant & Bar | Japanese /Thai | No. 387/397, Room K1, Upper Shwe Bon Thar Road, Pabedan Tsp | 01 378 166
Oishii Branch 1 | Japanese | 98, Latha Street(Middle Block), Latha Tsp | 01 708 685, 09 312 870 53
Olive Garden | Mediterranean| 170/176 Bo Aung Kyaw Street | 09260171411
H Pa Pa Pizza | Pizza Delivery | Yaw Min Gyi Street | 09 421 124 373
Parisian Cake & Coffee | Coffee Shop/Café | 46 Mahabandoola Garden Street (Lower Block), Kyauktada Tsp | 01 242 650
Peacock Lounge | Café | Sule-Shangri-La Hotel, 223 Sule Pagoda Road | 01 242 828 ext. 6456 or 6434
Phoenix Court (Si Chaun Dou hua) | Chinese | Park Royal Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388
Rangoon Teahouse | Myanmar | 1st Flr, 77 Pansodan Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 09 517 832 9
Santino Café |zzCoffee Shop | 18/A-1, Bo Yar Nyunt Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 387 880
H Shiawase | Sushi | 38/40 A1 Bo Yar Nyunt Street | 09 492 591 84
Shiki-Tei | Japanese | Park Royal Hotel, 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388
Shwe Kaung Hot Pot | Chinese/Hot Pot | 306, Level 3, Junction Maw Tin, Corner of Anawrahta Road & Lanthit Road, Lanmadaw Tsp | 09 731 120 46
Spice Brasserie | Asian Fusion | Park Royal Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388
H Sprouts | Salad Bar/Café | 68A Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 421 102 223
Sukiya Japanese Resturant | Japanese | 42/B, Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 311 350 26
H Sule Shangri -La Café | Bakery/Café | Shangri La Hotel, 223 Sule Pagoda Road | 01 242 828 ext. 6421, 6422
H Summer Palace | Chinese | Sule Shangri La, 223 Sule Pagoda Road | 01 242 828 ext: 6428, 6429
Sushi Itchi | Japanese | No. 105, Phone Gyi Street, Lanmadaw Tsp | 01 218 282
H Sydney’s | Western Bakery (Order only) | 288/290 (Rm 106), 1st Flr, Shwe Dagon Pagoda Road, MWEA Tower | 01 381 607
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n Thai 47 | Thai | No (153), Cornar of 47th Street & Anawyahta Road, Botahtaung Tsp | 095169215
n The Blind Tiger | Western/Tapas | United Condominium, Nawaday Street | 01 388 488
The Manhattan Fish Market | Seafood/Western | 44/56 Kannar Road, Ground Floor M.M.G. Tower, 41st - 42nd Street | 01 375 064
The Lobby Bar | Bar | Park Royal Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388
The Strand Café | Fine dining/Western | 92 Strand Road | 01 243 377~92
The Strand Grill | Western | 92 Strand Road | 01 243 377
The Thiripyitsaya Sky Bistro | Asian/Western | 20th Floor, Sakura Tower, 339 Bogyoke Aung San Road, Kyauktada Tsp | 01 255 277
Titu’s Indian Banana Leaf | Indian | 235, Ground floor, 32nd Street | 09 302 583 77, 09 312 854 39
Toba Restaurant Café | Indonesian | 15 Nawaday Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 254 095 451
Tokyo Doughnut | Bakery | Mahabandoola Road, Between 31 st Street & Bo Sun Pat Street | 09 731 88772
Union Bar & Grill | Western/Bar | 42 Strand Road, Left corner of the Myanmar Red Cross Building, Botahtaung Tsp | 09 420 101 854
Ureshii Kitchen | Japanese | 111 Shwe Taung Tan Street, Lanmadaw Tsp | 01 224 810
Ya Kun Kaya Toast | Singaporean | 4th Floor, Junction Square, Corner of Narnattaw Road and Kyun Taw Road, Kamayut Tsp | 09 312 854 39
H Yhet’s | Japanese | 57, 37 Street (Lower Block), Kyauktada Tsp | 01 377 212
YKKO@Seikkantha Street- Also various branches | Chinese/Thai | 286, Seikkantha Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 01 379 754
MidtownAdamas | Seafood | No.14 , Kanbawza Road | 09-254 006 636
After Work Bistro and Bar | Café/Bar | 31, A1, Shan Gone Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 09 250 400 753
H Agnes | French/Fine Dining | Kandawgyi Palace Hotel, Kan Yeik Tha Road, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp, Yangon | 01 382 919, 01 382 912
** Alamanda Inn Restaurant | French | 60B/Shwe Taun Gyar Road, Golden Valley | 01 534 513
Ananda Coffee and Cocoa | Café/Coffee shop | Market Place by City Mart, Dhamazedi Road
Asagiri Sausage & Restaurant | Western | Corner of Kyun Taw Road and Nar Nat Taw Street, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 539 598
Aung Thuka | Myanmar | 17(A), West Shwegondine, Bahan Tsp | 01 525 194
H AV's | Indian | Room A, Ground Floor, No(76/80)(B), Banyardala Road | 09 254 345 381
Bangkok Kitchen | Thai | Kandawgyi Natural Park,Nat Mauk Road,Tamwe Tsp | 01 556 901
n Bar Boon | Dutch Deli | No. 10K, Shwe Taung Kyar Road, Bahan Tsp | 09 431 851 44
Barista Lavazza | Café/Coffee shop | 16 Kyaik Ka San Road, Tamwe Tsp | 018 604 415
n Barwachi | Indian | 37, Ground Floor 1, La Pyayt Wun Plaza, Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp | 092535 00002
BBQ Chicken Restaurant | Fastfood | 44, Ground Floor, Pyay Road, Dagon Tsp | 09 250 613 329
Billion Gold Restaurant | Fine Dining | Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road) | 01 216 001
Black Canyon Coffee | Coffee shop | 330 Ahlone Road, In front of Yangon International Hotel, Dagon Tsp | 01 395 052
Brasserie International Restaurant Level 1, Sedona Hote Ph 09 516 669 00 Ext :7714,7503 Café Bellagio | Western | 81 New University Ave Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 544 930
Café Dibar | Italian | No.9, Kabaraye Pagoda Road, Yankin Tsp | 095 114 932, 09 599 6143
Cafe Napoli | Italian | No,287, East Shwe Gon Dine Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 554 957, 09 420 207 233
Café Terrace 320 | Café/Thai | Corner of Pyay Road and Ahlone Road | 09 430 919 59
Chatime (various branches) | Café | 29 B-002 Shwe Pyi Aye Yeik Mon Housing, Bargayar Road, Sanchaung Tsp | www.chatime.com.mm
Chokdee | Dim sum | Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road), Dagon Tsp | 09 732 271 77
Cocoon Bar | Asian/bar | 22/24 Shinsawpu Road and corner of Baho Road | 01 500 863
Coffee Circles | Café | 107(A) Dhammazedi Road, Kamayut Tsp | 01 525 157
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Cousins Grill | Western | No. 28(A), Kokkaing Swimming Pool St., Sayarsan Rd, Bahan Tsp | 01 546 633
Daruma | Japanese | Yangon International Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp | 09 492 702 71
Dining Fukurou Japanese Resturant | Japanese | No.81 (C), New University Avenue Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 542 871
Doremi Café | Asian/Western | No. 33, Nigyawda Street, Kyauk Myaung, Tamwe Tsp | 01 546 850
Du Fu Restaurant | Chinese | Level 2 | Sedona Hotel | 01 666900
Dynasty Bistro at Marketplace | Chinese | 430/A, City Mart Marketplace, Dhamazeddi Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 523 840
n Easy Café | Café | 24D Nar Nat Taw St, Kamayut Tsp | 09 250 141 098.
H Edo Zushi | Japanese | No.290-B, U Wisara Road, 10 Ward Kamaryut Tsp | 09 259 040 853
EK Enjoy Kitchen | Fast Food | 68-B, Daw Thein Road & Bandar Gone Street, Kandawkalay. 09 310 41 915
H Family Sushi | Japanese | A-27, Rm# 104, U Chit Maung Housing, U
Chit Maung Street, Bahan Tsp | 09 731 194 56, 095 077 223
FC Box & Food Desserts | Fastfood | Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road) | 01 216 001
Freshness Burger (Myanmar Culture Valley) | Fastfood/burger | People’s Park & People’s Square, U Wisara Road, Dagon Tsp | 09 323 160 61
n Freshness Burger (Nawaday Road) | Fastfood/burger | No. 18/D Nawaday Road, Dagon Tsp.
H Fuji Coffee House | Japanese | No.116, University Avenue Road, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 535 371 ext. 512561
H Furusato | Japanese | 137 Shwe Gon Daing Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 556 265
H Golden City Chetty Restaurant | Indian | Padonmar Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 518 248, 095 414 526
H Golden Duck Restaurant | Chinese | Kan Taw Mingalar Garden Compound, Shwedagon Pagoda Road | 01 240 216
Golden View Japanese Teppanaki Restaurant | Japanese | 23 Golden View Tower (A), G3, U Aung Myat Street, Mingalar Taungnyunt Tsp (opposite of Karaweik Park
entrance) | 018 619 194, 095 080 466
H Golden Kitchen Tori | Asian fusion | 135 Inya Road, opposite of Savoy Hotel | 01 511 418
n Goya Restaurant | Western | Hotel Esperado, Top Floor, 23 U Aung Myat Street, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | 01 861 9486
Green Elephant Restaurant | Myanmar | No. 37, University Avenue, Bahan Tsp | 01 536 498
Gusto Café | Coffee Shop/Italian | 150 Dhamazedi Road, Next to Monument Bookstore | 09 362 145 23
Happy Café & Noodles | Myanmar/Asian | 104(B), Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp | 01 536 985
Haru | Japanese | 81 Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | 09 421 149 721
Horn | Japanese Beef Steak | 36(A), Golden Valley Street, Bahan Tsp | 01 513 404, 09 420 003 996
H House of Memories | Myanmar | 290 U Wisara Road | 01534 242
Ice Berry | Western | 230 Bargayar Road, opposite Dagon Centre | 01 516 506, 01 700 680 - Various branches.
H Ichiban-Kan | Japanese | G17-18,
Gyo Phyu Street, Aung San Stadium (North Wing), Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | 01 394 824
Jaspar House | Western | No. 54, Ahlone Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 517 2589, 012 302 011
Jing Hpaw Myay | Kachin | 2B Kyun Taw Street | 01 524 525, 09 420 247 034
H Kachin Agape Restaurant | Kachin | Shwe Pyi Aye, just off Bagayar Street (Closed Sundays) | 01 518 239, 09 421 167 008
Karaweik Palace | Western/Asian | Kandawgyi Compound, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | 09 459 222 222
Kobe-Ya | Japanese | 615/B Marlar Street. Pyay Road, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 535 072
Kokine Bar & Restaurant | Asian/Western | 32, Kokkine Swimming Club Lane, off Saya San Road, Bahan Tsp | 095 411 253, 09 421 060 505
Kohaku | Japanese | Chatrium Hotel No 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500
Ko Piteria | Café | No.23, A-1, Hledan Road, Kamayut Tsp | 09 730 503 61
H Le Bistrot | French | Savoy Hotel, 129, Dhammazedi Road, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 526 289, 01 526 298
Legacy Thai Restaurant | Thai | Yawmingyi, Dagon Tsp
n Le Planteur | Fine Dining/French | 80, University Avenue, Kamayut Tsp | 01 541 230
n Lotteria @ Junction Square | Fastfood | Junction Square, Between Kyun Taw Road and Pyay Road, Kamayut Tsp | 012 305 798
Lotteria @ Ocean | Fastfood | Ocean Super Centre, Tamwe Tsp | 01 525 947
n Lucky | Singaporean | The Best Music Pub, Near Utopia Tower, Kandawgyi Nature Park, Bahan Tsp |
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H Manpuku | Japanese BBQ | No. 30, Sagawar Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 214 284
Marry Brown | Fastfood | 220, Shwe Gon Daing Road, Bahan Tsp | 018 603 215
H Min Lann | Seafood/Rakhine | 45 Baho Road, near Asia Royal hospital | 01 510 285, 09 431 251 52
H Mojo | Asian Fusion/Tapas | 135 Inya Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 511 418
Mom’s Kitchen | Asian/Singaporean | Lay Daungkan Road (in front of Super One), Tamwe Tsp | 01 545 871
Mr. Sushi | Japanese | No. 330 Banyadala Street, Tamwe Tsp | 09 240 047 373
H Muses | Asian/Western | No. 485(B) Pyay Road, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 503 380
H Nacha Thai | Thai | 86 Shin Saw Pu Road, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 510 731
Nervin Café and Bistro | Café | Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar, Kandawgyi Nature Park, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | 01 541 188
n New Kham Wai | Fastfood | Green Leaf Hotel, S27, U Chit Maung Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 860 3851
Off the Beaten Track | Café/Bar | Kandawgyi Natural Park, Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar, Mingla Taung Nyunt Tsp | 095 416 437
Oriental House Restaurant | Chinese/Dim Sum | No. 126(A), Myo Ma Kyaung Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 371 471
Orzo Italian Restaurant Pool level | Sedona Hotel | 01 666 900, 01 666 911
Pandomar | Asian | 105/107, Kha-Yae-Bin Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 538 895
Pepperoni Pizza | Italian | Union Business Center (UBC) Annex B, Nat
Mauk Road, Bo Cho Quarter Bahan Tsp | 09 302 583 99
Peppers | Western | University Avenue Road | 01 548 046 n Port Autonomy | Gastro Pub | 22A, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | 09 253 710 651
Potato Break | Fastfood | Myanmar Culture Valley, U Wisara Road, People's Park | 01 241 103
Putao Resturant | Kachin | 30 Ground Floor Dammayone Street, Myay Ni Gone, Sanchaung Tsp | 09 257 171 464
Radio Café | Sandwiches/Western | 30 Ma hlwa gone Street, Tamwe Tsp |
Royal Garden | Chinese | Natmauk Road, Kandawgyi Nature Park, Central Forest Zone, Bahan Tsp | 01 546 923, 01 546 202
Sai’s Tacos | Mexican | 32A Inya Myaing Road | 01 514 950
Salud Restaurant | Mexican/Latin American | 7(C) Ground Floor, Wingabar Road Bahan (Its next to Clover Hotel) | 09 731 136 01
Samuri Sushi | Japanese | 4E/F Ground Floor, Wingabar Street, Bahan Tsp | 09 730 818 71, 095 123 240
n Secret Recipe | Cafe |Shwe Gon Daing Ocean Supercenter, 2nd Floor | 018604618
H Sharky’s | Western/Ice Cream | 117 Dhamazedi Road | 01 524 677, 01 373 009
H Shwe Kaung Hot Pot | Hot Pot/Chinese | No. 18, Ko Min Ko Chin Road, Shwe Gon Dine, Bahan Tsp | 01 559 339
H Shwe Li BBQ | BBQ | 485 Corner of Pyay Road & Narnattaw Road. Kamayut Tsp | 01 535 394
Singapore Kitchen | Singaporean | Yangon International Hotel
Compound, Ahlone Road | 01 216 001
Singapore Restaurant | Chinese | 330 Ahlone Road, International Hotel Compound, Dagon Tsp | 09 730 167 88, 09 492 718 66
Sport Bar | Bar | Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road) | 01 216 001Swensen’s | Ice Cream | Myay Ni Gone, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 504 932, 09 731 817 58 | www.swensens-myanmar.com
Swe Thai Restaurant | Thai | 34 New University Ave Road, Kokkine, Bahan Tsp | 01 704 067
The Taj | Indian | B-9, Aung San Stadium, North Stand, Upper Pansodan Road, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | 09 252 451 353.
Thai Kitchen | Thai | 126 (A-1), Dhamazedi Street & Inya Traffic Corner, Bahan Tsp | 09 730 377 99, 098 613 400
Thai Pot | Thai/Hotpot | 250 East Myin Pyine Kwin Road, Tamwe Tsp | 098 610 393, 095 007 997
H The Coriander Leaf | Indian | 12 Yangon International Hotel Compound, Alone Road | 01 293 006, 09 431 850 08 The Emporia | Western/Asian | Chatrium Hotel, 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500 ext. 6253
The Fingers Food Garden | Myanmar | 55 Shan Kone Street | 01535350
H The Garden Bistro Signature Restaurant | Western/Asian | Corner of Kan Yeikthar Street, Bahan Street, Near U Htaung Bo Roundabout, Bahan Tsp | 01 546 488
H The Lab | Tapas | 70a Shwegondaing Rd | 09 250 537 979
The Pizza Company (various chains) | Italian | Dagon Centre
1 Shopping Mall, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 534 036, 09 730 697 24 | www.facebook.com/thepizzacompanymyanmar
The Serenity Restaurant | Myanmar | No. 114/ B, Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp | 01 524 890
H Tiger Hill | Chinese | Chatrium Hotel, 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500 ext. 6294
Tony Roma's | Steak House | No. 42-1 , Sayar San Road (in front of Cafe SS), Bahan Tsp | 01 860 3907.
H Vietnam Kitchen | Vietnamese | 1A Phone Sein Road, Tamwe Tsp | 09 431 839 89
H DiVINO | Italian | 61 University Avenue Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 525 935, 01 505 247
H Water Library | Fine Dining/European | Corner of Pyay Road and Manawharri Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 221 721, 01 214 361
Western Park Restaurant | Chinese | Newar Bahan 3rd Street Bus Stop, Maha Myaing Kyun, Kandawgyi Nature Park, Bahan Tsp | 01 554 266, 01 553 931, 09 730 064 91
White Rice Restaurant | Chinese | Nat Mauk Road, Kandawgyi Lake | 01 556 837
Win Star | BBQ/bar | No (27/30), Corner of Sanchaung Street & Padonmar Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 505 467
H Xie Yang Yang (Xiao Long Bao) | Dim Sum | On corner of Nyaung Tong (No. 4) and Baho Road | 01 502 582
Yamagoya Ramen Restaurant | Japanese | 520 Uyin Street, Sayasan Quater, Bahan Tsp | 01 556 774
H Yangon Bakehouse | Bakery/Café | Pearl Condo, Block C, Ground Floor, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road | 09 450 055
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Zeal | Western/Café | No. 99, Myay Nu Street | 09 731 272 80
Zephyr Coffee & Restaurant | Asian | Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp | (no phone number)
UptownAgora Café & Restaurant | Mexican | 84, Kanbae Road (Opposite Yankin Childrens Hospital) Yankin Tsp | 09 301 989 68
H Acacia Tea Salon | Fine Dining/Bakery | 52 Saya San Road | 01 554 739
n Always Café | Café | Ground Floor, Ga Mone Pwint Shopping Mall, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 653 644, 01 653 660
Andaman II @ Yankin | Thai/Street Bar | Yankin Road
Arirang Restaurant | Korean | Thiri Mingalar Street, Hledan | 09 493 351 72
Aux Saisons | European/Fine Dining | 31/A Kan Yeik Tha Road | 01 661 125
BB Cake & Coffee | Café | 48, Coner of Parami Road and Myint Zu Street, Yankin Tsp | 09 421 180 670
Bo Bo Min Tea Garden 21/22 A, Pinlon Rd, Ward 29| 01-8011102, 8011100, 8011102-4
Café 47 | Western | 47 A, Pyay Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 651 774
Fook Mun Lau | Chinese | 102, Nawaday Cinema Garden, Corner Of Kabaraye Pagoda Road & Oak Pone Seik Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 661 839, 01 663 743
Frolick | Frozen Yoghurt | Kyun Taw Street, Junction Square, 3rd Floor | 01 527 242
Fuji | Japanese | Hanthawaddy Road | 09 515 147 76
Gangam Restaurant | Korean | Kabaraye Pagoda Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 650 689
Gourmet Corner Restaurant | Myanmar | Parami Road | 01 667 449, 092 006 777
Her’s |Korean Food| 879, Pinlon Rd, Ward 34 | 01 663636, 0943155647, 09 31452829
Indian Tadka | Indian | 7(A), Pyay Road, 6 ½ Miles, Hlaing Tsp | 09 420 187 010
Innlay Ahmataya | Shan | 8 Kyout Kone street, Corner of Thitisar Road and Kyout Kone street, Yankin Tsp
Kone Myin Thar | Myanmar | 69 (A) Pyay St, 71/2 Mile, Mayangone Tsp |
Kosan Café-Bar Branch 1 | Bar/Café | 18, U Tun Lin Chan Street, Hledan | 01 503 232
L’Alchimiste | French | 5 U Tun
Nyein Street, Mayangone Tsp | 01 660 612
La Maison 20 | Fine Dining | 20, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangone Township | 01 664 204
H L’Opera Restaurant | Italian | 62D, U Htun Nyein Street, Mayangone Tsp | 09 730 307 55
H La Tartine | French Bakery | Pearl Condo A, Corner of Kabar Aye Pagoda Road & Sayarsan Road | 01 557 448 ext. 858
Little Tokyo | Japanese | 10D, Kabaung Road, Hlaing Tsp | 09 731 851 68, 09 731 789 46
Lotteria @ Junction 8 | Fastfood | G21- G24, Junction 8 Shopping Mall, Kyik Wine Pagoda Road, Myangone Tsp | 01 650 771
H Min Lan | Rakhine/Seafood | No. 16, Parami Road & West of Maykha Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 656 941, 099 926 959
Orchid Café | Café | Inya Lake Hotel, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | 019 662 866
H Parami Pizza | Italian | No (11/8), Corner of Malikha Road and Parami Road, 7th Quarter, Myangone Tsp | 09 250 292 074
H Phai Lin | Thai/Chinese | 69, Pyay Road, 61/2 Mile | 01 525 403
Ryukyu | Japanese | 76 Saya San Road | 01 554 748
H Sabai@DMZ | Thai | Inside Mya Kyun Tha Park (Opposite Sedona Hotel), Kaba Aye Pagoda Road | 018 605 178
Scoop premium Italian Ice Cream | Ice Cream | Junction Square Shopping Centre, Kyun Taw Road | 09 732 183 21
Shake Bubble Tea | Cafe | No:1201 ,Pin Lon Rd |093023595, 095007202
Shwe Pyi Moe | Myanmar Tea Shop | level 3, corner of Ngwe Ni 13 Street, North Okkalapa Tsp | 09 421 006 237
H Shwe Sa Bwe | French/Fine Dining | 20 Malikha Road | 01 661 983
Taing Yin Tar | Myanmar | 5A, Corner of May Kha Road and Parami Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 660 792, 09 732 217 17
The Myths | Western Cuisine | 18 Thukhawaddy St., 6th Ward, Yankin Tsp | 09 431 688 08, 095 037 764
The Seoul Korean Restaurant | Korean | 142 Parami Road | 09 492 848 88, 09 421 177 524
Vietnam House 488/490 Shwe Thapyay St, Ward 48095051658, 0973184568
Yunan BBQ | BBQ/Chinese | 48 (A), corner of Kanyethethar Street and Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 665 398 | 01 664 496
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BarsYangon has an expanding nightlife scene. No longer limited to hotel bars and beer stations, there is now an emerging variety of places to party and socialise.
50th Street: 9/13 50th Street | Popular with the Sports crowd
After-Work Bistro and Bar: 31, A1, Shan Gone Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 09 250 400 753, 09 420 239 822 | A new Sanchaung bar
Blind Tiger: | United condominium, Nawaday Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 388 488 | Open Monday - Saturday 5 pm till late open for lunch soon. Hidden speakeasy with cocktails and tapas.
Captain’s Bar: Savoy Hotel, 129, Dhammazedi Rd Yangon | 01-526 289, 01-526 298, 01-526 305 | Casual yet classic
Cask 81: No 81, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Bahan Tsp | 09 254 083 981 | For whisky fanatics
Cocoon Bar: 22/24 Shinsawpu Road and corner of Baho Road | 01 500 863 | Great views
Club Rizzoli: Chatrium Hotel 42, Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500 ext. 6243/6244 | Private party paradise with Cuban cigars, karaoke and well-stocked sake bar
Escape Gastro Bar: 31D Kan Yeik Thar Street, Mayangone Tsp | 01-660 737 | A Myanmar celebrity hang-out
Friendship Bar: No(135)corner ofDhamazedi Road & Inya Road | Cheap and cheerful
Gallery Bar: Shangri-La Hotel, Level 2, 223 Sule Pagoda Road | 01-242 828 ext. 6433 | Excellent Happy Hour with cosy corners
Gekko: 535 Merchant Street, Kyauktada Tsp, 4th Quarter | Stylish and discreet with excellent yet unusual Japanese inspiredcocktails
Ginki Kids: 18 Kambawza Road, Bahan Township, Yangon | Relaxed atmosphere with cold beers
Ice Bar: Sedona Hotel, 1 Kabar Aye Pagoda Road | Not quite frozen but getting there with dry ice and a lively in-house band
Kosan Bar-Branch 1: No.18, 1-A U Tun Lin Chan Street, Hledan, Kamayut Tsp | 01 503 232; Branch
2: No.108, 19th Stree (Upper Block), Latha Tsp | 01 503 232 | Popular with tourists, expats and locals for their cheap and tasty mojitos
Lobby Lounge: Chatrium Hotel, Ground Level, 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500, ext. 6277 | A relaxed hotel lobby bar with garden views
Maru Wine Bar: 130, Shwe Taung Tan Street (Upper Block), Lanmadaw Tsp | 01- 122 156 8 , 09 420 308 350 | Small and interesting wine bar
Mojo: No.135, Corner of Innya and Dhammazedi Road | 01-511 418 | Popular spot with good events
Music Box: Yangon International Hotel Complex, No.330, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 730 364 33 | A karaoke bar with individual booths and dance-floor
Off the Beaten Track: Kandawgyi Natural Park, Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar, Mingla Taung Nyunt Tsp | 09 541 6437 | A place to meet other travelers
Penguin: 12 Hlwa Gone Street, Tamwe Tsp | Local hangout with good, cheap cocktails
Pool Bar: Yangon International Hotel, 330 Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp | Lively bar with pool tables-open late
Sapphire Lounge & Bar: Alfa Hotel, 41 Nawaday Street, Dagon Tsp | Discreet outside rooftop bar with great views
Space Bar: No.126 , Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | Outdoor and indoor rooftop setting
Sports Bar: 20 Pearl Street, Mya Yeik Nyo Royal Hotel, Shwe Taung Gyar Ward (2), Bahan Tsp | 09 731 321 61 | Popular outdoor bar/restaurant
NightlifeBars &
Clubs
The Lab: 70A Shwegondaing Road, Bahan | 09- 250 018 200, 09- 250 537 979 | A new and busy bar/restaurant with excellent cocktails
The Phayre: 292 Upper Pansodan Road | 01 246 968 | A new, no-frills downtown bar
The Strand Bar: 92 Strand Rd | 01 243 377 ext. 92 | Historical spot with some excellent free happy hour snacks
The Water Library: Pyay Road/ Manawharri Road intersection | A swanky spot for high-end cocktails
The Yangon Sailing Club: 132 Inya Rd | Beautiful lake-views with live music. Only open to non-members on Fridays
Union Bar & Grill: 42 Strand Rd, Left corner of the Myanmar Red Cross Building, Botahtaung Tsp | 09-420
180 214 | Famous for their Moscow Mule cocktails and winner of Yangon’s Bartenders competition. Runs a good variety of events, including guest DJ nights
Vista Bar: 168, Corner of Shwegonedaing Road and Old Yay Tar Shay Street | Open-air rooftop bar with amazing views of Shwe Dagon Pagoda
Win Star Pub: 27/30, Corner of Sanchaung Street & Padonmar Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 505 467 | A Local and popular beer station with frosted beer glasses
ClubsCafé Liberal: Nat Mauk Street, Next to Chatrium Hotel | 01 551 774, 09 642 093 0 | For the last one standing!
Please check out "Plot Ahead" for Nightlife events
happening around Yangon.
Club Rizzoli: Chatrium Hotel 42, Natmauk Rd, Tamwe | 01544 500 ext. 6243/6244 | Private party paradise with Cuban cigars, karaoke, live percussion band and in-house DJ
DJ Bar: U Htun Nyein Street, Yangon | Loud music and a good up-town option
GTR: 37 Kaba Aye Pagoda Road | Popular with a young and hip crowd
JJ: Mingalar Mon Market, 4th Flr, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | Well-sized dance floor. Club is spread out over four floors. Entry fee (3000 kyats) includes a free drink
Pioneer: Yangon International Hotel, No.330, Ahlone Road | Fun crowd with pop/club music
The Music Club: Park Royal Hotel, Basement One, 33 Alan Pha Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388 | Enjoy the occasional live band and themed nights; as well as regular nights with the in-house DJ
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