Yun-de is lacquerware in Burmese, and the art is called Pan yun. The lacquer is the sap tapped from the varnish tree Melanorrhoea usitata or Thitsee that grows wild in the forests of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is straw-colored but turns black on exposure to air. When brushed in or coated on, it forms ...

Thanaka (also spelt thanakha) is a yellowish-white cosmetic paste made from ground bark. It is a distinctive feature of Myanmar (formerly Burma) seen commonly applied to the face and sometimes the arms of women and girls and to a lesser extent men and boys. The use of thanaka has also spread to n...

The art of Pantin (Bronze casting) is an enterprise producing materials of copper, bronze or brass. The artisans make triangular brass gong, gong and brass bowl for monk, weights in the shape of brainy ducks, tray, copper pot, cup bowl, cymbal, bell jingle bell and small brass gong. Myanmar’s traditional coppersmith’s...

Although Myanmar people used more oil then western countries, this dish used less oil than usual. You can serve this dish as a soup or can also eat as a main dish with rice. Pork ribs with sweet winter melon cook in balance to get incredible flavor.

Even though this is a simple mushroom soup, Mon traditional cooking style definitely different from normal soup. Dried marian fruid is used in Mon traditional dish to get special flavor. This soup have strong taste with chilli and tasty to serve in raining season and even to ill people.

As a side dish, I would like to introduce fried spinach with dried shrimp. Spinach is good for health and dried shrimp make the dish more sweeter and better taste. If you have a change try and cook one time for your family.

Take out all the bone of featherback fish and pounded it. Then it is cooked with coconut milk and have a nice sweet taste when you eat together cooked rice.

Zawgyi is a Burmese folk character adept in the art of alchemy. He is said to have gained his supernatural skills through occult means. He inhabits thick forests near the Himalaya w...

Dance in Burma (now known as Myanmar by the government there) can be divided into dramatic, folk and village, and nat dances, each having distinct characteristics. ...

The manau dance is a traditional ceremony of the Kachin (or Jingpo) people of northern Myanmar (Burma), Yunnan, China and Arunchal Pradesh, India. The manau is one of the cultural t...