Chinlone (also known as caneball) is the traditional sport of Myanmar. Chinlone is a combination of sport and dance, a team sport with no opposing team. In essence chinlone is non-competitive. The focus is not on winning or losing, but how beautifully one plays the game. It is also similar to Keepie uppie.

The art of Panyan (mason) is an enterprise which constructs the buildings using bricks, stones and cement. The masons build brick houses, pagoda, bridges. Myanmar’s traditional masonry works enjoys world wide renown for the ancient pagodas and other religious buildings around Bagan region. The Myanmar’s traditional ma...

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...

Water convolvus is one of a general vegetable found in Myanmar bazaars. Myanmar People usually eat fry water convolvus as a side dish. Some people like to add tofu or mushroom in this dish.

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.

This circular snack may look like pancake. But it is not. This snack can be found in every bazaar in Myanmar. With a golden brown color, you will find special sweeten taste of palm jiggery with in this snack.

We can cook and prawn or shrimp in many ways. Sometime we cook curry with red pepper and sometime we make salad or fried with tempura powder.This week, I want to introduce how to fry shrimp with tempura. It take a short time and easy to cook. Let’s try together.

Rather than a classic, this dance is an example of contemporary Burmese folk art. The dance has appeared out of the custom of entertaining the crowd, especially volunteers taking pa...

In Burma, it is traditional to make an offering of a green coconut, three hands of bananas, and a few other accessories, to the Guardian Spirit of Land (a nat) prior to an important...

The Kainari and Kainara duet bird dance is performed on auspicious occasions such as eating the new crop festivals and festivals marking the beginning and end of Buddhist lent.Th...