MYANMORE : Weekly Guide to Yangon - 4th May 2018

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guide to Heritage Restaurants in Yangon

What’s On - may FRIDAY 4TH Myanmar Energy Update | Activities IMCC presents this event with guest speaker Charles Magdelaine, Senior Associate at VDB Loi. Free for members, 10,000 kyats per person for non-members. Seats are limited. Please RSVP: imccmyanmar@gmail.com ? India Embassy Myanmar - No.545-547, Marchant St, Kyauktada Tsp | P 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Farm to Table - Kokoya Organics Takeover | Dining Chef Amy won the famous Iron Chef Thailand TV Cooking Show in 2014, and is now the executive chef for Artillery Cafe & Farm to Table in Phnom Penh, where she combines her love of healthy, vibrant, colourful food with Farm to Table philosophy of seasonality and locally sourced products: 50,000++ for a five-course menu, and paired cocktails and wine from 6,000++. Vegetarian options are also available. For reservation please check www.myanmoretickets.com ? Union Bar and Grill - 42 Strand Rd, Left corner of the Myanmar Red Cross Building, Botahtaung Tsp | P 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Hello Bollywood @ the Beat Bar | Nightlife See the Princess of Persia with her amazing dance performance, as well as usual in-house live entertainment and DJ Mr Rodha. Jus call your table @ 09762761569. ? THE BEAT bar - G3, Bo Myat Tun Tower, Corner of Mahabandula Rd & Bo Myat Tun Rd, Botahtaung Tsp | P From 7:00 pm

SATURDAY 5TH Together Festival | Art & Stage Together Festival Yangon is back for “The 4th Edition.” The Biggest names in the Electronic Dance Music at Thuwunna Bumi Event Park. Ticket price: PGA 35,000 kyats (Tier 1), GA 25,000 MMK (Tier 1) , VIP 75,000 kyats. ? Thuwunnabhumi Event Park - Thanthumar Rd, Between Shwe Ingyin Housing & Chanthar Gongyaung housing, Thingan Gyun Tsp | P From 4:00 pm

The Sunset Boat Party | Nightlife The Sunset Boat Party returns for its final voyage this season. Join the finest selection of Yangon DJs playing four compelling sets of the latest music for the last time. Enjoy DJs playing the latest, and classic beats on our newly renovated boat, with hand-crafted interior. Food from ROOT will be available onboard. ? Botahtaung Harbour - Near Botahtaung Pagoda, Yangon | P 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Aquarius (Zumba & YOGA) | Sports Hey Aquarius’s Fit & Fun Zumba and Aquarius Yoga workout will be held on May 5, in front of Love Stone at People’s Park. There will be a lucky draw event to win two free one-month passes to workout at Training Ground The Premier Fitness Club. So be sure to tell your friends too. ? People’s Park - Pyay Rd, Sanchaung Tsp | P 6:00 am - 8:00 am

A Tribute to Thaw Di Wai Concert | Art & Stage A Tribute concert for Thaw Di Wai. Singers include Lay phyu, Ah Nge, Phoe Kyaw, G Latt, Tha O, M Thiha, Kyaw Zin Thike, Ko Nine, Thae Ngal, Eaint Chit, Jewel, Lain Maw Thee, Khin Su Su Naing, Nge Ngal Lay, La Min Kha and Mine Mine Sine. Tickets from 15,000 kyats to 70,000 kyats. | RSVP: 09 5077244 or 09 445139944. ? National Theatre - Myoma kyaung Rd, Dagon Tsp | P From 7:00 pm

What’s On - may Karl Marx Bicentennial event in Yangon | Activities Karl Marx 200 years Seminar and Movie conference and exhibition will be held in the Rangoon University Students Council. For those who would like to attend please make reservations to 09 968509022, 09 979 765612, 09 975 299233 and 09 978 873191. ? University of Yangon - University Avenue Rd, Kamaryut Tsp | P From 10:00 am

Afternoon High Tea Party | Dining Afternoon high tea and pink bubbly drinks hosted by “Wanlima Myanmar.” ? Le Planteur Fine Dining - 80 University Avenue Road (near BME II), Bahan Tsp | P 3:30 pm

St Tropez | Nightlife The Penthouse celebrates the weekend French Riviera Style by throwing the first proper party of May. We celebrate St Tropez with delicious Mediterranean cuisine, creative cocktails Aperol Spritz, Campari Spritz among many others by Francesco Moretti II and the finest Champagne Taittinger. | RSVP: 09 771 239924. ? The Penthouse - 271-273, BarGaYar St, Park side one building 8th floor, Sanchaung Tsp | P From 7:00 pm

Ayeyerwaddy Delta Daredevils - Live at Union | Nightlife The Ayeyerwaddy Delta Daredevils are a household name in Yangon’s music scene, bringing bluegrass, traditional, and rock music to the masses.

Union is delighted to welcome them as part of its 5th year anniversary celebrations - kick off your weekend right with live music and drinks all night long. Reservations highly recommended. Email nikki@57below.com to book a table now. ? Union Bar and Grill - 42 Strand Road, Left corner of the Myanmar Red Cross Building, Botahtaung Tsp | P 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm

SUNDAY 6TH Launch: 6/5: USTIX BY Urbhanize® Instructor Training | Sports With the creators Denisa & Dennis. Included in the UstiX by Urbhanize® instructor training: 1 pair of UstiX, Instructor Manual, Online Access to 3 songs and 3 full break down videos for preparing before/after the UstiX by Urbhanize® instructor training. The songs are special mixed and prepared for UstiX by Urbhanize®. | RSVP : 09 966 661389. ? POWER HOUSE FITNESS CLUB - 4th Floor Myanmar Plaza 192, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Bahan Tsp | P 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sunday Brunch - Mexican Food & Cocktails | Dining To end off their 5th year anniversary celebrations with a bang, Union is throwing a special Sunday Brunch on May 6! Come and enjoy Mexican food and drinks all afternoon, with tacos, nachos, our famous breakfast burritos, avocado on toast, Black Angus steak, eggs and spicy Mexican salsa, and more! Vegetarian options are also available. Full menu available in the post below. Email nikki@57below.com to book a reservation now. ? Union Bar and Grill - 42 Strand Rd, Left corner of the Myanmar Red Cross Building, Botahtaung Tsp | P 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Basic Photography And Funtions Know-how For X-A Series Users | Educational Knowledge sharing session for detailed functions and basic photography for X-A users Seats are limited to 20 only. Lunch will be provided. | RSVP: 09 761 690846. ? Fujifilm Myanmar - Sule Square, Shopping Area, Level 2, Kyauktada Tsp | P 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

What’s On - may MONDAY 7TH Digital Marketing Training | Educational To orientate economic actions and win market shares implies an efficient environment analysis that considers strategic elements and shows up opportunities in a clear and structured business plan. If you are part of the marketing service or a self-made entrepreneur, this training is for you.

Price: USD 250 for Members // USD 350 for Non-Members. | RSVP : 01 523 700. ? CCI France Myanmar - Parkside One Building, 271-273 BarGaYar St, Sanchaung Tsp | P 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Summer Leadership Program 2018 | Educational American University Connect University opened the Summer Leadership Program, which started on May 7 will be opened. Matriculation (students) IGCSE Claim leader Eng capacity and is encouraging them to increase social skills training. Discussion Club who will be included. This is one month program. You can query the contact details into the phone 09 799 010001. ? Connect University - Suite 3, Pansodan Business Tower, Corner of Anawrahta Road and Pansoedan Rd, Kyauktada Tsp | P 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

TUESDAY 8TH Myanmar Entrepreneurs Monthly (MMEN) Meet Up | Social This is the monthly meetup of Myanmar Entrepreneurs Network Monthly Meetup (MMEN). For the March meetup, the founders from Carsdb will be joining us! Come and speak to Wai Yan Lin (CEO), Wai Phyo Kyaw (COO) and Mike Han (CTO). Learn how they grow Carsdb to today’s leading car portal in under six years. ? Signature Fine Dining & the Garden Bistro - Corner of Kaba Aye Pagoda Road & Kan Yeik Thar St, Bahan Tsp | P 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

WEDNESDAY 9TH Yangon Investment Forum 2018 | Business Limited to two representatives for each company. | RSVP : 09 455202006. ? Novotel Yangon Max - 459 Pyay Road, Kamayut Tsp | P 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

THURSDAY 10TH Europe Meets Myanmar live in concert | Art & Stage The Orchestra for Myanmar under Maestro Luis Miguel Clemente, together with the New Children’s Choir and the Strand Singers perform some of the best pieces of European classical music and traditional Myanmar & European songs. Free entry. | Join them for drinks & snacks before the concert. ? Strand Hotel - 92, Strand Rd, Botahtaung Tsp | P 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

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Heritage Restaurants in Yangon

BY MIN YE KYAW & SUZIN LYNN

 Sharky’s @ Pansodan Situated within what used to be an old maternity hospital, Sharky’s offers a wide variety of artisan and organic foods, providing a healthy twist to classic foods such as pizza, burgers, and steaks. Its comfortable, cafe-like environment also comes with afternoon delights such as its renowned gourmet ice-cream and various kinds of cheese.

9 am - 9 pm 81 Pansodan Road, corner of Merchant Road, Kyauktada Township 01 252702, 01 370971 www.sharkys.com.mm

 Sofaer & Co A restaurant that fuses Burmese and British culture like no other, Sofaer and Co is housed in a colonial-era building that has Victorian floor tiles from Manchester, Lancashire steel beams, and locally made furniture.

11 am - 11 pm 60 Pansodan Road (lower block), Kyauktada Township 09 962 466575 bookings@sofaerandco.com www.sofaerandco.com

 House of Memories Set in an attractive wooden colonial home, House of Memories has Myanmar, Thai, Chinese and Indian dishes. The main draw for many is that this was once the office of the country’s independence hero, Aung San, and upstairs, you will find a few artifacts from his time. Their balcony and garden are nice and breezy too.

11 am - 11 pm 290 U Wisara Road, Kamayut Township 01 52519, 01 534242 houseofmemories9@gmail.com

 Burma Bistro The European colonial vibe is more Spanish than English and creates an incomparable and exceptional atmosphere for Myanmar cuisine. The vintage ambience of the restaurant is bursting through its high ceilings, old-fashioned wooden fans, teak furniture, bare brickworks, and intricate and classically designed porches. Whether to explore Burmese dishes in a great setting or to wind-down with some fancy nibbles and a drink, Burma Bistro is the place to be.

7 am - 11 pm 644 Merchant Road, corner of Shwe Bon Thar Road, Pabedan Township 09 40118 3838 info@theburmabistro.com http://www.theburmabistro.com

 Le Planteur Located in a grand 1930s colonial building with an open-air terrain near the famous Inya Lake, Le Planteur provides a fine-dining French cuisine experience. There is also a bistro and a wine bar, to provide customers with a more serene and relaxed atmosphere.

11:30 am - 11 pm 80 University Avenue Road, Bahan Township 01 514230, 01 532 124 info@leplanteur.net http://www.leplanteur.net

 50th Street Cafe Restaurant & Bar With its two-for-one pasta Mondays, live-band Fridays, and all-day happy hours on Sundays, 50th Street Cafe knows how to spoil its audience. This Western-influenced watering hole emits a comfortable, dive-bar feeling within a restored colonial building once printed money in groups divisible by the number 9, which was dictator General Ne Win’s lucky number. The mingling of the old and new can also be found in its classic/modern menu.

11 am - 11 pm 9/13 50th Street, corner of Merchant Road, Botataung Township 01 397 060 fiftystreetcafe@gmail.com 50thstreetyangon.com

Credit: House of Memories

STREET SNACKS

Exciting new lunch A Myanmar courses at Shwe Sa Bwe

pancake breakfast

Just north of Inya Lake is the refurbished villa of Shwe Sa Bwe, a catering school and restaurant that offers a charming fine dining experience. Making and serving the cuisine are about young BY20MIN YEapprentices KYAW from disadvantaged backgrounds. They are chosen from across Myanmar through the restaurant’s Wherenetwork Nawaday meets Bo Yar course Nyunt in Road is quite the hub for sprawling andStreet start the 11-month August. street food. Amid the fruit stalls and fancy cafes selling overpriced are vendors paratha, samosas, spring e kya kway Nowmacchiatos we’re in March and theserving fledgling chefs and staff are trulyrolls, getting into (Burmese churros), fishShwe curries the swing of things.

Since Sa and Bwemore. began in 2011, it has trained over 100 students, and this batch are slated to join their alumni in top restaurants.

But perhaps the most popular snack in the gastromonic hotspot is the Themote lunchpyar menu 21,000 kyats for two by courses, tacosts lat, rice pancakes made Daw 25,000 Thandarkyats Oo, for 42,three and her courses, and 7,000 kyats for46. a mini cheese plate. Each course has a choice of husband U Kyaw San, four dishes that rate well in variety. There’s also the ever-changing ‘Special of the Day’ tailored business that include or three courses The couple has to been sellinglunches the pancakes every two morning in the Yaw Min for 19,000 or 21,000 a cup of hot beverage.

Gyi areakyats for eight years;kyats only plus illness or urgent business stops them from working. They wake up at 3.30am, prepare the ingredients and utensils, Among is a salad grilled in chicken drizzled in home honey in mustard and the thenstarters travel about 40 of minutes a cab from their Tharkayta and Township bunched with slices to the spot.of apple and grape—like the salmon rillettes with toast and salad, it is a light dish that sets up the diner nicely for the mains.

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It’sofalso the little the pans fact that contributes it.mung beans and then sprinkles she every pours customer a white batter of rice to and ginger, peas, beans, coriander and onion to the mix before lobbing a Address: 20 over Malikha Street, nearThe the American off Parami bucket of coal each stove. result is Club a golden, airyRoad, mote pyar ta lat.

Mayangone Township Opening hours: 12pm to 2.30 pm and 6.30pm to 9.30pm (last order)

“We sell almostClosed 50,000 kyats’ Sundays worth per day but during the school season Mondays. are dinners only. we sell a lot more,” she said, smiling at a continous stream of customers.

The thin pancake cost 200 kyats and the other two cost 250 kyats.

Address: Bo Yar Nyunt Street, on the road in front of Potato Break, Dagon Township Opening hours: 6am-10.30am

review

My Abodo Plus

BY EDMOND SAILLAND

Yangon has a restaurant serving Filipino cuisine, who knew? Hopefully some of the people from the Philippines living and working in the city have tasted My-Abodo Plus. While I cannot account for the authenticity of its fare, I can judge My Abodo Plus on its general “tastiness,” which I would describe as hit and miss.

Adobo, from which the restaurant takes its names, is a classic Filipino dish in which various meats and vegetables are cooked in a sauce of vinegar, soy sauce, salt, pepper, garlic, and aromatic herbs. The restaurant does a selection of chicken, pork, chicken feet, squid, and water cress in its signature sauce. I ordered the Manok chicken (4,500 kyats) which looked a little bit barbecued on the photo on the menu but was actually more saucy. Still, I enjoyed the Adobo sauce; rich, sweet, and fragrant.

The Bulalo—a beef shank soup for 6,500 kyats—was equally hearty and rich and I loved the melt-in- your-mouth bone marrow. Though I enjoyed the different vegetables and meat, I couldn’t help feel there should’ve been more unique flavors. The morning glory with prawns (2,000 kyats) was overly and worryingly fishy. The deep-fried tofu and pork (2,500 kyats) tasted like a deep fat fryer and little else.

My-Adobo Plus nearly saved the meal with its deep fried banana (2,000 kyats)—a very pleasant mix of gooey banana, crunchy batter, and tart mango sauce. The restaurant has a number of little intricacies: Its booth style, presumably left over from its previous incarnation as a Japanese restaurant, offers karaoke, and you can summon service via a bell on each table.

The fact that it is possibly Yangon’s only Filipino restaurant and its relatively low price may compel you to visit, but its location in Yaw Min Gyi means there are plenty of other options within a stone’s throw sure to deliver a satisfying meal.

Address: Bo Yar Nyunt St, Yaw Man Gyi Qtr, Dagon Tsp Phone: +95 9 44122 2441

“Nice Filipino food down there, was good and pricy. But worth trying if you are into Asian cuisines.”

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now showing

Now showing in Yangon cinemas from 4th to 10th May 2018.

MYSTERY OF BURMA Mystery of Burma is Burmese Action movie directed by Arkar with Stars : Nine Nine, Ah Moon, Joe Moreira and Naw Aung.

Junction Maw Tin, Junction City, Junction Square, City Mall, Mingalar Sanpya Cineplex, Mingalar Cineplex (Gamone Pwint), Thamada Cinema, Thwin, Mingalar

RAMPAGE Rampage is a 2018 American science fiction monster film. It follows a primatologist who must team-up with George, in order to stop an invasion of monsters.

Nay Pyi Daw, Mingalar Cineplex (Gamone Pwint)

AVENGERS : INFINITY WAR Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film. In Avengers: Infinity War, the Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy

to stop Thanos from amassing the all-powerful Infinity Stones.

Junction City, Junction Square, City Mall, Mingalar Cinema 2(Dagon Centre (II), Nay Pyi Daw, Mingalar Sanpya Cineplex, Mingalar Cineplex (Gamone Pwint)

MHONE LOZ YA YIN MHONE CHIN DAL Mhone Loz Ya Yin Mhone Chin Dal is a Burmese Drama Movie directed

by Aung Zaw Lin with stars : Nay Toe, Min Oo, Thinzar Wint Kyaw and Yadanar Mai. Shae Saung Cinema, Mingalar Sanpya Cineplex, Mingalar Cineplex (Gamone Pwint)

SHAL CHWAY MA Shal Chway Ma is a Burmese Comedy Movie directed by Ko Zaw (Arr Yone Oo) with stars : Yan Aung, Aung Ye Lin, Soe Myat Thuzar, Htet Htet Moe Oo and Khin Wint War. Junction Maw Tin, Junction City, Junction Square, City Mall, Shae Saung Cinema

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199 / 01 549309

192

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191 / 01 252011 / 01 252022

01 642742 / 01 549209

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YANGON GENERAL HOSPITAL

01 252859 / 01 378376

01 256112 / 01 265131

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