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February is regarded as the month of romance, associated with red roses, and heart-shaped gifts symbolizing love. Named after Saint Valentine, Valentine’s Day is celebrated on 14th of February as a remembrance of his death and a note he left, which has since inspired many love letters with its ending, “From Your Valentine.” Now celebrating Valentine’s Day is a must among Yangonites, especially the youngsters.
In this edition, we would like to remind everyone that love is all around us. That one just has to open his/her heart to grasp it. We will guide you through the best Yangon has to offer for Valentine’s Day; the romantic places to go on a date, the shops where you can buy chocolates, flowers and customized love-gifts as well as interviews with one of the oldest delivery services for your Valentine’ Day gifts and a famous bakery for your darling’s sweet tooth.
Will you be a fool with a heart but no brains? Or a fool with brains but no heart? Both are unhappy, both suffer. But for this month, let us all suffer from love.
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MY Yangon offers its readers up-to-date information on city happenings, new openings events and exciting projects that are taking place every month.
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Explore Yangon
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Valentine’s Gifts
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Yangon Trends Best of YKKO
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Business
SBS Delivery 26
Yangon Trends
Property
Cosmopolitan Yangon 40
Shopping
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Plot AHEAD February 2016 Monday
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1 Happy Hour @ La Taverna (Every Day) 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Yangon International Hotel
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Wednesday
2 Group Tennis Lesson 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Yangon Ace Tennis Club
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YKKO Chinese New Year Promotion All Outlets 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Chinese New Year Celebration (Feb 01 - 15) Yee Sang Special Tiger Hill Chinese Restaurant @ Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake
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3 Mediterranean Buffet (Every Wed & Thu) “The Emporia” of Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon USD 30 net per person
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4 Myanmar Supply Chain Summit (MSCS) Novotel Yangon Max
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5 Friday Unplugged Music Night at BIIO 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. B2O Bristo Bar
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All you can eat Chinese Menu (Every Thursdays) 6:00 p.m. Royal Pavilion @ Novotel Hotel Max
Sone Naing Khwint Show (Htun Eaindra Bo & Alex) 7:00 p.m. MCC, Mindama Road, Mayangone
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Live Jazz Dinner @ The Rendez Vous 8:00 p.m.. to 10:00 p.m.
Business Set Lunch @ Le Cellier Wine Bar & Restaurant Every Monday to Friday 12 pm to 2:30 pm Rooftop 14th floor of Novotel Yangon Max
Kokkine Live Music 7 pm Kokkine Swimming Pool, Bahan Township
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Kids Ballet Class (Age 7-9) 4:00 p.m. Class every Monday and Friday Grace Studio
Myanmar Manufacturing Expo (MME) MCC, Mindama Road, Mayangone Township
Zumba @ British Embassy Club 6:45 p.m. to 9:45 p.m . GAME NIGHT every wednesday @ Novotel Yangon Max
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Amazing Seafood Buffet Dinner (Every Mon & Tue) “The Emporia” of Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon USD 30 net per person
Kyeik Khout Pagoda Festival Thanlyin ( Feb 16 to 24 )
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Ladies Night @ Victoria Bar 6:00 p.m. Victoria Bar @ Vintage Luxury Hotel
“Pasta Night” Every Wednesday Café Sule @ Sule Shangri-La
7th Yangon Photo Festival (Feb 22 - 29) Institut Français, Pyay Road
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Leopalace 21 Myanmar Open Golf Competition (Feb 04 to07) Mingalardon Goft Course, Mingalrdon
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Classic Car Showcase 2016 (Feb 13 to 14) 9 am to 6 pm People’s Park & People Square
Inya Lake Hotel Hotel Valentine Day Special Event 7 pm No.37, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangone
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Saturday Market @ La Carovana 22 Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan
Brazilian Buffet (Every Fri & Sun) “The Emporia” of Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon USD 30 net per person
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Sandy Myint Lwin One Lady Show Myaw Sin Island, Kandawgyi
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ကန္ေတာ္ႀကီး ကန္ေတာ္ၾကီးထဲက သစ္သားတံတားရွည္ကေတာ့ ခ်စ္သူစံုတြဲတိုင္းသိတဲ့ ေနရာတစ္ခပ ု ါပဲ။ ဒါ့အျပင္ အနီးဆံုးမွာ ရိတ ွ ဲ့ ကရဝိတဥ ္ ယ်ာဥ္ကမၻာထဲမွာလည္း ကရဝိ တ္နန္းေတာ္ ၊ ခ်စ္ သူမ်ားကၽြန္း စတာေတြက လည္ပ တ္ဖို႔ ဆြဲေ ဆာင္ ေနတဲ့ေနရာေတြပါပဲ။ မနက္ေစာေစာေရာက္သြားရင္ေတာ့ ေရႊတိဂံုဘုရားကို ၾကည္ညိဳဖြယ္ရာ ဖူးျမင္ႏိုင္ၿပီး သစ္သားတံတားအနီးမွာရိွတဲ့ ဆုေတာင္းျပည့္ ေအာင္ခ်မ္းသာဓါတ္ေပါင္းစုေစတီေတာ္ေတြရဲ႕ အနီးမွာ က်န္းမာေရးအတြက္ ထိုက္ခ်ိကစားေနၾကတဲ့ လူေတြကို ျမင္ေတြ႔ရမွာပါ။ ခ်စ္သူစံုတြဲေတြအတြက္ ၾကည္ႏူးစရာ ေကာင္းတဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္းေနာက္ခံေတြဆိုရင္လည္း မမွားပါဘူး။
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5D Cinema at Capital Hyper Mart အထူး ျပဳလု ပ္ ခ ်က္ေ တြနဲ႔ ဖန္ တီး ထားတဲ့ ႐ု ပ္ ရ ွ င္ ထဲက ရင္ ခု န္ စိ တ္ လႈပရ ္ ွားစရာေတြ ၊ စိတဝ ္ င္စားစရာအသံေတြက သင္က ့ ို ႐ုပရ ္ င ွ ဇ ္ ာတ္ကား ထဲ ကို ယ္ တို င္ လႈ ပ္ ရ ွားပါဝင္ေ နရသလို ခံ စားရေစမွာ ပါ။ ထိ တ္ လ န္ ႔ စရာအခို က္ အ တန္ ႔ ဇာတ္ ဝ င္ ခ န္းေတြ ကို လက္ ခ ်င္း တြဲ ထားျပီး အတူ ျဖတ္သန္းတာက စိုးရိမ္ထိတ္လန္႔တာေတြ ေပ်ာက္ေစျပီး ခ်စ္သူႏွစ္ဦး အတြက္ အမွတ္ရစရာအခ်ိန္ေလးကို ဖန္တီးေပးမွာပါ။
အင္းလ်ားကန္ က်ယ္ က ်ယ္ ဝ န္း ဝန္းေနရာ ၾကိ ဳ က္ သူေ တြ အ တြ က္ေ တာ့ က်ယ္ ျ ပန္ ႔ တဲ့ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္စရာေနရာေတြနဲ႔ အနီးမွာရိွတဲ့ အင္းလ်ားလမ္း မွာ လည္း အေကာင္းဆံုးစားေသာက္ဆိုင္ေတြ ျခံရံထားလို႔ ျမန္မာျပည္ရဲ႕ LaVegas လို ႔ေ တာင္ ေျပာလို ႔ ရ ပါတယ္ ။ အင္း လ်ားကန္ ၊ ျပည္ လ မ္း နဲ ႔ က ပ္ လ ်က္ ဘက္ ကေတာ့ စိ မ္း လန္း စို ျ ပည္ ပ န္း ျခံ ျ ဖစ္ ပ ါတယ္ ။ အင္း လ်ားရဲ ႕ အလွ အပ႐ႈ ခ င္းေတြ ကို ေအးေအးသက္ သာၾကည့္ ႏို င္ တဲ့ ခံု တ န္းေလးေတြ နဲ ႔ ဆိ တ္ ျ ငိ မ္ တဲ့ေ နရာျဖစ္ တာေၾကာင့္ ခ်စ္ သူ နဲ ႔ အ တူ ၾကည္ ႏူး စရာပါပဲ ။ ျမန္မာထမင္းဟင္းနဲ႔ တ႐ုတ္အစားအစာေတြက ပန္းျခံထဲက Zephyr Restaurant တြင္ မွာယူရရွိႏိုင္ပါေသးတယ္။
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Can love be measured in buds of flowers? Sithu Lin Latt
“As I live in a compound covered with different kinds of flowers, I am acquainted with the scents of flowers every day. They are the best companion for a girl. A single bud of it can make people happier and more forgiving. When I was a student, I usually brought buds of roses from my mother’s flower shop and presented them to my teacher”, said Ma Win Than, 35 years old, who has been a flower seller at Bahan Market for the last 20 years. “After my father passed away, I decided to help my mother with her flower shop. I used to cut and collect fresh flowers for different events for my customers such as religious ceremonies and wedding receptions”, she recalled. There is a wide range of flowers in Ma Win Than’s and her friend’s shop at Bahan Market. Most flowers are local species, and some are the hybrid species mostly bred with those from China and Thailand. About 15 types of flowers such as Aster (May Myo), Chrysanthemum (Gandamar), Dahlia, Daisy, Red Rose, Yellow Rose, Eugenira (Ta Pyay), Gladiolus (Thit Sar), 12
Orchid (Thit Khwa), Wormwood (Daw Na) are of local origin. Ma Win Than continues, “Rose, Gandamar, and Ta Pyay are the most in demand. Ta Pyay is not that expensive, but Buddhists highly value it for the religious purposes as it characterizes peace and tranquility”. The foreign species at her shop are Chinese Lily, Carnation Flower, Thailand Orchid. Although most people prefer local flowers, flowers of foreign origins are very popular for wedding celebrations with prices ranging from 1000 Ks to 8000 Ks. “Celebrating Valentine’s Day is not a wellknown trend in Myanmar when I was young. Now, many adolescents are very excited about this special day. Even a few days before the actual day, a number of couples will come and buy flowers, mostly red roses. Some even create fancy handcrafted presents for their lovers,” she explained.
Hmaw Bi and Tite Gyi. Thiri Minglar Market is another major source for their shops as many gardeners from different parts of Yangon come together for the wholesale of flowers in this market. Apart from the wholesale market, there are 3 flower markets in Yangon City: the largest one in Insein Jogone with around 30 shops, another one in Bahan Market near Shwedagon Pagoda with nearly 20 shops and the last one along the Inya Road with more than 10 shops. Most of these flower shops have close ties with different florists and event organizers in Yangon. “I love flowers. They are my friends, my companions. One day I want to build my own garden filled with the fragrance of flowers, birds, and butterflies. It will be a home for both me and my little daughter who adores flowers as much as I do,” Ma Win Htay told us about her dreams.
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Tahnee Wade Sometimes, you just need to escape out of the city to get some romance back into your life. A different environment, leaving the pressures of everyday life, and space to be by yourselves will rekindle even the most strained of relationships. There are two romantic escapes only a short drive from Yangon enroute to Bago. Both are great for a day trip, a short stop to break your journey to Bago or an overnight stay. We cannot guarantee a visit to these locations will mend a breaking relationship but it is worth having a go!
Shwe Pyi Resort
Only a 90-minute drive from Yangon, and also reachable by bus costing not more than 1,500 Ks, is the relaxing oasis of Shwe Pyi Resort. Located in 400 acres of forest and around a large meandering lake, the setting is beautiful. You can wander around the grounds, and the further you go the sound of the traffic on the YangonMandalay highway dissipates, and you have lovely peace and quiet. There are walking trails around the property and lovely wooden bridges over the lake, with seating to sit down and take in the view. For lazy days,
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there is a buggy which takes you around the property on a 10-minute drive. The resort also has a 3-hole golf course (at 6,000 Ks per person) and boats for hire (at 2,000 Ks per hour) if you feel like some exercise. The resort is also home to hundreds of wooden carvings – some of which are huge – which were carved by 200 of Myanmar’s best wood carvers from the fallen teak trees after Cyclone Nargis. Most of the carvings are for sale, but some of the largest ones are proudly displayed towards the back of the property. There are also wood carvers on site magically transforming huge logs into works of art. MYyangon _ issue 18
The resort, rather bizarrely, is putting together a Golden Myanmar airplane and turning it into a tea-shop. It looks a little out of place, but it will be a fun way to take tea when it is completed in about 6-months time. The resort is also home to - wait for it – an ostrich which has its own pen at the back of the property.
For those only stopping for the day or for a short rest on the way to Bago, the resort is open from 8 am to 6 pm. There is a lovely open air restaurant with great views over the lake serving Thai and Chinese food. If you wish to explore the resort, the entrance fee is 1,000 kyat per person. For those wishing to stay overnight, there are 19 rooms and 3 family suites – all with views of the
lake and large balconies. The price of the rooms ranges from 84,000 Ks to 126,000 Ks. 99(C), Yangon-Mandalay High Way, 10 Miles, Bago +95-52 22357, 09 4951 6228, 09 535 2153 Email: sales@kmahotels.com http://shwepyi.kmahotels.com
Han Thar Gardens Resort
Han Thar Gardens is a colonial style, boutique hotel set well back from the busy YangonMandalay Highway – so well back you cannot hear the traffic at all. The hotel welcomes people who just wish to break their journey and to pop in for lunch or dinner. The gardens are full of flowers, fruit trees and vegetables, and are a delight to walk in. All of the vegetables grown in the garden are used by the very talented chef who makes exceedingly tasty Myanmar traditional food. The lemongrass salad was particularly delicious, and the BBQ chicken was @ MYYangon
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divine. The restaurant is on the ground floor of the hotel, but the open plan setting and the huge large windows make it feel like you are eating outside. There is also a small pool to dip into if you want to cool off and it can also be used by restaurant guests at a cost of 4,000 Ks (they will also give you a towel to use). The hotel has a relationship with Hanthawaddy Golf Course which is located next door to the hotel and a round of golf can easily be arranged for you. For those looking for a perfect romantic retreat, there are 15 rooms to choose from – four in the
main building and the rest located in a separate building outside. The hotel is very well designed with its own very chic unique style. The 2015 prices range from US$ 130 to $205, and it is best to contact the hotel for the latest prices as they vary depending on the season. No.34 Bulleinn Tar Zone Village, Yangon-Mandalay High Way, Bago. 95 9 428177217 reservation.htg@gmail.com hanthargardens@gmail.com http://www.hanthargardens.com 15
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Getting a chance to meet the girl you love is not a simple task. Courage, endurance and luck are needed in abundance. Social media have made things simpler and effortless, but have we lost the intriguing meaning and context of courting while doing so? How much do we know about the love culture of Myanmar’s ethnic groups today?
Kachin Similar to Chin love culture, the boy brings a smoking pipe to charm the girl. The courting will continue if she lights it.
Bamar In Burmese culture, the boy goes courting when the girl is weaving fabrics at her house under the bright moonlight. She will then give him a riddle to solve to test how knowledgeable he is.
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Chin The boy brings a bowl of roasted tobacco to the girl’s house and asks her to make a rolled cheroot. If she chooses to do so, the act is taken as a token of love. Three days later, he sends love letters to her composed in the form of Chin traditional song lyrics and poetry. She then waits till the third letter to see how strong his love is.
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Rakhine While meeting at the girl’s house, the boy and girl must sit at least five feet away from each other. There is usually a lamp between them which must be lit at all times. If the lamp goes off, it means there is love between the young couple.
Mon & Kayah The courting tradition of the Mon and Kayah are similar to that of Bamar’s. The boy and girl will meet during social occasions such as pagoda festivals and family visits before starting a relationship.
Shan The boy will have to ask permission from the leader of the unmarried males of the girl’s village. Only when the leader approves, the boy is allowed to start the courtship. The girl will then serve the boy betel nut and pickled tea leaves at her house.
Karen In Karen culture, the parents spot a suitable partner for their child early on. The boy and the girl then meet when the time is right, and they then decide on their future.
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Explore Yangon
Summer holiday is just starting to peek around the corner and students are planning to drop their books the minute the final exam is over. It is a time for vacations as well as a chance to learn a new skill. This little art school, painted in a vibrant blue and a bright yellow along Inya Road, might just be the right place for the students who are interested in art. A summer art course at the school is definitely worth checking out. Established in 2012, Global Art Myanmar is starting to catch the attention of parents and students. The school aims to provide a platform in nurturing young minds to be creative with their artistic talent. “We started out with less than twenty pupils in 2012. Slowly, word spread amongst the parents, and now there are about two hundred students attending the Yangon branch every week”, the school’s principal, Daw Mie Mie Aye mentioned proudly. With 600 centers in 16 countries, Global Art provides various educational art programmes in Yangon, as well as Mandalay and Nay Pyi Daw. The art tutors are being trained by experienced instructors from Malaysia and are required to pass a rigorous test before being qualified to teach. Most of the students are from international schools but around twenty percent comes from public schools. This is hugely beneficial for both sets of students as art is not a taught subject in public schools so it is a great opportunity for the students to find their hidden artistic talent. For the students attending international schools, they can fine-tune their skills. The students can also improve their
English skills as the classes are taught in English as well as interacting with their fellow students. One parent said, “At first I thought it is just your usual art classes that fill up spare time when school is off. Even just after a few classes, suddenly my children’s creativity blossomed. They became more confident and it started to have positive effects on other parts of their lives.” Catering to children aged 3 and above, the school offers creative art enrichment programs ranging from basic visual arts lessons such as drawing, colouring and painting to more demanding skills like glass painting, handcrafting, G-clay, 3D sculpting acrylic painting, cartoons and comics. All of these courses are focused on improving the creativity of the students. Students are taught a syllabus style course where they are required to complete different levels. Each level is designed accordingly to help develop the student’s art skills. As they progress through the course, they are required to accomplish harder skills such as penciling, composition, sketching and shading techniques.
In addition to teaching art, Global Art hosts an annual international art competition which is held in different countries across Asia with the most recent competition held in Cambodia. A champion is chosen from a nationwide competition and is sponsored by their respective Global Art Center to compete internationally. Global Art Myanmar also hosts smaller regional competitions throughout the year linked to occasions such as Thadingyut, Halloween, and Christmas. Coming up next month is Valentine’s Day. The school has a flexible schedule for students of various backgrounds. The school opens five days a week and closes on Tuesday and Thursday. Students are free to choose to come any day and attend a two-hour session. For weekdays, Global Art offers multiple two-hour sessions that run from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. whereas for weekends, there are sessions that run from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Apart from the usual programs, you can ask them for tailored art-related lessons such as practice for sketching buildings for a student architect to cockpit drawings for a student pilot.
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ၾကပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဘယ္လိုလက္ေဆာင္မ်ဳိး ေတြက ႐ုတ္တရက္ အံ့အားသင့္ၿပီး ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ ၾကည္ႏူးသြားေစမလဲဆိုတာ
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စဥ္းစားသင့္ပါတယ္။ ပန္းစည္းလွလွေလးေတြ၊အထိမ္းအမွတ္ လက္ေဆာင္ေလးေတြ၊
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ႀကီးပါပဲ။ အဲဒီထဲကမွ လက္ေဆာင္ေပးသင့္တာ ေလးေတြကို ေရြးခ်ယ္တင္ျပေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ကိုယ္တိုင္ကလည္း သိပ္ကဗ်ာမဆန္တတ္ဘူး။ ပန္းစည္းလွလွေလးေတြကိုလည္း ေပးခ်င္တယ္ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ အသင့္မွာယူႏိုင္တဲ့ Floral Gift Shop ေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးရိွပါတယ္။ ကိုယ္လိုခ်င္တဲ့ပံုစံ ေျပာၿပီးျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ အသင့္ရိွေနတဲ့ဒီဇိုင္းေတြထဲက အလွဆံုးေရြးတာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ဒါကေတာ့ တစ္ပတ္ ေလာက္အလိုကတည္း
ႀကိဳတင္မွာထားတာ
အေကာင္းဆံုးပါပဲ။ သင္နဲ႔ အႀကံတူႏိုင္သူေတြ ရိွတယ္ဆိုတာ မေမ့ထားပါနဲ႔။ တစ္ခ်ဳိ႕ကေတာ့ အ႐ုပ္ေလးေတြနဲ႔ ႀကိတင္မွာထားတတ္ၾကသလို တစ္ခ်ဳိ႕ကလည္း အလွဆင္ေဘာလံုးေလးေတြနဲ႔ Surprise လုပ္တတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ခ်စ္သူမ်ားေန႔ မွာ ကိုယ့္အိမ္တံခါးဝကို ေရာက္လာမယ့္ ခ်စ္သူ႔ လက္ေဆာင္ပန္းစည္းကို
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လူအမ်ားေရာက္တတ္တဲ့ Junction Square နဲ႔ Junction Mawtin မွာရိွတဲ့ My Page Stationery & gift shop မွာလည္း လက္ေဆာင္လွလွေလးေတြ ေရာင္းတတ္ပါေသးတယ္။ Level 2, Junction Square 01 527 242
လက္ေဆာင္ပန္းစည္းေတြ မွာယူလို႔ ရႏိုင္ၿပီး အပြင့္ အေရအတြက္ေပၚမူတည္ကာ ေစ်းႏႈန္းအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး ရိွပါ တယ္။ Purple ဆိုတဲ့အတိုင္း ခရမ္းေရာင္ႏွင္းဆီ အေရာင္ဆန္းေလးေတြပါ မွာယူႏိုင္ပါတယ္ေနာ္။ Parami Condo, Hlaing 09 797 608 797
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လက္ေဆာင္ပန္းစည္း ေပးျခင္း၊ ေမြးေန႔ပေ ဲြ တြအတြက္ ျပင္ဆင္ေပးျခင္း၊ မဂၤလာပြဲအတြက္ Wedding Car Decoration၊ ရင္ကပ္ပန္း၊ လက္ကိုင္ပန္းေတြကိုပါ စီစဥ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးပါတယ္။ 09 431 43433, 09 798 479 326, 09 732 47174
အ႐ုပ္ေလးေတြ ၊ ပန္းစည္းေလးေတြကို ခ်စ္စရာ လက္ေဆာင္ပံုစံေလး ျပဳလုပ္ေပးေနၿပီး လက္ေဆာင္ ပန္းျခင္းေလးေတြ၊ မဂၤလာလက္ကိုင္ပန္းေတြ ျပဳလုပ္ ေပးေနပါတယ္။ 09 503 4931, 09 508 6711, 09 503 4907
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ခ်စ္စရာေဘာလံုးေလးေတြနဲ႔ အလွဆင္မႈကိုလည္း WOW Balloons မွာ ရရိႏ ွ င ုိ ပ ္ ါတယ္။ Balloons ေတြ၊ Flower Flake ေတြနဲ႔ အလွဆင္တာေတြအျပင္ Birthday ၊ Anniversary ၊ အခမ္းအနားပြဲ ၊ မဂၤလာ ပြဲေတြမွာပါ အလွဆင္ေပးေနပါျပီ။ ခ်စ္သူကို လက္ ေဆာင္ေပးဖို႔ Mug ေတြမွာ ဆင္တူစံုတြဲပံုေလးေတြ ႐ိုက္ႏွိပ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဓါတ္ပံုကူးတဲ့ဆိုင္ေတြမွာ အမ်ား ဆံုး ျပဳလုပ္ေပးေနၿပီး ဓါတ္ပံုေလးေတြျဖစ္ေစ၊ အပူ ေပးမွ ပံုေပၚလာတဲ့ ခြက္ေလးျဖစ္ေစ ဓါတ္ပံုေလး ေတြ ျပဳလုပ္ႏိုင္ၿပီး ေစ်းႏႈန္းကေတာ့ က်ပ္ တစ္ေသာင္းဝန္း က်င္ခန္႔ ရိွႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ No (492) A , Coner of Damaryone St & KhaBaung St, Shwe Phuu Sar Food House Hlaing 09 511 7474
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Love and Kyay-Oh Located at a busy junction of Lan Thit Road, in front of Paragu Dental Clinic, this oneyear-old YKKO branch in Insein is a great place to unwind from the near hysteria of the surrounding junction. This cottage style restaurant is nicely hidden from the crowds, and the ambience will really surprise you when you enter the restaurant compound. Some tables are set in the garden, separated by two lanes of wild jasmine, making the overall decor very romantic and peaceful. The branch also has a terrace setting for four tables. The cafĂŠ-like indoor setting with soothing music is perfect for those who prefer a quieter environment. The lighting inside the restaurant is dim enough for private and close-to-heart conversations, but also bright enough to feel 22
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the allure of your beloved’s face. The menu is a standard YKKO version with different kinds of Burmese style Vermicelli soup. Order a Kyay-O of your choice, and share a standard YKKO portion with your darling. The service is friendly, quick and polite, and the food is
delicious, filling and well-prepared. This is not the most spacious YKKO branch so booking is definitely advised. The only drawback is that it is located near Insein so you might want to spare at least 45 minutes if you are coming from downtown. MYyangon _ issue 18
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Singapura Brandon Win
Hungry for some freshly served Chicken rice? Or perhaps a snippet of Singapore’s famous Laksa? If so, run downtown to Yangon’s very own House of Singapura, located in Union Business Center’s spacious parking compound. You will be astonished at how authentic the food is. It is by far one of the best Singaporean restaurants in Myanmar, with both taste and experience on par. The exquisite orientation of the food served matches the overall ambiance of the restaurant, as well as promotes the idea of good food at affordable prices. Since Singaporean
dishes involve a blend of Malaysian, Indian, and Chinese influences, there is a wide range of cuisines and dishes to choose from. Whether you’re dying for hot, delicious roti or for grilled satay, you can expect to find many options to fulfill your hunger and quench your thirst. With an ample parking lot, the location of House of Singapura offers a short escape to Singapore, secluded from the noisy, on-going happenings of the outside world. Once inside UBC’s compound, you can find a parking spot with ease, and enjoy the peace and serenity of the environment at your own pace. Located in the same building and operated by the same owner, there is a separate shop selling pizza and Italian dishes. So if you don’t fancy a Singaporean on a particular day, you have the option of ordering freshly baked pizza or an aromatic pasta dish. Life just got easier, didn’t it?
Union Business Centre, Nat Mak Road, Bahan
YKKO will be having a special promotion on Valentine’s Day at all of their outlets. Couples who spend 15,000 Ks on a single bill can win Valentine’s Day special gifts such as couple notebooks, key chains and dolls. At their Hledan outlets, the whole interior will be decorated with signage boards and visiting couples can pencil on these boards leaving a symbol of love.
Insein Branch
24, Lan Thit Road, Nant Thar Gone Quarter
To Find Out More, visit the Yangon Drectory Website @ www.yangondirectory.com/myyangon
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Aung Myo Sint February is regarded as the month of romance, associated with red roses and gift cards symbolizing love. Named after Saint Valentine, Valentine’s Day is celebrated on 14th of February as a remembrance of his death and a note he left, which has inspired many love letters, with the ending, “From Your Valentine.” This tradition has since spread across the world. Yangonites now celebrate Valentine’s Day by sending wonderful gifts to their sweethearts. Our MY Yangon team met with Ko Ye Aung, the operation manager of SBS Delivery, one of the oldest delivery services in Yangon, to discuss what this special occasion means for the company’s business.
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Can you tell us briefly about SBS Delivery? Our company was founded in 2000. We were previously located at Myanmar Post Office on Pansodan Street. Now we’ve moved to our new office at Kyi Myin Daing, Kyaung Gyi Road, where we provide logistic services for businesses and personal delivery services across the whole Myanmar. In addition, SBS also delivers application letters, notices and other important documents. Can you explain more about your delivery services? We have two main categories: business and personal. Under the business, we provide Ecommerce Delivery, Same Day Express, Direct Mail and Pamphlet Distribution. For special occasions such as Valentine’s Day, customers use the personal delivery service where we ship goods such as flowers, cards and special gifts to the customer’s requested place or person. From pickup to delivery, both services are door-todoor and hand-to-hand. We also sell various special packing materials including boxes, envelopes and labels.
As you mentioned earlier, you do a pickup service for the goods, don’t you? Yes. We don’t charge extra for the pickup, but a 500 Ks discount is applied to a parcel or a document, brought to our sales counter. We normally collect the items that have arrived from various SBS branches in the morning. Then our delivery team will drop the items to their respective places. At the same time, they collect the items, saving the time. We have sale counters in ten major cities and deliver to almost all the cities in Myanmar. When is the busiest time for SBS? During December to February when the usual gift seasons of Christmas, New Year and Valentine’s Day are. People usually start contacting us two or three weeks before the actual day asking us to deliver their presents. How long does it normally take for a parcel to deliver? If you use our normal service, it will take 2-3 days to deliver. But we also provide an express service in Yangon where you can request for a same-day delivery service.
Which items are prohibited? We don’t accept or deliver cash, credit cards, live animals and firearms. We reject all items which are illegal to produce or distribute and those that are banned from export or import. What are your payment terms? Our payment term is usually cash-on-delivery. However for contracted customers, we will give them a one-month credit term. How can I check the delivery status of a parcel or a document? We have an online tracking system where our customers can check the delivery status by visiting our website. No.65, Kyaung Gyi Road, Kyi Myin Daing 0973067899 http://www.sbs-myanmar.com
How do you differentiate between parcels and documents? An item weighing more than one kilogram is considered as a parcel. We charge the customers according to its weight and dimension. If an item weighs less than one kilogram and it is a letter or postcard, we regard it as a document. We also deliver the items for special occasions such as Birthdays, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Christmas. Both the prices for parcels and documents differ according to the final destination. For example in Yangon, we divide it into three zones, and each zone has its own rate for the delivery. There are additional charges for cross-town deliveries. @ MYYangon
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The cosmopolitan city of Yangon Due to the politics of Myanmar in the postsecond-world-war years, one may assume that Yangon is a city composed mainly of Buddhist structures and Myanmar historic buildings. It is true that the country has gone through an era of isolation, starting from the sixties, throughout the seventies and up to the end of the eighties. Because of this past policy, it is understandable that some people may have this preconceived idea, and it is also logical that most visitors arriving in Yangon for the first time are surprised to see a city intermingled with buildings of various cultural and ethnic groups, encompassing a wide range of Asian and European architecture. These comprise of Chinese, Islamic, Hindu and European styles; amid these even Jewish Synagogues and Armenian Churches are present. The areas for present day Yangon have been inhabited for centuries. Recorded history mentions the city was officially founded for the first time by Mon kings in the 11th century; circa 1030-1040 and was known as Okkalapa. There is also a tragic story of Princess Shin Mwe Lun and Prince Min Nanda, each belonging to two rival courts, situated one in the east side of Bago river and the other in the west side at Than Lyin. The two lovers, despite their great love and devotion to one another, were not fortunate 26
to be together in this life and destined to be reunited only in the next incarnation; a story similar to the European “Romeo and Juliet”. Yangon or Rangoon was founded several times in history and also with various names, Okkalapa, Dagon and Yangon, the latter name modified by Alaung Paya from Dagon to Yangon in 1755, implying Yangon as “a city with no enemies” or in other words, a nonviolent or a peaceful city. Already during the pre-colonial period of Kon Baung dynasty, the 18th century Yangon began to develop as a multicultural and cosmopolitan city. There were Portuguese, Chinese and merchants of several ethnic groups residing in Yangon and in the vicinity. It is a bizarre fact that one Mayor of Yangon in the 19th century was an Armenian by the name Mr. Manook; he was appointed by the court at Amarapura, the capital of the Kingdom in those days. Apparently he was a naturalized Myanmar citizen, selected for this office because of his multinational and cosmopolitan experience. [My own personal research indicates that Myo Wun’s or Mayor’s house was located in the vicinity of the present Strand Hotel.] The plan of the old city is originally a British colonial layout, similar to other city plans developed by the British in their colonies such as New York, Philadelphia,
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Bombay (Mumbai) or Calcutta (Kolkata), of a chess-board pattern. After the second Anglo-Burmese war in 1852, the Kingdom of Burma had to relinquish the lower Burma territories to the British East Indian Company. The then Indian government planned Yangon to be the capital of lower Burma which was annexed to the Raj. The main criteria for selecting this place as the new administrative centre was its closeness to the sea so it could be developed as a port for exporting rice, timber and other resources; the main purpose and the reason for occupying the country. The humane ideas of British town planning by Sir Ebenezer Howard in “The Garden Cities of Tomorrow” are still to be seen in Yangon. The large green areas planned close to the old city are still valuable and appreciated assets of Yangon’s population. As the order of those days, the old city within the grid pattern was divided into Chinese areas, Indian areas and the areas for central administration in accordance to the colonial societal system. The segregated divisions were fundamentally simple and straightforward, the Indian and Chinese quarters close to the business hub of the downtown area in the west, the administration in the east, and the cultural amenities in the middle.
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Property The Burmese were to remain in their former villages of Kyee Myin Dine and Myay Ni Gone in the northwest; it was not necessary for Burmese areas to be near the business district, since their main businesses were largely inland rather than outward foreign trading. The concepts of Ebenezer Howard were reflected in the ample green areas, the western park, the central park (present Bandoola Park) and the eastern park; the zoological gardens in the north of the city core and additional generous green areas around the Victoria Lake (Kandawgyi Lake) in the north. The first class residential areas with large compounds for “Europeans” and “Well-todo’s of other races” were planned logically in the vicinity of the green areas around Victoria Lake. One essential component for the British population was “the clubs”, which were conveniently located in the vicinity of the green areas of the north; there were Pegu Club, Gymkhana Club, etc. and such facilities were quite numerous. Related to this contextual background history, Yangon has hundreds of heritage buildings with various architectural styles belonging to different cultures and religions. The oldest conceivably are the Buddhist structures, the Pagodas and the Monasteries, the next in line are the Chinese Clan houses
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and Confucius Temples (apparently the Chinese migration to the country started already in the Bagan period of 13th century). There are Churches of various Christian orders, the Roman Catholics, the ABM or the American Baptists, the Anglicans, and there is also a Synagogue in the city core. The Armenian Church is right in the downtown near the port area; as mentioned above, it is a bizarre fact about how and why the Armenians arrive in Myanmar or in Yangon. It seems that they arrived already in the 17th century, probably together or not
much later than the Portuguese, who were the first Europeans arriving in Asia after the first European voyage of Vasco Da Gama discovering the sea route to Asia. The Hindu temples and the Mosques are of Indian origin, established only at the end of 19th century when manual labour was needed in the colony to back-up the rice export, the main produce of the country. YCDC or “Yangon City Development Committee” (Municipality), in cooperation with Yangon Heritage Trust, has inscribed around 200 heritage buildings, most of them are in the possession of the government or in the respective ethnic and religious communities, in addition to these there are numerous residential buildings belonging to the private owners.
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ေတးသံရွင္ ပူစူး
ေျပာေပးပါဦး။
ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၈ ရက္မွာ ပူစူးရဲ႕ ဒုတိယေျမာက္ တစ္ကိုယ္ေတာ္ “ ရင္ခုန္ေဖာ္၊
ကၽြန္ေတာ့အျမင္ကိုေျပာရရင္ အဲဒီေန႔မွာ လူငယ္စံုတြဲေလးေတြ ေပ်ာ္ၾကတာ
ရင္ခန ု ဖ ္ က္ ” ။ လြနခ ္ တ ဲ့ ဲ့ ၆ ႏွစ္ တာကာလက ထြကထ ္ တ ဲ့ ဲ့ ပထမတစ္ကယ ို ္ေတာ္
ေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ ကိုယ္ေတြတုန္းကလည္း ဗယ္လင္တိုင္းေဒးကို ဘယ္လို ျဖတ္သန္း
စီးရီးအမည္က “ တစ္မိုးေအာက္” တဲ့။
ခဲၾ့ ကလဲ။ ေျပာရရင္ သူေရာ၊ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေရာက ဗယ္လင္တင ို ္းဆိၿု ပီး သီးသန္ၾ႔ ကီး မရိ ွ ခဲ့ ပ ါဘူး ။ ခုေ ခတ္ လူ င ယ္ေ တြ လို အရမ္း ကို ႐ူး ႐ူး သြ ပ္ သ ြ ပ္ ၾ ကီးေတာ့
သီခ်င္းေတြဆိုခဲ့တဲ့ ပူစူးရဲ႕အျပင္ဘဝကေလးမွာ သူ႔ရဲ႕ တစ္မိုးေအာက္ထဲက
မဟုတပ ္ ါဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ကိယ ု ္ေတြတန ု ္းက သူမ်ားစံတ ု ြဲေတြ တူညဝ ီ တ္စံု ေတြန႔ဲ
ရင္ခုန္ေဖာ္ ရင္ခုန္ဖက္ခ်စ္သူက ဇင္မာလို႔ ခ်စ္စႏိုး သူေခၚတဲ့ ဇင္မာေဝပါပဲ။
သြားလာေနၾကတာ ျမင္ရင္ အားက်တာေပါ့။ ဒါေပမယ့္လည္း ဗယ္လင္တိုင္း
သူတရ ႔ို ႕ဲ ဘဝေလးထဲမွာ ၂ တန္းေက်ာင္းသားေလး ေမာင္ ေကာင္းေဇယ်ာသန္န ႔ ႔ဲ
ေဒးကို ေမ့ေလ်ာ့သြား တာေတြ ရိွတယ္။ သူလည္း သူ႔အလုပ္နဲ႔ သူဆိုေတာ့
ေလးႏွစ္သားေလး ႐ိႈင္းဝဏေက်ာ္တို႔လည္း ပါဝင္ေနတာေၾကာင့္ ခုဆိုရင္
သူလည္း ေမ့တဲ့အခါ၊ ကိုယ္လည္း ေမ့တဲ့အခါေတြ ရိွ တယ္။ ေမ့တယ္ဆိုတာ
ျပီးျပည့္စံုတဲ့ ၊ ေအးခ်မ္းတဲ့ မိသားစုေလးတစ္ုပါ။ အခ်စ္ေတြနဲ႔ ဖြဲ႕တည္ေနတဲ့
ဒီလိုဗ်။ “ ဟာ ဒီေန႔ ဗယ္လင္တိုင္းေန႔ပါလား” “ မနက္ျဖန္ ဗယ္လင္တိုင္းေဒး
သူ တို ႔ မိ သားစုေ လးက ေအးခ်မ္း တဲ့ အ ခ်စ္ ၊ ပကာသနမရိ ွ တဲ့ အခ်စ္ ၊
ပါလား” ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့မွ သိတာ။ အဲဒီလို ၿပီးသြားတာေတြလည္း ရိွတယ္။
႐ိမ ု က္တစ္ဆန္တဲ့ အခ်စ္ေတြနပ ႔ဲ ါ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ပူစူးတိဘ ႔ု ဝေလးက အတုယစ ူ ရာပါ။ ခ်စ္ခင္စရာ ေအးျမေနတာေၾကာင့္ လူငယ္ေလးေတြ အတုယလ ူ ရ ႔ို ေအာင္ ပူစူးနဲ႔
သီး သန္ ႔ ၾ ကီး မရိ ွ ခဲ့ေ ပမယ့္ ဗယ္ လ င္ တို င္းေဒးအမွ တ္ တ ရ လက္ေ ဆာင္ေ တြ
Valentine Day နဲ႔ ဆက္ႏႊယ္ကာ စကားေတြ ေျပာျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ေပးခဲ့ၾကတာမ်ဳိး ရိွလား။ မွ တ္ မ ွ တ္ ရ ရအျဖစ္ ဆံုးေျပာရင္
ကၽြ န္ေ တာ္ တို ႔ အိ မ္ေ ထာင္ မ က်ေသးဘူး ။
ရည္းစားသက္တမ္းထဲက ႏွစ္တစ္ႏွစ္ မွာေပါ့။ သူ႔ကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္ Valentine 32
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Day အမွတ္တရ အက်ီေလးတစ္ထည္ ဝယ္ေပးခဲ့ဖူးတယ္။ သူက ကၽြန္ေတာ္
မိသားစုအတူတူ လည္ပတ္ၾက၊ မုန္႔စားၾကတာ ရိွပါတယ္။ သားႏွစ္ေယာက္
All Star ဖိနပ္ ၾကိဳက္တယ္ဆလ ို ႔ို All Star ဖိနပ္ေလးတစ္ရံ ဝယ္ေပးခဲဖ ့ ူးတယ္ဗ်။
ထိ န္းေက်ာင္း ရတာေတြ ရိ ွ တာေပါ့ ။ တစ္ ခ ါတေလ ကေလးႏွ စ္ေ ယာက္
အဲဒါ လံုးဝ အမွတ္တရပဲ။
ထိ န္းေက်ာင္း ရတာနဲ ႔
အျပင္ ထ ြ က္ လ ည္ ရ င္ ရန္ ျ ဖစ္ ၾ ကတာေတြ ရိ ွ တ ယ္ ။
ဒါေပမယ့္ ရန္ျဖစ္လိုက္၊ ျပန္ခ်စ္လိုက္ေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ အဲဒီပစၥည္းေလးေတြ ခုခ်ိန္ထိ ရိွတုန္းပဲလား။ ခုခ်ိန္ထိ ရိွတုန္းပဲ။ သူဝယ္ေပးတဲ့ All Star ဖိနပ္က ခုထိ ရိွပါေသးတယ္။
ပူစူးက အႏုပညာရွငဆ ္ ိုေတာ့ တခါတေလ ေငြေရးေၾကးေရးထက္ အႏုပညာကို
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေပးတဲ့ အက်ီကေတာ့ သူမ ႔ ွာ မရိွေတာ့ဘူး။ အက်ီကေဟာင္းသြားေတာ့
ဦးစားေပးလိုက္တဲ့အခါမ်ဳိးမွာ သူလည္း အေတာ္နားလည္ေပးခဲ့ရမလား။
သူမ်ားကို ေပးပစ္လိုက္တာ ထင္ပါတယ္။
သူက ကၽြန္ေတာ့ကို အေတာ္နားလည္ေပးခဲရ ့ ပါတယ္။ ခ်စ္သဘ ူ ဝတုန္းကေတာ့ ဘဝကို ဘယ္လို ျဖတ္သန္းရ၊ ျဖတ္သန္းရေပါ့။ ဆင္းရဲလည္း ခ်စ္ႏင ို ပ ္ ါတယ္လ႔ို
ခ်စ္ သူ သ က္ တ မ္း တစ္ေ လွ ်ာက္ ခ်စ္ သူ ႏ ွ စ္ ဦး အမွ တ္ တ ရ အျမဲ တ မ္း လို လို
ဆို ခဲ့ ၾ ကပါတယ္ ။ တစ္ ခ ်ဳိ ႕ တေလကေတာ့ အိ မ္ေ ထာင္ က ်တာ ၾကာရင္
ထိုင္ျဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့ဆိုင္ေတြ ရိွလား။
ေျပာင္းလဲသာြ းႏိင ု တ ္ ယ္ေလ။ ခ်မး္ ခ်မး္ သာသာမထားႏိင ု လ ္ ည္း စိတခ ္ ်မး္ သာေအာင္
ေျပာရရင္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တက ႔ို ႐ိမ ု န္သ ႔ ပ ိ မ ္ ဆန္ဘ ႔ ူးလိ႔ု ေျပာလိရ ႔ု တယ္။ သူမ်ားေတြလို
ထားႏိုင္ရင္ ေက်နပ္ပါတယ္။
ေကာ္ဖီဆိုင္ေတြထိုင္တာ၊ ဆိုင္လွလွေလးေတြမွာ ထိုင္တာတို႔ မရိွခဲ့ပါဘူး။ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆင ို ္ေတြမွာ ထိင ု ရ ္ င္ စကားေျပာလိက ု ၾ္ ကတယ္။ အေအးဆိင ု မ ္ ွာ
ဒီေတာ့ ႐ိုမက္တစ္ဆန္တာေတြအျပင္ လက္ေတြ႔ဘဝထဲမွာ တစ္ဦးကိုတစ္ဦး
ထိင ု ရ ္ င္လည္း ထိင ု ္လိုကတ ္ ယ္။ စကားေျပာရင္လည္း ႐ိုမက္တစ္မဆန္ပါဘူး။
နားလည္ေပးဖို႔ဆိုတာလည္း လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ ခ်စ္ခင္စရာေကာင္းတဲ့
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔က ဘဝသမားေတြပါ။
မိသားစုဘဝကို ပိုင္ဆိုင္ႏိုင္ၾကပါေစလို႔ MY Yangon မွ ဆုေတာင္းေပးလိုက္ ပါတယ္။
အခုခ်ိနမ ္ ွာ အထိက ု အ ္ ေလ်ာက္ ျပည္စ ့ လ ံု ာေတာ့ ႏွစ္ေယာက္အတူတူ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ မိ သားစု နဲ ႔ အ တူ ျဖစ္ ျ ဖစ္ အျပင္ ထ ြ က္ လ ည္ ပ တ္ ၿ ပီး ေပ်ာ္ စ ရာအခ်ိ န္ေ တြ
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Wedding Fever
MMRD Publications, who publish the iconic Yangon Directory, has been hit with Valentine’s fever and have added a Wedding section to their highly successful Myanmar Gold & Jewellery Buying Guide The Myanmar Gold & Jewellery Buying Guide is the ‘go to’ guide for those wishing to buy jewellery in Myanmar. In the guide are lists of all the companies who sell everything from diamonds to gold, plus shops who can mend your jewellery when it is broken, clean it when it’s dirty and tell you how much it is really worth. There are also great articles to help you know what to look out for when you are buying gems and jewellery. This year, the guide will include a Wedding section so that they can help brides and grooms, plus their parents, to find everything that they need to make their special day go smoothly and be a day to remember. The guide for 2016-17 is being compiled now and the MMRD Publications Sales Teams are collecting adverts from companies who wish to
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stand out from the competition. The book will be available in mid-June. In June, they will also be launching their Wedding Guide website – which will help every bride create their dream wedding. In it will be profiles of wedding venues, fashion designers, cake makers and every other service that you can think of that supports any wedding production. More importantly, there will be planning tips and guides to help make the event hassle free and enjoyable. If you wish to advertise your company in the printed Myanmar Gold & Jewellery Buying Guide (including Wedding Guide) or the online Wedding Guide, contact the Sales Team on 09 44800 1662 (Yangon) and 02 40006111 (Mandalay).
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Health & Beauty
Time to Celebrate
Valentine’s Day San Lin Tun
Valentine’s Day! What a thrilling word for me, Naing Naing thought. She knew that this year Valentine’s Day would be really special for her because Ko Aung and she became a couple a month ago. It was such a happiness she felt when they found out they loved each other. She thought that it was the most blessed moment of their life. She knew that Ko Aung would love her sincerely because he had spent much time to court her. Every day he was waiting for her outside her office to accompany her to go back home. Not a single day he missed in his mission of going home together with her. He was such a kind of wonk. Naing Naing noticed that Ko Aung kept 38
following her up to the bus stop but not too close, he kept his own distance. When the bus came for her, he just appeared on the scene and followed her up to the bus, which was always crowded with passengers. At first, he stood a little far from her and was staring at her. When she got off from the bus, he followed her too. He stopped his steps when she entered her compound of the house. But, he showed his hesitation, lingering around the house, though he lived on the same street. This became his routine. There is a proverb which goes, “Perseverance wins the girl’s heart”. This time, it shows that it is true because later she thought she should give him a chance, and on that day they became lovers. It was such a
great pleasure to be a couple. They would stop off and have a snack at the teashop. She liked pork sticks so much that he had to agree with her and sat with her though he didn’t like them much. But, they felt such a liberty to enjoy their time together. This time, she knew that she wanted to do something special for their romance. That would be remembered until they were getting old. She suggested Ko Aung that they visit some shopping centers and wear the same colour and the same fashion on that day. “Ko Aung, Valentine’s Day is coming nearer. We should do something memorable for ourselves. What about wearing the same fashion on that day?” said Naing Naing enthusiastically. At MYyangon _ issue 18
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Anyone could show their own beauty with one’s own cultural identity which is not outdated in any age. Both of them noticed that other people were looking at them, not with contempt but with much admiration. Only then, Ko Aung looked at Naing Naing who was wearing a pink sleeveless silk blouse and a pink sarong which had intricate floral patterns on it. The pink colour was compatible with her fair complexion. Also, she applied a patch of thanakkha on each cheek to enhance her beauty. He realized how beautiful and elegant his beloved was. He felt a wave of admiration spreading across his whole body and felt really proud of having such a tender and graceful girl. He simply thought that he was such a lucky person, and this special moment would be kept in his heart forever. As long as their love existed, he would feel this sensation again and again. He hoped that this was the thing he needed for the life to come.
first, Ko Aung didn’t want to do this. He thought that it was unnecessary. And, he thought that it would be like some kind of “Yeine” troupe who usually perform their dance together. Actually, he felt a little bit shy and hesitant to wear the same thing. Ko Aung was silent on this because he didn’t want to do any ceremonious thing. Actually, it was not his style. But, he understood that he had to be sensible because a girl could be grumpy on small matters. “Um, if you wish, let’s do it. But, I don’t want to be ridiculed by others. I don’t want to lose my face on that. All I want is to be happy with you”, said a bemused Ko Aung.
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Now, the decision went back to Naing Naing who smiled broadly, and she said that she would devise a plan that he would not be embarrassed. She told Ko Aung that he should wear a white shirt and a good quality longyi which she would buy for him. For her, she would plan her dress herself. In this way, they had got their agreement. Finally, the day came. Hand in hand, they wandered around the dazzling shopping centre. They could see many other couples wearing the same dresses on this day glowing with happiness. They thought that they seemed a bit different from other couples and they stood out among them.
Naing Naing also looked back at her lover, Ko Aung who looked spic and span in his Myanmar dress. Now they understood that anyone could show their own beauty with one’s own cultural identity which was not outdated at any age. This is the beauty depicted by the couple. They felt really happy and satisfied with what they did on this special day. Both of them felt that the love between them seemed more enhanced. As youths, they wanted to celebrate Valentine’s Day together with others who were the same age as them. Also, they understood that they should gain something valuable for them at this special moment. Now they got what they wanted: pleasure, understanding, and satisfaction which would bring much meaning to their relationship.
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Angel
Phoo’s
Bakery
Rico Kyaw
Being in the same grade with her just six years ago, I never thought she would have any interest in baking. We were partners in many group projects and studied for exams together, yet I saw
As a graduate of an international school, Angel had the usual plan of going abroad for further studies where she would earn a degree and start her own career. However, Angel took a gap year during which she attended a baking course where she found her love of baking. Little did she know that a picture of her homemade cake will change her future forever. Her rainbow crepe cake received over three hundred likes in a matter of hours on Facebook with many people asking for her cakes. This sparked her to set up Angel Phoo’s Bakery. Who
would’ve known that from a simple Facebook post, Angel would become the trendsetter for crepe cakes in Yangon? Setting up a bakery was no easy task for her, and being nineteen years old didn’t help either. Her first problem came even before the first cake was sold. There was a bakery already with the name “Angel’s Bakery” which prompted her to change the name to “Angel Phoo’s Bakery”. That was the start of many challenges, which Angel had to face at the start of her career. The second, and possibly the biggest issue for her bakery,
no signs that her heart lies in baking. My fellow classmate, Angel Phoo, has truly surprised me with what she has been doing over the last year. I had an opportunity to interview Angel about her bakery and I asked her why how she chose to become a baker, what challenges she has faced and the future plans for her bakery. 40
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was maintaining and recruiting qualified staff. Nonetheless, she is striving to overcome these challenges to become more successful. Initially, Angel had only one item on her menu, Rainbow Crepe Cake, her biggest seller. The cake, layered into colourful crepes and finished off with a customized design, was the talk of the town. On a certain day, Angel would receive around 80 orders a day just for the crepe cakes. When I asked her why the cakes were a huge hit, she replied that crepe cakes were very @ MYYangon
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uncommon in Yangon. The cakes were not too sweet which made it very popular amongst diabetics. After the success of her rainbow crepe cake, Angel started to add more items to her menu. The chocolate version of the crepe cake followed, along with a green tea version. Angel then added other styles of pastry; cheesecakes, chocolate cakes, cookies and puddings to her inventory. Angel Phoo’s Bakery now offers 13 items in its menu, a huge leap from offering just one item! The bakery is also well-known for its amazing customized designs such as Minions,
Unicorns, Baymax, Doctor’s Kit and cute Pandas. Her customers mainly ask for birthday cakes and a treat to fulfill a sweet craving. She plans to extend to wedding cakes in the near future. When asked about her future plans for her bakery, Angel said she plans to open a cafe with her homemade baked goods in Yangon. And I look forward to sipping a cup of coffee with her beautifully layered crepe cakes. No. 39, Khatter Street, Sanchaung 09253022066, 095077466 41
The Last leaf
Gallery
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Art သိဂၤါရေရ စီးဆင္းျခင္း ပန္းခ်ီကားမ်ား
ဟန္တင့္ေဆြတို႔ရဲ႕ ပန္းခ်ီကားေတြအျပင္ တျခား
ပန္းခ်ီကား၊ ဆရာႀကီးေပၚဦးသက္ရဲ႕ ပန္းခ်ီကား၊
လူ႔ေလာကတြင္ ခ်စ္သူခ်င္းသာမက မိဘနဲ႔ သား
လက္ ရာေကာင္း လွ တဲ့ ပန္း ခ်ီ ဆ ရာတို ႔ ရဲ ႕ ပန္း ခ်ီ
ပန္း႐ိုးမျပကၡဒိန္ မ်က္ႏွာဖံုးေတြ၊ ေငြတာရီမဂၢဇင္း
သမီး၊ ေမာင္ႏွမအခ်င္းခ်င္း၊ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမိတ္ေဆြ
ကားအပါအ၀င္ ကားေပါင္း (၂၀) ေလာက္ေတာ့
မ်က္ ႏ ွာ ဖံုးေတြ လို ေခတ္ေ ဟာင္း က ရွားပါးလို ႔
အခ်င္းခ်င္း အပါအ၀င္ လူသားအားလံုး တစ္ဦးနဲ
တင္ျဖစ္ပါမယ္။ ထူးထူးျခားျခား ေျပာရရင္ ဆရာ
အေတြ ႕ ရနည္း တဲ့ လက္ ရာေျမာက္ ပန္း ခ်ီ ပံုေ တြ
တစ္ဦး ခ်စ္ခင္႐င ို ္းပင္းေစဖု႔ိ ပန္းခ်ီကားေတြန႔ဲ တတ္
နႏၵရဲ႕ လက္ရာ က်ပ္သိန္း ၁၀၀ ေပးေသာ္လည္း
ကိုလည္း ပို႔စကဒ္အေနနဲ႔ လြမ္းတသသ ပိုင္ဆိုင္
စြမ္းသမွ် စုေဆာင္းၿပီး ျပသမွာပါ။ တကယ္ေတာ့
မေရာင္းဘဲ သိမ္းဆည္းထားတဲ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစု
ခြင့္ရမွာပါ။
သိဂၤါရလိႈင္း သို႔မဟုတ္ ေမတၱာလိႈင္းကို ေဖာ္ျပတဲ့
ၾကည္ပံုတူပန္းခ်ီကားကိုလည္း ေတြ႕ရမွာပါ။
ပန္းခ်ီကားေတြပါပဲ။ ခ်စ္ျခင္းတရားေတြ၊ စည္းလံုး ညီ ည ြ တ္ ျ ခင္းေတြ ၊ စာနာေထာက္ ထား ျခင္းေတြ
ဂႏၲဝင္ဆန္တဲ့ ပို႔စကဒ္ေတြ
စတဲ့ ရသေတြကို အဓိကထားမွာပါ။
ႀကိဳဆိုလ်က္
ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလရဲ႕ ေဆာင္းရာသီအၾကြင္း
ဗဟု သု တ မွ ်ေဝေပးမယ့္ ကမၻာေက်ာ္
အက်န္ေ လေအးအခ်ဳိ ႕ ကို ႐ွ ဴ ႐ိ ႈ က္ ရ င္း မိ တ္ေ ဆြ
ပန္း ခ်ီ ဆ ရာအခ်ဳိ ႕ ရဲ ႕ ပန္း ခ်ီ ကားေတြ ပ ါ၀င္ တဲ့
ကဗ်ာဆရာ အုပစ ္ ုေလးကလည္း ႏုပ်ဳိလန္းဆန္းတဲ့
ရွားရွားပါးပါး ပန္းခ်ီကားေတြကို ပို႔စကဒ္ထုတ္ၿပီး
ခ်စ္ျခင္းဖြ႕ဲ ကဗ်ာေတြကို ရြတဆ ္ ၾို ကဦးမွာပါ။ ၿပီးေတာ့
လူ႐ုပ္ပံုေတြကို ဝၿဖိဳးေနတဲ့ ပံုသ႑ာန္
ျပသေရာင္း ခ်ေပးမွာ ပါ။ ျမတ္ ႏိုး သူ အ ခ်င္း ခ်င္း
ဂႏၲ ဝ င္ေ တးဂီ တ အခ်ဳိ ႕ ကို တေယာ တူ ရိ ယာနဲ ႔
စတို င္ ေရးဆြဲ တ တ္ လို ႔ လူ ဝ ႀကီး ျမင့္ေ အာင္ လို ႔
အဖိုးနည္းေပမယ့္ ေမ့မရႏိင ု တ ္ ဲ့ လက္ေဆာင္ပစၥည္း
ေဖာ္ က ် ဴး ျ ပ တာ ကို နားေ ထာ င္ ခံ စား ရ င္း ဒီ လို
အေခၚခံ ရ တဲ့ ဆရာျမင့္ေ အာင္ ပန္း ခ်ီ ကားေတြ ၊
ေလးေတြေ ပါ့ ။ ေျပာရရင္ ရာဘင္ ျ ဒာနတ္ တ ဂိုး
ခ်စ္ျခင္းဖြဲ႕ပန္းခ်ီျပခန္းမွာ ပန္းခ်ီကားေတြ နစ္ေမ်ာ
ဘု ရားေ က ်ာ င္း က န္ ပံုေ တ ြ ေ ရး ဆ ြဲ တဲ့ေ န ရာ မ ွာ
(Rabindranath Tagore) ရဲ႕ ကိုယ္တိုင္ေရး ပံုတူ
ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။
နာမည္ ႀ ကီး တဲ့ ဆရာ၀င္း တင့္ ပန္း ခ်ီ ကားေတြ ၊
ပန္း ခ်ီ ကား၊ ေျမးျဖစ္ သူ ကမၻာေက်ာ္ ပ န္း ခ်ီ ဆ ရာ
The Last Leaf Gallery
ေရႊတိဂံုဘုရားပံုေတြကို မ်ားမ်ားေရးဆြဲခဲ့လို႔ လူသိ
Abanindranath Thakur, အိ ႏ ၵိ ယ ပန္း ခ်ီေ က်ာ္
No.165, 2nd Flr, 35th Street, Kyautada
မ်ားတဲ့ ဆရာျမင့္ေဆြလိႈင္ရဲ႕ အသစ္အဆန္း ပန္းခ်ီ
Nardalal, Bose, Amrita Slur – Gil, ဆရာႀကီး
Township
ကားေတြ ၿပီးေတာ့ ဆရာမင္းေဇယ်ာဦး ၊ ဆရာ
ပန္း ခ်ီေ အာင္ စိုး ရဲ ႕ သစၥာ သည္ သာ အလွ တ ရား
ဘယ္လိုပန္းခ်ီကားေတြ
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Restaurant
Guide
Dining Guide
The best restaurants, cafes and gastro food for casual and smart dining
H Star for critic's choice N New Opening
Downtown
50th Street Bar and Restaurant | Western/Bar | 9-13 50th Street, Botataung Tsp | 01 397 060
365 Café | Café/Western | No.5
Café KSS | Café | 470-472,
374 891, 01 389 705
Ya Htar Road, (2) Ward, Lanmadaw
78/80 Latha Street, Lower block | 01
Road, Ahlone Tsp | 01 229 904 ext.
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 | 09 507 077 8, 01 385 185, 09 250 150 376
H Aung Pyae Phyo Indian Foods | Indian | No. 37th Street, Corner of
Mahabandoola Road, Kyauktada Tsp 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
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Aung Kyaw Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 09
Harley’s | Fastfood | 285, Ground
639-41 ext. 32
34th Street | 01 389 363, 01 384 779
09 313 151 31
H Cherry Man | Myanmar/Indian |
Street | 01 253 126, 09 431 67288
Coka Suki Restaurant | Thai/Hotpot
999 Shan Noodle Shop | Shan | 130 B,
Kinsakura Restaurant | Japanese
Street (lower block), Botahtaung Tsp |
Thamada Hotel, Ahlanpya Pagoda
Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 243 047, 01 243
H Green Gallery | Thai | No. 58, 52nd
Mahabandoola Road, Cor. Bo Sun Pat
Floor, The Corner of 6th Street & Anaw Tsp | 09 250 086 204
| 104/108, Kyee Myin Daing Strand
Heaven Pizza | Pizza | 38~40, Bo Yar
229 905
1383
Nyunt Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 855
H Easy Café & Restaurant | Asian |
Heiwa | Japanese | 207,32 Street
722, 01 246 755
375931
30A/C1, Bo Yar Nyunt Road | 01 220
(Upper Block), Pabedan Tsp | 01
| BAK, Olympic Tower, 1st Floor, Bo 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 |
Fat Man Steak | Western | Bo Yar
India Kitchen | Indian | 297
666
| 01 389 367
Lotteria@Central Tower | Fastfood |
Feel | Myanmar | 124, Pyihtaungsu
Ingyin Restaurant | Indian |
and 40th Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 09
08 132
number)
Nyunt Rd, Dagon Tsp | 09 420 305
Avenue Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 732
Mahabandoola Road, Botahtaung Tsp
Anawratha Road (30th St) | (no
H Frozee Gelato Creamery | Ice
Junior Duck | Chinese | Nanthidar
Dagon Tsp | 01 1233 874
Strand Road, Kyauktada Tsp | 01 249 421
Cream | No. 23 Nawaday Street,
Jetty Compound, Pan Soe Tan Saikkan
Gallery Bar & Restaurant | Café/Bar
Kanpai | Japanese | 207 Bo Aung
ext. 6430 or 6431
739 599
| 223 Sule Pagoda Road | 01 242 828
Kyaw Street, Botataung Tsp | 09 421
H Gekko | Japanese/Bar | 535
KFC | Fastfood | No. 375 Bogyoke
902 32
Yangon.
Merchant Road | 01 386 986, 09 431
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Aung San Road, Pabedan Township,
01 230 3097
79/81, Room (001/002), between 39th 258 521 385
Marry Brown | Fastfood | 180-182,
Mahabandoola Garden Street (Middle Block), Kyauktada Tsp | 01 384 780
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
4545
Dining
H Mondo | Japanese | 26 (B) Yaw Min Gyi St., | 01 252 261, 09 450 066 782
H Monsoon | Asian | No. 85-87,
Theinbyu Road (lower block),
Parisian Cake & Coffee | Coffee
Spice Brasserie | Asian Fusion | Park
The Lobby Bar | Bar | Park Royal
Garden Street (Lower Block),
Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388
Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388
Shop/Café | 46 Mahabandoola Kyauktada Tsp | 01 242 650
Botataung Tsp | 01 295 224
Peacock Lounge | Café | Sule-
My Garden | Asian | Ahlone Road | 01
Road | 01 242 828 ext. 6456 or 6434
372 822
Nam Kham Shan Restaurant
| Shan | 37th Street, Corner of
Mahabandoola Road (middle block),
Shangri-La Hotel, 223 Sule Pagoda
Phoenix Court (Si Chaun Dou hua) |
Chinese | Park Royal Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388
Kyauktada Tsp | (no number)
Rangoon Teahouse | Myanmar | 1st
Nan Yu | Indian/Cantonese | 81
| 09 517 832 9
Pansodan Street, Kyauktada Tsp |
Flr, 77 Pansodan Street, Kyauktada Tsp
01 252 702
Saigon Baguette & Café | Coffee
H Nepali Food House | Nepalese
| 09 250 956 019
| 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
Shop | 11 Nawaday street , Dagon Tsp
Santino Café |Coffee Shop | 18/A-1, Bo Yar Nyunt Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 387 880
Road, Pabedan Tsp
Sharky’s Pansodan | Western/
Nooch Restaurant & Bar |
Middle Block) Kyauktada Tsp | 09
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
46
Fine Dining | 81, Pansodan, (Lower 264 589 615, 01 252 702, 01 370 971
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/
Royal Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road,
H Sprouts | Salad Bar/Café | 68A
The Strand Café | Fine dining/
421 102 223
377~92
Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Tsp | 09
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
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 Tin Tin | Bar | No. 116 - 118, Bogalazay street (Middle),
Botahtaug Tsp.| 01 559 548 Toba Restaurant Café |
MWEA Tower | 01 381 607
Dagon Tsp | 09 254 095 451
1st Flr, Shwe Dagon Pagoda Road,
Thai 47 | Thai | No (153), Cornar
Indonesian | 15 Nawaday Street,
N
Tomo Sushi & Japanese
of 47th Street & Anawyahta
Restaurant | Japanese | 702,
095169215
511 6183, 01 251 302
Road, Botahtaung Tsp |
Maharbandoola Road, Latha Tsp | 09
The Blind Tiger | Western/
Union Bar & Grill | Western/Bar
Nawaday Street | 01 388 488
the Myanmar Red Cross Building,
Tapas | United Condominium,
The Manhattan Fish Market |
Lanthit Road, Lanmadaw Tsp | 09
Road, Ground Floor M.M.G. Tower,
731 120 46
Western | 92 Strand Road | 01 243
(Order only) | 288/290 (Rm 106),
Hot Pot | 306, Level 3, Junction Maw Tin, Corner of Anawrahta Road &
Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road,
| 42 Strand Road, Left corner of
Botahtaung Tsp | 09 420 101 854
Seafood/Western | 44/56 Kannar
Ureshii Kitchen | Japanese |
41st - 42nd Street | 01 375 064
Lanmadaw Tsp | 01 224 810
111 Shwe Taung Tan Street,
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Ya Kun Kaya Toast | Singaporean |
** Alamanda Inn Restaurant |
of Narnattaw Road and Kyun Taw
Road, Golden Valley | 01 534 513
4th Floor, Junction Square, Corner
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
N
Bar Boon | Dutch Deli | No. 10K,
Café Bellagio | Western | 81 New
French | 60B/Shwe Taun Gyar
Shwe Taung Kyar Road, Bahan Tsp
Ananda Coffee and Cocoa | Café/
Barista Lavazza | Café/Coffee shop
Café Dibar | Italian | No.9, Kabaraye
Mart, Dhamazedi Road
018 604 415
932, 09 599 6143
Coffee shop | Market Place by City
Asagiri Sausage & Restaurant
| Western | Corner of Kyun Taw Road and Nar Nat Taw Street, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 539 598
Astons Specialities | Steak House
| 09 431 851 44
| 16 Kyaik Ka San Road, Tamwe Tsp |
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Barwachi | Indian | 37, Ground
Floor 1, La Pyayt Wun Plaza, Alan Pya Pagoda Road | 092535 00002
University Ave Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 544 930
Pagoda Road, Yankin Tsp | 095 114
Cafe Napoli | Italian | No,287, East
Shwe Gon Dine Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 554 957, 09 420 207 233
BBQ Chicken Restaurant|Fastfood
Café Terrace 320 | Café/Thai | Corner
Dagon Tsp | 09 250 613 329
430 919 59
| 44, Ground Floor, Pyay Road,
of Pyay Road and Ahlone Road | 09
Midtown
| Myanmar Plaza (HAGL), 3rd Floor, Tsp.
Billion Gold Restaurant | Fine Dining
Chatime (various branches) | Café
Kanbawza Road | 09-254 006 636
Aung Thuka | Myanmar | 17(A), West
pound (Ahlone Road) | 01 216 001
Housing, Bargayar Road, Sanchaung
Adamas | Seafood | No.14 ,
After Work Bistro and Bar | Café/ Bar | 31, A1, Shan Gone Street,
Sanchaung Tsp | 09 250 400 753
H Agnes | French/Fine Dining |
Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan
Shwegondine, Bahan Tsp | 01 525 194
H AV’s | Indian | Room A, Ground
Floor, No(76/80)(B), Banyardala Road | 09 254 345 381
Kandawgyi Palace Hotel, Kan Yeik
Bangkok Kitchen | Thai |
Yangon | 01 382 919, 01 382 912
Road,Tamwe Tsp | 01 556 901
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| Yangon International Hotel Com-
Black Canyon Coffee | Coffee shop |
| 29 B-002 Shwe Pyi Aye Yeik Mon Tsp | www.chatime.com.mm
330 Ahlone Road, In front of Yangon
Cocoon Bar | Asian/bar | 22/24
395 052
Baho Road | 01 500 863
International Hotel, Dagon Tsp | 01
Shinsawpu Road and corner of
Brasserie International Restaurant
Coffee Circles | Café | 107(A)
Ext :7714,7503
01 525 157
Level 1, Sedona Hotel Ph 09 516 669 00
Dhammazedi Road, Kamayut Tsp |
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Daren Bread | Bakery/Café |
No.57, Yawmingyi Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 253 522 048
Daruma | Japanese | Yangon
International Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp | 09 492 702 71
Dining Fukurou Japanese
Resturant | Japanese | No.81 (C),
H Fuji Coffee House | Japanese
Ice Berry | Western | 230 Bargayar Road,
Kamaryut Tsp | 01 535 371 ext.
700 680 - Various branches.
| No.116, University Avenue Road, 512561
Gyo Phyu Street, Aung San Stadium
| 01 556 265
Tsp | 01 394 824
Shwe Gon Daing Road, Bahan Tsp
Jaspar House | Western | No. 54,
Tsp | 01 518 248, 095 414 526
2589, 012 302 011
H DiVINO | Italian | 61 University
H Golden Duck Restaurant
935, 01 505 247
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
Easy Café | Café | 24D Nar Nat Taw
| Chinese | Kan Taw Mingalar
Garden Compound, Shwedagon
040
Restaurant | Japanese | 23 Golden View Tower (A), G3, U Aung Myat
trance) | 018 619 194, 095 080 466
09 421 167 008
(opposite of Karaweik Park en-
Karaweik Palace | Western/Asian
Savoy Hotel | 01 511 418
Taung Nyunt Tsp | 09 459 222 222
fusion | 135 Inya Road, opposite of
N
Gusto Café | Coffee Shop/Italian
H Family Sushi | Japanese | A-27,
Monument Bookstore |
FC Box & Food Desserts | Fastfood |
Road, Kamayut Tsp | 01 536 985
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
LE CELLIER | Wine Bar & Restaurant Rooftop, Novotel Yangon Max 459 Pyay Road, Kamayut Tsp
Legacy Thai Restaurant | Thai | Yawmingyi, Dagon Tsp
Le Planteur | Fine Dining/French | 80, University Avenue | 01 541 230
Myanmar/Asian | 104(B), Inya
(Ahlone Road) | 01 216 001
Haru | Japanese | 81 Kabar Aye
Freshness Burger (Myanmar Culture
149 721
48
Lane, off Saya San Road, Bahan Tsp |
09 362 145 23
Happy Café & Noodles |
18/D Nawaday Road, Dagon Tsp.
Western | 32, Kokkine Swimming Club
| 150 Dhamazedi Road, Next to
194 56, 095 077 223
Road) | Fastfood/burger | No.
Kokine Bar & Restaurant | Asian/
Myanmar | No. 37, University
Street, Kandawkalay. 09 310 41 915
Freshness Burger (Nawaday
Pyay Road, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 535 072
Aung Myat Street, Mingalar Taung
Avenue, Bahan Tsp | 01 536 498
Road, Dagon Tsp | 09 323 160 61
| Kandawgyi Compound, Mingalar
Kobe-Ya | Japanese | 615/B Marlar Street.
Goya Restaurant | Western |
EK Enjoy Kitchen | Fast Food | 68-
Park & People’s Square, U Wisara
Street (Closed Sundays) | 01 518 239,
H Golden Kitchen Tori | Asian
Green Elephant Restaurant |
Valley) | Fastfood/burger | People’s
H Kachin Agape Restaurant |
Kachin | Shwe Pyi Aye, just off Bagayar
Kamaryut Tsp | 09 259 040 853
Yangon International Hotel Compound
Street, Dagon Township | 09 976 503
Street, Mingalar Taungnyunt Tsp
Nyunt Tsp | 01 861 9486
Chit Maung Street, Bahan Tsp | 09 731
Street | 01 524 525, 09 420 247 034
Golden View Japanese Teppanaki
H Edo Zushi | Japanese |
Rm# 104, U Chit Maung Housing, U
Jing Hpaw Myay | Kachin | 2B Kyun Taw
Jo Jo | HotPot| Address: 23(A), Nawaday
Hotel Esperado, Top Floor, 23 U
B, Daw Thein Road & Bandar Gone
Ahlone Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 517
Pagoda Road | 01 240 216
St, Kamayut Tsp | 09 250 141 098.
No.290-B, U Wisara Road, 10 Ward
(North Wing), Mingalar Taung Nyunt
H Golden City Chetty Restaurant |
Indian | Padonmar Street, Sanchaung
Avenue Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 525
H Ichiban-Kan | Japanese | G17-18,
H Furusato | Japanese | 137
New University Avenue Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 542 871
opposite Dagon Centre | 01 516 506, 01
Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | 09 421
Horn | Japanese Beef Steak | 36(A), Golden Valley Street, Bahan Tsp | 01 513 404
H House of Memories | Myanmar
| 290 U Wisara Road | 01534 242
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Lotteria @ Junction Square |
Oriental House Restaurant | Chinese/
Kyun Taw Road and Pyay Road,
Kyaung Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 371 471
Fastfood | Junction Square, Between 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 | 09 513 775 3, 09 250 648 820
H Sharky’s | Western/Ice Cream |
117 Dhamazedi Road | 01 524 677, 01
Orzo Italian Restaurant Pool level |
H Shwe Kaung Hot Pot | Hot Pot/
Restaurant | Western/Asian |
Road, Shwe Gon Dine, Bahan Tsp |
Bahan Street, Near U Htaung Bo
373 009
Sedona Hotel | 01 666 900, 01 666 911
Chinese | No. 18, Ko Min Ko Chin
Pandomar | Asian | 105/107, Kha-Yae-
01 559 339
Bin Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 538 895
Peri Peri | Fastfood | 52 E/F, Royal Yaw Min Gyi Condo, Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Township | 09 791
H Shwe Li BBQ | BBQ | 485 Corner
of Pyay Road & Narnattaw Road. Kamayut Tsp | 01 535 394
666923
Singapore Kitchen | Singaporean
Bahan Tsp | 09 976150646
Pepperoni Pizza | Italian | Union Business
Compound, Ahlone Road | 01 216
H Manpuku | Japanese BBQ | No. 30,
Cho Quarter Bahan Tsp | 09 302 583 99
Manana | Mexican | Pearl Condo
C, Ga- 05, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road,
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
The Fingers Food Garden | Myanmar
Dim Sum | No. 126(A), Myo Ma
Center (UBC) Annex B, Nat Mauk Road, Bo
Peppers | Western | University Avenue Road | 01 548 046
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
| Yangon International Hotel 001
| 55 Shan Kone Street | 01535350
H The Garden Bistro Signature
Corner of Kan Yeikthar Street,
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
Singapore Restaurant | Chinese |
The Serenity Restaurant | Myanmar
Compound, Dagon Tsp | 09 730 167
| 01 524 890
330 Ahlone Road, International Hotel 88, 09 492 718 66
Sport Bar | Bar | Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road) | 01 216 001
Swensen’s | Ice Cream | Myay Ni
Gone, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 504 932, 09 731 817 58 | www.swensens-
| No. 114/ B, Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp
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.
Mom’s Kitchen | Asian/Singaporean |
Putao Resturant | Kachin | 30 Ground
One), Tamwe Tsp | 01 545 871
Gone, Sanchaung Tsp | 09 257 171 464
Swe Thai Restaurant | Thai | 34 New
Radio Café | Sandwiches/Western
Tsp | 01 704 067
H Water Library | Fine Dining/
TheTaj | Indian | B-9, Aung San Stadium,
Manawharri Road, Dagon Tsp | 01
Lay Daungkan Road (in front of Super
Mr. Sushi | Japanese | No. 330 Banyadala Street, Tamwe Tsp | 09 240 047 373
Floor Dammayone Street, Myay Ni
| 30 Ma hlwa gone Street, Tamwe Tsp |
H Muses | Asian/Western | No.
Royal Garden | Chinese | Natmauk
503 380
Forest Zone, Bahan Tsp | 01 546 923,
485(B) Pyay Road, Kamaryut Tsp | 01
H Nacha Thai | Thai | 86 Shin Saw
Pu Road, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 510 731 Nervin Café and Bistro | Café
Road, Kandawgyi Nature Park, Central
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University Ave Road, Kokkine, Bahan
North Stand, Upper Pansodan Road,
Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | 09 252 451 353.
01 546 202
Thai Kitchen | Thai | 126 (A-1),
Sai’s Tacos | Mexican | 32A Inya
Corner, Bahan Tsp | 09 730 377 99, 098
Myaing Road | 01 514 950
Dhamazedi Street & Inya Traffic 613 400
H Vietnam Kitchen | Vietnamese |
1A Phone Sein Road, Tamwe Tsp | 09 431 839 89
European | Corner of Pyay Road and 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
| Karaweik Oo Yin Kabar,
Salud Restaurant | Mexican/Latin
Thai Pot | Thai/Hotpot | 250 East Myin
White Rice Restaurant | Chinese |
Taung Nyunt Tsp | 01 541 188
Wingabar Road Bahan (Its next to
610 393, 095 007 997
01 556 837
Kandawgyi Nature Park, Mingalar
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 OoYin Kabar, Mingla Taung Nyunt Tsp | 095 416 437
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American | 7(C) Ground Floor, Clover Hotel) | 09 731 136 01
Pyine Kwin Road, Tamwe Tsp | 098
H The Coriander Leaf | Indian
Wild Ginger | Bar | 12(A), Shin Saw
Compound, Alone Road | 01 293 006,
690 135
Samuri Sushi | Japanese | 4E/F
| 12 Yangon International Hotel
Tsp | 09 730 818 71, 095 123 240
09 431 850 08
Ground Floor, Wingabar Street, Bahan
N
Secret Recipe | Cafe |
Shwe Gon Daing Ocean
Supercenter, 2nd Floor | 018604618
Nat Mauk Road, Kandawgyi Lake |
The Emporia | Western/Asian |
Chatrium Hotel, 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500 ext. 6253
Pu Road, Sanchaung Tsp.| 09 260
Win Star | BBQ/bar | No (27/30), Corner of Sanchaung Street &
Padon-mar Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 505 467
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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
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
HYangon Bakehouse | Bakery/Café |
Pearl Condo, Block C, Ground Floor, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road | 09 450 055 924, 09
Aux Saisons | European/Fine Dining | 31/A Kan Yeik Tha Road | 01 661 125 BB Cake & Coffee | Café | 48,
180 670
Road and Kyout Kone street,
Café 47 | Western | 47 A, Pyay
Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 651 774
Zeal | Western/Café | No. 99, Myay Nu
Road | 09 518 6539, 095042916
Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp |
Uptown
Agora Café & Restaurant | Mexican | 84, Kanbae Road (Opposite Yankin Childrens Hospital) 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 |
Corner of Parami Road and Hninsi
Fook Mun Lau | Chinese | 102,
Nawaday Cinema Garden, Corner Of Kabaraye Pagoda Road & Oak
Pone Seik Road, Mayangone Tsp |
Fuji | Japanese | Hanthawaddy Road | 09 515 147 76
Gangam Restaurant | Korean | Kabaraye Pagoda Road,
Mayangone Tsp | 01 650 689
Andaman II @ Yankin | Thai/Street
092 006 777
Mingalar St., Hledan | 09 493 351 72
50
Myanmar | Parami Road | 01 667 449,
Her’s |Korean Food| 879, Pinlon Rd,
Ward 34 | 01 663636, 0943155647, 09 31452829
H Sabai@DMZ | Thai | Inside Mya
Kyun Tha Park (Opposite Sedona Hotel), Kaba Aye Pagoda Road | 018 605 178
Kone Myin Thar | Myanmar | 69 (A)
Square hopping Centre, Kyun Taw
Pyay St, 71/2 Mile, Mayangone Tsp | Kosan Café-Bar Branch 1 | Bar | 18, U
Cream | Ice Cream | Junction Road | 09 732 183 21
Shake Bubble Tea | Cafe |
Tun Lin Chan Street, Hledan | 01
No:1201 ,Pin Lon Rd |093023595,
L’Alchimiste | French | 5 U Tun Nyein
Shwe Pyi Moe | Myanmar Tea Shop
503 232
Street, Mayangone Tsp | 01 660 612
Mayangone Township | 01 664 204
Floor | 01 527 242
Road | 01 554 748
Scoop premium Italian Ice
Frolick | Frozen Yoghurt | Kyun
Taw Street, Junction Square, 3rd
Ryukyu | Japanese | 76 Saya San
Yankin Tsp
La Maison 20 | Fine Dining |
Gourmet Corner Restaurant |
Arirang Restaurant | Korean | Thiri
Kone street, Corner of Thitisar
01 661 839, 01 663 743
01 653 644, 01 653 660
Bar | Yankin Tsp
187 010
Innlay Ahmataya | Shan | 8 Kyout
Zu Street, Yankin Tsp | 09 421
Epic Bar & Restaurant | Western
Zephyr Coffee & Restaurant | Asian |
Road, 6 ½ Miles, Hlaing Tsp | 09 420
Coner of Parami Road and Myint
250 178 879, 01 557 448, ext. 818
Street | 09 731 272 80
Indian Tadka | Indian | 7(A), Pyay
20, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road,
H L’Opera Restaurant | Italian
| 62D, U Htun Nyein Street,
095007202
| level 3, corner of Ngwe Ni 13 Street, North Okkalapa Tsp | 09 421 006 237 SP Bakery
No(56), Sayarsan Road | Yangon, | 01 542 524, 09 265 388 880
H Shwe Sa Bwe | French/Fine
Mayangone Tsp | 09 730 307 55
Dining | 20 Malikha Road | 01 661 983
H La Tartine | French Bakery |
Taing Yin Tar | Myanmar | 5A,
448 ext. 858
Parami Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01
Pearl Condo A, Bahan Tsp | 01 557
Little Tokyo | Japanese | 10D,
Kabaung Road, Hlaing Tsp | 09 731 851 68, 09 731 789 46
Lotteria @ Junction 8 | Fastfood
Corner of May Kha Road and 660 792, 09 732 217 17
The Myths | Western Cuisine | 18
Thukhawaddy St., 6th Ward, Yankin Tsp | 09 431 688 08, 095 037 764
| G21- G24, Junction 8 Shopping
The Seoul Korean Restaurant |
Myangone Tsp | 01 650 771
848 88, 09 421 177 524
Mall, Kyik Wine Pagoda Road,
Korean | 142 Parami Road | 09 492
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Bars &
Clubs
Nightlife Bars
Yangon has an expanding nightlife
Friendship Bar: No(135)corner of
Branch 2: No.108, 19th Stree
Off the Beaten Track: Kandawgyi
Cheap and cheerful
232 | Popular with tourists, expats
Mingla Taung Nyunt Tsp | 09 541
Dhamazedi Road & Inya Road |
scene. No longer limited to hotel
Gallery Bar: Shangri-La Hotel,
now an emerging variety of places
01-242 828 ext. 6433 | Excellent
bars and beer stations, there is 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
Level 2, 223 Sule Pagoda Road | Happy Hour with cosy corners Gekko: 535 Merchant Street, Kyauktada Tsp, 4th Quarter |
Stylish and discreet with excellent yet unusual Japanese inspired cocktails
new Sanchaung bar
Ginki Kids: 18 Kambawza Road,
Blind Tiger: | United condominium,
Relaxed atmosphere with cold
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
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Bahan Township, Yangon |
(Upper Block), Latha Tsp | 01 503 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),
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 tablesopen late
Sapphire Lounge & Bar: Alfa
interesting wine bar
Tsp | Discreet outside rooftop bar
8 , 09 420 308 350 | Small and
Mojo: No.135, Corner of Innya
Ice Bar: Sedona Hotel, 1 Kabar Aye
418 | Popular spot with good
but getting there with dry ice and
6437 | A place to meet other travelers
Lanmadaw Tsp | 01- 122 156
beers
Pagoda Road | Not quite frozen
Natural Park, Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar,
Hotel, 41 Nawaday Street, Dagon with great views
and Dhammazedi Road | 01-511
Space Bar: No.126 , Kabar Aye
events
and indoor rooftop setting
Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | Outdoor
a lively in-house band
Music Box: Yangon International
Sports Bar: 20 Pearl Street, Mya
Kosan Bar-Branch 1: No.18, 1-A
Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 730 364 33
Gyar Ward (2), Bahan Tsp | 09 731
U Tun Lin Chan Street, Hledan, Kamayut Tsp | 01 503 232;
Hotel Complex, No.330, Ahlone | A karaoke bar with individual booths and dance-floor
Yeik Nyo Royal Hotel, Shwe Taung 321 61 | Popular outdoor bar/ restaurant
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The Lab: 70A Shwegondaing
09-420 180 214 | Famous for
Club Rizzoli: Chatrium Hotel 42,
The Music Club: Park Royal Hotel,
winner of Yangon’s Bartenders
ext. 6243/6244 | Private party
Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388 |
Road, Bahan | 09- 250 018 200, 09-
their Moscow Mule cocktails and
restaurant with excellent cocktails
competition. Runs a good variety of
250 537 979 | A new and busy bar/
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
events, including guest DJ nights Vista Bar: 168, Corner of
corner of the Myanmar Red Cross
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in-house DJ
bar with amazing views of Shwe
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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
Clubs
CafĂŠ Liberal: Nat Mauk Street,
| Loud music and a good up-town
GTR: 37 Kaba Aye Pagoda Road | Popular with a young and hip crowd
Enjoy the occasional live band and themed nights; as well as regular nights with the in-house DJ
Please check out "Plot Ahead" for Nightlife events happening around Yangon.
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
Next to Chatrium Hotel | 01 551
Pioneer: Yangon International
standing!
crowd with pop/club music
774, 09 642 093 0 | For the last one
Basement One, 33 Alan Pha Phaya
Hotel, No.330, Ahlone Road | Fun
M A G A Z I N E
We Bring
yo
Building, Botahtaung Tsp |
karaoke, live percussion band and
DJ Bar: U Htun Nyein Street, Yangon
Tar Shay Street | Open-air rooftop
live music. Only open to non-
Union Bar & Grill: 42 Strand Rd, Left
paradise with Cuban cigars,
Shwegonedaing Road and Old Yay
Inya Rd | Beautiful lake-views with members on Fridays
Natmauk Rd, Tamwe | 01544 500
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