MY Yangon November Issue by MY Yangon Magazine

2 November 2014 My Yangon

November 2014 My Yangon

Publishing Information Publisher

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Yangon Directory Publication House Editor in Chief: U Aung Kyaw Editor: Emily Hawkesworth

Graphic Design: Natalie Ortiz V, Gu Gue

Writers: Tatwin Owen Edmunds, Cliff Lonsdale, San Lin Tun

Photographers: Daniel Roca, Emmanuel Maillard

Editorial: Sithu Phyo, Zaw Min Lay, Hla Phone Aung, Win Win Htwe

Illustrators: Ba Htay Kyi (cover), Nyi Pu Chae

Sales: Phyu Phyu Zin, Nu Nu Kyaw, Honey Htun, Yadanar Su Mon

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Editor's Letter Transport within a city is a complex yet fascinating occurrence; it is relied upon by every individual, business, organization and affects almost everything to do with a city. For some, travelling can be a chore, others a pleasure; even when choosing the same mode of transport, experiences can vary hugely. Cities are characterised and made unique by their transport systems and Yangon follows suit. This issue focuses on all the city's different transportation and how it is utilised, functions and in doing so tries to open a dialogue between those who provide these services and those who use them. We have interviewed taxi drivers, tri-shawists, an award-winning traffic policeman, a private jet company, an e-bike salesman and a variety of commuters. Hearing everyone's stories and perspectives, enjoying the beautiful illustration on the cover and stopping to think about transport in Yangon has given me a new understanding and appreciation for its unique transportation and the people who support it.

We also have all our usuals-a variety of maps, monthly planner, listings, reviews, sports, arts, a township guide, travel feature, "best of" and some new additions- like a treasure hunt for kids. Thank you, as always to the incredible and invaluable Yangon Directory team, all our contributors, supporters and Yangon friends. Keep updated by following us on Twitter @MYYangon and Facebook MYyangonmagazine You can also read all of our Myanmar articles in English on the Yangon Directory Website www.yangondirectory.com www.yangondirectory.com ဝက္ဆုိက္တြင္ ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႔၏ အဂၤလိပ္ေဆာင္းပါး မ်ားကုိ ျမန္မာဘာသာျဖင့္ ဖတ္႐ွဳႏုိင္ပါသည္။

Emily

Contents

FREE

No. 03

Plot Ahead

6-7

Beauty

Cheap Thrills

8-9

Flash Fiction

Yangon Essentials

10-11

Shopping

48-49

We Love…Townships

12-14

Dining

51-56

Yangon Trends

Nightlife

58-59

Escape to…

18-19

Horoscope

60-61

Art

26-27

၇ ရက္သားသမီးမ်ားအတြက္ ေဟာစာတမ္း

Business

28-29

Map

Meet

30-31

Kids

Watch

Best of..

41-42

Hidden Heroes

21-23

Sports

44-45

I want to ride my E-bike

24-25

Trishaws

34-35

11/2014

62-63

FEATURES November 2014 My Yangon

PLOT AHEAD NOVEMBER Sat 1

Wed 5

Mon 10

Fri 14

MEMORY! Film Heritage Festival in Yangon (day 5)-Classic films from around the world are being screened at Nay Pyi Taw Cinema in Yangon. For more information visit www.memoryfilmfestival.org/ yangon

Live Music @ 50th Street Bar and

Take a stroll around Fujian Kheng Hock Keong Temple-it is the largest and oldest Chinese Buddhist / Taoist temple dedicated to the Chinese goddess Mazu in Yangon. Corner of Sintodan Street and Strand Road

The French Institute hosts the very first &PROUD Yangon LGBT Film Festival.

Sun 2 Open The Jam-Open mic night at Mojo 7pm to 10pm: The jam is coming!

Mon 3 The start of "Dinosaur Week" @ Bookwrom Books! Check out dinosaur themed activity packs and books with models to make out of wood or paper! Grr!

Tue 4 Myanmar Foreign Correspondents Club Drinks 6:30 pm Kaung Myat Beer Station, 19th Street, Upper Block

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Restaurant

Thurs 6 U Ba Gyan Cartoon FestivalCelebrating the life and work of Myanmar most famous cartoonist. 13th Street Lanmadaw Township

Fri 7 Live Music @Kokine Bar and Restaurant, Kokkine Swimming Club Lane 6 pm – 11pm

Sat 8 Hatha Yoga workshop in Yangon, 3:30 pm – 5:00pm Pearl Condo. Learn Yoga with integrity in a supported, safe environment. Text Meg 09250099058 to book.

Sun 9 Informal drawing classes at Pansodan Scene 10 am. A friendly mix of local artists and hobbyists

Tue 11 International Comedy night @ 50th Street Bar and Restaurant. Chuckles all round.

Wed 12 Ladies Night @ Standard Bar. Buy one, get one free cocktails for ladies 6 pm to 11 pm

Thurs 13 Folk On Fire @ Mojo a mix of Folk and Reggae to light up your evening and get your feet tapping

Sat 15 Burmese Language Learning Club @Pansodan Scene. 4 pm Learn Burmese though flashcards and role plays. Open to all levels and ages.

Sun 16 Green Party!! @ Green Gallery 5 pm onwards No 58, 51st street (Lower Block). Music and fantastic Thai food. A November Highlight

Mon 17 Monday Blues @ Mojo. A unique Blues show in Yangon, from 9:30pm with free entry!

Tue 18

Tue 25

Tuesday Snippets @ Pansodan Gallery 7:00pm drinks, nibbles, conversation and art.

Kahtein Thingan Weaving Festival. Night long weaving competitions of yellow robes for monks @ Shwedagon Pagoda

Wed 19 Mae Lamu Pagoda Festival. North Okkalapa Township. 24 hours recital of the Holy Scriptures and evening entertainment of Zat (Drama), Stage Shows and Movies

Thurs 20 Day one of the Japan Product EXPO 2014, Tat Ma Daw Hall, Yangon. It is the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Myanmar. Many of Japan's leading brands will be showcasing their products.

Fri 21 The Strand Hotel Friday Happy Hour 5 pm – 11pm 50% off all cocktails

Sat 22 Monument Toys 5th Year Anniversary at Valentine Island in Kandawgyi Park weekends 2-6 pm. Hot Wheels Crazy Race: Try to be the fastest on the Hot Wheels racing Circuit!

Sun 23

Wed 26 Lighting of 9000 Candles at Koe Htat Gyi Pagoda, Bagaya Street

Thurs 27 Tazaung Dine Festival. Robes, money and other items are placed on wooden frames for monks, to commemorate the offering of lights to the “Sulamani Pagoda” (abode of the celestial beings)

Fri 28 Yangon Yacht Club on Inya Road is open to non-members. Swing by for an after-work sundowner.

Sat 29 The Music Run by KBZ 4 pm at Thuwana Stadium. 10,000 participants enjoy a day of live music and entertainment to raise money for the Myanmar Disable Council. Register at https://www. facebook.com/TheMusicRunMM

Sun 30 Sunday Brunch @ Union Bar enjoy 2 courses and a drink of sparkling wine for $22 USD

Social Netball 2pm- 4pm. Both men & women are welcome to join, any age over 12. Bring along your children, partners, friends. No 5. U Tun Nyein Street, Mayangone Tsp, @ L’Alchimiste Restaurant. 20,000KS membership fee.

Mon 24 Quiz Night @ 50th Street Bar and Restaurant. Prizes for the round winners and the overall victors

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CHEAP THRILLS Explore Latha Township's Chinese Kongsi "clan halls"

and Temples. Finish up with some Chinese BBQ on 19th Street PG.12

Take the family to Kandwagyi Nature Park, PG. 11 and

help your kids complete a Kandwagyi treasure hunt

PG.38

Try out the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira at

Institut Français de Birmanie (IFB), Tuesdays 6-8pm PG.44

Hang out with some local taxi drivers and taste

some delicious Myanmar home-cooking at Yown Myo

Thu restaurant, located on Yanshin Road, Yankin PG.21

Watch some classic Lwin Moe travel documentaries

on Youtube PG. 39 or hunt the series down in Dong Jing DVD shop, Latha Tsp Pg.13

Try out some of Yangon's best snacks using our

guide on PG.41

Check out Pansodan Gallery for some of Myanmar's

best Art and cultural events PG.26

Give Daw San San a call and practice your Burmese

on your way to work PG.21

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E L Y T S T E E STR

old & new

G N I N E P O W E N Green Elephant

C.1961

Previously located on New University Avenue, this famous and much

loved restaurant has re-located to 9 mile. The Green Elephant team has literally deconstructed a teak house and moved it to this new plot

of land. The beautiful and traditional house is semi-open-air, with views and sunsets to be enjoyed from the upper floor.

The décor is traditional Burmese, elegant and tasteful-much like the home furnishings available to purchase in the adjoining showroom.

The food served here is some of the best Myanmar cuisine you will

be lucky enough to try- flavoursome, fresh and full of variety. Try the Rakhine fish curry or vermicelli soup. The tofu and tomato curry is not too oily and bursting with flavour; and all the home-made chutneys

and condiment accompaniments are reason alone to visit this unique restaurant. This is the perfect place to try Myanmar's amazing

cuisine or even get a home-comforts fix; you will find the food to be authentic, Myanmar cuisine yet healthy and tasty. The owner, Cherie

Aung-Khin has created a beautiful restaurant with delicious food and impeccable service that is not to be missed.

Yangon Heritage Trust

2014

No.2 Aung Thu Kha Street, 9 Miles (Near Ocean Center)-01 661 887. Open 09:00-22:00

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N O G N A Y IALS

T N E S S E

Fast becoming a cosmopolitan destination, Yangon and its distinctive city characteristics reflect not only an interesting and varied past but a blossoming and booming future. Carved-up into three main areas (downtown, midtown and uptown) the city is easy to navigate (traffic depending!) and full of variety.

CHECK OUT OUR NEXT ISSUE FOR

MIDTOWN TOWNSHIPS (East) TOWNSHIP Bahan (BHN)

Mingalar Taung Nyunt (MTNT)

ABOUT

SEE

INFORMATION ON UPTOWN

TOWNSHIPS

SHOP

PLAY

Home to one of Yangon’s most

Bogyoke Aung San

There are many art

Ginki Kids

Golden Valley.

Pagoda, Fushan Si Temple,

Valley area

Restaurant

exclusive neighbourhoods -

Museum, Chaukhtatgyi Nga Htat Gyi Pagoda

With over 100,000 residents,

Sri Hanuman Temple,

township.

Station, Aung San Stadium,

this is Yangon’s most populous

Yangon Central Railway

galleries in the Golden

Taw Win Plaza, United Living Mall

Karaweik Royal Barge,

The Eastern most part of the

Tamwe (TMWE)

An area with many wood

British city plan.

and aluminum furniture and furnishings workshops.

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Shwebonpwint Pagoda

Sunni Jamah Mosques

Tennis

Ground, Stadium

Junction Square, E-City EP, Yae Kyaw Market, Panzundaung Market

M A Mamsa & Masedi Khan

Theinphyu

Hockey

Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Panzundaung (PZDG)

Bar &

United Living Mall, Orange Shopping Mall

OT Cyber Cafe

Kyaikkasan

Playground, Thuwunna Stadium

MAPS

KANDAWGYI NATURE PARK ကန္ေတာ္ႀကီးသဘာဝဥယ်ာဥ္ ဗဟ န္း လ မ္း

Ba ha n

Ro ad

Nat Mauk

9 6

Road နတ ္ေ

မာက္လမ

္း

15 16

3 17

Legend Food and Drink

Kan Y e

ik Tha

Music Area

Road ကန္ရ ိပ္သာလ မ္း

Romantic Area

Viewing Area

Car Parking

Keep Fit and Tai Chi Areas

Entrance Gate

Playground

Important Data Kandawgyi Nature Park is made up of three different parks, all surrounding the Kandawgyi Lake, each with a different character and attractions. Karaweik Garden has a great playground, including a rope bridge, a small zoo, many restaurants, and spaces for concerts and unplugged bands. Bogyoke Park has the Utopia Tower, a great viewing platform with views over the park and city. Myay Padathar Island has a freshwater fish garden, an Agricultural Museum, and many different species of trees found in Myanmar. The park's crowning glories are the wooden walkway over the lake, and the majestic Karaweik Royal Barge. For a spiritual retreat, there is the colourful Su Taung Pyae Aung Chantha Dat Paung Su Zedi on Bagan Lone Island.

ကန္ေတာ္ႀကီးသဘာဝဥယ်ာဥ္ကို ကန္ေတာ္ ႀကီး ကန္ပတ္လည္တြင္ အပိုင္းသံုးပိုင္းခြဲ၍ ျပဳလုပ္ထားၿပီး အပိုင္းတစ္ခုစီတြင္ မတူညီ ေသာ အျပင္အဆင္ေနရာမ်ားႏွင့္ စြဲေဆာင္မႈ မ်ားရွိသည္။ ကရဝိတ္ဥယ်ာဥ္တြင္ က်ယ္ဝန္း ေသာ ကစားကြင္းတစ္ခုအပါအဝင္ ႀကိဳးတံ တား၊ တိရစာၦန္ဥယ်ာဥ္ငယ္၊ စားေသာက္ဆိုင္ မ်ားႏွင့္ ဂီတပြဲ၊ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲမ်ားက်င္းပရာေနရာ မ်ားပါဝင္သည္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ပန္းျခံအပိုင္းတြင္ ပန္းျခံတစ္ခုလံုးႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၏ အလွကို အထက္စီးမွ ၾကည့္႐ွဳခံစားႏိုင္ေသာ ယူတိုးပီး ယားတာဝါရွိသည္။ ေျမပေဒသာကြ်န္းဘက္ တြင္မူ ေရခ်ိဳငါးဥယ်ာဥ္၊ စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရးျပတိုက္ ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ သစ္ပင္အမ်ိဳးအစားမ်ားစံု လင္စြာကို ေတြ႔ျမင္ႏိုင္သည္။ ပန္းျခံႀကီးတစ္ခု လံုး၏ ဂုဏ္က်က္သေရေဆာင္မ်ားမွာ ကန္ေရျပင္အထက္တြင္ တည္ေဆာက္ထား ေသာ သစ္သားတံတားမ်ားႏွင့္ ကရဝိတ္ ေဖာင္ေတာ္တို႔ျဖစ္သည္။ ပန္းကန္လံုးကြ်န္း တြင္ တည္ထားကိုးကြယ္ထားေသာ ဆုေတင္းျပည့္ ေအာင္ ခ်မ္းသာ၊ ဓာတ္ေပါင္း စုဘုရားမွာလည္း အလြန္သပၸာယ္ လွေပသည္။

1 Su Taung Pyae Aung

9 Flower and Plant Shops 10 White Elephant Statues 11 Aquarium 12 Royal Garden Restaurant 13 Utopia 14 Bangkok Kitchen

Chantha Dat Paung Su Zedi

2 Shin Thiwali 3 Kandawgyi Palace Hotel 4 Topiary Garden 5 Signature Restaurant 6 Flower Walk 7 Western Park

Restaurant

15 Dolphin Restaurant 16 White Rice Restaurant 17 Mr. Guitar Bar and

Restaurant

8 Kandawgyi Swimming

Restaurant

Pool

18 Aviary

1 Bagan Lone Island Entrance

5 Bogyoke Garden Entrance

2 U Htaung Bo Junction Entrance

6 Myaw Sin Island Entrance

3 Bahan 3 Street Entrance

7 Tank Hill Entrance

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WE LOVE Latha is a bustling, beeping, shoulder-bumping township typical of the hive-like busyness of downtown Yangon. Unique in its strong connection with Yangon’s Sino-Burmese community; it forms the main part of Yangon’s Chinatown-made up of areas like 19th Street, as well as many Clan Halls and Chinese Temples. The strong Chinese connection has driven the growth of a variety of shops and restaurants serving up exotic goods from the orient. More recently this taste for foreign flavours has seen the appearance of many other cuisines from Japanese to American/ Western– a natural expression of Yangon embracing things foreign and new. Apart from culinary delights there are temples,

churches, mosques, hardware stores, phone shops, electrical

appliance markets, laundry services and much more. Yangon

General Hospital and two of downtown Yangon’s finest schools are also based in this thriving area. In Latha you are never short of things to see and try.

EAT 19th Street is the centre of Yangon’s Chinatown and boasts a great selection of Chinese and BBQ restaurants. Kosan Snack & Bar offers 1000 Kyats mojitos and is for those looking to kick off a big night and then wake up the next day with your head pounding harder than knitting with chop-sticks! No. 108, 19th Street-01 503 32 32 12 November 2014 My Yangon

Kaung Myat is in a yellow/green old building next to Kosan. The restaurant is widely accepted as the best food on the street No. 110, 19th Street Yummy Restaurant and BBQ has Myanmar beer on tap and shows the English Premier League games. The restaurant is tiled and cleaner than average with lots of fans. There are english and photo-illustrated menus. The chicken balls are nice and doughy. Last restaurant at the top of 19th Street Win Restaurant and Shwe Mingalar Restaurant both sprawl across both sides of the street. At Shwe Mingalar the staff all wear matching red polo shorts and you can hand-pick your BBQ from a mix of chicken, beef, vegetables and lobster. Win Restaurant-01 536 982. Shwe Mingalar Restaurant, No. 105, 19th Street-01 251 341 Chun Mai is a charming boutique restaurant located in one of the older atmospheric buildings it is run by a gaggle of friendly SinoBurmese women who cook up traditional Chinese food.No. 95 (B), 19th Street An alternative to 19th Street is Latha Street; full of bright shop lights and crumbling concrete. Soe Pyi Swar Vegetarian Centre serves up an endless choice of vegetarian food that ranges from artificial duck to prawns. If mock meat doesn’t appeal there are other more straightforward options, such as kai lan and a delicious sour and crunchy bean sprout and vermicelli salad. Everything is superbly fresh and is accompanied by home-made pickled and sliced cucumbers. No. 136 Latha Street

neighborhood

LATHA Oishii Sushi is a popular sushi restaurant; the menus are easy to follow and look out for the specials advertised on the walls. There is the standard mix of sushi, sashimi and rolls as well as an excellent seafood salad. The mayonnaise pawns are great, the sweet crunchy roll is stand out good and the service plates are pretty stylish. A freshly sliced, easy on the wallet option. No. 98 Latha Street-09 734 94 207 Cherry Mann is one of the most popular restaurants in Latha, maybe even in Yangon. It is an Indian Restaurant serving curries and BBQ No 78-80, Latha Street-01 374 891 California Cake and Bakery is an American style diner that serves up a truck-stop menu popular with the local customers. Any American visitors might find the food a little shy of what there used to, but it’s still worth a try. No. 129, Latha Street-01 250 940 Street food! There is a 24 hour street bar which serves up ice cold Myanmar beer deep into the midnight hours. If you feel a bit peckish you can also order up some midnight Myanmar snacks of rice, noodles or chicken - all spiced up to the nines. Corner of Lanmadaw and Anawratha Street On Latha’s far Eastern edge is another group of stalls serving up mostly samosas and other Burmo-Indian fusion fare. Corner of Anawratha and Shwedagon Padoga Road. Mr. Te Win has a small stall cooking daylight street treats of sliced pork, rice, gravy, chopped garlic and spring onions. You can call him to pre-order. Anawratha Street close to 24th Street-09254497952 Fruit and Samosas. In the same area there is a charming young man selling spring rolls and samosas on a large steel stall and a

group of ladies selling fresh fruit. Anawratha Street close to 24th Street

Shop The Metro Dry Cleaning and Laundry has cheap laundry services and an English speaking shopkeeper. No.161-163, Latha Street-01 250 867 Dong Jing DVD. This shop has a wide range of English language and global cinema films and series. No. 157, Latha Street-01 242 427 Hardware Street Market. A selection of stalls selling everything from plugs to pins. There are also stalls that do repairs. Anawratha Road, 21st Street to 22nd Street. 22nd Street contains a number of electrical sign shops (Upper Block) 23rd Street (Upper Block). This street has a variety of electrical shops which sell sound systems, fans and many other household appliances. Tun Electronic Trading Co. Ltd sells professional audio systems, video displays, power stabilizers and other electronic systems. There are two branches. No. 19-20 Anawratha Road and No.3945 Anawratha–01 241 993 Theingyi Zey is the biggest, local market in the city and one of the oldest, being built in 1905. Roughly 1156 shops and stalls make up the traditional wet and dry market (Block A) that sells anything from fishery products to dry market (Block B) commodities like textiles.

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SHOPPING CENTRES Sein Gay Har- Central Mart No. 620, Mahabandoola Road between Bo Yawe & 23rd Street -01 371 993 Sein Gay Har- Chinatown Centre No. 678, Mahabandoola Road between 19th Street & 20th Street-01 382 310

Places to see and visit Clan Halls-Kongsi Kongsi or "clan halls" are benevolent organizations founded by overseas Chinese communities for individuals with the same surname. Kongsi were utilised by overseas Chinese to overcome social and economic difficulties. There are roughly 80 clan associations in Myanmar, many of which are based in Latha. Some of the most famous are: The Long Shan Tang Clan Association, based in the Hokkien Chinese clan temple of the same name. Members of the Tseng and Khoo clans from Fujian Province founded the temple in 1877. 53 Anawratha Road Ying Fo Fui Kun, a Hakka Chinese Clan Association, housed in the Yangon Chinatown branch of Sein Gay Har on 23rd street. The Fukienese Association, a Hokkien community’s clan association, located in the Kheng Hock Kong Temple. In coalition with the temple they have established a free clinic, have a social welfare program for elderly citizens, offer free mandarin classes for young Chinese Burmese and even financially support Burmese social projects; for example construction work on Sule Pagoda. The Myanmar Yangon Yunnannese Association, was the earliest Yangon Yunnannese Clan Hall founded in 1911 and originally located at 30 Latha Street. In 1994, the organisation moved its headquarters to Hlaing Mingalar Hall in Yangon’s Mayangone Tsp. The Myanmar Thye Guan Ong Association represents overseas Chinese from Thye Guan township in China’s Hokkien Province who have the surname Ong (the second most common among Myanmar’s Chinese community). They are based at Sin Oh Dan Street. Formally founded in 1910 the organisation helped fellow clan members look for jobs, supported in times of difficulty, housed the sick, and even took care of funerals for the poor.

Places of Worship Fujian Kheng Hock Keong Temple is the largest and oldest Chinese Buddhist / Taoist temple dedicated to the Chinese goddess Mazu in Yangon. A Hokkien Chinese clan association maintains the temple and it attracts mostly Hokkien and Hakka worshipers. Corner of Sintodan Street and Strand Road Guanyin Gumiao Temple is the second famous Chinese Buddhist Temple in Latha Township. Also known as the Guangdong Guanyin Temple it was founded before Kheng Hock Keong Temple in 1823 by the Cantonese community of Yangon, but was destroyed by a fire in December 1855. The Current Temple was not rebuilt until 14 November 2014 My Yangon

1864 and had two additional brick buildings built in 1872.No.668 MahaBandoolaRoad (Corner of Latha Road) Long Shan Tang Temple is a Hokkien Chinese clan temple, members of the Tseng and Khoo clans from Fujian Province founded the temple in 1877.The temple is dedicated to ancestral worship.No. 53-55 Anawratha Road Maha Peinne is the Buhddist interpretation of Ganesha; a Maha Peinne Hindu Temple is at No. 149 24th Street.

SPAS, SALONS AND CLINICS T8 Hair Design@Latha is part of a chain of hairdressers in Yangon No. 64 Latha Street-01 378 309 The View Fitness Centre in Hotel Grand united 21st Downtown No. 66-70, 21st Street-01 378 200

Schools & Hospitals BEHS 1 Latha; formerly Central High School.No. 270 Shwedagon Pagoda Road BEHS 2 Latha; formerly St. John's Convent School. No.112 Bogyoke Aung San Road Total Kids School is a chain of Pre-Schools in Myanmar, with 7 branches in Yangon. There is one branch on Latha street (upper block)-01 224 701 Yangon General Hospital on Bogyoke Aung San Road is one of Yangon's largest and most prestigious hospitals with a long history of medical teaching; it services healthcare for most of downtown Yangon. Golden Lion Healthcare Centre. Visit for drop-ins.No. 96 Latha Street–01 395 544

Places to stay 20th Street Hostel dormitory rooms start $12 USD a night. You also get free wifi and travel advice. Ideal for backpackers-No.23, 20th Street (Lower Block) Chit Sayar Hotel & Restaurant is ten minutes walk from Sule pagoda and Bogyoke Market, decently equipped for both business and leisure travel.No.646, Mahabandoola Road-01 242 094 E-mail: csyhotel@myanmar.com.mm Daw Htay Hotel.Rooms cost $40 USD per night and the hotel is clean, customer friendly and well located No. 103-105, Sin Oh Dan Street Hotel Grand United 21st Downtown is the more costly option at $80 USD per night No. 66-70, 21st Street-01 378 200 grandunited.21@gmail.com

N O G N A Y DS TREN

GOOD VIBRATIONS HOW TO PIMP YOUR RIDE This article gives advice on how to upgrade your car. If you want to read this article please find the translated version on our website www.yangondirectory.com where you will also find our Automobile Directory www.myanmarautomobiledirectory.com.

အက်ိဳးရွသ ိ ည့္ ကားအလွဆင္ျခင္းႏွင့္ စြမး္ ရည္ျမႇငတ ့္ င္ျခင္း နည္းလမ္းအခ်ိဳ႕ကို

ကားတစ္စီးတြင္ အင္ဂ်င္ပါဝါ မ်ားေလေလ တုန္ခါမႈ မ်ားေလေလျဖစ္သည္။

ေအာက္တင ြ ္ ေဖာ္ျပေပးထားသည္။ ကားတစ္စီးကို အလွဆင္ျခင္း သို႔မဟုတ္ စြမ္းရည္

မိမိအလွဆင္လိုေသာ ပစၥည္းသည္ အဆိုပါ တုန္ခါမႈဒဏ္ကို ခံႏိုင္ရန္ အေရးႀကီးေပသည္။

ျမႇင့္တင္ရာတြင္ အင္ဂ်င္ပိုင္း၊ လွ်ပ္စစ္ပိုင္း၊ ကိုယ္ထည္ပိုင္း စသည္ျဖင့္ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး ျပဳလုပ္

မိမိကား အမ်ိဳးအစားေပၚမူတည္၍ သင့္ေလ်ာ္ေသာ အလွဆင္ ပစၥည္းမ်ားကိုသာ အသံုး

ေလ့ရသ ိွ ည္။ မည္သည့အ ္ ပိင ု း္ ကို အလွဆင္ဆင္ စနစ္တက် အလွဆင္တတ္မသ ွ ာ မိမက ိ ား

ျပဳေစလိုသည္။

၏ လုပေ ္ ဆာင္ရည္ စြမ္းအားကို မထိခိုက္ေစဘဲ ပိုမိုလွပေသာ ကားတစ္စီး ျဖစ္ေစမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။

မိမိအေနျဖင့္ အလွဆင္ထားၿပီးသား ကားတစ္စီးကို ဝယ္ယူမည္ဆိုလွ်င္ လည္း ကားအမ်ိဳးအစားႏွင့္ အလွဆင္ထားေသာ ပစၥည္းမ်ား ကိုက္ညီသင့္ေလ်ာ္မႈ ရွိမရွိ

ထိုသို႔မဟုတ္ပါက မိမိအေနျဖင့္ အလွဆင္ပစၥည္းမ်ား မည္မွ်ေစ်းႀကီးႀကီး

ကို ၾကည့္႐ႈဝယ္ယူသင့္ပါသည္။

သံုးေစကာမူ မိမိကားမွ အျပည့္အဝ ေထာက္ပံ့ေပးႏုိင္မႈမရွိသျဖင့္ အက်ိဳးရွိမည္မဟုတ္ဘဲ ဆိုးက်ိဳးသာ ျဖစ္ေစမည္ျဖစ္သည္။

pwD,m&ifvufukdif ကားစတီယာရင္အတြက္ အခ်ိဳ႕ မိမိကားႏွင့္ လိုက္ဖက္မည့္ လက္ကိုင္အသစ္ကုိ ဝယ္ယူ တပ္ဆင္ၾကသည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ လက္ကိုင္စြပ္ ဒီဇိုင္းဆန္းဆန္းေလးမ်ားျဖင့္သာ အလွဆင္ၾကသည္။ သားေရ၊ အဝတ္စသည္တို႔ျဖင့္ ကာဗာအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး ရွိေပရာ သင့္ကားအတြင္းပိုင္း အေရာင္ႏွင့္ ကိုက္ညီေသာ အေရာင္အမ်ိဳးအစားကို ေရြးခ်ယ္တပ္ဆင္ျခင္းျဖင့္ သင့္ကား၏ မူလ လက္ကိုင္ကို သက္တမ္းရွည္ၾကာ အသံုးျပဳႏုိင္မည္ျဖစ္သည္။

um;ta&mif သင့္ကားေဆးေရာင္

ပိုမိုေတာက္ပလွပေစႏိုင္မည့္

နည္းလမ္းမ်ားျဖင့္

အလွဆင္ႏိုင္ေပသည္။

မူလအေရာင္ေပၚတြင္

သက္တန္႔ေရာင္ကဲ့သို႔ ေရာင္စံုေလးမ်ား ထြက္ေအာင္သုတ္ လိမ္းသည့္ နည္းလမ္းျဖစ္သည့္ Rainbow Effect ထည့္ျခင္းႏွင့္ မူလေဆးေရာင္ကို ပိုမို ေတာက္ပေစသည့္ နည္းလမ္းျဖစ္သည့္ Crystal Effect ထည့္ျခင္းတို႔ျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုသို႔ Colour effect ထည့္ျခင္းျဖင့္ သင့္ကား၏ ေဆးေရာင္ကို ပိုမိုေတာက္ပေစၿပီး ၾကာရွည္ခံ သလို အပူဒဏ္ကိုလည္း ခံႏိုင္ရည္ရိွပါသည္။

um;bD;acG သတၱဳေခြ၊ အလြိဳင္း (သတၱဳစပ္) ေခြ စသည္ျဖင့္ ရွိသည္။ သတၱဳေခြမ်ားမွာ ေစ်းႏႈန္းသက္သာၿပီး တာရွည္ခံသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ေလးလံသျဖင့္ ကားသြားလာသည့္ အရွိန္ကို ေႏွးေကြးေစသည္။ အလိြဳင္းေခြမ်ားမွာ ေပါ့ပါးသျဖင့္ ကားအရွိန္ျဖင့္ သြားလာမႈကို ပိုမိုေစသည္။ လွပေသာ္လည္း အရည္အေသြး မေကာင္းျခင္း၊ မိမိကားအေလးခ်ိန္ကို ေထာက္ပံ့ေပးႏိုင္ျခင္း မရွိေသာ အလိြဳင္းေခြမ်ားျဖင့္ အလွမဆင္သင့္ေပ။ သို႔ျဖစ္၍ သင့္ကားဘီးခြင္ႏွင့္ ကိုက္ညီၿပီး၊ ကားအေလးခ်ိန္ကို ေထာက္ပံ့ ေပးႏိုင္ကာ သင့္ကားအေရာင္ႏွင့္ လိုက္ဖက္ေသာ ဘီးေခြမ်ားျဖင့္ အလွဆင္ျခင္းသည္ သင့္ကားအတြက္ ပိုမိုအက်ိဳးရွိသ လို ပိုမိုလွပမည္ျဖစ္သည္။

um;twGif;ykdif;xkdifcHkpGyfrsm; သားေရ၊ အဝတ္စသည္ျဖင့္ ထိုင္ခံုစြပ္ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးရွိရာ ရာသီဥတုျဖင့္ ကိုက္ညီၿပီး ကားအတြင္းပိုင္း၊ အျပင္ပိုင္း အေရာင္တို႔ျဖင့္ ကိုက္ညီလွပေသာ ထိုင္ခံုအစြပ္မ်ားျဖင့္ အလွဆင္ျခင္းျဖင့္ မူလထိုင္ခံုအစြပ္မ်ား အလြယ္တကူ ပ်က္ဆီးျခင္း မွ ကာကြယ္ေပးႏိုင္သလို သင့္ကားကို ပိုမိုလွပမႈေပးႏိုင္ေပသည္။

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Escape to

ngwe saung

Things to do Lover's Island-You will find this scenic small island at the Southern end of the beach-which can be walked to during low

tide. Although there is not much to be found on the island itself, it is a great place to

take in panoramic views across the Bay of Bengal and the beach itself. The woodland

Although the 5 hour drive (by bus or private taxi) from Yangon can at first feel like an

clearing in the centre might also make for a

of Ngwe Saung’s pull is its staggered development and sheer space, enabling it to retain

to the island, could be a fun and exciting

ordeal, the quiet and vast openness of Ngwe Saung beach makes it all worthwhile. Part

good picnic spot and more generally a visit

a tropical beach feel that is now so hard to find in other parts of Southeast Asia.

activity for children. Keep your eyes peeled

Traveling to Ngwe Saung is relatively easy. There are buses from both Pathein and

for the mermaid!

Yangon. From Yangon they are usually scheduled at 6.30am, 7.30am for 9000 Kyats,

Hire a motorbike or bicycle-Ngwe Saung,

is only one bus at 2pm for 4000 Kyats. You can also try sailing to Pathein from Yangon-

flat sands to explore or neighbouring small

departing from the Hlaing Thar Yar Bus terminal in Western Yangon. From Pathein there

also known as Silver Sands has miles of

the boat that leaves at 3pm from Mawtin Jetty and arrives at 10am the next day.

fishing villages dotted along the coastline-

The beach itself runs for miles (9 miles in total), either side of a sleepy fishing village,

from the village and some hotels also offer

especially to the South. Bikes can be rented

where restaurants serve up some of the best seafood in Myanmar and tourist shops line

these facilities.

Saung can still feel empty. Ngwe Saung is a peaceful place to laze around pool-side,

Horse ride-As well as motorbikes (there

there are also surfing, snorkeling and fishing possibilities. The clean, sandy beach is

option of riding a horse to get from a to b

number of good day-trip excursions to the surrounding areas that make Ngwe Saung,

seem to be a fixed spot to find these horses

and the neighbouring Chaung Tha, a beach trip with choice. Also, compared to these

somewhere along the beach. Take note, no

a small, dusty street. Even at its full weekend capacity or peak tourist season, Ngwe

read a book or simply enjoy the clear and warm sea. Depending on the time of year

is plenty of room for this), there is also the

also perfect for a game of cricket, football or volleyball; even a gentle jog. There are a

or exploring the silver sands. There doesn't

compared to other popular Myanmar beach options, such as Ngapali (in Rakhine State)

but they can be found nearly every day,

other beaches there is a wider range of accommodation.

helmets are provided.

Most hotels are closed, during the low season from May to October. Some places stay

Fishing Trip-Boats can easily be rented

Although the low season is even more quiet, this can be a great time to visit Ngwe Saung,

in the village. Prices can be negotiated

open or extend their opening times, but always call ahead to check and make reservations.

through your hotel or locally, just by asking

especially if you have your own surf board. Swimmers and surfers should always be

aware of strong currents-there are no lifeguards; although some hotels are now providing their own, but mainly during high season.

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equipment

provided,

number

people and how long the boat is used for.

check for events. This resort is located

local restaurants to BBQ. This is great way

taxi ride from the village and other resorts.

Anything caught can easily be taken to to explore the coastline and enjoy a nice breeze out at sea. You might also consider

visiting Sa Khan Island/Camping Island for some fishing tips from the local fishermen who reside here. Sa Khan can be reached in about an hour by fishing boat. Sailing-The

impressive

Ngwe

Saung

Yacht Club and Marina was opened for the Myanmar SEA games in 2013. This

beautifully designed resort (see places to stay section) has excellent facilities. Email fo@ngwesaungyachtclub.com details.

for

further South and a short motorbike or car Ngwe Saung isn't a "party town" so things close relatively early. Call: 06 784 300 66 for more information.

Restaurant, located in the village (see

below for more details) provides great live cover-music from local musicians.

The band is always happy to include other musicians and singers visiting the restaurant. Dancing is also encouraged!

Just Outside the Town Pathein- This port town is about 2 hours

Snorkeling-Boats trips to the neighbouring

drive for Ngwe Saung. You can either

walking) to the Lover's Island, as mentioned,

pass through on your way from or back to

hotel or in the village. Excellent snorkeling

fourth largest in Myanmar, located on the

shoreline. There is also a rumour that there

delta, on the Pathein (Ngawan) River 118

near Thazin Village (about 45 minutes

is accessible to large vessels and despite

Bird Island and Snake Island (as well as

take a day trip from the beach or simply

can be easily organized either through your

Yangon. Pathein is a lively town and the

can be found around these small islands'

Western edge of the Ayeyarwady River

is a very good restaurant on Snake Island,

miles (190 km) West of Yangon. Pathein

motorbike ride from Ngwe Saung).

its distance from the ocean, it is the most

Karaoke/dancing-The Ngwe Saung Yacht

The city is an export centre for the delta

and karaoke facilities located beneath the

but are also available to other visitors. Call

There are a few workshops where a variety

important delta port outside of Yangon.

Club and Marina Resort now has a nightclub

region but is also famous for its production

hotel. These facilities are free to guests

parasols, also known as "Pathein Hti".

ahead to make a karaoke booking and to

of parasols of different colour, design or

and

size can be purchased. Try Shwe Sar- No. 653, Tawyakyaung Rd. Elephant

Camp

Located

the

neighbouring Padaung Village about 30 minutes drive out of Ngwe Saung-again,

Live music-The excellent Royal Flower

beautiful

trips

colourful

handmade

you can stop off on the journey there or

back from Yangon is a well-run elephant

sanctuary. A 5,000 Kyats entrance fee

will get you in to meet the three beautiful elephants that reside here and 15,000

Kyats will get you a short ride into the surrounding park area. Open 8am-noon.

Taung Yar Shay/Long Island- This place

is about an hour and a half by boat from

Ngwe Saung. This big island is full of caves and the small fishing boats that can

take you there, must first weave their way through half-submerged caves to reach the main island, making this an adventurous

excursion. This boat trip can again be organised through your hotel or in the

village but is more weather dependent than other boat trips.

Chaung Tha-A lengthy but scenic 4 hour motorbike ride along the coast (crossing two rivers on wooden ferries) will get you

to this lively town and beach resort. This

resort is more popular with Myanmar tourists just as Ngwe Saung is more

popular with foreigners and so makes for a different experience. The beach itself is another great expanse of sand but the

"The quiet and vast openness of Ngwe Saung beach makes it all worthwhile"

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swimming isn't as good as Ngwe Saung.

crepes and a good rum-based cocktail,

that can be reached by either motorbike or

for entertainment, with fire dancers and

There is also the beautiful Pokala Island

a short boat ride (1000 Kyats return). There are many hotels here should you wish to

simply called Ume. This is also a good spot occasional live music.

The West Point-Excellent and cheap local

Places to Eat & Drink

off Myoma Road (near Sunny Paradise

there are more local and less-frills village

establishments to try as well. Such places

serve Myanmar beer and wine at a decent price but they will also allow you to bring your own, if you want to.

The Royal Flower-This popular restaurant is a must if you visit Ngwe Saung. Beautifully

seafood restaurant on the beach front, just Resort) close the Village. Try the prawn curry and seaweed salad.

M-3-Not far from The Royal Flower

Restaurant on the Myoma Road is a small shop selling fresh, live and huge lobsters, if you should want to BBQ your own back

in Yangon or to take some to a restaurant. Small lobsters start at 15,000 Kyats.

Buy

music from young local musicians provides

Saung village is lined with stands and

a lively holiday soundtrack and the fresh curried crab or spicy squid slad are second-

to-none in terms of fresh seafood. For those wanting something more imposing,

The Royal Flower also offers a seafood grill, that includes lobster.

gym, infinity pool, children's pool, beach karaoke

room,

nightclub,

restaurant, bar and marina/sailing facilities. This is an excellent choice for families

because of the sheer size of the resort and also one of the few places to offer a

beach lifeguard. The resort itself is a little out of town (a 10 minute car journey) at

designed, with soft lighting and an open-air

feel, it is an excellent place to start. Live

Saung. Facilities include fast internet, a volleyball,

stay a night or two.

Most of the hotels serve excellent food but

the best, most affordable options in Ngwe

the most Southern part of the beach (past

Lover's Island) but this adds to its charm. Camping options are also offered with in-

house tents. There is also an extensive

breakfast buffet included in the room price. Prices vary according to the season or

promotions. Call 067 843 0066, 067 843 0077 for details and reservations.

Myoma road, which runs through Ngwe shops selling a variety of products from

hand carved wood and coconuts, woven mats, jewelry, clothing and the region

specific sweet Myanmar snack- shwe gyi mont.

The Palm Beach Resort- This is a classic and tasteful, mid-range hotel with a beautiful beach-side garden setting. There is a great pool, excellent restaurant and

bar that serves a decent negroni. The bar also has a pool table. Call 042 40 233 for reservations.

Places to Stay

Silver Blue Sea-Although seemingly basic,

There is a good range of accommodation

Bay of Bengal Resort -This is one of the

Emerald Sea Resort (if coming from Ngwe

Myanmar tourist destinations. Here are

found to the North of the beach. There is

this roadside restaurant, 200 metres before

to be found in Ngwe Saung, unlike other

more high-end resorts of Ngwe Saung,

Saung village) is one of the best. The head-

some popular choices:

a gym, spa, Jacuzzi, sauna and beauty

and caters well to a variety of tastes. The

Shwe Hin Thar Hotel-This is a low-price

Bay of Bengal and the resort has Ngwe

grilled tuna steak or squid skewers. The

$55 per night (air-con 6am to 6pm, with

sporting activity equipments available,

perfect accompaniment to this sort of

$30 bungalows are also available with no

the hotel organises both individual and

good hotel with lovely sea-views, located

areas and fishing/snorkeling excursions.

to the South of the village-on a hilltop

40335, 042 40336 for reservations.

and reservations.

restaurant. Offering dishes such as fresh

Ngwe Saung Yacht Club & Marina

based savoury Japanese pancake), sweet

Myanmar SEA Games, this is now one of

chef was trained at a top hotel in Yangon

salon. The pool has great views across the

seafood here is cooked to perfection-try

option, offering beach-side bungalows at

Saung's only tennis court. There are other

salads are light and flavoursome and the

different electricity timings) with breakfast;

such as kayaks, beach volley-ball and

cuisine.

air-con but come with a fan. A basic but

packages for travel to the neighbouring

Ume Café-Close to Yamonar Oo resort,

on the Southern end of the beach. Call 042

Call 01 667024, 661577, 664463 for details

to your left is this great little Japanese sashimi, okonomiyaki pancake (an egg-

Resort-Having opened in 2013 for the

Why not rent a car?

The Yangon Directory lists 215 car rental services.

www.yangondirectory .com

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HIDDENHEROES Left to right: Ko Hla Htay, Ko San Shay, Uncle Hit, U Kyan, Ko Htay Aung, Daw San San Taxi drivers, their history and culture-all over the world, is often steeped in misconception, drama and humour; but most importantly a brilliant interaction of strangers, brought together through the necessary service of transport. MY Yangon has interviewed a group of drivers who not only provide this public service but also assist Mandalay FM and subsequently the police, in reporting on Yangon traffic, accidents and general transport happenings. This amazing group of drivers and now friends provides some insight into the challenging job of being a taxi driver in Yangon. This interview took place at Yown Myo Thu restaurant, located on Yanshin Road, Yankin. This is a place taxi drivers often meet, thanks to its cheap but delicious home-cooked Myanmar cuisine and is definitely worth a visit. Try the grilled fish, tomato and onion curry; fermented bean curry and the tamarind leaf soup.

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Daw San San- 09251043750 Daw San San is one of the few female taxi drivers of Yangon and has been valiantly driving her taxi for the last two years. As a mother of two and wife, she sticks to a rigid working schedule of 6am to 6pm. As life in Yangon becomes more expensive, San San decided to be a taxi driver to help support her family. San San asked an aunty for help, who bought the taxi for her when her uncle died and she was left some inheritance. San San decided on this particular job for numerous reasons-the pay can be good, but most significantly she can decide on her own hours-something very important, as a parent. Another benefit is that she doesn't have to wait till the end of the month to get paid-money comes in every day; but not as much as it used to. Before, San San might earn on average 30,000 kyats per day (after 10,000 spent on fuel), now it is only 10,000-20,00 kyats. San San explains this is because of the competition. There is a new series of taxis given their licenses-10,000 for every new series. This system started with "A" and now Yangon is on "E". San San is clearly a 'people person' and dreams of one day having her own hotel that she can run as manager; this is her true passion, having previously worked at The Sheraton Hotel, Brisbane, Australia (she returned to Myanmar when her mother became ill). San San loves her job as a taxi driver because she gets to work and interact with a variety of people all day and share stories; plus when times are good she can earn up to $600 per month and still take more breaks than other jobs allow. The worst aspect of San San's job is not surprisingly, the traffic. Perhaps one day, San San's other dream might come true and she can beat the boredom factor of waiting in traffic by giving Burmese lessons to her passengers?! San San is full of bright ideas-another being her take on the traffic problems of Yangon. She believes if there was better organization and planning of where bus stops are located; better monitoring of street stands and keeping trishaws to less busy areas then the inner-city congestion could be alleviated. Then there is the idea of a unified taxi force, dispatched, directed and organized by central control centres. As for the introduction of meters-this would be good, especially when taking foreign customers as it could prevent disputes and the drivers could get paid according to the petrol they used or time they spent in traffic. San San has great insight into the difficulties of Yangon taxi drivers' relationship with foreign customers. She explains that clearly communication issues are a key factor but also that some foreigners won't pay the fare when the taxi driver makes a mistake and takes them to the wrong location, even if that driver has used up a lot of fuel and time. Many drivers are scared about taking foreign customers as they can be less understanding or that they presume drivers are unfairly upping their rates, purely because they think they can get more money from foreigners. The drivers think that foreigners expect that

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the rates are always too high and then as a result never tip. This is clearly a complicated issue but one that arises out of a lack of understanding on both sides. The foreigner misconceives the price as too high, even when it is fair and so always must bargain; the driver pre-empting this bargaining, aims high; and so the cycle continues. Daw San San cannot say for sure if things will change for taxi drivers in the following years-but she hopes so.

Ko Hla Htay – 0973243980 Ko Hla Htay likes the freedom that comes with being a taxi driver and also really likes to drive. He owns his own taxi and has been driving for 25 years; working from 6 am to 8 pm. He feels in general Myanmar people are very hospitable and want to help foreigners – so he always tries to do this; he has never had a problem with foreigner customers. He thinks there should be better road planning for road expansion projects, because in his mind, sometimes they create more traffic than they prevent. He would also like to see a sky train and an underground transport system to ease traffic. Finally, he wishes there were more official taxi ranks as parking spots are limited.

U Kyan – 09420174544 Has been a taxi driver for 18 years and works 7am till 7 pm. He sometimes works at night and owns his own car. Foreign customers are OK-he has never had a problem with them; however, he has had a problem with ghosts! One night he was driving back to Yangon after dropping someone off out of town. In the distance, he saw a young girl by the side of the road, dressed in a short skirt; she then raised her hand, as if to call him to stop. As he approached and slowed down, she transformed in front of his eyes into an old lady with no teeth and let out an evil laugh. He wisely didn’t stop, he just sped up and kept on driving.

Uncle Hit – 09420701697 The uniquely named Uncle Hit (U Nyan Tun), is very charming. He has been a taxi driver for 25 years but says the popularity of taxis didn’t kick off until 1996 when the government announced the “Myanmar Business Year” which triggered a taxi boom. In the beginning, he had a 3-wheeled taxi, which used to be very popular and it was very easy to make money. With even only 3 customers you could make a profit; now he finds the cars are better but the traffic is worse. Uncle Hit rents his car from an owner- his car is gas so the rent is 20,000 kyats per day. Petrol cars are cheaper to rent-often 10,000 kyats but the fuel cost is higher – easily 10,000 kyats per day. A gas car may cost more to rent, but only requires 3,000 kyats per day in fuel. Even so, Uncle Hit frequently only makes 3,000 – 5,000 kyats profit per day. To rent a car first you have to put forward a 200-500 USD deposit then sign a 6-month

"Foreign customers are OK-U Kyan has never had a problem with them; however, he has had a problem with ghosts! "

to one-year contract with the owner, and then you must pay the owner what you owe him at the end of each month. Uncle Hit has had a few problems with foreigners but this mainly happens because of communication issues. More interestingly, one Saturday, a pregnant customer gave birth in the back of his taxi. He hoped this miraculous event and his good deed of assisting the lady would bring him good luck but unfortunately the next day his headlights were stolen! So much for that! The animated and interesting Uncle Hit, would have liked to have been an actor if he hadn't become a taxi driver.

Ko Htay Aung – 0925311327 For Ko Htay Aung the best thing about his job is when there are lots of customers and he makes good profit, the worst is when there is lots of traffic and no customers. Ko Htay Aung explains about this group of taxi drivers who all work for Mandalay FM as traffic watchdogs. They are part of a public donation group of 20 taxi drivers who report on traffic and accidents for the radio station. Initially Mandalay FM had staff members going out to report on traffic now they just use a select group of taxi drivers. The reports are made 7:30 am to 12 midday, 4 to 7 pm on weekdays and 11 am to 4 pm weekends. The reports are even listened to and used by police to locate accidents. The group would like to see a taxi drivers union but say the problem is no one can agree on how to do it. There was an idea that taxi drivers should pay 10,000 kyats per month into a fund

which could be used by members to fix damaged cars and pay for maintenance etc; however not everyone wanted to pay so the idea fell by the wayside.

Ko San Shay – 0931348668 Ko San Shay whose name means long hair (for obvious reasons once you meet him!) has been part of the Mandalay FM public donation group for one year. He explains that to get your taxi driver's license costs 20,000 kyats per year. When you register, your car must be perfect. He explains the licenses are in English to help foreigners and you can track down any taxi driver by his license number. He recommends you take a note of it every time you get into a taxi (to the left-in front of the front passenger seat) in case you lose something or have any trouble; then you can quote the number to the police and they can help you. He would like to see taxi meters introduced but thinks they wouldn’t work because local customers are used to paying a fixed price and won’t pay extra; if for example you are stuck in traffic and the meter runs high. Five years ago there was an attempt to introduce meters but it failed due to exactly this problem and others. Each driver had to pay 200 USD for a meter and installation but the introduction failed to catch on and they are now not used.

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“Japanese cemetery!”

I WANT TO RIDE MY E-BICYCLE by Cliff Lonsdale

The taxi driver turned and laughed as he gestured with his hands at the Toyota cars in the traffic jam before us; the same traffic jam we had

been sat in for forty-five minutes. I wondered whether it had taken him

this long to make the joke up, or whether it was an old favourite that he saved for frustrating occasions like this; for times when his passenger was dangerously close to getting out and walking to the meeting they

were fifteen minutes late for. Disappointingly it turned out that this was the only joke he would make in the ninety minutes we were together.

I am aware that I could have got out and walked; I could have probably travelled the entire six-mile journey faster on foot; however his delightfully

powerful Japanese air-conditioning persuaded me to stay the course

in this cortege and allowed me to eventually make my apologies for tardiness, at least in an un-sweaty way.

As the number of cars hitting the streets of Yangon continues to increase, you will undoubtedly have suffered a similar experience. A few years

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ago you might have struggled to hail a

downtown to attend an important meeting

The e-bike is completely legal to use in

came along, and been alarmingly surprised

the health benefits, and more worried about

they have pedals, you might not choose to

taxi, settling for the first car that eventually to watch the road pass beneath your

feet through the holes in the floor as you

then you might be less concerned about what state you’ll be in when you arrive.

motored through the near empty streets.

And this is where the e-bike comes in.

almost everywhere in the city, based on

assisted bicycles for sale as well, and

Now you can practically pick and chose journey-price,

size,

air-conditioning

even colour. There is no getting away from

Faizal has a big range of these electric apparently they are flying off the shelves.

the fact that with the improvement of taxi

“We sometimes sell as many as one

journey. As the Yangon roads continue to

some of these are to expats, the main

availability has come the cost of length of

fill up, the time we are spending in taxis is getting longer.

You might have also noticed, as you sit in

hundred and forty a week” and although

clientele are local Myanmar cyclists”, said

Nay Lin Tun the English-speaking manager at the shop.

your slow moving hopefully air-conditioned

The e-bike is a motor-assisted bicycle; and

bicycles passing you on the road. These

as a normal bicycle through pumping the

comfort, an increase in the numbers of cyclists smugly nipping in and out of traffic, edging towards the front line at the traffic lights are seemingly getting around

a lot quicker than the drivers and their passengers; and if you’ve been paying

close attention you might have noticed that some of them are not actually pedalling.

Yangon too. Technically they are bicycles, use them, but they are there, so as long as you stay on the right streets you will have no problems.

And if you want to beat the traffic, and stay moderately sweat-free the e-bike is a great solution. Alright you won’t be benefitting

from the excellent air-conditioning that some of the Japanese taxi’s have on

offer, you will also not have to worry about moving those pedals. The distinct lack of

hills in Yangon is a plus, and the e-bike can

power you through and around even the thickest of traffic jams.

this means that although you can ride it

That’s not to say that cycling in Yangon

pedals, with one turn of the throttle located

plan your route carefully as there are still

in the handgrip, you activate a batterypowered motor that can take the strain and drive the bike along, reducing the effort of pedalling or even the need to pedal at all -

thus reducing the sweat you might produce otherwise.

doesn’t have its downside. You have to many roads in Yangon that bicycles are not allowed on (they are clearly signposted) and you have to have your wits about you

when the traffic is moving, as you sit very close to the bottom of the food chain when it comes to road priority.

Faizal, the energetic owner of of Shwe

Nay

are

You also have to stay alert when the traffic

Ground (Insein Township) has seen a

fumes, and economical to run as well.

to step out in front of you - the e-bike is

Myanmar bike shop out at Nathago Bicycle

massive increase in the sales of bikes in the last year or so - he credits this to the

increase in the number of cars on the road. And if you have the energy and the interest,

and the availability of a shower wherever you are travelling to; then travelling by bicycle is definitely a great way to beat the traffic.

Cycling for an hour at a moderate pace

can burn as many as 800 calories, so it is also a great way to get fit as well as reduce

your journey time. Now that’s all well and good when you are taking a day trip out

on a Sunday with Jeff from Bike World to see the countryside outside of Yangon, or nipping to the supermarket at the weekend.

But if you are trying to travel from Parami to

Lin

Tun,

explained

“They

environmentally friendly – no dirty exhaust After being charged-up for three hours

you can travel for another three hours” which, depending on the bike and size of battery could be as far as sixty kilometres; not that you’ll be going that far in Yangon, but it does mean you can depend on them getting to where you are going and back

isn’t moving as pedestrians are likely

silent so they have no idea you are coming through the traffic jam so efficiently. And

keep a keen eye out for beetel spitting! Also be prepared for taxi doors to open without warning as frustrated commuters leave their vehicles to set off on foot.

without fear of running out of battery.

The majority of e-bikes Faizal sells are

Some of them are pretty nippy too; if you

completely strip and renovate the bikes

are prepared to invest as much as $500

you could buy a machine that can reach

speeds up to 30kmph (depending on the

traffic), but you can also spend less. Shwe Mingalar has over a hundred different bikes to choose from, you could be on the road and scooting through the traffic for as little as USD$100.

second-hand, his team of mechanics before sale and most of them come with

a lengthy guarantee for the frame and battery.

After numerous wobbly test drives I ask, “Where do these bikes come from?” “Japan, of course!”

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PANSODAN GALLERY MY Yangon talks to Kirt Mausert- a curator, researcher and managing director at Pansodan Gallery. How did both Pansodan Gallery and Pansodan Scene come to be? Pansodan Gallery was founded by Aung Soe Min (aka U Aung) and Nance Cunningham in 2008. It’s grown quite a bit-a second gallery space upstairs soon became filled and eventually used as a workshop. Later, Pansodan Scene was opened in 2012 as a space to put on more performances, events, gatherings, and collaborations. What sets these galleries apart from other Yangon galleries or even those further afield? One area where we’re different from many galleries in Yangon is that while we continue to be fortunate to have many foreign art lovers and collectors visit the gallery, we’ve never been chiefly orientated towards foreigners. Much of the support for the artists we represent comes from serious local collectors and art lovers, and we’ve worked hard to earn their trust and build relationships that are key to the sustainability of our artists’ careers. Less concretely, what sets Pansodan Gallery apart from most other Yangon galleries to me, are the values that the gallery’s 26 November 2014 My Yangon

founders and our curators bring to all of our projects, from an artist's solo exhibition to the recent Pansodan Embassy to the One Caucasus Art Festival near the borders of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Art galleries are of course places of business, but what all of us at Pansodan are passionate about are ideas, creativity, and fostering a community for the free exchange and development of both. I’d like to think that we represent a different approach to the idea that a gallery ought to be a place to shape elite tastes and promote a small cadre of celebrated artists. Everyone is welcome at Pansodan Gallery, and we are fortunate to work with a wide range of artists, from well-respected, established artists to up-and-coming artists seeking an audience. What have been some the most momentous exhibitions/ events? There have been a lot of great events in the time I've been associated with the gallery, but the Brighton Arts Festival in 2011 stands out to me. The gallery contributed works from several outstanding artists, and artist Zwe Yan Naing's portrait of a lady with a Burmese harp was featured on the festival circular's cover. Those were exciting times, since the number of international exhibitions featuring Burmese art were even rarer then.

art How has the gallery/art scene changed in the last five years? The most obvious change is simply the number of new galleries on the scene now. Compared to 2010, when I first became associated with the gallery, the art scene has grown substantially and largely for the better, with a busier exhibition schedule around town and more art events generally. Given the increasing number of exhibitions being staged and all of the new cars on the road these days, it would be impossible now to see each exhibition, so naturally competition has begun to increase. There's still plenty of room, and a great need, for more venues for creative expression to be on display. We would also love to see more people outside of the big cities engaging with contemporary arts, and have some plans to that effect. What are the limitations or advantages to the current Myanmar arts and cultural scene? One of the major limitations of course is the spiraling rent costs in Yangon. This creates barriers not only for new galleries, many of which are obliged to rent space, but also imperils artists' livelihoods, which are generally far from secure to begin with. An ongoing challenge is the woeful state of arts education across the country, and the dearth of public institutions, such as museums or bodies that provide grants and residencies to artists, that can provide the level of support needed to maintain a vibrant community of artists around the country. Why is art important in a place like Myanmar? There are few places where art is more important, more vital to the well-being of society. Art is not something that is only for the wealthy to signal their privilege to other privileged types, though that is certainly something it also is, for better or worse. Art (the good kind, at least) is a powerful antidote to convention and conventional thinking. In a moment in this country where so many people are in a rush to replicate the very same social and economic models that are failing so many elsewhere, what better tool than art to remind people of their own potential, to challenge them to see their world and themselves in ways that the state, businesses, and media haven't, or won't? Access to art here will, for the foreseeable future at least, depend on patrons with the spare capital to support the work of artists and spaces for engaging with their creations. We share a vision of bringing art outside the purview of the elite and in the emancipatory and empowering potential of art and creative thought and expression, and the sooner the better. In the meantime, we'll keep working with great artists to keep the Yangon arts scene a lively and inclusive one.

preparing a group exhibition my personal preferences are less important than striving to put together works from different artists which an audience can lose themselves in. I enjoy exhibitions where the works on display seem to be speaking to each other in some way; either by sharing a common theme or simply by sharing the virtue of being there, now. That's what makes working with contemporary art and artists so exciting. You begin to get a feel for the pulse of a moment in history through a very different lens than even the written word affords. As for exciting and interesting artists emerging in the contemporary art scene now, there are simply too many to list. Personally, and this shifts by the week, sometimes in the course of an evening (particularly if that evening is also a Tuesday), I'm very excited to see younger artists like Eain Aye Kyaw, Tamalar, and Zwe Yan Naing continue to mature as artists, producing amazing, creative work. Who have been the most influential or interesting artists who have paved the way for the Myanmar arts? When U Khin Maung Yin passed recently, the arts scene lost a legend and a link to the one of the high water marks in modern Burmese painting and visual culture. He, along with the seminal figure of Bagyi Aung Soe, Paw Oo Thet, and U Ba Gyi, to name only a few, have long been hailed as visionaries and leaders within the arts community. I also have to mention artist Soe Naing, whose unique talent I think underscores the tremendous depth of talent of the community of artists painting today, and their courage and perseverance. What are the plans for Pansodan Art gallery in the future? As I mentioned, plans are in the works to bring contemporary arts to more people outside of the major urban spaces. At the moment, both Aung Soe Min and Nance Cunningham are engaged with various professional commitments, but we have a core group of dedicated staff that I'll be working with for the foreseeable future to help expand our reach into new communities and to maintain and build on the role that Pansodan Gallery has played over the years. So, we have lots of plans for exhibitions and events in the coming months. You can 'like' our Facebook page (https://www. facebook.com/Pansodan) to keep up to date on what's coming up and new art in the gallery. Pansodan Gallery-1st Floor, 286 Pansodan Street (Upper Block), Kyauktada Tsp - 09 59 513 0846 Open daily: 10am-6pm

How do you curate? Who do you think are the most interesting/ exciting artists emerging in Myanmar contemporary art? I've been involved in several exhibitions that Pansodan Gallery has organized, and they have all come together in distinctly different ways. I can speak for myself when I say that when November 2014 My Yangon 27

MJets MY Yangon talks to Okkar Kyaw and U Ohn Myint- the father and son team behind, MJets-Myanmar's first Private Jet Company.

What is the company's background? Wah Wah company limited was established in 1992, by my father, U Ohn Myint. We are a Yangon-based, family-owned enterprise. My father is an entrepreneur and Wah Wah Co. was his start-up company. We started off small, really small. As an aviation ground handling company, we would get only one business jet per year, now we get 300 jets per year for handling. Our family started from zero, and here we are now-a real rags to riches story. How did Myanmar MJets come to be? How long have you been open for business? MJets is a Bangkok-based company, with two shareholders- William E. Heinecke, billionaire, and founder of Minior International Plc. and Kirit Shah, the entrepreneur of Precious-shipping Plc. In March 2010, the company was the first and only fixed-based operation in Thailand in providing services such as, but not limited to; aircraft charter, and private jet terminal in Don Muang International Airport.

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Then in August 2014 Myanmar MJets set up the integrated facility, known as Myanmar MJets Business Aviation Center (MMBAC), a world-class private jet terminal and a full range business aviation facility. Tell us a bit more about MMBAC Located next to Yangon International Airport's domestic passenger terminal; split across two floors, MMBAC boasts a luxurious executive lounge over a 2,800 sq ft area complemented with a shower facility, a business centre, four crew day rooms and an office for flight planning and crew briefings. MMBAC can accommodate up to 30 guests at one time. The centre also offers on-site immigration, customs and security screening, as well as an exclusive airport control gate adjacent to MMBAC facility, offering maximum security and privacy. Myanmar MJets also offers specific aircraft services like aircraft hangarage, aircraft cleaning and washing; and other services like landing/overfly permits. How many jets to you have? MJets owns and operates a fleet of

Gulfstream GV, (two) Gulfstream G200, Cessna Citation CJ3, Cessna Citation X, and Cessna Citation Bravo (for Medical evacuations). Cessna Citation Bravo has a medical configuration within the aircraft. Moreover, MJets is managing six jets, a Gulfstream G650, (two) Gulfstream 550, and another Cessna Citation Bravo. What sort of clients do you have? Where does most of your business come from? Our clients are mostly foreign businessmen, high net worth individuals, the wealthy tourist, celebrities and patients seeking medical treatment in neighbouring countries. We estimate that 10% predicted future clients will be for air ambulance services. Our business comes from all over the world, mostly Thailand and Singapore, but we have had jets from the UK, the US, from Australia, and also the Middle East. What sort of air ambulance services are provided through Myanmar MJets? MJets air ambulance offers world-class bed to bed aero-medical flights throughout Asia. There is full medical equipment on board (intensive care unit); a loading

business "My father is an entrepreneur and Wah Wah Co. was his start-up company. We started off small, really small. As an aviation ground handling company, we would get only one business jet per year, now we get 300 jets per year..."

system for immobile patients to reach the hospital safely and easily; a medical team consisting of 1 flying doctor and up to two nurses and ground ambulance transfers at airside on departure and arrival. How has air travel/transport changed in this region over the last few years? Private jet movements through Myanmar, mostly via Yangon, are expected to grow, and has been growing over the past two years. The lifting of sanctions has lead to a surging demand in the aviation sector. 16 years ago: one aircraft 15 years ago: five aircraft 14 years ago: 15 aircraft This year: 300 aircraft What makes people want to charter a private jet? Clients save time and energy with fast track and VIP services provided. They are also ensured unrivalled safety, complete privacy and security; personalized and flexible schedules and direct access to a wide variety of airports.

What is the basic price to rent a private jet? Most expensive? Prices vary so it is difficult to say but for a medical evacuation, it costs $10k plus. How many people are working for Myanmar MJets? What do they do? In Yangon, we have about 20 staff, we have a director for charter sales, ground handlers- who monitor and take care of the private jets that land, by doing services for the plane, such as refueling, lavatory service, cabin cleaning; as well as any and all services required of the aircraft crew.

the way they travel-most specifically with air travel? Not really, at the end of the day, people still have to get around the world. It's just that some airlines will be considered taboo. Are there any international private jet companies that you look to for inspiration? Haha, nope. Just MJets in Thailand, they have amazing facilities.

What's the longest journey someone has taken so far or could take? They can fly direct, nonstop to Heathrow Airport in the UK; so basically to Europe non-stop.

How do you see you company growing? What are your plans for the future? Air traffic is set to increase, so we will have more and more clients as the country progresses. In the future, we would like to set up another lounge and terminal in Nay Pyi Taw Airport, but this is still pending and a long ways to go in the distant future.

Do you think that with the many recent air travel scares and the added threat of terrorism that people will start changing

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meet

KHIN MYINT MAUNG Khin Myint Maung is one of Myanmar's most decorated traffic police officers; he has been promoted three times in the last four years and recently travelled to Nay Pyi Taw to personally receive an award for outstanding service. Despite being so busy Khin Myint Maung has taken the time away from his usual beat on Dhammazedi road to speak with My Yangon….

How did you become a member of the Traffic Police?

In 2008 I moved from Sittwe to Yangon.

At first I stayed in my uncle's house

and worked as an accounts officer at Yuzana Plaza. Lots of my friends were

members of the Traffic Police and so I became interested in becoming a Traffic Policeman. I joined the force in 2010 and initially, had to complete my training and

learn to drive – all Traffic Police must be qualified drivers. My first day was at 8-mile junction, which is very big and controlling

the traffic can be tough. Despite these

service and some people can be difficult;

am doing well. Personally I do feel proud

at the time, who was very experienced;

matter how many times you squeeze me I

me want to try harder for the public so I live

so the first day passed without so many

not to carry your personal issues to work-

was the job I wanted to be doing and I was

and their professional life, if you can make

What is the strangest thing that has

other you can be successful in both. Lastly

duty?

difficulties I was OK, thanks to my mentor

however I think of myself as a sponge- no

I also remembered all of my training,

always return to my original form. Also try

problems. Overall I was very happy as this

everyone has two lives: their personal life

finally doing it.

sure problems from one don’t spill into the

How do you become such a successful

I like rain! I am lucky in that some of my

of what I have achieved but also it makes up to their expectations and not let them down.

happened when you have been on

Traffic Warden?

best memories are playing with my sisters

One rainy day a bus pulled up to my

There are a few secrets to becoming a

and this means I don’t mind being outside

to let traffic pass from the other way but

must know all the traffic police rules and

me of those good times.

Secondly you must complete your daily

How do your family and you feel about

successful Traffic Warden. Firstly you regulations and follow them correctly.

and brothers in the rain as a young boy in the rain; actually I like it, as it reminds

duties in a timely and professional fashion;

the honours you have received?

can deal with members of the public. You

My family is very proud of me and I know

and lastly you have to be patient so you

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it makes them feel proud and happy that I

junction on Dhammazedi road; I turned

when I turned back I realized the bus was totally empty; no passengers or driver – nobody. I couldn’t understand why it was empty. I walked over to the bus and

noticed one man standing beside it I asked him where everyone had gone and he said

they ran away. I asked why and he said

that the bus driver had hit a pedestrian at

the last junction and decided to run away.

amount of traffic. Apart from more cars

What advice would you give people?

lady who had been hit- she had a broken

roads and that people’s mindset has not

My advice to people is always try your

For the future both these issues need

young people as they have so many new

So I ran to the next junction and found the leg. I radioed for help and took her to

the nearest hospital. I then returned to my junction to track down the bus driver

and continue my duties. Fortunately later on the bus driver was apprehended and

the lady he hit made a full recovery, but I will never forget my surprise on seeing an empty bus pull up to my junction!

What has changed since you started and what changes will there be in the future?

Since the car importation rules changed

in 2010 to allow more cars to be imported there has been a steady increase in the

the two biggest issues are the lack of

changed since the days of low traffic. to be tackled. Currently the strategies being implemented are: a traffic rules and regulation section included in the standard

driving license test, surprise traffic stops and public awareness announcements

about traffic rules at busy junctions, road expansion projects, such as the

Hledan flyover, and the training of a rapid

response team to remove breakdowns on main highways.

hardest in whatever you do, particularly

chances now in Myanmar. As a Traffic Police Officer of course I must say please

drive carefully and safely, don’t drive too fast and don’t overtake dangerously-

especially young people in fast cars. If you are thinking of joining the traffic police, it is a good and rewarding career where

you have the chance to earn a salary and do a public service, that can be very

enjoyable. For younger traffic officersremember the rules and regulations you have been taught and remember your duty

to the public and then I am sure you will

find being a member of the traffic police rewarding and successful.

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super duper

yangon commuter Millions of people travel to work every day in Yangon; they come from far and wide, near and close, each taking the leading role in their own personal daily adventure. That said, for some “adventure” might be an overgenerous word to describe their commute. Not everyone enjoys a swash-buckling journey across the Yangon River. Indeed a different person might take the same journey feeling sick as a dog with a tummy full of street snacks (see page 41), wishing the whole time a great leviathan (sea monster) would leap out of the Yangon River and swallow them whole to end their suffering. In fact some might wish whilst baking in the back of a stationary bus, sandwiched between beetel-nut grins, that leviathans also dished out their mercy on land. Even so, here are a selection of Yangonites' journeys made every day; journeys, which ground-out or at a skip, keep the city of leaf-kissed buildings and golden Pagodas ticking.

The Bus Gang Phyu Phyu Zein I work at Mingalar Market (Midtown East) and live in North Okkapala (Uptown East) so my journey to work is very long- at least 1 hr 30 minutes. I take the bus and like to read books on my phone, in particular I read Kaung Thant - he writes about the lives of people in Myanmar. I find it very interesting. I don’t mind the long journey too much as it gives me time to read. Thet Nu Aung I am a graphic designer for the Yangon Directory and I travel to work alone by bus. I always take the same route, which takes me two hours. My favourite thing about the journey is sitting and thinking whilst I listen to music; the worst part is sometimes the bus can be very hot and uncomfortable. Win Win Htwe I travel 30 minutes daily to my company by bus. I sometimes change route if the bus breaks down. During the journey I listen to music but my favourite part of journey is the junction in Tamwe because I can look at the Ocean Super Center. 32 November 2014 My Yangon

The Ferry Fellowship

Once you reach the other side you’ll face the same

5-10 minutes but it can be stifling hot when stuck

calm and quiet scrum to ascend the ramp. Upon

in traffic. In the taxi I usually keep myself to myself

reaching dry land you’ll be greeted by all manner of

and ponder the day ahead or make up songs in my

Cliff Lonsdale

transport options to help you continue your journey.

mind… It’s a good thing the journey is short - just

The first person you’ll more than likely meet when you arrive at Pansodan Jetty will be Peter. He isn’t an official, a ticket vendor, or a paid employee of any kind – he sells post cards, five for 3,000 Kyat. But if you haven’t been here before - and he’ll know if you’ve visited Dalla before – in perfect English he’ll gladly show you where to buy your ticket - $4 return for foreigners. He’ll then escort you to the best spot for waiting – outside on the veranda where you can watch the water and keep an eye on the progress of the ferry and catch some breeze. When the time is right he’ll advise you when you should make you move for the ferry – not too soon as you’ll get caught in the sweaty scrum leaving the waiting room; though not too late otherwise you’ll have to run down the gangway and leap across the gap- the boat waits for no one. If you are visiting Dalla as a tourist he’ll even offer you a guided tour of the area by cycle rickshaw. And he’ll

long enough for 3 personalised renditions of “The It really is a wonderful way to travel, and as a regular commuter across the water I enjoy every minute of it. Better than a traffic jam any day. Soe Min Min has a complicated journey to work-

Olympians’ School where I work- the closest

made more difficult by bad weather. Despite all

one is 25 minutes walk away, so I get dropped

these changes the journey only takes between

off at work by my husband. If he can’t take me I

30 minutes to 1 hour. As the journey has a lot

have to take a taxi; sometimes the drivers try to

of changes the only thing he can do is listen to

charge too much, but if they try that, I just walk

music. He wishes he didn’t have to take the boat.

away. Just as I am getting out of earshot they

Ma Yee Yee Htun always takes the same route. She lives in Dalla Seik Kyan Myothit, which is across the river. First, she has to travel from her village by either trishaw or motorcycle (cost one way 500 Kyats), this mode of transport takes her up to the jetty on the Dalla side; then she

Pansodan jetty, she catches a bus (100 Kyats)

way you just have time to take a coffee in the little restaurant at the back of the upstairs deck. There is a special area upstairs at the front reserved for monks and foreigners or you can climb the narrow staircase to view the journey from the top of the

way 100 Kyats), on arrival at this end, Yangon to the office, where she works on Strand Road. It takes between 1 to 1 hr 30 minutes minimum-if both the boat and bus are on time and she can get on immediately with no breakdowns. She travels alone. She does nothing, as she is too poor. The best part is the boat trip, the worst is the motorbike ride, because the road is rough and she has been thrown off a couple of times.

boat. The bench seats throughout are included in the price of the ticket; if you want a plastic chair it’ll cost an extra 50 Kyats.

The Taxi Takers

The waiting room is hot, usually crowded and as

Tatwin Owen Edmunds

the boat nears the jetty, a movement is made towards the iron doors leading to the ramp. Before the boat has emptied the next load of passengers is released to carefully and slowly make their way down the wooden slope onto the boat. There is no pushing or shoving from the old or young; some wielding umbrellas, some moving bicycles loaded with live chickens, some carrying huge boxes on their shoulders- all calmly making their way to the floating pontoon where the ladies sit under shades selling fruit and foods, before minding the moving gap between land and ship.

Golden Valley. The distance is not to far but you can’t walk. There is no bus station near

Two ferries ply the waters between Pansodan and

catch one, and with a journey of ten minutes each

I live close to Aung San Stadium and work in

ferry and lastly by bus; and so the journey can be

has to take a ferry to cross over to Yangon (one

you never have to wait more than twenty minutes to

he travels in three stages: first by truck, then by

absolutely try to sell you postcards.

Dalla jetties everyday from 5.30am until 9.00pm, so

wheels on the bus go round and round”!

Every morning I take a taxi to work, the journey is not so long but too far to walk especially in the heat or rain. From my house there are two routes to the main road (Yae Kyaw Road): the Western route towards Bogyoke Aung San Road and the Eastern route towards Panzundaung market. Recently I have been taking the Western route so I can have an early morning spy on 4 street puppies that have been born beneath a small Buddhist street shrine – still 4 as of today, thank goodness. Both routes have small taxi rackets at the junction of the main road that charge you a little bit extra, so it is better to cross Yae Kyaw Road and get a taxi coming from the other side – it also means I am travelling in the right direction! The journey to work is only

always ask me back and charge me the correct fair, that’s how I negotiate a fair price.

The Railway RACERS U Hla Phone Aung I usually travel to work by train, which takes me 1 hour; however if the train is late or the weather is bad I change my route and take the bus, which takes me 1 hr 30 minutes. When traveling I like to recite Pali verses, listen to music and sleep. I like the path on my journey to be smooth- I don’t like having to stop and I hate traffic jams. Si Thu Phyo I travel to work by bus everyday because the bus station is very close to my house, but some evenings I return back home by train if I don’t want to face traffic jams. The reason I don’t take the train in the morning is the train station is far from my home in Hledan Junction, at least 15 minutes walk, and I don’t want to get up earlier to catch it. Also my workplace at Mingalar Zey is not close to any train stations so you have take a short bus ride at that end of the journey too. Even though it takes longer I feel much more relaxed on the train and I can sit alone, breath in the fresh air and listen to my music for one hour.

The lone Peddler! Aung Myo Myints’ home is very near his office so he travels to work by bicycle and the journey only takes 15 minutes. He likes the fact the journey is free and he can get some good exercise. November 2014 My Yangon 33

TRISHAWS The cycle rickshaw or trishaw was first built in the 1880s, however it

Myo Thant is a local trishaw driver from Mingalar Taung Nyunt

six years it had all but replaced pulled rickshaws on the Island state.

been a full time Sai Kaa driver for 20 years. He became a Sai

did not come into widespread public use until 1929 in Singapore. In

After their success in Singapore, they spread to other countries in the region and by 1950 were commonplace in all Southeast Asian

Township, born in the very same township 47 years ago; he has Kaa driver because you could earn a good salary at that time.

countries. In the late 1980s it was estimated that there were 4

There were once many places where you could buy a new sai

but more recently trishaws are equipped with electric motors to

Train station; this is because regulations changed two years ago

million trishaws globally. Traditionally the vehicle is pedal powered, assist the driver.

In Myanmar the trishaw is known as sai kaa and passengers sit in seats beside the driver, as opposed to behind the driver, which is more common in the rest of Asia. Originally the sai kaa was known

as the sai twe (twe meaning a pair or interlocked lovers!), which is

the traditional term for trishaw in the Ayeyarwady Region, but as

Myanmar language became more standardized the term sai kaa replaced sai twe.

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kaa, however now there is only the one, near Yangon Central to help ease congestion. In spite of this there are still many repair shops, for example at Thein Hyu Market. A sai kaa costs 6 lakhs

(600USD) so most drivers rent their sai kaa daily from an owner.

The cost is usually 1,200 Kyats per day, which has to be paid to

the owner at the end of each day. Each day Myo Thant gives his earnings to his family to pay for dinner.

Myo Thant works from 8am to 8pm every day at the same place, same street. He has between 12-13 customers per day, three of

which are regular customers; and most customers go to Tamwe

The most difficult thing about being a sai kaa driver are the

busiest period as people go to market to buy food for lunch and

some customers lie about where they are going and say it is close

junction to buy vegetables. The morning time before lunch is the dinner.

He doesn’t get tired as he is so used to cycling but he did get tired to begin with – that was 20 years ago!

customers; some customers are heavy and some complain a lot; when in reality it is very far. The weather is also difficult- hot sun

and pouring rain. The rain is worst as there are no customers. To be a sai kaa driver you must be patient and after 20 years he has become very patient and alert.

Myo Thant remembers a particular time when driving his sai kaa-

The best thing about being a sai kaa driver is the freedom- if Mr.

to turn on a bumpy road, both the lady and baby fell off and

the shop; there are not so many worries as sai kaa driver. In his

after picking up a rather large lady and her baby. After an attempt

landed with a thud in the dirt! After this he was cautious of having accidents.

Thant was a shopkeeper he would have to control his staff and free time he can help at his friends’ beetel nut shop, read books, and discuss politics.

The farthest journey he has ever done is to Hledan Junction,

He has five people in his family- his wife, who is a house wife, his

charged 7,000 kyats. He couldn’t do that now, as you can’t travel

in grade 6 at middle school and his daughter who is 4 years old.

which is 1 hour away by bus! It took him 1 hr 30 minutes and he

outside your township and there was much less traffic during this

19 year old son who works as a shirt maker, a second son who is

time.

His dream for his children is that they become educated, but it is

However, since he started his lifestyle remains the same. What

earnings. His youngest daughter is his hope and dream-he

has changed are the traffic and regulations. As part of new congestion measures, it is now very difficult to request a new

very difficult to support a child’s education on a sai kaa driver's wishes she will be well educated.

license to become a sai kaa driver. A license lasts for 2 years

His message to the young people of Myanmar is to study hard to

Extensions are granted on Thursdays and Fridays and take 2

difficult to support a family-so try your best at school to give your

and if you already are a sai kaa driver it is easy to extend.

weeks to process. Each license states you must be based on a particular street, if you drop off customers far away you can pick up new customers on the way back but you can't leave your township to find extra customers.

In the last five years there have been lots of traffic policy changes, in particular the increase in car importations. More cars

means more traffic. It has therefore also

become harder to get customers. Before these changes Myo Thant would have 20-30 customers per day. Yet still, an

advantage sai kaa’s have, is they can fit down tiny streets that cars can’t fit down

so customers with heavy shopping will use them to carry the load.

Myo thinks the sai kaa lifestyle won't change

in the next 5 years but he still worries about regulations that could ban the use of sai kaa’s in the future to ease congestion.

get a good education. The life of a sai kaa driver is hard and it is self a chance to have a better life.

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kidsITIES

ACTIV

kandawgi nature park treasure walk Yangon is a very green city with many parks and tree-lined streets. One of its greenest spots is Kandawgyi Nature Park-situated around Kangawgyi Lake, hosting a number of attractions.

MY Yangon has designed a treasure hunt of places and things you can find in Kandawgyi Nature Park (see our Map on Page 11). Use the puzzle sheet below to work out the clue (you might need the help of a mirror), spot the object and then fill in the answer, using the scrambled words in the box!

What is white as a ghost with huge leathery ears, two fearsome tusks and a long trunk, but is afraid of mice?

I am vast and golden, resting in the water with two great dragonheads. A great dark man-made mountain, full of art and music. ?nedrag ruoy rof noitaroced yub uoy dluow erehw ,hserf dna yfaeL Where would you keep squawking guests with feathers and beaks? A place to pray on Bagan Lone Island edisekal eht no ecalaP A What is grinding and metallic with clunking tracks and one lethal barrel? We shoot up from the lake to dance with the sky, putting smiles on the faces of the sweet passers by

Panting, and pounding, round and round we go, dressed in our shorts and sneakers for show

I am sturdy, wooden and strong, but hope I don’t break or you might get wet! .ekal eht ni evil dna ylacs ,yreppils ,dloc era eW

ATank,Fountains,Fish,KaraweikRoyalBarge,KandawgyiParkAviary,KandawgyiPalaceHotel,Utopia,WhiteElephant Statues,,Runners,WoodenWalkways,AungChanThaPagoda,KandawgyiNatureParkFlowerandPlantshops Did you know Yangon Directory lists 31 Family Amusement Zones www.yangondirectory.com

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WATCH LWIN MOE TRAVELING MYANMAR DOCUMENTARY SERIES Lwin Moe is a Myanmar actor and

photographer from Myeik Township; the largest city in the Mergui Archipelago-a

beautiful and isolated island chain in the

far south of Myanmar. He was born in

1970 and has released a series of travel documentaries about remote areas in

Myanmar for which he was invited to be a UNICEF representative in Myanmar.

The series can be bought in most DVD

shops but can also be viewed on You Tube, which are subtitled in English. It is a fascinating glimpse into the wide range

of habitats in this vast country; from snowcovered peaks in the North to tropical

islands in the south, and an insight into the

cultures and people that live here. For the

watch

Traveling to the more distant regions in Myanmar is most definitely challenging

and it is essential to research and plan ahead thoroughly, however as the series

will show, if you have the chance visit

these last lost areas they are well worth the effort.

intrepid traveler it may even spark a few ideas.

MYANMAR TRANSPORT SNIPPETS Myanmar’s oldest transport organization,

Railway; a 45.9-kilometre 39-station loop

multistory station building. The improved

IFCL, was set up in 1865 to provide river

and suburban areas. The railway runs 200

Yangon Circular Railway system and an

The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company Limited

transport services in Myanmar. Later, rail transport was introduced to Myanmar by

the British in May 1877 with the opening of the Yangon to Pyay line by The Irrawaddy

system that connects Yangon's Townships times and sells 150,000 tickets daily (see our

October issue for timetable and guide http:// issuu.com/myyangon)

Valley State Railway.

In December

Both of these organizations have since

International

been nationalized; the IFCL (Inland Water Transport - IWT) in 1948 after gaining independence from the British and The

IVSR in 1896, when the three existing rail companies were combined into the Burma

Railway Company (Later Myanmar Railways - MR) as a state owned public undertaking.

Currently MR is working on multiple railroad

construction projects; planning has started

on a link from Lashio to Jiegao in China

and a conversion of the entire network from 1,000 mm (metre gauge) to 1,435 mm (standard gauge) is proposed.

MR also operates the Yangon Circular

network would also boast an electrified

underground section. There is even talk of reinstating Yangon’s old tram network.

2012, the Japan Cooperation Agency began working

with Yangon City Development

Committee to

develop a master

plan for the Greater Yangon region.

Currently the plan

involves a revamp and expansion of Yangon Central

Station including

escalators, easy walkon trains, electronic travel cards and a

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best of

Street Snacks! This month we're looking at the best of Myanmar small bites. Many of the vendors who sell both sweet and savoury treats across the city are mobile and so it's difficult to always give an exact location but we have tried to give areas or reasonably accurate places to find certain snacks. We are lucky to have so much choice in Yangon in terms of street food vendors and so these suggestions are merely a starting point. There are many other equally good places you can discover across the city. Here is a selection of some of the best snacks, what they are and where to find them. Enjoy!

Savoury

Kaw pyant kyaw (ေကာ္ျပန္႔ေၾကာ္)

Deep-fried spring rolls filled with cabbage, carrots, onion and

sometimes meat. Normally comes with a sweet and tangy tamarind sauce. Near Tharkayta bridge, Tharkayta Tsp; 6am to 10pm

Mount lin mayar (မုန္႔လင္မယား)

Translated this means wife and husband as vendors will sell

two together. It is a small sponge-like pancake with chickpeas and onions inside. Hledan Junction; 3pm to 8pm.

Tohu kyaw (တုိ႔ဟူးေၾကာ္)

Tofu stuffed with cabbage, salad and chutney. Khay Marat

Shan Traditional Restaurant 2, Myay Nu St, Sanchaung Tsp, near Mahar Myaing Clinic; 6am to 10pm

Kalape thoat (ကုလားပဲသုပ္)

Chickpea salad made up of cabbage and tomato, coriander and

lime. Near Mingalar Zey Bus Stop, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp; All day

Nan bya (နံျပား)

Khauk swè thoat (ေခါက္ဆဲြသုပ္)

served with peas and fried onions. Mingalar Zey bus stop, Mingalar

and carrots, dressed with fried peanut oil, fish sauce and lime.

This is a delicious, simple and light type of flat-bread that is often Taung Nyunt Tsp; 6am to 10am

Wheat noodle salad with dried shrimps, shredded cabbage Mingalar Zey, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp; 3pm to 6pm

Samosa thoat (စမူဆာသုပ္)

Shan tohu (ရွမ္းတုိ႔ဟူး)

into a salad with onions, cabbage, fresh mint, potato curry, masala,

eaten as fritters (tohpu jaw) or in a salad (tohpu thohk), also

This is an ingenious extension of a samosa-deconstructed and made

chili powder, salt and lime. Maung Aye Tea Shop, 116, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Pazundaung Tsp- 01 290 825; 6am to 10pm

A type of tofu made from chickpea flour or yellow split pea eaten hot before it sets as tohu byawk aka tohu nway and as

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best of... fried dried tohpu (tohu jauk kyaw). Khay Marat Shan Traditional

Shwe yin aye (ေရႊရင္ေအး)

Restaurant, Inya Road; 6am to 10pm

A sweet but refreshing liquid dish of Agar jelly, tapioca and

Samosa (စမူဆာ)

the corner of Mahabandoola road and Seikkanthar street,

Burmese-style samosa with mutton and onions served with fresh

mint, green chilli,onions and lime. In front of CB Bank, near

sago in coconut milk. There are so many shwe yin aye stalls at Kyauktada Tsp; 9am to 5pm

Thaketa Bridge; 3pm to 6pm

Sanwin makin (ဆႏြင္းမကင္း)

Wat oo ma gyi (ဝက္အူမႀကီး)

walnuts and poppy seeds. Corner of Mahabandoola road and

Steamed and boiled pork stick, served with tamarind sauce and chili. Sanchaung Street, Myaynigone Tsp; All day.

Pauk see (ေပါက္စီ)

Steamed dumpling buns filled with either pork, egg and vegetables

or sweet bean paste. Larsho 7 Hlwar Pauk Se, Near Sule Pagoda; all day.

An Indian type of sweet- semolina (sooji) cake with raisins, 8th street, Lanmadaw Tsp; 9am to 8pm

Mont let saung (မုန္႔လက္ေဆာင္း)

A delicious drink made up of Tapioca balls, glutinous rice, grated coconut and toasted sesame with jaggery syrup in coconut milk. In front of Yuzana plaza, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp; 9am to 5pm

Parata (ပလာတာ)

Kyauk kyaw (ေက်ာက္ေက်ာ)

mutton curry. Ta Pyay Yeik Tea shop, No 4, Myitta Street, 12

Zey, Latha Tsp; 9am to 5pm

Burmese style of Indian layered flat-bread, normally served with ward, South Okkalapa Tsp; all day.

Sweet Nhat pyaw kyaw (ဌက္ေပ်ာ္ေၾကာ္)

Battered and freshly deep-fried sticky, sweet bananas. Corner of Mahabandoola Road and Shwe Bon Thar Street; 6am to 10pm

Htat taya (ထပ္တစ္ရာ)

Literally meaning "a hundred layers", fried flaky multi-layered

parata with a sprinkle of sugar. Delicious with milky tea. Near Parami Sein Gay Her Supermarket, Hlaing Tsp; all day.

Bein mount (ဘိန္းမုန္႔)

Little butter cakes that are cut in many different shapes. Hledan Junction; all day.

Iktaque (အီၾကာေကြး)

Deep-fried batter donut-like tubes. Yay Kyaw Mgaye Tea Shop. Corner of Bogyoke Aung San Road and Yay Kyaw Road, Pazundaung Tsp; 6am to 10pm

Shwe kyi mont (ေရႊက်ီမုန္႔)

A hardened moreish semolina (wheat) porridge cake with poppy seeds, sugar, butter, coconut. Myaynigone Night Market – In front of Dagon Center; 3pm to 8pm

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Agar jelly usually set in two layers with coconut milk. Theingyi

Htamanè (ထမနဲ)

This is a more savoury desert made up of glutinous rice, fried

shredded coconuts, peanuts, sesame seeds and oil. Bogyoke market and Hledan Junction; 5pm to 11pm

Htoe mont (ထုိးမုန္႔)

From Mandalay, glutinous rice cake with raisins, cashews and coconut shavings. Near Tamwe Circle bus stop and Hledan Junction; 7am to 9pm.

La mont (လမုန္႔)

A Chinese type of desert that is an oily disk-shaped cake filled

with either sugar or sweet bean paste. Latha Street, Latha Tsp; 9am to 5pm.

Mont lone yay paw (မုန္႔လံုးေရေပၚ)

A simple dish of Glutinous rice balls with jaggery (palm sugar). Hledan Junction; 5pm to 11pm.

Pashu mont (ပသွ်ဳးမုန္႔)

a Malay version of roasted glutinous rice flour mixed with sugar and coconut shreds. Latha street, Latha Tsp; 9am to 5pm

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Capoeira

Jojo teaches a small class, with 12 people maximum. The style is playful, uplifting, flowing Vinyasa Yoga. There are 3 classes:

Sunday 11 am - Intermediate dynamic vinyasa flow: recommended Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music, and is sometimes referred to as a

game. It was developed in Brazil mainly by African communities at the beginning of the 16th Century.

Meetings are on Tuesdays only 6-8PM, at Institut Francais

Birmanie (in the café or lecture room upstairs), no previous experience is needed and it's free of charge.

Institut Français de Birmanie (IFB), 340, Pyay Road, Sanchaung Tsp, Call 01 536 900 / 537 122 / 535 428 Facebook.com/pages/Capoeira-Group-Yangon

Yoga There are a number of small yoga groups that meet regularly

in Yangon. You can check the Facebook group facebook.com/ groups/yogainyangon/ for regular updates about various classes happening across town but here's a few to start with:

Gabrielle Paluch leads a class in the beautiful Bahan Zey, close to Shwe Dagon Pagoda, every Monday and Tuesday at 6:30 pm.

Price: 7,000 kyats. Bring your own mats. Call 09 430 570 23; email gabrielle.paluch@gmail.com

Karie teaches classes at Kuuzchi Yoga; all classes are one hour long, open-level Vinyasa Flow Yoga. One session is 10,000 kyat or you can purchase 10 sessions for 75,000. First class is free and

mats are available. Class is held outside in an open air pagoda.

for those with a foundation in basic vinyasa yoga postures looking to challenge their practice with a creative flow.

Sunday 1pm - Beginners / Gentle flow: recommended for those new to yoga or interested in a slower, mellower practice.

Wednesday 6:45pm - All levels Vinyasa flow: recommended for anyone who has attended at least 3 yoga classes.

First class is free with advanced booking. Contact YogaWithJojo@ gmail.com to be added to the mailing list and for studio details.

PILATES An 8 week course taught by Sjoukje W. Zilstra

starts Tues

21st October at Pun Hlaing Golf Estate. It's a 90 minute class starting at 6pm. Please email for more details or to book a place. clarewestmore1967@gmail.com

AEROBICS Most Gyms and fitness centres in Yangon offer aerobics classes.

A decent up-town option is the Sweat Club at Mi Casa Hotel Apartments on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, which offers a special deal for non-gym members who just want to do aerobics. Classes

start at 5:30 on a Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday and cost $12 per class or $50 for the month (down from $110).

Mi Casa Hotel Apartments, 17 Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Yankin Tsp; call 09 516 509 33

Private or small group classes are available upon request.

Zumba

Monday to Friday: 9 am

Zumba is a fusion of dance and aerobics, created by a

The current schedule is:

Monday, Wednesday: 6:30 pm

Tuesday: 6:30 pm - Broga (a class specifically for men) Thursday: 6:30 pm - beginners focus Tuesday & Thursday: 6:30 am

Kuuzchi Yoga, 103/C Thanlwin Road.

Call 09 254 177 511,Facebook.com/kuuzchiyoga

Colombian choreographer in the 1990s. It incorporates hip-hop, soca, samba, salsa, merengue and mambo. Squats and lunges

are also included. Approximately 14 million people take weekly Zumba classes in over 140,000 locations across more than 185

countries The lovely Mimi offers classes at Balance Fitness gym in Avenue 64 Hotel.

Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, 6pm - 7pm.per class $10 or per month $120 (gym members get cheaper rates)

BALANCE FITNESS-Avenue 64 Hotel, 64G Kyite Wine road, Mayangone Tsp. Call 01 656 916 / 012 501 846 75

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Another zumba class is organised by Allison Morris; wear comfortable clothes and sneakers. No previous dance or

sports

zumba experience required - all levels are welcome! Cost is 6,000 kyats per class

Wednesdays, 6:30 pm to 7:30pm

Grace Dance Studio, Room F38, First Floor, Pearl Condo, Building A

Ballet Plie, pirouette and Pique! There are Ballet classes for all

ages held at Studio Grace at 4pm on Monday and 9 am and 12:30 on Sat

Email eadordzhiev@gmail.com or call Inna 09 430 753 80

MOVE YOUR BODY!

Corner of Saya San & Kaba Aye rd, Pearl Condo, Bld A, Room F-38, 2nd Level.

Latin Dance Hola

dance

club

runs

Latin

Monday,Wednesday and Saturday.

dance

classes

Beginners’ classes

are from 6:00 to 7:30pm and advanced classes run straight

afterwards. Classes cost 1lakhs for 15 hours and you can also organise private classes for a few hundred USD.

94 Bogalay Zay Street Botataung Tsp; Call Ian 09420036302 or Hola 01392625; email-ianalcaraz14@ gmail.com

Movement with Music dance offers a bespoke dance class for children. Bu Khine Thu has one class running at 12.30 – 2.30 on Sundays for 10 to 13 year olds. Class times and

A GUIDE ON CLASSES

durations can be negotiated.

Weekday classes can be requested in the evenings. $10 a head for any class/ any age. For details Call- Bu Khine Thu on 09448018719

Studio Address: 133 (ground floor flat on the left, at the end

of the path), Yan Naing Lane, Yan Shin Street, Yankin Tsp (last flat on the left).

Did you know? The Yangon Directory lists 83 sportswear and sports goods shops www.yangondirectory.com

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beauty

NACHA SPA Nacha spa is a serene haven, tucked away near the City Mart on Shwe Saw Pu Road. This Thai beauty and wellness centre is run by the very experienced and knowledgeable Panida Ponlabute.

Along with excellently trained beauty technicians,

offering authentic Thai massage. The other services

and what kind of services are required. The spa itself

The menu is extensive with body treatments that

Panida knows what it takes to run a successful spa

is located in a quiet courtyard, off the main road-

attached to the Thai restaurant of the same nameNacha. On entering, you will find a beautifully set-

up space that is clean, tasteful and peaceful. Great

attention to detail can be found in not only the service itself and décor, but also the refreshments offered

(oolong tea from Chang Mai in Thailand and herbal, iced juices) and the imported high-quality products

provided. Selvert, Dermologica and bespoke organic

products are used-some of which have been created especially for Nacha Spa. There are three private

treatment rooms-all with their own bathrooms; one has an infrared thermal sauna that can be used to treat a variety of things from weight, depression, digestion,

only further add to this cutting edge beauty centre.

include detoxifying, thermal, slimming and anti-aging

therapies. One unique to Yangon treatment to try is Sneha hot massage candle-that is made from organic oils that are heated and then used directly on the skin,

in a similar sort of way to aryuvedic practices. The

facials are second-to-none with a range of treatments and practices performed to suit individual skin needs. Prices start at 15,000 kyats for a foot massage and spa.

Nacha Spa: 09 421 165 929-No.85 (A), Shin Saw Pu Road, Close to City Mart, San Chaung Tsp. Open daily from 10am to 8pm

insomnia and skin ailments.

A new extension has been built on the main building

with more room for semi-private massage-offering 8 very comfortable beds and a few chairs for foot

massage. This is perhaps the only spa in Yangon

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Did you know that the Yangon Directory lists 453

Beauty Parlors.www.yangondirectory.com

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(မွတ္ခ်က္။ ။ Teletransportation = အမႈန္မ်ားအျဖစ္တစ္ေနရာ၌ ၿပိဳကြဲၿပီး၊ ေနာက္တစ္ေနရာ၌ ျပန္လည္စုဖြဲ႕၍ ျဖစ္ေပၚကာ တစ္ေနရာမွ တစ္ေနရာသို႔ သြားလာျခင္း။)

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Water bottle

Ocean Super Centre, Shwe Gon Daing Road, Tamwe Tsp

Camera

Aung Aung Camera Supplies & Accessories, 167, 34th St, Corner of Anawratha Rd, Kyauktada Tsp- 01 242 518

Medicines

(sun cream, mosquito repellent,etc) City Mart Marketplace Pharmacy (located in the market upstairs); Corner of Dhammazedi Road and Golden Valley Road, Bahan Tsp

Sunglasses

Taw Win Shopping Centre, No.45, Pyay Road, Dagon Tsp

Cards/games

Shwe Pyae Sone Market, Banyar Dala Road, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp.

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shopping Walking shoes

Yuzana Plaza, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp

Art supplies

Bogyoke Market, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Entrance next to FMI Centre, 200 metres on the rightside.

Books

Monument Books, 150 Dhamazedi Road, Bahan Tsp- 01 536 306

Chinlone Ball/Sports accesories

Winner Sports, No.(262) Bo Min Yaung Road, Corner of U Pho Kyar Street ,Padamyar Condo, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp- 01 377 215/399 076

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DINING

**Star for critic's choice

downtown

** Easy Café & Restaurant-Asian-30A/C1, Bo Yar Nyunt Road-011 220 722 / 01 246 755

Kanpai-Japanese-207 Bo Aung Kyaw Street, Botataung Tsp-09 421 739 599

Fat Man Steak-Western-Bo Yar Nyunt Road, DGN Tsp-09 420 305 666

Kinsakura Restaurant-Japanese-BAK, Olympic Tower, 1st Floor, Bo Aung Kyaw Street, Kyauktada Tsp-09 514 7840

Feel-Myanmar-124, Pyihtaungsu Avenue Street, DGN Tsp-09 732 08 132

** Kosan Café-Bar Branch 2-Café/Bar-108, 19th Street (Upper Block), Latha Tsp-01 503 232

50th Street Bar and Restaurant-Western/Bar-913 50th Street, Botataung Tsp-01 397 060

**Frozee Gelatto Creamery- Ice Cream-No. 23 Nawaday St, Dagon Tsp-01 1233 874

365 Café-Café/Western-No.5 Thamada Hotel, Ahlanpya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp-01 243 047, 01 243 639-41 Ext.32

Fu-Rin Japanese Restaurant-Japanese-No. 210, Anawrahta Road, Lanmadaw Tsp-01 211 702

999 Shan Noodle Shop-Shan-130, B, 34th Street-01 389 363, 01 384 779

Gallery Bar & Restaurant-Café/Bar-223 Sule Pagoda Road-01 242 828 Ext: 6430 or 6431

Maru Grill Restaurant-Japanese-134, Shwe Taung Tan Street (Upper Block), Lanmadaw Tsp-011 221 568 / 09 420 308 350

** APK-Thai-392-396 Shwebonthar St, Pabedan Tsp-01 250 437

** Gekko-Japanese/Bar-535 Merchant Road01 386 986 / 09 431 90 232

** Miyoshi Ramen-Japanese-42/E, Bo Yar Nyunt Street, Dagon Tsp-09 420 098 866

** Aung Mingalar Shan Noodle RestaurantShan-No.34 Bo Yar Nyunt Street & Corner of Nawaday Street, DGN Tsp-(no phone number)

Green Gallery-Thai-No58. 52nd Street (lower block), Botahtaung Tsp-09 313 15 131

** Mondo-Japanese-26 (B) Yaw Min Gyi Street-01 252 261 / 09 450 066 782

Bar Boon-Café/Western-Just outside FMI Center, 380 Bo Gyoke Rd-09 420 321 058

Harley’s-Fastfood-285, Ground Floor, The Corner of 6th Street & Anaw Ya Htar Road, (2) Ward, Lanmadaw Tsp- 09 250 086 204

** Monsoon-Asian-No. 85-87, Theinbyu Road (lower block), Botataung Tsp-01 295 224

** Cherry Man- Myanmar/Indian-78/80 Latha St, Lower block-01 374 891 / 01 389 705

Heaven Pizza-Pizza-38~40, Bo Yar Nyunt Street, Dagon Tsp-09 855 1383

** Coffee Club-Café-Level 1, Corner of 11th Street and Maha Bandoola Street-09 432 07 764

Ingyin Restaurant-Indian-Anawratha Rd (30th St)-(no number)

Coka Suki Restaurant-Thai/Hotpot-104/108, Kyee Myin Daing Strand Road, Ahlone Tsp-01 229 904 Ext 229905

Junior Duck-Chinese-Nanthidar Jetty Compound, Pan Soe Tan Saikkan Strand Rd, Kyauktada Tsp-01 249 421

** Linkage Restaurant-Myanmar/Asian-221, 1st flr, Mahar Bandoola Garden Street-09 495 83 618, 09 430 52 916

My Garden-Asian-Ahlone Road-01 372 822 ** Nepali Food House-Nepalese-63, Bon Sun Pet Street, Lower Block, Pabedan Tsp-09 402 552 245 / 09 731 42 386 / 09 517 5640 Nilar Biryani-Indian-216, Anawratha Rd., Pabedan Tsp-(no phone number)

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Nooch Restaurant & Bar-Japanese/Thai -No.387/397, Room K1, Upper Shwe Bon Thar Rd, Pabedan Tsp-01 378 166

The Manhattan Fish Market-Seafood/ Western-44/56 Kannar Road, Ground Floor M.M.G. Tower, 41st - 42nd Street-01 375 064

Asagiri Sausage & Restaurant-WesternCorner of Kyun Taw Road and Nar Nat Taw Street, Kamaryut Tsp-01 539 598

Oishii Branch 1-Japanese-98, Latha Street(Middle Block), Latha Tsp-01 708 685 / 09 312 87 053

The Lobby Bar-Bar-Park Royal Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp-01 250 388

Aung Thuka-Myanmar-17(A), West Shwegondine, Bahan Tsp-01 525 194

The Strand Café-Fine dining/Western 92 Strand Road-01 243 377~92

** AV's-Indian-Room A, Ground Floor, No(76/80)(B), Banyardala Road-09 254 345 381

** Pa Pa Pizza-Pizza-Yaw Min Gyi Street-09 421 124 373 Peacock Lounge-Café-Sule-Shangri-La Hotel, 223 Sule Pagoda Road-01 242 828 ext. 6456 or 6434

The Thiripyitsaya Sky Bistro-Asian/ Western-20th Floor, Sakura Tower, 339 Bogyoke Aung San Road, Kyauktada Tsp-01 255 277

Phoenix Court (Si Chaun Dou hua)-ChinesePark Royal Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp-01 250 388

Titu’s Indian Banana Leaf-Indian-235, Ground floor, 32nd Street-09 302 58 377 / 09 312 85 439

Santino Café-Coffee Shop-18/A-1, Bo Yar Nyunt St ,Dagon Tsp-01 387 880 Shan Yoe Yar-Shan-War Tan Street, Lanmadaw Tsp-01 221 524

Toba Restaurant Café-Indonesian-15 Nawaday Street, Dagon Tsp-09 254 095 451

** Shiawase-Sushi-38/40 A1 Bo Yar Nyunt St-09 492 59 184 Shiki-Tei-Japanese-Park Royal Hotel, 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp-01 250 388

** Union Bar & Grill-Western/Bar-42 Strand Road, Left corner of the Myanmar Red Cross Building, Botahtaung Tsp- 09 420 101 854 Ureshii Kitchen-Japanese-111 Shwe Taung Tan Street, Lanmadaw Tsp-01 224 810

Shwe Kaung Hot Pot-Chinese/Hot Pot-306, Level 3, Junction Maw Tin, Corner of Anawrahta Rd & Lanthit Rd, Lanmadaw Tsp-09 731 12 046

Ya Kun Kaya Toast-Singaporean- 4th Floor, Junction Square, Corner of Narnattaw Road and Kyun Taw Road, Kamayut Tsp-09 312 85 439

Spice Brasserie-Asian Fusion-Park Royal Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp-01 250 388

** Yhet’s-Japanese-57, 37 Street (Lower Block), Kyauktada Tsp-01 377 212

** Sprouts-Salad Bar/Café-68A Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Tsp-09 421 102 223 Sukiya Japanese Resturant-Japanese-42/B, Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Tsp-09 311 35 026 ** Sule Shangri-La Café-Bakery/Café-Shangri La Hotel, 223 Sule Pagoda Road-01 242 828 ext. 6519 or 6442 ** Summer Palace-Chinese-Sule Shangri La, 223 Sule Pagoda Road-01 242 828 ext: 6480 / 6483 or 6486

midtown After Work Bistro and Bar-Café/Bar-31,A1, Shan Gone Street, Sanchaung Tsp-09 250 400 753 ** Agnes-French/Fine Dining-Kandawgyi Palace Hotel, Kan Yeik Tha Road, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township, Yangon-01 382 919 / 01 382 912

Sushi Itchi-Japanese-No. 105, Phone Gyi Street, Lanmadaw Tsp-01 218 282

** Alamanda Inn Restaurant-French-60B/ Shwe Taun Gyar rd, Golden Valley-01 534 513

** Sydney’s-Western Bakery-288/290 (Rm 106), 1st Flr, Shwe Dagon Pagoda Rd, MWEA Tower-01 381 607

Ananda Coffee and Cocoa-Café/Coffee shop-Market Place by City Mart, Dhamazedi Road-(no phone number)

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Bangkok Kitchen-Thai-Kandawgyi Natural Park,Nat Mauk Road,Tamwe Tsp-01 556 901 Barista Lavazza-Café/Coffee shop-16 Kyaik Ka San rd, Tamwe Tsp-018 604 415 BBQ Chicken Restaurant-Fastfood44,Ground Floor, Pyay Road, Dagon Tsp-09 250 613 329 Billion Gold Restaurant-Fine Dining-Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road)01 216 001 Black Canyon Coffee-Coffee shop-330 Ahlone Road, In front of Yangon International Hotel, Dagon Tsp-01 395 052 Café Bellagio-Western-81 New University Ave Road, Bahan Tsp-01 544 930 Café Dibar-Italian-No.104, University Avenue Road, Kamaryut Tsp (Inya Road)-095 114 932 Cafe Napoli-Italian-No,287, East Shwe Gon Dine Road, Bahan Tsp-01 554 957 / 09 420 207 233 Café Terrace 320-Café/Thai-Corner of Pyay Road and Ahlone Road-09 430 91 959 Chatime (various branches)-Café-29 B-002 Shwe Pyi Aye Yeik Mon Housing, Bargayar Rd, Sanchaung Tsp-(no phone number) Chokdee-Dim sum-Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road)-09 732 27 177 Cocoon Bar–Asian/bar-22/24 Shinsawpu Road and corner of Baho Road-01 500 863 Coffee Circles-Café 107(A) Dhammazedi Rd-01 525 157 Country Club-Bakery/Asian-No. 28 (A1-A2). Corner of Thida & Kyaukmyaung Street-01 544269

Cousins Grill-Western-No. 28(A), Kokkaing Swimming Pool Street, Sayarsan Road, Bahan Tsp-01 546 633 Daruma-Japanese-Yangon International Hotel,Ahlone Road,DGN Tsp-09 492 70 271 Dining Fukurou Japanese Resturant-JapaneseNo.81 (C), New University Avenue Road, Bahan Tsp-01 542 871 Doremi Café-Asian/Western-No.33,Nigyawda Street, KyaukMyaung, Tamwe Tsp-01 546 850 Dynasty Bistro at Marketplace-Chinese-430/A, City Mart Marketplace, Dhamazeddi Rd., Bahan Tsp-01 523 840 ** Edu Zushi-Japanese-No.290-B, U Wisara Road, 10 Ward Kamaryut Tsp-09 259 040 853 ** Family Sushi-Japanese-A-27, Rm# 104, U Chit Maung Housing, U Chit Maung St. Bahan Tsp-09 731 19 456 / 095 077 223 FC Box & Food Desserts-Fastfood-Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road)-01 216 001 ** Fuji Coffee House-Japanese-No.116, University Avenue, Road, Kamaryut Tsp-01 535 371 EXT 512561 ** Furusato-Japanese-137 Shwe Gon Daing Road, Bahan Tsp- 01 556 265 ** Golden City Chetty Restaurant-IndianPadonmar Street, Sanchaung Tsp-01 518 248 / 095 414 526 ** Golden Duck Restaurant-Chinese-Kan Taw Mingalar Garden Compound, Shwedagon Pagoda Road-01 240 216

Golden View Japanese Teppanaki Restaurant-Japanese-23 Golden View Tower (A), G3, U Aung Myat Street, Mingalar Taungnyunt Tsp (opposite of Karaweik Park entrance)-018 619 194 / 095 080 466 ** Golden Kitchen Tori-Asian fusion-135 Inya Road, opposite of Savoy Hotel-01 511 418 Green Elephant Restaurant-Myanmar-No. 33, Thirimingalar Lane (Attia Road), Kamayut Tsp-0261237 Gusto Café-Coffee Shop/Italian-150, Dhamazedi Road, Next to Monument Bookstore-09 362 14 523 Happy Café & Noodles-Myanmar/Asian104(B), Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp-01 536 985 Haru-Japanese-81 Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Bahan Tsp-09 421 149 721 ** House of Memories-Myanmar-290 U Wisara Rd-01534 242 Ice Berry-Western-230 Bargayar Road, opposite Dagon Centre -01 516 506 / 01 700 680 ** Ichiban-Kan-Japanese-G17-18, Gyo Phyu Street, Aung San Stadium (North Wing), Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp-01 394 824 Jaspar House-Western-No. 54, Ahlone Street, Dagon Tsp-09 517 2589 / 012 302 011 Jing Hpaw Myay-Kachin-2B Kyun Taw Street-01 524 525 / 09 420 247 034 ** Kachin Agape Restaurant–Kachin-Shwe Pyi Aye, just off Bagayar Street (Closed Sundays)-01 518 239 / 09 421 167 008

dining Karaweik Palace-Western/Asian-Kandawgyi Compound, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp-09 459 222 222 Kobe-Ya-Japanese-615/B Marlar St. Pyay Rd, Kamaryut Tsp-01 535 072 Kokine Bar & Restaurant-Asian/Western-32, Kokkine Swimming Club Lane, off Saya San Road, Bahan Tsp-095 411 253 / 09 421 060 505 Kohaku-Japanese-Chatrium Hotel No 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp-01 544 500 Ko Piteria-Café-No.23, A-1, Hledan Road, Kamayut Tsp-09 730 50 361 ** Le Bistrot-French-Savoy Hotel, 129, Dhammazedi Road, Kamaryut Tsp-01 526 289 / 01 526 298 Le Planteur-Fine Dining/French-No. 22, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp-01 541 997 Lotteria-Fastfood-Junction Square, Between Kyun Taw Rd and Pyay Rd, Kamayut Tsp-012 305 798 Magic Bubble Tea-Café-No. 279 Kyaikkasan Street, Tamwe Tsp-01 555 917 Marry Brown-Fastfood-220, Shwe Gon Daing Road, Bahan Tsp-018 603 215 ** Min Lann-Seafood/Rakhine-45 Baho road, near Asia Royal hospital-01 510 285 / 09 431 25 152 ** Mojo-Asian Fusion/Tapas-135 Inya Road, Bahan Tsp-01 511 418

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Mom’s Kitchen-Asian/Singaporean-Lay Daungkan Road (in front of Super One), Tamwe Tsp-01 545 871 Moon Bakery-Bakery/Chinese-253 Bargayar Road-01 516 761 Mr. Chef-Asian/Western-Kyauk Myaung St, Tamwe Tsp-092 010 330 Mr. Sushi-Japanese-No.330 Banyadala St, Tamwe Tsp-09 240 047 373 ** Muses-Asian/Western-No.485(B) Pyay Road, Kamaryut Tsp-01 503 380 ** Nacha Thai-Thai-86 Shin Saw Pu Road, Sanchaung Tsp-01 510 731 Nervin Café and Bistro-Café-Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar, Kandawgyi Nature Park, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp-01 541 188 New Burger-Fastfood-U Chit Maung Road, U Chit Maung Housing,Bahan Tsp-09 315 67 719 Off the Beaten Track-Café/Bar-Kandawgyi Natural Park, Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar, Mingla Taung Nyunt Tsp-095 416 437

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** Onyx-Western-No.135 Dhamazadi Rd-01 524 271 / 095 071 847 Oriental House Restaurant-Chinese/Dim Sum-No. 126(A), Myo Ma Kyaung St., Dagon Tsp-01 371 471 Pandomar-Asian-105/107, Kha-Yae-Bin Road, Dagon Tsp-01 538 895 Parisian-Bakery-Hledan Road, Kamayut Tsp09 731 28 001 Pepperoni Pizza-Italian-Union Business Center (UBC) Annex B, Nat Mauk Road, Bo Cho Quarter Bahan Tsp-09 302 58 399 Peppers-Western-University Avenue Rd-01 548 046 Potato Break-Fastfood-Myanmar Culture Valley, U Wisara road, People's Park-01 241 103 Putao Resturant-Kachin-30 (ground floor) Dammayone St., Myay Ni Gone, Sanchaung Tsp-09 257 171 464 Radio café-Sandwiches/Western-30,Ma hlwa gone St, Tamwe Tsp-(no phone number)

Royal Garden-Chinese-Natmauk Road, Kandawgyi Nature Park, Central Forest Zone, Bahan Tsp-01 546 923, 01 546 202 Sai’s Tacos-Mexican-32A Inya Myaing Road01 514 950 Salud Restaurant-Mexican/Latin American7(C) Ground Floor, Wingabar Road Bahan (Its next to Clover Hotel)-09 7311 3601 Samuri Sushi-Japanese-4E/F Ground Floor, Wingabar Street, Bahan Tsp-09 730 81 871 / 095 123 240 Seik Taing Kya-Myanmar/tea-shop-44 Ma Po Street-01 531 564 ** Sharky’s-Western/Ice Cream-117, Dhamazedi Road-01 524 677 / 01 373 009 **Shwe Kaung Hot Pot-Hot Pot/Chinese-No 18, Ko Min Ko Chin Road, Shwe Gon Dine, Bahan Tsp-01 559 339 ** Shwe Li BBQ-BBQ-485 Corner of Pyay Rd & narnattaw Rd. Kamayut Tsp-01 535 394

Singapore Kitchen-Singaporean-Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road)-01 216 001 Singapore Restaurant-Chinese-330 Ahlone Rd, International Hotel Compound, Dagon Tsp-09 730 16 788 / 09 492 71 866 Spaghetti-Italian-No 15 A, Yandana Street-01 524 903 Sport Bar-Bar-Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road)-01 216 001 Swenson’s-Ice Cream-Myay Ni Gone,Sanchaung Tsp-01 504 932 / 09 731 81 758 Swe Thai Restaurant-Thai-34, New University Ave Road, Kokkine, Bahan Tsp-01 704 067 ** Teke Teke Yakitori Bar & Restaurant-Japanese-12 Bogyoke Museum Street, Bo Cho-2 Ward, Bahan Tsp-18 604 434 Thai Kitchen-Thai-126 (A-1), Dhamazedi Street & Inya Traffic Corner, Bahan Tsp-09 730 37 799 / 098 613 400 Thai Pot-Thai/Hotpot-250, East Myin Pyine Kwin Road, Tamwe Tsp-098 610 393 / 095 007 997 ** The Coriander Leaf-Indian-12, Yangon International Hotel Compound, Alone Road-01 293 006 / 09 431 85 008 The Emporia-Western/Asian-Chatrium Hotel, 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp01 544 500 Ext. 6253 The Fingers Food Garden–Myanmar-55 Shan Kone Street-01535350 ** The Garden Bistro Signature Restaurant-Western/Asian-Corner of Kan Yeikthar St.,Bahan St.,Near U Htaung Bo Roundabout, Bahan Tsp-01 546 488 ** The Lab-Tapas-70a Shwegondaing Rd-09 250 537 979 The Pizza Company-Italian-Dagon Centre 1 Shopping Mall, Sanchaung Tsp01 534 036 / 09 730 69 724 The Serenity Restaurant-Myanmar-No.114/ B, Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp-01 524 890 The Standard-Western-10K, Shwe Taung Kyar Street-011 221 324 / 09 420 066 299 ** Tiger Hill-Chinese-Chatrium Hotel, 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp-01 544 500 Ext. 6294 ** Vietnam Kitchen-Vietnamese-1A phone Sein rd, Tamwe Tsp-09 431 83 989 ** Vino di Zanotti-Italian-61, University Avenue Road, Bahan Tsp-01 525 935 / 01 505 247 ** Water Library-Fine Dining/European-Corner of Pyay Road and Manawharri Road-Dagon Tsp-01 221 721 / 01 214 361

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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 06 491 White Rice Restaurant-Chinese-Nat Mauk Road, Kandawgyi Lake-01 556 837 Win Star-BBQ/bar-No (27/30), Corner of Sanchaung Street & Padonmar Street, Sanchaung Township-01 505 467 ** 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 ** Yangon Bakehouse-Bakery/Café-Pearl Condo, Block C, Ground Floor, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road09 450 055 924 / 09 250 178 879 / 01 557 448, ext 818 Yangon Paris Bakery-Bakery-City Mart Market place. G-12, Golden Valley Center, Damazaydi Road, Bahan Tsp01 655 861 / 01 523 840

Café 47-Western-47 A,Pyay Road, Mayangone Tsp-01 651 774

Orchid Café-Café-Inya Lake Hotel, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp-019 662 866,

Chew Q-Thai-11(A), Kan Yeik Thar Road, Mayangone Tsp-095 021 322

** Parami Pizza-Italian-No (11/8), Corner of Malikha Road and Parami Road, 7th Quarter, Myangone Tsp-09 250 292 074 ** Phai Lin-Thai/Chinese-69, Pyay Rd., 61/2 Mile-01 525 403

Fook Mun Lau-Chinese-102, Nawaday Cinema Garden, Corner Of Kabaraye Pagoda Road & Oak Pone Seik Road, Mayangone Tsp-01 661 839 / 01 663 743 Frolick-Frozen Yoghurt-Kyun Taw Street, Junction Square, 3rd Floor-01 527 242 Fuji-Japanese-Hanthawaddy Road-09 515 14 776 Gangam Restaurant-Korean-Kabaraye Pagoda Road, Mayangone Tsp-01 650 689 Gourmet Corner Restaurant-MyanmarParami Road- 01 667 449 / 092 006 777 Huddy’s Fish Bar-Fastfood-70, Insein Road, Hlaing Tsp-09 319 45 472 Innlay Ahmataya-Shan-8 Kyout Kone street, Corner of Thitisar road and Kyout Kone street, Yankin Tsp-(no phone number)

Zeal–Western/Café-No. 99, Myay Nu Street-09 731 27 280

Kone Myin Thar-Myanmar-69 (A) Pyay St, 7 1/2 Mile, Mayangone Tsp-(no phone number)

Zephyr Coffee & Restaurant-Asian-Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp-(no phone number)

Kosan Café-Bar Branch 1-Bar/Café-18, U Tun Lin Chan Street, Hledan-01 503 232

uptown ** Acacia Tea Salon-Fine Dining/Bakery-52 Saya San Rd-01 554 739 Ajishin-Japanese-18B Thukhawadi Lane, Suniran Park, Yankin Tsp-01 562 701 Always Café-Café-Ground Floor, Ga Mone Pwint Shopping Mall, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd., Mayangone Tsp-01 653 644 / 01 653 660 Arirang Restaurant-Korean-Thiri Mingalar St, Hledan-09 493 35 172

L’Alchimiste-French-5 U Tun Nyein Street, Mayangone Tsp-01 660 612 La Maison 20-Fine Dining- 20, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangone Tsp-01 664 204 ** L’Opera Restaurant-Italian-62D, U Htun Nyein Street, Mayangone Tsp-09 730 30 755 ** La Tartine-French Bakery-Pearl Condo A, corner of Kabar Aye Pagoda Road & Sayarsan Road-01 557 448 ext. 858 Little Tokyo-Japanese-10D, Kabaung Road, Hlaing Tsp-09 731 85 168 / 09 731 78 946

Aux Saisons-European/Fine Dining-31/A Kan Yeik Tha Road-01 661 125

** Min Lan-Rakhine/Seafood-No.16,Parami Road & West of Maykha Road,Mayangone Tsp-01 656 941 / 099 926 959

BB Cake & Coffee-Café-48, Coner of Parami Road and Myint Zu Street, Yankin Tsp-09 421 180 670

Moon Bakery-Bakery-Rm 15/15B Junction 8-Kyaik Waing Pagoda Rd, Myangone Tsp-09 732 103 000

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Ryukyu-Japanese-76 Saya San Road-01 554 748 ** Sabai@DMZ-Thai- Inside Mya Kyun Tha Park (Opposite Sedona Hotel), Kaba Aye Pagoda Road-018 605 178 Scoop premium Italian Ice Cream-Ice Cream-Junction Square Shopping Centre, Kyun Taw Road-09 732 18 321 Shwe Pyi Moe–Myanmar Tea Shop–level 3, corner of Ngwe ni 13 street, North Okkalapa-09 421 006 237 ** Shwe Tea shop-Myanmar Tea Shop-U Tun Lin Chan Street, Hledan-(no number) ** Shwe Sa Bwe-French/Fine Dining-20 Malikha Road-01 661 983 Taing Yin Tar-Myanmar-5A, Corner of May Kha Road and Parami Road, Mayangone Tsp01 660 792 / 09 732 21 717 Ten Miles Cuisine-Chinese-145, 10 miles, Pyay Road, Mayangone Tsp-01 660 417 The Myths–Western Cuisine–No. 18 Thukhawaddy St., 6th Ward, Yankin Tsp–09 431 68 808 / 095 037 764 The Seoul Korean Restaurant-Korean-142 Parami Road-09 492 84 888 / 09 421 177 524 YKKO (various chains)- Chinese/Thai-BBQ, 8 mile-01 401 192 / 01 401 179 Yunan BBQ-BBQ/Chinese-48 (A), corner of Kanyethethar Street and Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangone Tsp-01 665 398 / 01 664 496

Please check the Yangon Directory for more restaurant listings and see our food features "Best of Street Snacks" for more details of places to eat in Yangon. More to follow in our next issue…

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Nightlife Bars

Friendship

Bar:

No(135)corner

Dhamazedi Road & Inya Road- Cheap and cheerful

Yangon has an expanding nightlife scene.

Mojo: No.135, Corner of Innya and Dhammazedi Road 01-511 418 -Popular spot with good events.

Gallery Bar: Shangri-La Hotel, Level 2, 223

Music Box: Yangon International Hotel

of places to party and socialise.

-Excellent Happy Hour with cosy corners

Tsp, 01-730 36433-A karaoke bar with

50th Street: 9/13 50th Street-Popular with

Gekko: 535 Merchant Street, Kyauktada

No longer limited to hotel bars and beer stations, there is now an emerging variety

Sule Pagoda Road 01-242 828 ext: 6433

Complex, No.330, Ahlone Road, Dagon individual booths and dance-floor.

the Sports crowd

Tsp, 4th Quarter-Stylish and discreet with

Off the Beaten Track: Kandawgyi Natural

After-Work Bistro and Bar: 31, A1,

cocktails.

Taung Nyunt Tsp, 09 541 6437-A place to

Shan

Gone

excellent yet unusual Japanese inspired

Street,

09250400753 / Sanchaung bar

Sanchaung

Tsp,

0942023 9822-A new

Ginki Kids: 18 Kambawza Road, Bahan

Tsp, Yangon-Relaxed atmosphere with cold beers.

Bar One: 4 Kanbawza Street, Yangon, 01555 067-Golden Valley’s Shisha hang-out.

Ice Bar: Sedona Hotel, 1 Kabar Aye Pago-

Captain’s

with dry ice and a lively in-house band.

Bar:

Savoy

Hotel,

129,

Dhammazedi Road Yangon 01-526 289,

da Road-Not quite frozen but getting there

01-526 298, 01-526 305 -Casual yet classic

Kosan Bar-Branch 1: 1-A, No.18, U

Cask 81: No 81, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road,

Tsp, 01503232; Branch 2: No.108, 19th

fanatics

-Popular with tourists, expats and locals for

Bahan Tsp, 09 254 083 981-For whisky

Cocoon Bar: 22/24 Shinsawpu Road and

corner of Baho Road; Tel 01 500 863-

Tun Lin Chan Street, Hledam, Kamayut Street (Upper Block), Latha tsp, 01503232 their cheap and tasty mojitos.

Lobby Lounge: Chatrium Hotel, Ground

Park, Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar, Mingla meet other travelers.

Penguin: 12 Hlwa Gone Street, TamweLocal hangout with good, cheap cocktails Pool Bar: Yangon International Hotel, 330

Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp-Lively bar with pool tables-open late

Sapphire Lounge & Bar: Alfa Hotel, 41 Nawaday St, Yawmingyi Qr, Dagon Tsp-

Discreet outside rooftop bar with great views

Space Bar: No.126 , Kabar Aye Pagoda

road, Bahan Tsp-Outdoor and indoor rooftop setting

Great views

Level, 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp,

Sports Bar: 20, Pearl St., Mya Yeik Nyo

Club Rizzoli: Chatrium Hotel 42, Natmauk

lobby bar with garden views.

Bahan Tsp 09-731 32161-Popular outdoor

Private party paradise with Cuban cigars,

Maru Wine Bar: 130, Shwe Taung Tan

Road, Tamwe Tsp, 01544500 Ext:6243/6244-

01544500, EXT. 6277-A relaxed hotel

Royal Hotel, Shwe Taung Gyar Ward (2), bar/restaurant

karaoke and well-stocked sake bar

Street (Upper Block), Lanmadaw Tsp, 01-

The Lab: 70A Shwegondaing Road,

Escape Gastro Bar: 31D Kan Yeik Thar St,

and interesting wine bar.

new and busy bar/restaurant with excellent

Mayangone Tsp, 01-660737 -A Myanmar celebrity hang-out

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1221568 / 09-420308350 (Mobile)-small

Bahan, 09- 250018200/ 09- 250537979-A cocktails

Road, 01 246 968-A new, no-frills downtown bar

Clubs

The Strand Bar: 92 Strand Road, 01-

Café Liberal: Nat Mauk St, Next to

The Phayre: 292 Upper Pansodan

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

lake-views

with

live

music. Only open to non-members on Fridays.

Left corner of the Myanmar Red Cross Botahtaung

Tsp,

09-420

180 214 -Famous for their Moscow

Mule cocktails and winner of Yangon’s Bartenders competition. Runs a good variety of events, including guest DJ nights. Vista

Rizzoli:

Chatrium

Hotel

42,

Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp, 01544500 with

Cuban

cigars,

karaoke,

percussion band and in-house DJ.

live

DJ Bar: U Htun Nyein Street, Yangon-

GTR: 37 Kaba Aye Pagoda RoadPopular with a young and hip crowd

JJ: Mingalar Mon Market, 4th Floor, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp-Well-sized

dance floor. Club is spread out over four floors. Entry fee ( 3000 kyats) includes a free drink.

Bar:

168,

Corner

Shwegonedaing Road and Old Yay Tar

Shay Street-Open-air rooftop bar with amazing views of Shwe Dagon Pagoda

Win Star Pub: 27/30, Corner of

Sanchaung Street & Padonmar Street, Sanchaung Tsp, 01 505467-A Local and

popular beer station with frosted beer glasses.

Club

Loud music and a good up-town option.

Union Bar & Grill: 42 Strand Road, Building,

0930-For the last one standing!

Ext: 6243/6244-Private party paradise

The Yangon Sailing Club: 132 Inya Road-Beautiful

Chatrium Hotel, 01 551 774 / 09 642

Pioneer: Yangon International Hotel, No.330, Ahlone Road-Fun crowd with pop/club music.

The Music Club: Park Royal Hotel, Basement One, 33 Alan Pha Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp; 01 250 388- Enjoy

the occasional live band and themed

Please check out "Plot Ahead" for Nightlife events happening around Yangon.

nights; as well as regular nights with the in-house DJ.

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၇ ရက္သားသမီးမ်ားအတြက္ ေဟာစာတမ္း

U Kyaw Myint Astrologer since 1985 Astro Research Bureau(Myanmar) B.E(Tex),D.E.P.,D.C.Sc

တနဂၤေႏြသားသမီး က်န္းမာေရး

တနလၤာသားသမီး

- အစားမွားတတ္သည္ကို သတိျပဳပါ။ ႏွလံုးအားနည္းၿပီး

က်န္းမာေရး

ေမာပန္းႏြ မ္း နယ္ မႈေ ဝဒနာ ခံ စားရတတ္ လိ မ့္ မ ည္ ။ ၁၆

ဆင္းမ်ားတတ္သည္ကို သတိျပဳပါ။ အမ်ဳိးသားမ်ား ဆီး

ရက္ေ နာက္ ပို င္း အသင့္ အ တင့္ တိုး တက္ေ ကာင္း မြ န္ လာတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ ပညာေရး စီးပြားေရး

- ၂၇ ရက္ေ န႔ အ ထိ ပညာေရးဇာတာ ေကာင္းေနတတ္

- ၄ ရက္ေ နာက္ ပို င္း ပညာေရး ႀကိဳးစားေပးရန္ လို မ ည္ ။ စိတ္ဓာတ္အင္အား ေလ်ာ့နည္းေနတတ္လိမ့္မည္။

စီးပြားေရး

- ပို႔ေဆာင္ေရး၊ ဆက္သြယ္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားလုပ္ကိုင္လွ်င္

- ၄ ရက္ေန႔အထိ ဝင္ေငြက ထြက္ေငြထက္ အားသာေန

အျမတ္အစြန္းမ်ား ရတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔အထိ

တတ္ေသာ္လည္း ေနာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ထြက္ေငြ ပိုမ်ားလာ

စပ္တူလုပ္ငန္း၊ ကုမၸဏီလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား သတိထားလုပ္ကိုင္

တတ္ လိ မ့္ မ ည္ ။ အလွဴ ဒါနမ်ား၊ ကု သို လ္ေ ကာင္း မႈ မ်ား

ရန္ လိဥ ု ီးမည္။ လကုနပ ္ င ို ္းတြငမ ္ ွ ေအာင္ျမင္မမ ႈ ်ား ရကိန္း

ျပဳလုပ္ျဖစ္တတ္လိမ့္မည္။ ၄ ရက္ႏွင့္ ၁၂ ရက္ၾကားတြင္

ရွိပါသည္။

အ မ်ား အ က်ဳိးေ ဆာ င္ ရြ က္ ရ င္း ကို ယ့္ အ က်ဳိးေ အာ င္ အိမ္တြင္းေရး

ေအာင့္တတ္လိမ့္မည္။ ပညာေရး

လိမ့္မည္။

- သလိပ္ထူေျပာေနတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ား ေသြး

အိမ္တြင္းေရး

- ၄ ရက္ေက်ာ္လွ်င္ အိမတ ္ င ြ ္းေရးတြင္ စကားအေခ်အတင္

တတ္လိမ့္မည္။ ပြဲစားလုပ္ရန္ရွိက လုပ္သင့္ပါသည္။

ေျပာဆို ရ မႈ ရွိ လာႏို င္ သ ည္ ။ စိ တ္ ရွ ည္ သ ည္း ခံ မႈ ရွိ ရ န္

- ေပ်ာ္ရင ႊ ၾ္ ကည္ႏူးစရာမ်ား ရွိေနတတ္လမ ိ မ ့္ ည္။ သားသမီး

လိမ ု ည္။ သိမင ္ ယ္စတ ိ ဝ ္ င္လာတတ္သည္ကို ေမာင္းထုတ္

မ်ားအတြက္ ဆက္လက္ၿပီး ေငြကုန္မ်ားေနလိမ့္ဦးမည္။ အေဆာင္ယၾတာ - ကံ့ေကာ္ၫႊန္႔၊ ပတၱျမား၊ နီညိဳေရာင္

ပစ္သင့္ပါ သည္။ အေဆာင္ယၾတာ - ႏွင္းဆီပန္း၊ ပုလဲ၊ အေရာင္ေဖ်ာ့ေဖ်ာ့ကေလးမ်ား

အဂၤါ သားသမီး က်န္းမာေရး

- ၂ ရက္ေန႔ေနာက္ပိုင္း ဒူးနာ၊ ခါးနာ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေခ်ရွိသည္။ အစာမေၾကမႈအေပၚ ခ်ဴခ်ာ လာတတ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ ေၾကလြယ္ေသာအစာမ်ား ေရြးစားသင့္ပါသည္။

ပညာေရး

- ပညာေရးႀကိဳးစားေပးရန္လဥ ို ီးမည္။၁၆ရက္ေနာက္ပင ို ္းအဆင့္ေလ်ာ့က်ကန ိ ္းရွသ ိ ည္။ အလုပ္တစ္ဖက္ႏွင့္ ပညာရွာသူမ်ား အလုပ္ပင္ပန္းမႈေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္တတ္လိမ့္မည္။

စီးပြားေရး

- ကုမၸဏီလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ၁၄ ရက္ေန႔အထိ အဆင္ေျပေနတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ အိမ္၊ ေျမ၊ ယာဥ္ စက္ကရ ိ ယ ိ ာမ်ား အေရာင္းအဝယ္ျပဳလုပရ ္ န္ သင့္ေတာ္ေသာကာလျဖစ္မည္။ လကုနပ ္ င ို ္းတြင္ ဂုဏသ ္ က ိ ၡာျမင္တ ့ က္လာသည္အထိ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ ႀကီးႀကီး ရကိန္း ရွိပါသည္။ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ တစ္ခုခု ျပဳလုပ္ျဖစ္တတ္လိမ့္မည္။

အိမ္တြင္းေရး

- ၁၂ ရက္ေန႔အထိ ေပ်ာ္ရင ႊ ၾ္ ကည္ႏူးစရာမ်ား ရွိေနလိမဥ ့္ ီးမည္။ ေနာက္ပင ို ္းတြင္ အလုပ္ မ်ားၿပီး မိသားစုအတြက္ အခ်ိန္ေပးႏိုင္မႈ နည္းပါးလာတတ္လိမ့္မည္။

အေဆာင္ယၾတာ - ရြက္လွ၊ သႏာ၊ၱ အနီေရာင္ရဲရဲ

60 November 2014 My Yangon

horoscope ဗုဒၶဟူးသားသမီး က်န္းမာေရး

- အခ်ဥ္ ၊ အစပ္ အစားမ်ားၿပီး အနာအဖ်ားရွိ လာတတ္ လိမ့္မည္။ ေခ်ာင္းဆိုး တာရွည္တတ္သည္ကို ဂ႐ုတစိုက္

ေသာၾကာသားသမီး က်န္းမာေရး

ႏို င္ေ ခ်ရွိ သ ည္ ။ ဆီး ခ်ဳိေ ရာဂါရွိ သူ မ်ား ဆီး ခ်ဳိ တ က္ လာ

ကုသေပးရန္ လိုလိမ့္မည္။ ပညာေရး

အရွိန္ေလ်ာ့သြားကိန္းရွိသည္။ စီးပြားေရး

တတ္ လိ မ့္ မ ည္ ။ လကု န္ ပို င္း တြ င္ ယာဥ္ မေတာ္ တ ဆမႈ

- ဝီရိယ စိုက္ထုတ္ႀကိဳးစားေလေလ ပညာေရး တိုးတက္ ေကာင္းမြနလ ္ ာေလေလ ျဖစ္ႏင ို ပ ္ ါ သည္။ လကုနပ ္ င ို ္းတြင္

သတိျပဳပါ။ ပညာေရး

ရွိ လာႏို င္ ပါ သ ည္ ။ ကု မ ၸ ဏီ လု ပ္ င န္း မ်ား အ က်ဳိးေ ပး

ေပၚလာတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ စီးပြားေရး

ေအာင္ျ မင္ တ တ္ လိ မ့္ မ ည္ ။ ကု မ ၸ ဏီ လု ပ္ င န္း မ်ားလည္း

လု ပ္ င န္း မ်ားတြ င္ အၿပိဳ င္ အ ဆို င္ ရန္ အေႏွာ င့္ အ ယွ က္

အဆင္ေျပေနတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ ၂၇ ရက္ေနာက္ပိုင္း ပိုမို

ပိုမ်ားလာတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ - ၁၆ ရက္ေနာက္ပိုင္း စီးပြားေရး အဆင္မေျပ၍ အိမ္တြင္း ေရးသာယာမႈ ေလ်ာ့နည္း လာတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ သားေရး၊

ေအာင္ျမင္တတ္လိမ့္မည္။ အိမ္တြင္းေရး

ၾကာသပေတးသားသမီး က်န္းမာေရး

- ေျခေထာက္ပင ို ္းဆိင ု ရ ္ ာေရာဂါမ်ား ျဖစ္လာတတ္လမ ိ မ ့္ ည္။ အဆီအဆိမမ ့္ ်ား ေလ်ာ့စားသင့္ ပါသည္။ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔အထိ

သမီးမ်ားႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ အျမင္မတူ ျဖစ္ကိန္းရွိသည္။ အေဆာင္ယၾတာ - ပိေတာက္၊ စိန္၊ ေတာက္ပေသာအေရာင္မ်ား

စေနသားသမီး က်န္းမာေရး

သည္ကို ဆင္ျခင္ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ေပးရန္လိုပါမည္။ စီးပြားေရး

ေရာဂါ ျဖစ္လာႏိုင္ပါသည္။ လကုန္ပိုင္းတြင္ ဒူးနာတတ္

ိ ည္။ - ပညာေရးဇာတာ ဆက္လက္ေကာင္းမြန္ေနကိန္းရွသ ၀ီရိယစြမ္းအား တျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း ေလ်ာ့နည္းလာတတ္

လိမ့္မည္။ ပညာေရး

လို က္ေ ကာင္းေနတတ္ လိ မ့္ မ ည္ ။ ၁၂ ရက္ေ နာက္ ပို င္း

တက္ရကိန္းလည္းရွိသည္။ စီးပြားေရး

သင့္ပါသည္။ ၂၄ ရက္ေနာက္ပိုင္း လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား တိုးခ်ဲ႕

ႏို င္ ငံ ရ ပ္ျ ခား၊ လူ မ်ဳိးျခားမ်ားႏွ င့္ အက်ဳိးေပးေကာင္းေန

လုပ္ကိုင္ရကိန္း ရွိသည္။ ေႂကြးၿမီရရန္ရွိက ျပန္ေတာင္း

လိမ့္ဦးမည္။ - ၂ ရက္ေန႔မွစ၍ နီးတက်က္က်က္ ေဝးတသက္သက္ ျဖစ္ ေနတတ္လမ ိ မ ့္ ည္။ သားေရး၊ သမီးေရး အဆင္ေျပသည္က မ်ားပါလိမ့္မည္။ အေဆာင္ယၾတာ - သီဟို၊ ဥႆဖရား၊ အဝါေရာင္

- ပင္ ပ န္း မႈႏွ င့္ အ တူ ပင္ ပ န္း ရက်ဳိး ေကာင္း စြာ နပ္ တ တ္ လိမမ ့္ ည္။ က်န္းမာေရး မထိခက ို ္ေအာင္ ခ်ိနဆ ္ ေဆာင္ရက ြ ္

ဝင္ေငြအျမတ္ အစြန္းရရွမ ိ ႈ ေလ်ာ့နည္းလာတတ္လမ ိ မ ့္ ည္။

အိမ္တြင္းေရး

- ၄ ရက္ေ က်ာ္ လွ် င္ ပညာေရး သိ သိ သာသာ တိုး တက္ ေကာင္း မြ န္ လာတတ္ လိ မ့္ မ ည္ ။ လု ပ္ င န္း ခြ င္ သင္ တ န္း

- ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားမႈမ်ားရွိလွ်င္ အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ ျပန္ရတတ္ လိ မ့္ မ ည္ ။ ဝင္ေ ငြေ ကာင္း သည့္ ေနာက္ သို ႔ ထြ က္ေ ငြ ပါ

- ဆီး လမ္းေၾကာင္းႏွ င့္ ပတ္ သ က္ေ သာေရာဂါမ်ား ဆက္ လက္ ဂ ႐ု စို က္ ရ န္ လို ဦး မည္ ။ အမ်ဳိး သမီး မ်ား သားအိ မ္

အစာအိမ္ ဒုကၡေပးေနတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ ပညာေရး

- ၂၄ ရက္ေန႔အထိ သာယာေနတတ္လမ ိ မ ့္ ည္။ ေနာက္ပင ို ္း တြင္ စကားေျပာအဆင္ မေျပ ျဖစ္ႏို င္ေခ်ရွိ သည္ ။ သား

သမီးေရး ဆက္လက္ အဆင္ေျပေနပါလိမ့္မည္။ အေဆာင္ယၾတာ - သေျပ၊ ျမ (သို႔) ေက်ာက္စိမ္း၊ အစိမ္းေရာင္

- ၁၂ ရက္ေန႔အထိ စီးပြားေရးကံေကာင္းေထာက္မမႈမ်ား ႀကံဳေတြ႕ရကိန္းရွသ ိ ည္။ အၿပိဳင္အဆိင ု မ ္ ်ားၾကားမွ အႏိင ု ရ ္

ေကာင္းေနတတ္ လိ မ့္ မ ည္ ။ ပို ႔ေ ဆာင္ ဆ က္ သြ ယ္ေ ရး

အိမ္တြင္းေရး

- မွန္မွန္ႀကိဳးစားေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈမ်ား ဆက္လက္ ရရွိေနတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ လကုန္ပိုင္းတြင္ ေငြကုန္စရာမ်ား

- ၁၆ရက္ေနာက္ပင ို ္းမင္းအစိုးရႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ေသာကိစမ ၥ ်ား အထူးသတိထားၿပီး ေဆာင္ရြက္ပါ။ ေငြေၾကး အဆံုးအ႐ႈံး

- ၁၂ ရက္ေက်ာ္လွ်င္ အစားစံၿု ပီး သြားႏွငခ ့္ တ ံ ြင္းေရာဂါ ျဖစ္

ၾကည့္ပါ။ အခ်ဳိ႕အဝက္ ျပန္ရတတ္လိမ့္မည္။ အိမ္တြင္းေရး

- ကေတာက္ကဆတ္ျဖစ္ရမႈမ်ား ရွိေနလိမဥ ့္ ီးမည္။ ေမာင္ႏမ ွ သားခ်င္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္တတ္ လိမ့္မည္။

အေဆာင္ယၾတာ - အုန္း၊ နီလာ၊ အေရာင္ရင့္မ်ား

November 2014 My Yangon 61

OUT OF TOWN- RAILWAY TIMETABLE

YGN= YANGON MDY= MANDALAY TGO= TAUNGOO TZI= THAZI PMA= PYINMANA

Here is this month's transport reference- a timetable for trains from Yangon to other Myanmar destinations. For our city bus map and city train timetable please refer to previous issues, which you can read online at issuu.com/myyangon

Yangon- Bago- Taungoo - Pyinmana - Thazi - Mandalay Train No

YGN

BAGO

TGO

PMA

TZI

MDY

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

0500

0648

0651

1118

1128

1345

1348

1653

1656

2010

0530

0718

0721

1209

1219

1433

1436

1800

1803

2130

0600

0748

0750

1228

1238

1510

1513

1835

1838

2200

1245

No Stop

1850

1900

2102

2105

0000

0003

0300

29 Chinese Train

Yangon- Pyi Train No 71

YGN

TYWD

LPT

PYI

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

1300

1615

1623

1650

1700

1934

1937

2130

Yangon-Latpadan-Shwetagayr-Aunglan-Sattwar-Taungtwingyi-Kyaukpadaung-Bagan Train No 61

YGN

LPT

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

UP 1600

1907

1909

2159

2201

0009

0019

0301

0303

0328

0330

0635

0637

0800

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STG

TTG

KPD

BGN

MAPS

Yangon- Bagan (sleeper) Yangon

Latpadan

Shwetakar

Aunglan

Satwar

Taungtwinkyi

Kyaukpadaung

Bagan

Dep

Arrival

Dep

Arrival

Dep

Arrival

Dep

Arrival

Dep

Arrival

Dep

Arrival

Dep

Arrival

16:00

1907

1909

2159

2201

0009

0019

0301

0303

0328

0330

0635

0637

0800

From Yangon to: To

Train No

Departure

Arrival

Mandalay

29up

0648

5up

0500

2010

3up

0530

2130

11up

0600

2200

35up

0630

1510

89up

0200

1110

175up

0715

1720

Pyay

71up

1300

2130

Naypyidaw

7up

1100

2050

31up

0800

1735

9/141down

0830

1335

Mawlamyaing

ShweNyaung

Yangon-Mottama-Mawlamyine-Dawei Train No

YGN

BAGO

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

0351

No Stop

175

0200

0349

0630

No Stop

0715

1134

TZY

1139

1346

KTH

ETD

1349

TTH

MTM

ETA

ETD

ETA

ETD

ETA

0641

0643

0842

0844

No Stop

1119

1221

1158

1204

1446

1449

1735

1740

MLM

ETD

DAWEI

ETA

ETD

ETA

1115

1130

1450

1523

1946

1949 2025

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