Looks like Mahar Yangon has redone their menu and moved away from the cheaper smaller dishes towards more standard size restaurant dishes. Recently, we had:
Mhee Shay (rice noodle). There’s contrast between the prominent soy bean flavor, and the sharp pickled vegetable flavor, and on top of that there was a little heat accompanied. The stew meat was dry and tough, but the noodle was very pleasant to eat.
Beef curry meat with chunks of potatoes. Its not a curry stew, but the curry was more of a concentrated paste that’s mildly and cooly spiced with the likes of cloves, cumin and lemongrass. The beef a little dry, but the dish was delicious.
The Ba-Kyan is sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaf. Seasoned sticky rice with sausage, shitake, pork, chicken, pork belly, peanuts, dried shrimp, salted egg yolk with bamboo leaves imparting a grassy flavor. Cheap, and pretty nice.
Overall, a pleasant meal. I think I would keep trying their other dishes if I am in the area. Anybody else been? What’s your experience?
I asked if the group running the joint is related to Little Yangon, and the gentleman says no. Apparently they live in Vallejo.
