Another nice meal at Mahar Yangon.
Nan Gyi salad- pleasant noodle with chicken coated with a savory sauce. Nice.
Kyay-oh noodle soup with pork or chicken. I thought we ordered chicken on the recommendation of the server. Though now thinking back, the chunks looked and tasted like pork. Nonetheless, its a homestyle rice vermicelli noodle with a mellow broth. The meat chunks were tasty though the fishballs were not salted and bland. Overall, a homey bowl of noodles.
Shrimp chin paung kyaw- sour leaf with bamboo shoot, onion, chili and garlic. The server warned us gringos before ordering that the dish was very sour. Its actually not that sour but rather just right. The leaf itself imparts the sour flavor, which works well with the rest of the salty bamboo shoot and onion components. Slight heat. We liked it.
Baya Kyaw- I call them Burmese falafel. Pleasant flavors. Though I prefer the texture of Middle Eastern falafels. Work better with the hotter chili dips on the table versus the dip that came with the bayar kyaw.
Nice chili sauce on the table:
Overall, a nice meal and I was warned off the shu-shel and was told that its was very spicy. But since I was warned about sourness of the Shrimp chin paung kyaw dish and it turned out to be only moderately sour (and just right) to me, I am inclined to give the shu-shel a try next time.
Every dish was under $10. Great value.
And some chit-chat with the owners reported here.
