At the beginning of 2020, Kalvin and Poe Myint — the owners of Northwest Portland and Beaverton restaurants Top Burmese — wanted to open a restaurant called Kyay Oh in their original location, where they started serving the menu at Top Burmese for takeout and delivery. The restaurant would focus on its namesake dish, a vermicelli noodle dish with meatballs and quail eggs.
While the pandemic thwarted their original plans, the two have brought back the family kyay oh at a new restaurant. Burma Joy, a new Burmese noodle bar on NW 23rd, specializes in popular Burmese noodle soups developed and popularized by Chinese immigrants in Myanmar. Willamette
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