While Awng Htoi was growing up in Myitkyina, Myanmar, his mother would put him to work: His extended family lived in a house in the Northern Myanmar city, and his mother was one of ten siblings. While he would peel garlic or chop potatoes, his mother would cook dishes fragrant with shalap leaf (also called chaplu leaf) and culantro, laden with mushrooms and bamboo. The cuisine of Myitkyina, the capital of the Kachin state of Myanmar, pulls culinary influence from nearby India and China and incorporates fresh herbs used by the Kachin for generations.
Kachin refers to a group of tribal communities primarily in Northern Myanmar; the Kachin
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