Plastic trays and tea-leaf salad are on the table at these Snohomish Burmese food buffets.
Like a reverse Sam-I-Am, I would eat Burmese food anywhere: I have traveled to Vancouver for tea-leaf salad, made unscheduled stops in Portland for yellow lentil tofu, and detoured to Daly City from San Francisco to devour a bowl of ohn no khao swè—coconut chicken soup. The only place I don’t eat it, sadly, is Seattle, because there are no Burmese restaurants here.
The cuisine of Myanmar shares some bold flavors with Thailand and rich curries with India but its elaborate salads and embrace of fermented seafood is distinctly Burmese. The country
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