Lahpet thoke tea leaf salad traditional burmese recipe 196. Myanmar is the only country where tea leaves are eaten. As a meal, it is used to make a salad, laphetthoke, in the myanmar language. Translated into english, laphet thoke means pickled. Since 1992, san franciscos burma superstar has been ground zero for the curries, noodle dishes and famous fermented tealeaf salad laphet thoke that make up the repertoire of the nation now. Lahpet thoke, burmese tea leaf salad or pickled tea salad is a favourite national dish. The burmese say that george orwell wrote three books about burma burmese. Sliding a fork through a plate of laphet thoke at burma superstar is like. Titles include eyewitness to history a collection of primary accounts of events through.
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