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Hope for Happy New Year to all! January is the 1st month and the beginning of a New Year. Now, we start work with a fresh stimulus. We are excited, hopeful, and look forward to working together. We have past one more year of MY Yangon Magazine and have reached the 16th Issue. For 2016, we will be giving you more Yangon insights and images in MY Yangon and the Yangon Directory website - helping you to understand the city more and know where to find everything that you need. As the winter comes, the cooler weather is inspiring our writing team to hunt down the best beauty, food and lifestyle stories. In this January Issue, we focus on the theme of music, musicians, musical instruments and online music – as the cool season is the time when concerts are held in the parks, and people gather outside at night to sing and strum their guitars. Music is heard everywhere so this issue will give you the opportunity to join in or find out more about the music that you hear. Our country’s election has come to an end, and the people have voted for a new government. 2016 will be a time for change. On a far smaller scale, there will also be a change at MY Yangon as we welcome the new Editor, Ko Aung Myo Sint. We thank Tatwin Owen Edmunds for his help last year and wish him luck in his new venture.

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Contents

Wedding Special

Insein 12

Great Escapes Myeik

Your guide to Yangon. Seasonal is cold, about of music, traditional musical instruments, how is making and more ...

Daily Life

Photographer

Neighbourhood

Kids Park

Street Style Plot Ahead

Explore Yangon

Aung La

Features

Yangon Trends Best of

Hidden Resturant

Business

A Little Heaven of Peace 26

Yangon Trends

Property

How to Decorate 40

Shopping

Musical Insruments

Business

Myanmar Traditional Instruments

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Saing Waing Drum Ensemble MY Yangon Magazine

Art

Pansodan Gallery

Restaurant Guide

Bar & Clubs

Khit Yangon

Dining Guide 5

Plot AHEAD January 2016 Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1 Enchantment Myanmar Cultural Show 6:30 pm (Daily) Utopia Tower

Myanmar Independence Day

Japan Myanmar Exchange Program for Youth & Friendly Golf Match 8:00 am, Yangon Golf Club

Salsa 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm Club 5, Park Royal Hotel

Offshore Convention 12-13 Jan 2016 Sule Shangri-La Hotel

6 Htwe Oo Myanmar Traditional Puppet Show 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm (Daily) No.(12)(1Floor/Left), Yama Street

7 Yangon Running Club 6:15 AM to 9:15 AM Balance Fitness 2

8 AARON LIVES JAZZ BAND @ GEKKO! 7:00 PM Gekko Japanese Restaurant & Bar

Myanmar Electric Power Convention (MEPC) 13-15 Jan 2016 Sule Shangri- La Hotel

All you can eat Chinese Menu 6 pm(Every Thursday) Royal Pavilion, Novotel Hotel Max

The 4th Housing & Living 2016 15 to 17th Jan Tamadaw Hall, U Wisarya Road

Group Tennis Lesson (Monday Class) 09:00 AM Yangon Ace Tennis Club

Usiness Set Lunch At Le Cellier 12:00 (Daily) Le Cellier Wine Bar & Restaurant

Zumba 6:45 PM to 7:45 PM British Embassy Club

BIM Management Workshop 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Summit Parkview Hotel

In’t Conference on Recent Innovations in Computer Science & Information Technology (ICRICSIT) 22 Jan 2016 Yuzana Garden Hotel

Music courses for everyone 23:30 PM ( Daily) Cristofori Music School Pearl Center

Palo Alto Networks Foundation & Ultimate Test Drive (Myanmar) 9:00 AM (Jan 26th & 27th Jan ) Sule Shangri-La Hotel

Event at Pride International School No (10-23), Aung Chan Thar 4th Street

6th Myanmar Oil & Gas Exhibition 28-29 Jan 2016 Sedona Hotel

Kids Fair 2016 5:00 PM 29th to 31st Jan Tatmadaw Hall

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Sunday

2 Hla Phone Aung’s Water Color Solo Art Show Trish Gallery 46/A, Excellent Condo, Pantra Street

3 Sunday Brunch Promotion Inya Lake Hotel

9 Australian Property Exhibition 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM Novotel Yangon Max

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10 Capoeira Class 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Institut Francais de Birmanie

Work.com.mm 2nd Recruitment Days 16th & 17th Jan 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM MICT Park

Yoma Yangon International Marathon 2016 5AM to 10AM Thuwunna National Indoor Stadium

WINE Promotion @ Every SATURDAY 11:00AM to 11:00PM Union bar & grill

Australia National Day

Saturday Dim Sum Brunch Royal Pavilion Restaurant , Novotel Yangon Max

Best Sunday Brunch At The Square 12:00 PM, 12:45 PM The Square Restaurant, Novotel Yangon Max

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Insein We Love

Win Win Htwe

Famous for its jail and an hour drive away from downtown Yangon, Insein Township is a significant hub for Yangon’s economy and education. First named by the Mon people, Insein means a precious lake in definition. It is also a cultural melting pot of ethnicities, religion and languages where one can find many Karen and Mon people living harmoniously among native Burmese. Blended into former capitol with the city expansion act in 1990s, small and medium-sized industries are now thriving in ever-changing Yangon. And Yangon International Airport is just fifteen minutes away from central Insein by car.

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Shwe Yon lay

Ice Land Restaurant and BBQ

It offers one the best Shan noodles you can find in the town. It is located in a quiet and neighbourly environment. This must-try restaurant also caters to vegetarians and will substitute meat for tofu. The servings are generous, and the fruit juices are also freshly prepared. You won’t go wrong with the price either. The only downside is that WaiWai offers very few options to choose from. 8am to 10pm No 30, Pearl Street, 09 421 150 524

This Chinese restaurant offers delicious meals such as Kyay Oh, Shan Rice and fried Kailan with oyster sauce. Barbequed and grilled meat is a must-try at this restaurant. For deserts, local favourites such as fruit juices, milkshakes and yogurts are on the menu. The price is usually less than 5000 kyats, and the service is not too bad. And the bonus is that it has its own car park. 6am to 8:30pm No 7, Yangon-Insein Road, Gyoh Gone (East) Ward, 09 730 215 49

This newly opened restaurant sits next to Iceland Supermarket along Pyay Road. The menu offers cuisines ranging from Chinese to Western styles. Private rooms can be arranged upon request. It also has a smoking corner and a parking area. The prices are competitive. 7am to 11pm No 123/124, Pyay Road, 10 miles, 01 661 434, 09 431 611 82

Wai Wai’s Noodle

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Neighbourhood Mahuyar Korea BBQ This Korean-style BBQ place is a perfect fit for meat lovers. For those who want to stay late after dinner, Mahuyar opens till very late and serves beers and other alcoholic beverages. Smoking is allowed and private parking is available for its customers. 9am to 11pm Min Gyi Street, Nant Thar Gone Ward 01 641 994, 09 730 219 94

Honey Restaurant Honey Restaurant is located near Insein Park and football playground. This restaurant serves Kyay Oh with pork and Shan Noodle. The food is very delicious and not expensive. Baho Road, Construction Compound, Nant Thar Gone Ward 09 731 090 24, 09 517 4995, 09 518 5490

Shops

Insein Market This bustling bazaar along Hlaing River Road buys and sells almost everything from Groceries to jewellery and clothes. The marketplace is always crowded with lane-sellers on the platforms. The location plays an integral part as Insein railway station is located just a few minutes’ walk away from the market. Not a well-known fact about Insein market is that it’s considered the hub for commercial hair sales in Yangon. Hlaing River Road 09 310 73170

Circular Train at Insein Railway Station Insein Station is also one of the worthy places to take a look and visit. From that station, you could take a loop on the circle train as well. Starting from Yangon Central Railway Station, the circular train will drop you to Insein Station after around 45 minutes. You will sometimes see a few odd foreigners taking the circle train - sightseeing everyday lives of rural places laid out at the side of the railroad.

Places to Stay

Palm Spring Resort It is a perfect luxurious retreat for a holiday hideout in Insein. This splendid residence offers quality time for families and friends with the most modern comforts. The resort symbolizes the beauty of the superb landscaping and healthy living which comprises of the gym, sauna, jacuzzi, swimming pool and a Golf putting course. No. 7F, Nant Thar Gone Quarter, 01 646 467, 01 646 468

ground near the City Golf Course. The resort is situated on the hill and is exclusive. Being the nearest resort to Yangon city, it is just of Pyay road. There are so many experiences to have from a vacation at City Golf Resort Hotel with modern facilities featuring KTV Lounge, meeting room, restaurant and spa. Thirimingalar Street, 10Miles 01 641 763

Yaewaddy Motel This affordable motel is located in the heart of Insein. It offers a 24-hour front desk and a free WiFi. Guests can dine at the hotel’s restaurant serving Thai and international style meals. Free parking is also available at the hotel. No. 144, Thirimingalar Street 01 642 740

Maha Myaing (Excellent Creation Co., Ltd.) No.3, Thiri Street , Zay Gone ( West ) Ward 01 640 003

City Golf Resort Hotel This resort is a premier holiday destination in Yangon. It was independently built on the vast

Ah Lain Nga Sint Temple or Maha Say Wingaba

Things to Do

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda (Lawkachantha Abaya Labamuni Pagoda) Kyauk Taw Gyi Pagoda is one of the biggest marble Buddha Images in Myanmar with a height of 37 ft and a weight of over 600 tons. The historical name of this Image is Lawkachantha Abaya Labamuni, meaning World Peace and Prosperity. This sitting Buddha is curved from a single marble stone from Sakyin region in Mandalay. The sculpture was carried through the Ayeyarwaddy River down to Yangon. The final sculpting and the enshrining was completed in 2008. Within walking distance from Minn Dhamma Hill where Kyauktawgyi Pagoda is situated, there is an elephant house where three sacred white elephants are kept. White elephants are regarded as a supreme royal ornament. Gyoe Gone (East)

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Ah Lain Nga Sint means a five-storied tower, which is in the precincts of the pagoda. It is a tall tower which commands a good view of the surrounding areas. Females are not allowed to climb up temple. Most of the statues in the complex are related partly to Mahayana Buddhism and partly to occultism. The Karen people celebrate their New Year at this temple every year by entertaining people with Kayin Cultural show, Kayin Done Dance, Kayin Bamboo Dance and traditional Kayin music and songs. Lanethit Road

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a&cJawmifokdY wufa&muf "mwfyHk½kduful;cJholwpfa,muf ဓါတ္ပံုဆရာဆိုတာ ႐ႈခင္းေတြကို မွတ္တမ္းတင္တဲ့ သူ တ စ္ေ ယာက္ ၊ ဒီ ထ က္ တိ တိ က ်က်ေျပာရရင္ သဘာဝအလွအပေတြနဲ႔ လူေတြရဲ႕ Portrait ပံုရိပ္ ေတြ ကို သ႐ု ပ္ေ ဖာ္ သူ တ စ္ေ ယာက္ လို ႔ ေျပာလို ႔ ရ ပါ ေသးတယ္။ သဘာဝခ်စ္ျမတ္ႏိုးတဲ့ ဓါတ္ပံုဆရာ တစ္ေ ယာက္ က ျမန္ မာျပည္ေ ျမာက္ ဖ ်ားက ေရခဲ ေတာင္တစ္ေတာင္ကို တက္ၿပီး အဲဒီေဒသပတ္ဝန္း က်င္ နဲ ႔ ေဒသခံ ပံုေ တြ ႐ို က္ ကူး ခဲ့ ပ ါတယ္ ။ ေတာင္ တက္သမားမဟုတတ ္ ဲ့ ဓါတ္ပဆ ံု ရာ က သူ႐က ို က ္ ူးျဖစ္ ခဲ့ တဲ့ ဓါတ္ ပံုေ တြ အေၾကာင္း သူ ႔ အေတြ ႕ အၾကံ ဳ ကို ေျပာျပပါတယ္။ သူစတင္ စိတ္ကူးရခဲ့တာကေတာ့ “ ျပီးခဲ့တဲ့ႏွစ္ေတြ တု န္းက သဘာဝပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ထိန္းသိမ္းေရး ကိစၥ ေတြ ၊ တီ ဗီေ တြ ၊ သတင္း စာေတြ မ ွာ ေတြ ႔ ရ တယ္ ။ ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုၾကည့္ေတာ့ စိမ္းစိုၿပီး သစ္ပင္အမ်ား ဆံုး ရိ ွ တဲ့ေ နရာက ျမန္ မာျပည္ေ ျမာက္ ဖ ်ား ျဖစ္ေ န တာေပါ့။ ပူတာအိုရဲ႕ ေျမာက္ဖက္ေတြေပါ့။ အဲဒီေနရာ မွာ သစ္ပင္ေတြ အမ်ားၾကီး ရိွတယ္ဆိုတာ ေတြ႕ရ တယ္ ။ အဲ ဒ ါကို ဆ က္ ၿ ပီး ဂူး ဂဲ လ္ ကေန ၾကည့္ေ တာ့ သစ္ ပ င္ေ တြ ထ က္ ကေန ေရခဲေ တာင္ေ တြ ေတြ ႔ ရ တယ္။ တစ္ခါမွမေရာက္ဖူးဘူး။ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ စိမ္းစို ေနတဲ့ သစ္ေတာေတြ၊ ေရခဲေတာင္ေတြ ရိွေနေသး တယ္ဆိုတာကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဓါတ္ပံုစာအုပ္ ထုတ္ခ်င္ လာတယ္ ” လို႔ ဓါတ္ပံုဆရာ ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ဝင္း (စြယ္ ေတာ္ရိပ္)က ေျပာပါတယ္။ ႐ိုက္ေနက်ပံုစံအေၾကာင္းအရာေတြကေန ခြဲထြက္ၿပီး “ဓါတ္ပံု႐ိုက္ရတဲ့သူအဖို႔မွာလည္း မလြယ္လွပါဘူး။ “ ခရီး ပမ္း တာေပါ့ ဗ ်ာ။ ေတာင္ေ တြ တ က္ ရ တယ္ ။ အရမ္းေအးတဲ့ေနရာျဖစ္လ႔ို ျပင္ဆင္မႈေတြ အမ်ားၾကီး

လုပရ ္ တယ္။ ေတာင္ေပၚမွာလည္း မိုးေတြမတ ိ အ ဲ့ တြက္ အင္းဆက္ေတြ၊ ျဖဳတ္ေတြရိွတယ္။ အၾကီးၾကီးေတြပဲ။ အဲဒါ ေတြကိုက္တာ ခုထိ ဒဏ္ရာေတြ မေပ်ာက္ေသး ဘူး ။ ယားလြ န္း လို ႔ တစ္ ည လံုး မအိ ပ္ ရေသးဘူး ။ သြားရင္းလာရင္း ကၽြတ္ေတြ၊ဘာေတြက သစ္ပင္ေပၚ ကေန ခႏၶာကိုယ္ထဲ က်တယ္။ ညေန အဝတ္အစား လဲရင္ အနည္းဆံုး ေလးေကာင္ေလာက္ကေတာ့ ျပဳတ္ က်လာတယ္။ အဲဒဒ ီ ဏ္ေတြကေတာ့ ခံရတယ္ဗ်” လိ႔ု အေတြ႕အၾကံဳကို ေျပာပါတယ္။ ၂ဝ၁၃ ခု ႏ ွ စ္ေ လာက္ က တစ္ေ ခါက္ သြားခဲ့ ၿ ပီး ပူ တာအို နားက ရြာေတြ အားလံုးနီးပါးသြားၿပီးေတာ့ ဓါတ္ပံုေတြ ႐ိုက္ခဲ့တယ္ လို႔ သိရပါေသးတယ္။ လူပံု ေတြခ်ည္းပဲ ႐ိုက္ခဲ့ၿပီး အဲဒီမွာရိွတဲ့ ခႏီၲးရွမ္း၊ ကခ်င္၊ ရဝမ္ ၊ လီ ဆူး စတဲ့ တို င္း ရင္း သားေလးမ်ဳိး ပံုေ တြ ပဲ ႐ိုက္ကူးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ “၂ဝ၁၄၊ ဧၿပီမွာ ထပ္သြားတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ပူတာအို မွာ မ႐ိုက္ေတာ့ဘူး။ ပူတာအိုကေန ေျမာက္ဖက္ကို ဆင္းသြားတဲ့အခါ ဖုန္ရင္ရာဇီဆိုတဲ့ ေရခဲေတာင္ကို ဓါတ္ ပံု စာအု ပ္ အ တြ က္ သြား႐ို က္ တ ယ္ ။ အဲ ဒီ ေရခဲ ေတာင္ နားမွာ ရြာေတြ ရိ ွ တ ယ္ ။ သူ တို ႔ ဘယ္ လို စား ေသာက္ေ နထို င္ လဲ သိ ခ ်င္ တ ယ္ ။ သူ တို ႔ က အမဲ လိုက္တယ္။ ေဆးျမစ္ေတြ ရွာတယ္။ အဲဒါ အဓိကပဲ။ စိုက္ပ်ဳိးေရးက သိပ္မျဖစ္ဘူး။ သူတို႔ရွာတဲ့ေဆးျမစ္ ေတြထဲမွာ ရီွးပဒီးဆိုတာကို စိတ္ဝင္စားတယ္။ ေဆး ျမစ္ေတြကေတာ့ မေၾကးဥ၊ ခန္းေတာက္ျမစ္၊ ဂ်င္ဆင္း၊ ရွားခ်ည္ ၊ ရွီး ပဒီး အဲ လို ဟာမ်ဳိးေပါ့ “ လို ႔ ကိုေ က်ာ္ ေက်ာ္ဝင္းက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္ ေရခဲေတာင္ေပၚ မွာရိွတဲ့ ရွီးပဒီး ဘယ္ႏွစ္မ်ဳိး ရိွလဲ၊ ဘယ္လို ရွာရလဲ။ အစအဆံုး Documentary ႐ိုက္ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ သိရပါ

Aye Chan Khaing ေသးတယ္။ ဒီေဆးျမစ္ေတြဟာ တ႐ုတ္နဲ႔ အိႏိၵယကို ေရာင္း ခ်ၿပီး ပူ တာအို နားတဝို က္ မ ွာ က်ပ္ ေသာင္း ဂဏန္းအထိနဲ႔ ေရာင္းခ်ေနပါတယ္။ ေတာင္ေပၚေတြ မွာ တစ္ခုကို က်ပ္ ၂ဝဝဝ ဝန္း က်င္သာ ရိွပါတယ္။ ဒီဓါတ္ပံုစာအုပ္နဲ႔ ရီွးပဒီးရွာေဖြျခင္း Documentary မွ တ္ တ မ္း တြဲ ဖ က္ ၿ ပီး စာအု ပ္ ျ ဖန္ ႔ ခ ်ိ ရ န္ စဥ္း စားေန တယ္ လို ႔ ဓါတ္ ပံု ဆ ရာက ေျပာပါတယ္ ။ ဒီ ႏ ွ စ္ ထဲ ဓါတ္ပံုမွတ္တမ္းစာအုပ္တစ္အုပ္ ျဖန္႔ခ်ိထားေသးၿပီး ေရခဲေတာင္တက္ခရီး စာအုပက ္ လ ို ည္း Coffee Table Book အျဖစ္ ျဖန္႔ခ်ိမွာပါ။ ဒီဓါတ္ပံုေတြကိုလည္း “ A Visit to Mt. Phone- Yin Razi ” လို႔ အမည္ေပးၿပီး ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁၇ ရက္မွ ၂၃ ရက္အထိ ေယာမင္းၾကီး လမ္းမွာရိွတဲ့ Gallery 65 မွာ ျပသခဲ့ပါေသးတယ္။ “ရီွးပဒီးဆိုတာ သက္ရိွအေကာင္ေလးေပါ့။ ေသးေသး ကေန သစ္ ပ င္ ထဲ ဝ င္ တ ယ္ ။ ဝင္ ၿ ပီး သစ္ ပ င္ ထဲ က အႏွစ္ေတြစားၿပီး အေကာင္ျဖစ္သြားတယ္။ ၿပီးရင္ ေသ သြားတဲ့ အ ခါ သူ ႔ေ ခါင္း ကေန ႏြ ယ္ေ တြ ေပါက္ လာ တယ္။ သူတက ႔ို ေတာ့ ဂ်ဳိလ႔ို ေခၚတာေပါ့။ ႏြယပ ္ င္ေတြ ၾကည့္ျပီး မုဆိုးေတြက ရွာရတယ္။ ေတြ႔ရင္ သစ္ပင္ ေတြကို ခြဲၿပီး ေသသြားတဲ့အေကာင္ကို ထုတ္ၿပီး ယူရ တယ္။ တစ္ခါတေလ အဲဒီအေကာင္က သစ္ပင္ထဲက ထြက္ၿပီး ေျမၾကီးေပၚ ေရာက္သြားတယ္။ အဲဒီကေန ေသၿပီး ႏြယ္ပင္ေပါက္လာတယ္။ အဲဒါက ေျမၾကီးထဲ ရွီးပဒီး၊ ေနာက္တစ္ခုက ေရခဲေတာင္ ရွီးပဒီး၊ သူက ေသးတယ္။ သူက အေျခာက္လမ ွ ္းၿပီး ေထာင္းထားရင္ အားအင္ အ တြ က္ေ ကာင္း တယ္ ၊ အိ ပ္ေ ပ်ာ္ တ ယ္ ၊ ေတာင္ေပၚက ရြာေတြမွာ ရွီးပဒီးကုိ ေဆာင္ထားၾက တာ မ်ားတယ္”

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Tahnee Wade Despite being a major fishing port, Myeik is a charming town with wonderful views, colonial buildings and fascinating local industries. It is also the gateway to the Mergui Archipelago which is now in reach since day trips are now permitted. Very few tourists travel to Myeik, but that is all set to change as the islands are being developed as eco-resorts. Getting There Myeik is in the far south of Myanmar so it does take time to get there. There are three options and the quickest is by flight. Most domestic airline carriers fly there, but only once or twice a week. Myanmar Airways and Air KBZ fly quite regularly so they are the best to contact if you want to escape to Myeik over a weekend. Flights cost around US$ 300 to US$ 400 return. The next option is by boat. During November to April, Fortune Express goes to Myeik from Yangon. It takes 11-12 hours and costs around 60,000 Kyats. The chairs recline back so you can relax. Their boat schedule depends on the weather, and they only set sail when the 300-passenger boat is fully booked. They can be contacted on 059-22144.

Another option is by bus. Moe Kaung Kin Express has buses running direct to Myeik daily from Yangon, though it will take 24 hours to get there. The ticket price is between 25,000 to 30,000 Kyats. Call 09 430 077 655 to book your ticket.

hire a motorbike to ride at 10,000ks for 8 hours.

What to see

Getting Around

The main place to head for is Strand Road which runs along the water front. It is a hive of activity with the boats coming to and from the harbour, and the mobile shops on tuk tuks parked up selling fishing paraphernalia. Zindan Street is worth a walk to see the colonial houses, and Paya Gyi Lane for its many ancient temples and rest houses.

Myeik is a lovely place to walk around - it is full of colonial buildings, Monstyle wooden houses and warm, friendly residents who are keen to chat to you. Motorbike taxis and trishaws can be hired, and you can

Myeikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s local industries are great to explore and the most fascinating is the edible birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nest industry. There is one house on Strand Road which has become a natural nesting house

It is possible to fly to Dawei or Kawthaung and then get a boat to Myeik. Some air lines will also arrange for you to travel onto Myeik by car.

for the swiftlets. You can peak inside and see the birds nesting in the rafters. The other nesting houses are less romantic - tall windowless buildings with openings at the top from which the birds fly in and out lured in by the recordings of the mating calls of swiftlets played on loudspeakers. Another industry to see is the Boat Yard, 1 km east of the town centre, to watch the fishing boats being made using ancient techniques. The dry fish industry is equally fascinating - where a whole neighbourhood is involved in filleting, salting and drying fish. To the west is a cashew nut factory, with over 30 female workers shelling the nuts by hand. The views of Myeik harbour and the Andaman Sea are the main

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Great Escapes returns the next day so you will need to find somewhere to sleep. Another larger ferry boat goes to Sakan Thit Island which takes 3 hours and costs 4,000 Kyats per person. Again the boat leaves the next day.

draws. The best views are from the Hotel Green Jade’s Sunset Terrace, Theindawgyi Paya and Bu Paya Zedi. Go just before sunset and see the swiflets return home. Another place of interest is the Japanese Cemetery which is sadly closed off and a bit overgrown. You can still get a good view through the gate, but to reach it you have to get past a small bear and monkey tied to a tree by the next door tea shop owner. Kandawgyi Lake is also worth a stop – it is in the middle of the town, full of water lilies and is home to many birds.

Island hopping in the Mergui Archipelago The main draw of Myeik is the islands – there are over 800 across an area of 10,000 square miles and most of which are uninhabited. A few months ago, the only way to see them was by getting a special permit from Nay Pyi Taw (which took over two weeks) and joining a live aboard cruise – most of which departed from Kawthaung. Last month the Tanintharyi Region Government Committee started allowing day trips to the archipelago through licensed tour companies (see the list below). It is now possible to arrive in Myeik and arrange a day trip but it does help the tour company if you give them at least a day’s notice so they can prepare for it. A number of different boat tours are on offer. There are five kinds of boats – the smallest seats 4 people, and the largest can seat up to 20. The bigger the boat, the further you can go within the archipelago. Marcus Island Tour – a 2 hour boat ride will take you to the newly discovered and uninhabited Marcus Island with its pristine white sand beach. There you will have a rest and a swim before departing to Taung Thone Village on another island. After a walk through the village and meeting some of the 50 families who live there, you will then set sail to Kalar Island which is home to over 70 families who mostly earn their

income through fishing and natural rubber production. Mergui Island Tour – the first stop is the very long white sand beach which takes one hour to walk from beginning to end. It is not as pristine as the beach on Marcus Island, but just as stunning. Over 700 families live on the island. In the middle there is a mountain which you can climb to reach the other side of island. Dome (Daung) Island Tour – This has another long beach to relax on. All the residents on the island were once sea gypsies, and you can watch as they bring the fish in, dry it and make fish paste. The island has a thick jungle and a large waterfall. It takes 5 hours to get to the island and only the larger boats can get there. Pataw Patet Island If you cannot afford a boat tour but wish to have the experience of visiting an island, visit Pataw Patet Island just opposite Myeik. A 15-minute boat ride will get you there. There is a reclining Buddha (the third largest in Myanmar), sea food factory, and soft shell crab farming to look at. Boats can be chartered from the jetty. Local Ferry (Myanmar Nationals only) For Myanmar nationals it is possible to get a local ferry to some of the islands. A ferry goes to Mergui Island which takes 4 and half hours and costs 3,000 Ks per person. The boat

Dive Sites To get to the dive sites, you will need to take a live abroad cruise as they are a bit further afield. The islands to head for are Bailey Island which takes 8 to 12 hours to get there (depending on the wave conditions), and the Great Western Torres West Sular Island. Costs & Arrangements The day boat tours are not cheap and are hired at a fixed total cost and then the price split amongst the number of people on the boat. For example, the four-person boat for the Marshall Island tour is USD 520 per day which is USD 130 each if four people are going. It is possible to stay overnight on an island but the tour company need about two weeks’ notice so they can arrange the necessary permissions. Livaboard cruises are available during November to April and can be chartered at between USD 1,800 to USD 2,000 per day depending on the route and the number of people on board. There are six companies which offer day trips and the live abroad cruises in Myeik – Mergui Sakura, Jade Flower, Myeik Public Travel & Tours, and Myeik Explorer. We went on a tour organized by Jade Flower. They also arranged a fascinating tour around Myeik itself. Jade Flower is located at the ground floor of Hotel Grand Jade, and you can also reach them at 09 780 980 607.

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Cho Cho Thin Walking through the door of Maha Yangon Yadanabon, a musical instrument shop near East Shwedagon Moat, U Kyaw Tint has been busy arranging the various Mongs (Gongs), musical instruments used in the traditional music of Myanmar. He has been hitting, listening, testing sounds by striking on the anvil, and finding the right tone for his Mongs. U Kyaw Tint said, “My grandfather started selling these instruments, he did his best by selling various instrumental things from a very small string instrument to the whole set of Saing Waing (A Drum Ensemble). Now, I just sell the Bon (Drum), Mong (Gong) and Oozi (Pot Drum). Not because of the low profit but because of the complicated and difficult methods of keeping its traditional ways. I avoid selling the Patala (Wooden Xylophone), Palwei (Flute) and Hne (Oboe). My parents made this selling process into their business, but I want to go far beyond that. So, I started learning to play

Saing from Sein Phae Tint, a famous Myanmar traditional musician, while I was in school. Even though I was interested in playing the instruments, he wanted me to continue my family’s tradition as an instrument seller - the person who understands the instruments and its tunes. So, I took his advice and followed my family business of selling the instruments.” He recalled his earlier days, “I attended my school at Myo Ma, (now Dagon 2). So I could reach to the apartments along Pan Htwar Road, where there were many Art clubs at that time, just by walking a few yards. You could join Bon classes, Saing classes or whatever you wanted to know about the music and the art. Almost all the courses for Saing Waing

were there. So there was no wonder that I took an interest in such a thing called “Art”, and that drove me to sell instruments”. Metals such as nickel and lead are mainly used for Bon, but for Mong, other materials need to be included. If a metal block is 25 Kjatha (one fourth of a viss), it needs to be hammered. That is why it is called Kja Kyaee meaning the brass that comes from the striking. Until the right tone sounds from these instruments, you will have to continue hammering the anvil and strike repeatedly. The hammering, therefore, can easily be seen on the surface of a Mong. A Mong cannot be called as a musical instrument if it is still needed to adjust to the right tone. So-called “5 sound (F) or 4 sound

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Features (G) or six sound (E) can only be sensed by the ears and then adjusted to the tone that is being asked. For making a Bon, its surface and the ropes covering the body are all made from the leather. The leather being used in making a Bon is normally ordered from Upper Myanmar because the quality is better over there, and the end product lasts longer than the others. Now, only four leather binders are left in a village near Pywe Bwel. Although U Kyaw Tint learned the method of binding the leather from his teachers, he actually became familiar with those processes from his parent’s business. He also added, “If you want to bind the surface of a Bon or an Oozi, you will have to complete its body in a single day, or else the hardening leather will fail the whole process. Nowadays, due to a scarcity in the hard wood, the light wood has become the only choice left for making the bodies of a Bon.” A sense of understanding in the musical instruments and its tones can make a seller to be more convincing in selling his products. Unlike the western instruments, selling a Burmese instrument

has its own distinctive way. U Kyaw Tint pointed out, “You can ask in every instrumental shop for a “C” string, but here in Burmese instruments if you ask the sellers for the right tone of a Mong, most of them can’t catch what you ask because they lack Burmese instrumental ears. So I make the Mongs and fine-tune the sounds by myself. That is better for an instrument seller like me. These instruments are being bought not only for Saing Waing but also for various kinds of ceremonies. Ayeyarwady division demands the most when the season of Saing Wain comes. Shwe Pyi Thar, East Dagon and North Okkalapa stand out in buying the most in Yangon especially during the festive and ceremonial seasons such as Thadingyut, Tazaung Mone, Kasone, Tapaung and Ta Khu. “I started selling these instruments when I was 17. Around 1978, the cost for a Mong was only 3 Kyats, and a pair of Mongs (eighteen mongs) was fifteen kyats. Today, those will cost you 9,300 Kyats for a single Mong. The currency has changed a lot

with the passage of time, for example, it will now cost you 27,000 Kyats for a Bon,” U Kyaw Tint mentioned. Nowadays, the youngsters have become disinterested in the traditional music. Also making the traditional instruments is so much intricate, and the raw materials are getting scarce. So the production of these instruments is declining. Besides, the learning process is very hard, and that in turn keeps the youngsters from touching the instruments. U Kyaw Tin added, “I’m afraid that someday, we, Myanmar will have to go abroad only for learning how to play our own traditional instruments if the younger generations keep on being disinterested in the traditional music and its instruments”.

Mahar Yangon Yadanabon U Kyaw Tint & Daw Moe Moe No.27, 31 East moat of Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Dagon Post office 09 492 829 10, 09 302 560 92, 09 731 526 58

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Could you tell us how you started your artist life? My father was a sound recording engineer, and my mom was a singer. So naturally I was interested in the music industry, following them regularly to the studio since my childhood. In fact, I started singing in 2003 right after I finished my Matriculate Class. And also I started writing songs and recording my songs at the studio since then. I started with Ko G-Latt and his brother, Nyi Kabar. We created our very first album named â&#x20AC;&#x153;NC-13â&#x20AC;?.

What kind of difficulties did you face at the start of your music career? The challenging part is the financial problem because the costs for the recording fee were extravagant at that time. My band players were also already

professionals in their respective role so it was impossible for me to request them to play my songs for free. So, you know I desperately needed a lot of money to hire them.

Most of your songs rhyme differently from the rest. How did you do that? I used to listen to international songs specifically Funk Rock. I love that kind of music and decided to show it to the audience. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how I started creating my music based on that genre.

So, did you create the lyrics and the tunes on your own? Yes, I did it all by my own.

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The challenging part is the financial problem because the costs for the recording fee were extravagant at that time. My band players were also already professionals in their respective role so it was impossible for me to request them to play my songs for free. So, you know I desperately needed a lot of money to hire them.

What do you see for the future of our music sector? I hope and believe that things will get better. At the same time, we need more time for a better world because people still need many developments for their living. If it gets easier for them to fulfill their daily activites, the entertainment industry too will improve accordingly as they will be able to give more time and interest to music.

What is your goal concerning music? I love music, and it flows in my flesh and veins. Even if I happen to stop creating my music someday, I’ll be still in this music world. Whether I go abroad or do the other business, music will always be in my heart.

What will be the essential things for Myanmar music world to achieve reasonable success on an international stage? The primary need is the production support as most artists now understand and can create a specific role of music. Our knowledge in music is not too far from the international standards, but we need more business men to support the role of a better production.

Could you tell us about a memorable spot in your music career? It happened in Pyin Oo Lwin. I mistakenly greeted the audience “how are you Mandalay?”. And also I sang three songs although just two songs were assigned to me.

Are there any changes in the digital music industry between the time you first started out as a singer and now?

What is your desire for your family?

When we started recording our songs, no producers dared to produce a new album as the illegally copied CDs were readily available. And still that problem is a critical issue. Nowadays, many song competitions have emerged, and chances are abundant for the youngsters. However it is getting so hard now to become an outstanding artist among many talented rivals.

Could you leave a word or two for the upcoming New Year especially to your audience?

I love to stay with my family in a quiet and peaceful place.

I’m trying my best, and I wish you all to be prospered in your related businesses and jobs.

Could you tell me about your recent activities? Recently, I am trying for my new VCD named “Pin Lae Htae Kha Myit Myar” (Rivers in the Sea). The album is already censored, and ready to be released by the end of December. Then I will have to complete the production of the third album as well. We’ll not do it as a MTV rather we will try to make all the songs from that album to link to a complete film.

Would you explain to us what kind of risks you took for the SIR band? SIR was formed with four vocalists such as Tut Pi, Ko Kyar, Forker and me. We did everything together as a group. When we exhibited the first SIR show, only one person came to the club to watch us. And even that dude was one of our friends. So we definitely took a lot of risks.

Tell us about your favourite song, and what song is the most popular among your fans? I think the song “Taung Pan Dee” (I’m sorry) received the most in terms of audience’s acceptance. But I prefer these two songs from my second album, “A Pyit Mehh Lutar” (An Innocent man) and “A Sin Pyay Mar Bar” (It’ll be Okay). @ MYYangon

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Tucked away, down lanes and side streets, are some great restaurants. Most don’t advertise – getting their customers solely on word of mouth. Here are some restaurants definitely worth seeking out. Legacy Restaurant (Thai) Tucked down a side street off Dhammazedi Road, on the right just past Coffee Circle is an unassuming restaurant serving great authentic Thai food. They have aircon rooms and an open air terrace which is surprisingly quiet considering all the traffic travelling down Dhammazedi Road. They have a great fried catfish salad and are known for their grilled beef salad. The place is very popular among the Thai community – a testament to how good the food is. Open: 10am to 10pm 99, Dhammazedi Road, Bahan 01 709 748, 09 799 308 479, 09 730 128 90

Onyx Wine Tree Restaurant (Steakhouse/ Wine Bar) Onyx was previously located off Dhammazedi Road, and was a small rough and ready restaurant serving great steak dishes. They relocated to a large, modern restaurant with a cosy industrial feel on Bogyoke Pya Tike Street early this year. The food is still delicious, and very reasonably priced, and the restaurant hasn’t lost its charm. Open: 11am to 11pm A12B Bogyoke Pya Tike Street, Bahan 09 254 158 167, 095 071 847

Shake U Tun Lin Chan is a busy street in Hledan – full of restaurants, shops and people. But if you ignore all the tempting restaurants, walk to the end of the street and you will come to a compound. Enter the compound on the left hand side and you will see the hidden restaurant, Shake. It has two stories – downstairs is European style with large white tables, and upstairs is Japanese style with low tables and cushions to sit on. They specialise in Shan food, but also provide tasty Chinese and fresh fruit juices. Open: 8:30am to 10pm U Tun Lin Chan Street, Hledan 09 731 660 45, 09 541 1855

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Best of Shwe Ba Myanmar Traditional Restaurant (Hla Myanmar)

Fook Mun Lau Chinese Restaurant This restaurant, hidden behind the Nawaddy Cinema in 8-mile, is like a grand Chinese traditional house as the interior is decorated with fine furniture and Chinese decorations. There is even a stage for entertainment and spacious private rooms. They serve a wide range of Cantonese style seafood prepared well by native Chinese chefs. Among their specialist seafood dishes are the Shark Fin and King Prawn. There is one unique seafood dish which costs 150,000 kyats for one setting – it is based on a royal recipe and has many exclusive ingredients. Most dishes on the menu tend to be pricy, but after tasting the food, you will not regret the cost for sure. Open : 12pm to 12am No. 102, Nawaday Cinema Garden, Corner Of Kaba Aye Pagoda Road & Oak Pone Seik Road, Mayangone, 01 663 743

If you are in Dhammazedi Street and in need of Myanmar traditional food, turn the corner onto 5th street, you will come across a hidden gem. The restaurant’s real name is Hla Myanmar Restaurant, but it is known as Shwe Ba, named after a famous actor from the 1960s who used to live near there. The restaurant is busy, serving over 40 different traditional dishes a day, and is known for its great fish intestine curry. Here you can get the full experience of Myanmar traditional lunch in a silent environment near Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Open: 9:00 am to 9:00 pm N0.27, 5 th Street, West Shwegoneding, Bahan 01 526 822

Wild Ginger Just off Shin Saw Pu Road, down an unnamed side alley of only three houses, is Wild Ginger Restaurant. It has a very cool decor with the walls decorated with lines of lit bottles and ropes. Despite the restaurant being very trendy, it has a warm homely atmosphere. They focus on Southeast Asian dishes, and they pride themselves on their mutton dishes – ensuring that they find the best meat available. Their chef has 15 years of international experience. Private rooms can be reserved. Open: 4pm to 11pm No. 12 (A), Shin Saw Pu Street, Sanchaung 09 260 690 135

Golden Crab House Restaurant Just past 8-Mile junction, and down a side road off Pyay Road, is this Chinese style restaurant. The place is nice and usually crowded with customers so there is little doubt that the food is delicious and tasty. Chinese pictures decorate the restaurant wall, and its trade-mark meals are normally based around fresh seafood. They have fish tanks around the restaurant so you can choose your own crab, prawn or fish. They are known for making a great Yunnan-style Golden Crab. The prices are affordable. Open: 10am to 10pm Thiri Mingalar lane, 8 Mile Junction, Mayangone 01 663 035, 09 4500 4632

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Gitameit music centre is a little haven of peace tucked away in the backstreets of Yankin near Kambe station. Its not easy to find, but once you have ventured through the gate you are transported to a musical world a million miles from the noise of traffic. As I sit beneath the trees waiting for the coordinator Nay Win Htun, a choir of angels from one of the practice rooms serenades me. So beautiful and serene is the sound that I close my eyes, and soak up the voices as they wash over me. The choir

finishes and my illusions shattered by the gaggle of young Myanmar boys and girls who pour out of the room boisterously chattering, laughing and joking, and not a choristers robe in sight. A nearby rock drummer takes this opportunity of silence to pick up his sticks and give the skins a good sound thrashing. Nay Win Htun appears, and apologises for all the noise, in fact throughout our meeting there was very little silence as musicians kept arriving and taking up a different instrument in different rooms, an uncoordinated orchestra of sounds.

This is a busy spot, and as the drummer comes to a crashing end having clearly exhausted himself, a talented pianist takes the opportunity to play as the sound of his cymbals dies out. You may have heard of Gitameit Music centre, you may even have heard them play. They were founded in Yangon in 2003 and regularly perform concerts around the city. Their most recent event at the Strand Hotel in aid of the flood relief fundraising was a huge success. They are in high demand for corporate events and opening ceremonies and have a large arsenal of musical

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Business program where they visit monastic schools in the rural areas of the country to provide concerts and music lessons as well as drama, theatre and English classes. They contribute towards the salaries of the teachers and use the outreach as an opportunity for their own students to contribute back to society, and although this is something that they want to increase, it does take money. As an energetic young drummer gets warmed up and a violinist begins practicing “Happy Birthday” I make my goodbyes and return to the real world of angry engines and aggressive car horns. styles to choose from. The centre is run as a not for profit community centre, they are partly funded by private donations and George Soros’s charity OSI and through self funding from concert and student fees, of course they are always interested to hear from new donors to help find the replacement of musical instruments and the maintenance of the premises. In the Myanmar language, Gita means music, and meit means friendship, and over the years Gitameit has built up strong ties to universities and music schools across the globe. Several former students are currently enrolled in scholarship programs in Thailand, Singapore, and even as far afield as Austria. Once graduated, students usually return to Myanmar to either teach at the school or take up teaching music teaching positions at schools in Yangon. The types of students that study at the centre are diverse, not only by their instrument of choice, but by their age, religion and ethnicity. “They come together from all over the country because of their love of music, regardless of their background or religion”, Nay Win Htun tells me, and he is very clear in the mission that drives the school forward, “Music brings people together peacefully on an equal level, and then allows them to jointly explore the world through that music”. The students study everything from Modern Western music, Jazz, pop and rock, all the way through to classical, choral and traditional Myanmar music. The centre has 12 practice rooms and a concert hall, and offers tuition in Piano, Guitar, Violin, Flute, Cello, Percussion, singing and Myanmar traditional instruments (several foreign students are enrolled in classes to learn how to play traditional Myanmar musical instruments) at all levels of experience and talent. They also provide @ MYYangon

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classes in Music Theory, the history of Music and Sight Singing. Everybody is welcome to Gitameit, Nay Win Htun tells me. “Music”, he continues “is much more than entertainment. It is about appreciation of art, of understanding of global cultures. It is about commitment and dedication. Sadly some parents do not understand this and try to force their children to attend. You cannot be forced into music, you have to have an open and positive mind, and music should be relaxed.” As if on cue, two foreign children arrive and happily skip to their lessons “French” he whispers to me, “drums and violin”, eager to get started they head to their classrooms. There is clearly no coercion in their attendance.

If you are interested in learning more about Gitameit, taking up a musical instrument or donating to their cause then look them up on Facebook, their page is regularly updated and Nay Win concerts are announced there. Htun Their website remains unchanged since 2012, however has lots of information about the history of the school.

Gitameit Music Centre No.219, KaryathukaLane,Kanbe Station Street, ThitsarRoad,Yankin 01 566 703 gitameit@gmail.com for577@gmail.com saxomogok08@gmail.com

Gitameit also has a small but growing outreach

You cannot be forced into music, you have to have an open and positive mind, and music should be relaxed.” 25

The Hunt for Great Household Items Business

Yangon’s Furniture Detective, Clare Cherry, embarks on a quest to source interesting furnishings in Yangon. It can be a little like searching for treasure, never quite knowing what you might discover. Here are some of her great tips. Ikon Mart

Prime Living

Daiso

Ikon Mart on Pyay Road is primarily a hotel

Located on Kabe Aye Pagoda Road, near the

At the basement of Taw Win Centre on Pyay Road,

and restaurant supplier focusing on the catering

Nawaday Junction, Prime Living Mall stocks

you’ll find Daiso where the shelves are stacked

industry. Unlike other hotel wholesale suppliers

furniture from the giant Thai lifestyle brand Index

with bright and cheerful household products. At

internationally, it’s not necessary to have a business

Living Mall. Relatively new to the Yangon scene,

this Japanese store, you will find quirky accessories

trade account to make a purchase, Ikon Mart is

Prime Living is set out on two floors with modern,

- some are practical whereas others are fun, light-

opened to all. A large array of kitchen equipment

practical living room and bedroom furniture as

hearted and interesting. All the products in Daiso

and accessories line the shelves on two floors

well as some interesting chairs and outdoor rattan

are priced at 1,800 Kyats, whether it is a pair of

of this large store. A fascinating assortment of

style garden furniture. The style is fairly simple

canvas shoes, a photo frame, a Japanese table ware

quality kitchen knives, cooking utensils as well

and some are basic including a small selection of

or a floral gardening trowel.

as a variety of white crockery for dining and

simple office furniture on the first floor.

Highlights: Fun and funky kitchen and

practical glasses are on display. They stock a range

Highlights: The occasional interesting chair

baking accessories

of patterned glass plates and tumbler glasses from

and outdoor furniture

Basement, Taw Win Centre, 45, Pyay Road

blenders, pizza ovens,

No. 54B, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, No.8 Ward,

coffee machines, cleaning products and more serious

Mayangone, Near Nawaday Junction

Germany.

Professional

looking catering equipment can be found too.

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Highlights: 100% cotton bed sheets, bath towels and waffle bathrobes, kitchen knives and flatware and convenient parking is always a plus.

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Those words bring the hall down. But, the master never reduces his gusto, with unflinching composure he played continuously. His Mingala Byaw Nyunt is still popular for almsgiving occasions. In this time, he sang it himself. The texts of the Byaw really encroaching. It runs thus: ‘Pandal in mid-town, communal alms-giving, Old, old monastery with balustrade in ruins; Since our novice lives there, abundant rains! As I walk east and gaze west over my shoulder, I see the Pagoda with its gold banner and streamers; That’s where my darling is, the reverend novice. How lovely is the entrance leading to it_ The Gold Enlightenment Monastery!’’ 4 Myanmar Saing or Drum Ensemble is very much popular among people. They want to see it often at pagoda festivals and at special occasions like donation ceremony or others. That time people usually hire a good saing waing to entertain people or guests after a day’s work of donation or at the inception of novitiation or ordination ceremonies. As soon as the saing master displays his virtuosity, people gather around his saing waing, and listen raptly to his improvisation. People feel awe struck by his dexterity in handling 21 drums which are arranged in circle. Looking back into the history, people can learn that Myanmar Kings showed interest in this music. It can be seen very clearly in the Glass Palace Chronicles in this way: “In the year of 906, King Shwe Hti reached the town called Salin when he marched with his troops by land and by water, and camped at the jetty of it. Then, he heard the music issuing from the platform of the Shwe Tan Zar pagoda. His commanders told him that it was the songs of Pat Saing which was also the name of Saing Waing. Accordingly, he ordered them that the lives of the saing players spared.”1

There were some occasions in which Sein Beda performed his saing skills to the delight of King Thibaw, the last king of Koungbaung Dynasty. The first time was that when the king ascended a new residence at Ratanagiri and the other was that at the ear-boring ceremony of the royal princess. Because of his excellent calibre, the King Thibaw bestowed him the title of “Ne Myo Bala Kyaw Thu” and the right of display four gold-leafed staffs of honour on his drum circle.” Later on one occasion, the saing attendant-cum-singer summoned his master to play the saing in this way: “Titled Ne-Myo-Bala-Kyaw-Thu by royal pleasure, thy musical genius, without exaggeration, is saluted by musicians throughout the land. Oh brother, music university personified, I, Sein Nyo Seint propose that you tap your drums with the dark sandal tips of your fingers.” 2 Such words are really elated and exhilarating when someone hears it. The time a music lover understands and feels excited is the time for saing master to show his virtuosity. Later, the small drums in the circle will tell how skillful the master is. At every touch, it sounds like the most brilliant and clearest piece of tune jumping out of it to the enjoyment of the audience.

As well, we cannot seperate Myanmar people from Myanmar saing waing because it stays with them for a long time in terms of seriousness and happiness.

Some songs tried to jerk the people’s delight. It goes this way:

It is needed to mention one of the famous saing master Sein Beda who was well-known for his own techniques of playing drums. His father was also a famous Myanmar saing master who served under Myanmar kings.

“Behold, the person of Sein Beda, those who say he is dark skinned have their tongues in their cheeks. When he was born, the midwife got only a quarter kyat for her pains. In retaliation she immersed the infant in soot. Behold the result!”3

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It needs to mention about tuning of the drums, i.e, pat-sa-poh. The drum master has to be really adept at doing it while the session of humour and slapstick were inserted by rear members of the saing. During the time, the saing master has to finish his tuning. In this practise, Sein Beda was renowned for his judgement of the amount of pat-sa which is boiled rice and wood-ash kneaded with water into a dough. Later, his pupils adopted the initial word “Sein” before their name, like Sein Hnget Yo, Kyaukpadaung Sein Maung Tint, Sein Mg Ko, Sein Hla Maung, Sein Kyaw Tint, etc. Anyway, sometimes “Saing” is played by itself, but sometimes together with zat, or A-nyeint. No matter what it takes, saing shows its enchantment to the delight of people. Nowadays, we still find the emergence of Saing master like Myanmar Pyi Kaung Sein who have played the album named “The Proclamation And Myanmar “Saing” .” In that album, he has rearranged the famous songs like Asia Great Man “Bo Aung San”, The Public Father, Sheer Courage, etc. He has made rearrangements for those songs to be fit to play for Saing. One can say this is his new creation, and he has done very well to do that. Anyway, Myanmar Saing gives strength and pleasure to Myanmar people whose hearts can discern the subtle and profound kind of art, and they feel satisfied with their life with it. References 1. Tekkatho Maung Thu Hlaing, Myanmar Traditional Orchestra Instruments, p 12 2. K, Burmese Culture, p 61 3. Ibid 4. Ibid, p 65

Aye Chan Khaing ေန႔စဥ္ ကၽြနမ ္ တိ႔ု လူမပ ႈ တ္ဝန္းက်င္ေတြမွာ အဆိုေတာ္ အသစ္ ၊ အသစ္ေ တြ နဲ ႔ ၊ သီ ခ ်င္းေခြေ တြ က လည္း တစ္ေန႔ တစ္ေန႔ ထြက္ရိွတာေတြ မနည္းလွပါဘူး။ ဒီ သီ ခ ်င္းေခြေ တြ ကို ပရိ သ တ္ က ဘယ္ လိုေ ရြး ခ်ယ္ ဝယ္ယူေနလဲဆတ ို ာကေတာ့ စိတဝ ္ င္စားစရာ ေကာင္း ပါတယ္။ လက္ရိွမွာေတာ့ Audio CD ထက္ VCD ဝယ္ယူမႈ မ်ားေနသလို အေခြေရာင္းသူေတြၾကားမွာလည္း ခိုး ကူး ဆို တဲ့ စ ကားက အသံုး မ်ားလွ ပ ါတယ္ ။ ဟု တ္ ပ ါ တယ္။ ျမန္မာသီခ်င္းေခြေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား မူရင္းေခြ ထက္ ခိုးကူးသီခ်င္းေခြေတြက လူေတြၾကား ပိပ ု ်ံ႕ႏွ႔ေ ံ နပါ တယ္။ အဲဒါနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး သီခ်င္းေရာင္းခ်မႈပံုစံေတြ လည္းေျပာင္းလာၾကပါတယ္။ အြန္လိုင္းကတဆင့္ ေရာင္းခ်တာမ်ဳိးေတြ၊ Apple i tunes stores လိုမ်ဳိး ကေနေရာင္း ခ်လာၾကတာကို ျမန္ မာအႏု ပ ညာရွ င္ ေတြ ၾ ကားမွာ ေတြ ႔ လာရပါတယ္ ။ ခိုး ကူးေခြေ တြ ကို မကာကြ ယ္ ႏို င္ ရ င္ေ တာင္ အတို င္း အတာတစ္ ခု ထိ ထိေရာက္လာႏိုင္မယ္လို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ရသလို ပရိသတ္ ကလည္း ခုေ နာက္ ပို င္း သူ တို ႔ လ က္ ခံ အားေပးတဲ့ အႏုပညာရွင္ကို မူရင္းေခြဝယ္ယူအားေပးလာၾကတာ ကိုလည္း ေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။ w w w. m y a n m a r o n l i n e s t o r e . c o m ကေ န ျမန္ မာသီ ခ ်င္းေတြ ကို ေရာင္း ခ်ေနၿပီး အရင္ ဆံုး Myanmar Music Store တြင္ Register ျပဳလုပ္ ရန္လိုအပ္ၿပီး ျပဳလုပ္ၿပီးပါက သက္ဆိုင္ရာ Account ျဖင့္ ေငြေ ပးေခ်ရန္ ဝင္ေ ရာက္ ရ မွာ ျဖစ္ ပ ါတယ္ ။ ေငြေပးေခ်မႈနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး How to pay မွာ ေဖာ္ျပ ထားကာ MyanPay၊ Gift Card၊ Ypay၊ Paypal၊ Visa Card၊ Master Card စတဲ့ ေငြေပးေခ်မႈကတ္ေတြနဲ႔ သီခ်င္းေခြ၊ သီခ်င္းတစ္ပုဒ္ခ်င္းစီျဖစ္ေစ ဝယ္ယူႏိုင္ပါ တယ္ ။ ဒါ့ အ ျပင္ ကို ယ့္ ရဲ ႕ ဖု န္း ထဲ က ဖု န္းေဘလ္ နဲ ႔ သီခ်င္းကုဒ္နံပါတ္ကို မက္ေဆ့ခ်္ေပးပို႔ ဝယ္ယူႏိုင္ၿပီး iOS User ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ Myanmar Music Store App ကို Apple AppStore မွ ေဒါင္းလုတ္ရ ယူထားသင့္ပါ

တယ္။ ဒီ ဝက္ဘဆ ္ က ို တ ္ င ြ ္ ဝယ္ယရ ူ ာတြင္ အခက္အခဲ ရွပ ိ ါက email- admin @myanmarmusicstore.com ဖုန္း 09 73 249 494 သိ႔ု ဆက္သယ ြ ္ေမးျမန္းႏိင ု ပ ္ ါတယ္။ ျမန္မာဂီတေရစီးေၾကာင္းကေတာ့ ေလာေလာဆယ္မွာ အခ်စ္သခ ီ ်င္းေတြ ေခတ္စားေနေပမယ္လ ့ ည္း သီခ်င္း ေခြထတ ု လ ္ ပ ု မ ္ ႈ က်ဆင္းလာတာကိလ ု ည္း ေတြျ႔ မင္ရပါ တယ္ ။ ပရိ သ တ္ က လည္း တကယ့္ ကိုေ ကာင္း တဲ့ သီခ်င္းေတြမသ ွ ာ ဝယ္ယအ ူ ားေပးလာၾကတာကို ေတြ႕ ျမင္ရၿပီး အဓိကကေတာ့ ခိုးကူးေခြေၾကာင္လ ့ ည္း ပါဝင္ သလို သီ ခ ်င္းေခြေ တြ ကို လ ည္း တကယ္ က ြာ လတီ ေကာင္း မွ သာ ထု တ္ သ င့္ တ ယ္ လို ႔ ေတးဂီ တ ထု တ္ လုပ္သူတစ္ဦးက ဆိုပါတယ္။ သီခ်င္းေခြအျပင္ ဂီတေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲေတြ ျဖစ္တဲ့ 2NE1 K pop အဖြ႕ဲ မွစၿပီး “Beautiful Girls”သီခ်င္းနဲ႔ Billboard Hot 100 စာရင္း ဝင္ ခဲ့ တဲ့ Sean Kingston လို ကမာၻေက်ာ္အဆိုေတာ္ေတြပါဝင္ၿပီး ေအာက္တိုဘာ လအတြင္းကမွ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ Yangon Runway Girls Collection ကို ဦး စီး က်င္း ပခဲ့ တဲ့ Living Sound အင္တာတိန္းမန္မ ႔ ွ Red Dot Pay နဲ႔ ႐ိႈးပြလ ဲ က္မတ ွ ္ေတြ ေရာင္းခ်ခဲ့ပါေသးတယ္။ ဒီလို စတင္ေရာင္းခ်ေနေပမယ့္ အခက္အခဲကေတာ့ ရိွေနပါေသးတယ္။ ဘယ္လအ ို ခက္အခဲဆတ ို ာကိုေတာ့ “အင္တာနက္မားကက္က မလြယ္ေသးဘူး။ ခရက္ဒစ္ ကတ္က လူတိုင္းမသံုးႏိုင္ၾကေသးဘူ။ အခ်ိန္တစ္ခု ေတာ့ ေပးရလိမမ ့္ ယ္။ အင္တာနက္ဝက္ဘဆ ္ က ို ္ေတြမွာ Free Link ေတြေပးတာ အမ်ားႀကီးပဲ။ ခရက္ဒစ္ကတ္ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈမျဖစ္ေသးသေရြ႕ ဒီဟာႀကီးကိၾု ကာဦးမယ္ လိယ ႔ု ၾံု ကည္တယ္။ လူတင ို ္း ခရက္ဒစ္ကတ္မွ မသံုးၾက ေသး တာ ။ M ya n Pa y ေ လာ က္ ပဲ ရိ ွေ သးေ တာ့ အခ်ိန္ေစာင္ရ ့ ဦးမယ္” လိ႔ု Bo BO Music Production မွ ကိုဘိုစန္းက MY Yangon ကို ေျပာပါတယ္။

အခက္အခဲေတြရွေ ိ နေပမယ္လ ့ ည္း မၾကာေသးခင္ကမွ အေမရိက ႏူးေယာ့ခ္ၿမိဳ႕ကေန အသံသြင္းျဖန္႔ခ်ိလိုက္ တဲ့ ဥကၠာမင္းေမာင္ရဲ႕ 18 သီခ်င္းေခြထဲမွ သီခ်င္းေတြ ကိလ ု ည္း ဝယ္ယႏ ူ င ို ၿ္ ပီး အဆိုေတာ္ေအးခ်မ္းေမနဲအ ႔ တူ တြဲသီဆိုထားတဲ့ “ဇာတ္သိမ္း( Single)” သီခ်င္းကို က်ပ္ ၃ဝဝ ျဖင့္ MPT ဖုန္းေဘလ္၊ Master၊Visa Cards၊ MyanPay၊ Ypay၊ CBPay တို ႔ အ ျပင္ A mazon & Spotify၊ ျပည္ပမွ Paypal နဲလ ႔ ည္း ဝယ္ယႏ ူ င ို တ ္ ယ္လ႔ို သူက ေျပာျပထားပါတယ္။ ဝယ္ယူရမယ့္ပံုစံကို ေျပာျပရလွ်င္ MPT သို႔ 18899 သို ႔ SMS ေပးပို ႔ ၿ ပီး buy (space) s08847 လို ႔ ေပးပို႔ရမွာပါ။ Space က စာသားမဟုတ္ဘဲ ျခားၿပီး ႐ိုက္ရမွာ ျဖစ္သလို တယ္လီေနာဖုန္းနဲ႔ဆိုပါက 979 ၊ အူ ရီ ဒူး ဖု န္း နဲ ႔ ဆို ပ ါက 234 သို ႔ SMS ေပးပို ႔ ဝ ယ္ ယူ နားဆင္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဥကၠာ မင္းေမာင္ ကေတာ့ ဝယ္ ယူ နားဆင္ သူ သူ ႔ ပရိ သ တ္ေ တြ ကို သူ ႔ ရဲ ႕ေဖ့ ဘ ြ တ္ ခ္ အေကာင့္ ကေန ေက်းဇူးတင္ စကားေျပာၾကားထားၿပီး အြနလ ္ င ို ္းကေန ဝယ္ယူနားဆင္ၾကသူေတြလည္း ရိွေနပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာ့ဂီတေလာကတိုးတက္လာဖို႔ ဂီတအစည္းအ႐ံုး ကေန ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး ေတးဂီတထူးခၽြနဆ ္ ုေပးပြဲေတြလပ ု ္ ေနသလို တဖက္ကလည္း ပရိသတ္ေတြက မူရင္းေခြ အားေ ပး ဝ ယ္ ယူ လာ ၾ က သ လို အ ြ န္ လို င္း ကေ န ဝယ္ယူလာၾကတာကိုလည္း အေရအတြက္နည္းေန ေသးေပမယ္ေ ့ တြ႕ေနရပါတယ္။ လက္ရျွ ိ မန္မာ့အႏုပညာ ေလာကမွာ ႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ဗီဒီယိုက ဦးေဆာင္ေနေပမယ့္ ျမန္မာ့ဂတ ီ ေလာက သံစဥ္ေတြ ရွငသ ္ န္တိုးတက္လာဖိ႔ု အတူတြဲၾကိဳးစားရမွာကေတာ့ အေသအခ်ာပါပဲ။

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Health & Beauty

“Beauty lies on the eyes of the beholder”, as the saying goes, some parts of the body can be beautified in specific ways. So sometimes, we need to relax our body and try to go a spa and relieve stress. In Yangon Sanctuary Spa, there are a lot of services which will give reliable treatments for your relaxation - body treatments, hair treatments, facial treatments and manicure and pedicure.

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For body treatments, the products are imported from Australia, The body treatments are mostly body spas which feel like a body message. There are saunas as well at the spa. Swedish message with oil, is one of the most popular treatments among the customers. for this, you can choose four different massage oils (Lemongrass, Lavender, Bergamot and Relaxing Balinese). This massage aims to reduce pain and stress, giving therapeutic benefits to your body. The Brazilian waxing is also availble and quite popular. In hair department, customers love to have the hair spa and scalp spa. L’OREAL professional products are used systematically according to the recipe. For scalp, the treatments are for hair loss, thinning hair, oily scalps, itchy scalps and sensitive scalps. Especially, the anti-hair loss treatment is the most popular among the customers.

To Find Out More about health and Beauty, visit the Yangon Directory Website @ www.yangondirectory.com/myyangon

For facial, firstly face mapping is done to refine customers’ skin, and then treatments are customized. Dermalogica products are more preferred for the skin. In customizing, there are four types of targeted facial treatments including

treatments for skin with acne, sensitive skin, antiageing treatment and the last one is whitening. The body massage costs about 35,000 Kyats, and the other body treatments range from 60,000 to 80,000 Kyats. There are so many manicure and pedicure types though the cost of the most popular ones are around 12,000 to 15,000 38

Kyats. Facial treatments usually cost 70,000 Kyats and above, wheras it normally costs about 13,500 Kyats in Singapore The reason for being cheaper here is “Yangon Sanctuary Spa” always gives the feeling of luxury to customers with fair price and good quality. And the customers will not feel regret the service of the qualified staffs. MYyangon _ issue 17

Hello II | 28 Maharsocial Street,

Hledan, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 539 813 Iris | 570/A, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd.,Ward (8)| 01 664918, 09 421 066 911

Magic House | (Rm 1/B), Bldg 16,

Ariyta Maggin St., Ward (14), Yankin Tsp | 09 515 209 1

Spa Paragon | 51 (Rm 106), Shwe

Hin Thar Tower (B), Pyay Rd., Ward

(11) Hlaing Tsp| 01 507 344 Ext.112

Spa Listings

Central Hotel | 6th Floor, 335-337

Bogyoke Aung San Road Pabedan Tsp | 01 241 007 Ext. 533

1st Lady Beauty Salon | 1A/42, U

Beauty Box Spa | 14, Tamainbayan

Genky Physiotherapy Clinic | 285

Oakkalar Tsp| 850 001 7,

09 254 228982

Kyauktada Tsp. | 098 615 036

Zana St, Myathidar Housing, South 850 023 4, 09 506 662 2

Beauty Concepts | Unit-G11, No.231 Pyay Road, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 508 468, 01 508 469, 01 508 470

Beauty Choice | 65 Yae Kyaw Road,

Pazundaung Tsp| 01 200 720, 09 450 061 156

California Skin Spa | 32. B Inya Myaing Road | 01 535 097

Inya Day Spa | 16/2 Inya Road,

Road | 09 503 5556,

Mizu Aoi Health & Beauty Center

Road, Sayar San Quarter, Bahan Tsp

Boyar Nyunt Street, Dagon. Tsp

09 732 29 205

Nacha Spa | Near City Mart, Shin Saw Pu Road | 094 211 65 929

Yangon Sanctuary Spa (Taw Win

813 Hello I |59 & 63 Ground Floor,

Seikta-thuka Street, Kyaukkmyaung, Tamwe Tsp. | 01 50 070, 097 308 1713

Center, Level-3 | 09 315 518 44, 09 253 242 440

Yangon Sanctuary Spa (Kaba Aye

D Spa | 682 Thitsar Road (Ponnami

Pagoda Road, Myanmar Plaza,

Tsp | 09 25925 6686

| No.14, Ground Floor, Block 19A,

Center) | No. 45, Pyay Road, Taw Win

Kamaryut | 01 537 907 / 01 503 375

Bus Stop) Ward 6 South Okkalapa

Bo Aung Kyaw Road (middle block),

Muguet Japon Spa | 1 F, New World Building 126 Kabar Aye Pagoda

09 526 164 2

Pagoda Road) No. 192, Kaba Aye Level-2 | 09 250 141 330

La Source Beauty Spa | 80-A Inya Road | 01 512 380

Lemon Day Spa | No. 96 F, Inya

Road, Kamayut Tsp | 01 514 848 / 09 732 08 476

London Bliss Spa | Taw Win Centre | 01 860 011

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MY Yangon Magazine

Hla Phone Aung & Cho Cho Thin ေတးဂီတကို နားဆင္ရသည္မွာ သာယာနာေပ်ာ္ဖြယ္ ေကာင္းလွပါတယ္။ တူရိယာအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးကို သံုးၿပီး လူတို႔တီထြင္ဖန္တီးထားတဲ့ ဂီတအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးရိွပါတယ္။ အဲဒီအထဲကမွ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ထဲမွ လက္လွမ္းမီရာဆိုင္တစ္ခ်ဳိ႕ကိုလည္း ေဖာ္ျပေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ HlaShwe (Myanmar Music (Piano) Trading Co., Ltd.

ဖြင့္လွစ္ထားသည္မွာ အႏွစ္ ၃ဝ ေက်ာ္ၾကာၿပီျဖစ္ၿပီး အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံမွ တင္သြင္းေသာ စႏၵယားမ်ဳိးစံု (Grand Piano၊ Upright Piano ၊ Digital Piano) တိ႔ု ေရာင္းခ်ေသာဆိုင္ျဖစ္ပါ တယ္။ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၊ သဃၤန္းကၽြန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ေဝဇယႏာၱလမ္းတြင္ ဆိင ု ခ ္ တ ြဲ စ္ခရ ု ၿွိ ပီး မႏၲေလးတြငလ ္ ည္း ဆိင ု ခ ္ တ ြဲ စ္ခု ရွပ ိ ါေသးတယ္။ ရန္ကန ု ဆ ္ င ို ခ ္ ြဲေတြမွာ နံနက္ ၉ နာရီမွ ညေန ၅ နာရီခထ ြဲ ဖ ိ င ြ လ ့္ စ ွ ၿ္ ပီး ယူအက္စ္ ေဒၚလာ ၃ဝဝဝ မွ ၂ဝဝဝဝ ေက်ာ္အထိရွိတဲ့ စႏၵယား မ်ဳိးစံုကို ဝယ္ယူႏိုင္ပါတယ္။

အမွတ္ ၃၇/၃၉၊ ေဒၚသိန္းတင္လမ္းႏွင့္ ကန္ေတာ္ေလး ၉၁ လမ္းေထာင့္၊ ကန္ေတာ္ေလးအေရွ႕ရပ္ကြက္၊ မဂၤလာေတာင္ညြန္႔ၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕။ ဖုန္း - ဝ၁-၃၇၃ ၄၈၄၊ ဝ၉-၄၂ဝ ၇၁၅ ၇၄၅၊ ဝ၉-၅ဝဝ ၉၇၇၅ Website: www.hspianomyanmar.com

Music World ေတးကမၻာ

ဖြငလ ့္ စ ွ ထ ္ ားသည္မွာ အႏွစ္ ၄ဝ ေက်ာ္ၾကာၿပီး တ႐ုတ္ ႏိင ု င ္ လ ံ ပ ု ္ ဆက္ဆဖ ို န ု ္း၊ ကလယ္ရန ိ က္၊ ေအာ္ဂင္၊ ဂီတာအစရွသ ိ ည့္ တူရယ ိ ာမ်ဳိးစံႏ ု င ွ ့္ ဘင္ခရာေလမႈတက ္ ရ ိ ယ ိ ာမ်ား၊ အသံပင ို ္းဆိင ု ရ ္ ာ စက္ပစၥည္းမ်ား၊ စပီကာမ်ားစသည္တို႔ကို လက္လီ၊ လက္ကား ေရာင္းခ်ပါတယ္။ နံနက္ ၉ နာရီမွ ညေန ၅ နာရီအထိ ဖြင့္လွစ္ ေရာင္းခ်ၿပီး ဂစ္တာမွာ က်ပ္ ၅ဝဝဝဝ မွ က်ပ္ တစ္သိန္းအထိ ေစ်းအစားစားရိၿွ ပီး မႏၲေလးတြငလ ္ ည္း ဆိင ု ခ ္ တ ြဲ စ္ခရ ု ပ ွိ ါေသးတယ္။

ဆိုင္အမွတ္ ၁၄၂၊ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းေစ်း၊ အေနာက္ဘက္၀င္း၊ ပန္းဘဲတန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕။ ဝ၁-၂၄၃ ၁၆၂၊ ဝ၁-၃၇၇ ၁၅၄၊ ဝ၁-၂၅၄ ၃၈၀၊ ဝ၉-၅၁၁ ၁၅၃၅ အမွတ္ ၃၊ နန္းရတနာအေဆာက္အအံု၊ ၃၇ လမ္း၊ ၇၈ x ၇၉ လမ္းၾကား၊ မႏၲေလး။ ဖုန္း - ဝ၂-၇၁၇၀၇၊ ဝ၉-၅၁၁ ၅၃၄

MYyangon _ issue 17

wl&d,mqdkifrsm;omru wl&d,mypönf;rsm;taMumif; tenf;i,f ajymjyvdkygw,f/ taemufwdkif; wl&d,mxJu pE´,m;? r,f'vifwdkY taMumif; ajymjy&vSsif…. စႏၵယား

ယခုေခတ္ ကမာၻ႔ႏုိင္ငံအသီးသီးရိွ ဂီတတူရိယာမ်ား တြင္ စႏၵယားသည္ လူႀကိဳက္အမ်ားဆံုးနဲ႔ အေရးပါဆံုး ေသာ ႀကိ ဳးတပ္ တူ ရိ ယာတစ္ ခု ၿ ပီး အျခားႀကိ ဳးတပ္ တူရယ ိ ာလို မဟုတဘ ္ ဲ ခလုတႏ ္ ပ ွိ ၊္ ယႏၲရားတပ္ဆင္၍ တီးရေသာေၾကာင့္ လက္ေခ်ာင္းတစ္ေခ်ာင္းလွ်င္ အသံ တစ္သ၊ံ လက္ဆယ္ေခ်ာင္းျဖင့္ ဆယ္သၿံ ပိဳင္အ ္ ထိ တစ္ ႀကိမတ ္ ည္း တီးႏိင ု တ ္ ဲတ ့ ရ ူ ယ ိ ာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ပတၱလား၊ ေစာင္း၊ ဒံုမင္းစတဲ့ တူရိယာေတြမွာ စႏၵယားသံစဥ္ႏွင့္ တူၾကေသာ္လည္ း၊ လက္တစ္ဖက္မွ တစ္ႀကိမ ္လွ်င္

တစ္သ ံသ ာ တီ းခတ္ႏ ိ ုင ္ ေသာေၾကာင့္ စႏၵယားကဲ့သို့ သံၿပိဳင္တဲြ မ်ားျပားက်ယ္ဝန္းစြာမရေခ်။

မယ္ဒလင္

မယ္ဒလင္သည္ အီတာလ်ံလူမ်ဳိးတို႔ စတင္တီးခတ္ ေသာတူ ရိ ယာျဖစ္ ၿ ပီး မယ္ ဒ လင္ ႏ ွ စ္ မ ်ဳိး ရိ ွ ပ ါတယ္ ။ တစ္မ်ဳိးမွာ နီယေပၚလီတန္လို႔ လူသိမ်ားၿပီး အလ်ား ႏွစ္ေပရိွကာ ညီညာေသာႀကိဳး ၄ စံုတပ္ထားပါတယ္။ ေနာက္တစ္မ်ဳိးမွာ မိလနိလို႔ ေခၚၿပီး အနည္းငယ္ ပို၍ ႀကီးၿပီး ညီညာေသာ ႀကိဳး ၅ စံု၊ သို႔မဟုတ္ ၆ စံု တပ္

ထားပါတယ္ ။ မယ္္ ဒ လင္ မ ွာ သံ စံု တီး ဝို င္း မ်ားတြ င္ အသံုးျပဳေသာ တူရယ ိ ာႀကီးမ်ဳိး မဟုတ္ေပ။ သိရ ႔ု ာတြင္ မိုးဇတ္ (Mozart) နဲ႔ ဗီသိုဗင္ (Beethoven) အစရိွတဲ့ ဂီတစာဆိုၾကီးေတြက အျခားသီခ်င္းေတြန႔ဲ လိက ု ဖ ္ က္၍ တီးေစကာ တီးလံးု မ်ား ေရးေပးထားပါတယ္။ မယ္ဒလင္ ဟာ ေပါ့ေ ပါ့ ပ ါးပါး ယူေ ဆာင္ သ ြားႏို င္ တာေၾကာင့္ အေပ်ာ္တမ္းတူရယ ိ ာ တီးခတ္သူေတြၾကားတြင္ ေခတ္ စားပါတယ္။

jrefrmhwl&d,mrsm;uvnf; trsKd;rsKd; &dSNyD; tJ'DtxJurS …. ေစာင္းေကာက္

ျမန္မာေစာင္းေကာက္မွာအရြယ္အားျဖင့္ ႏွစ္စားရိွၿပီး အမ်ဳိးသားေစာင္းမွာ ႀကီး၍၊ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအသံုးျပဳေစာင္း မွာ အရြယ္အစား ငယ္ပါတယ္။ တပ္ဆင္ထားေသာ ၁၃ႀကိဳးကို အထက္ဆံုးမွ ေအာက္ဆံုးႀကိဳးအထိ အသံ ႀကီးစဥ္ငယ္လက ို ္ (၁) အထက္ဒန ု ္း (၂) နွစပ ္ င္ဒန ု ္း (၃) သံုးပင္ဒုန္း (၄) ေလးပင္ဒုန္း (၅) ငါးပင္ (၆) ဒုန္း လက္ညဳႇးိ (၇) နစင္ဒန ု း္ (ႏွစပ ္ င္ ဒုနး္ လက္ညဳႇးိ ) (၈) သံးု ပင္ ဒုနး္ လက္ညဳႇ းိ (၉) ေတ်ာႀကိဳး (၁ဝ) ေတ်ႀကိဳး (၁၁) တ်ာ ႀကိဳး (၁၂) သံက်ပ္ႀကိဳး (၁၃) သံျဖားႀကိဳးလိေ ု႔ ခၚၿပီး အေပၚဆံးု တြင္ တစ္ႀကိဳးတင္ကာ ၁၄ ႀကိဳးတပ္ၿပီး တီးၾက ပါတယ္။

ပတၱလား

ယခုအခါ ျမန္မာ့ပတၱလားမွာ ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္လုနီးပါး ျဖစ္ေနၿပီး ေရွးယခင္က ပတၱလားျပဳလုပရ ္ ာတြင္ အသံုး ျပဳရေသာ ဝါးမွာ အရင္ျ့ ဖစ္ၿပီး ၊ ထိဝ ု ါးအားအသံၿငိမ္ေစရန္

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MY Yangon Magazine

ရႊံ႕မ်ား ၊ ႏြံ႔မ်ားထဲတြင္ နွစ္ႏွစ္ တန္သည္၊ သံုးႏွစတ ္ န္ သည္ သိမး္ ဆည္းထားၿပီးေသာအခါ၊ ဝါးမ်ားအား အသား က်၍ မာသြားပါတယ္ ။ အသားက်၍ မာသြားေသာ ဝါးမ်ားအား ရက္အတန္ၾကာ မီးခိုးမွိဳင္းခံ၍ ထားကာ ထို အ ခါမွ ဝါးအသားမာ၍ အသံ ၿ ငိ မ္ သ ြားပါတယ္ ။ ျမန္မာ့ ပတၱလားတြင္ ဝါး အျပား၂၄ ျပားပါဝင္ပါတယ္။

ပေလြ

ပေလြမ်ားသည္ တိမ္ေကာလုနီးပါး ျဖစ္ေနေသာ ျမန္မာ တူ ရိ ယာတစ္ မ ်ိ ဳးု ျ ဖစ္ ၿ ပီး ပေလြ ၏ ကို ယ္ ထ ည္ တ ြ င္ လက္ညဳႇ းိ အသံုးျပဳရေသာ အေပါက္ခုႏွစ္ေပါက္ရွိကာ ပေလြတြင္ ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးရွိပါတယ္။ မ်ားေသာအားျဖင့္ ဝါးျဖင့္ ေသာ္ လ ည္းေကာင္း ၊ ေၾကးျဖင့္ေ သာ္ လ ည္းေကာင္း လုပ္ေလ့ရွိကာ ယခုအခါ ဘုရားေဆာင္းတန္းမ်ားတြင္ ေရာင္းခ်ေနေသာ ပေလြမ်ားမွာ ဝါး၊ ပိက ု ၊္ ပလတ္စတစ္ မ်ားျဖင့္ ျပဳလုပ္ထားၿပီး နတ္ဆက္ရန္ႏွင့္ ကေလးမ်ား ကစားရန္ ဆိုရမလို ျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။

ဆိုင္းဝိုင္း

ျမန္မာ့ ဆိင ု ္းဝိင ု ္းမ်ားသည္ သာယာဝတီမင္းလက္ထက္ ေပၚေပါက္ချဲ့ ခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ေရွးယခင္က စိနဆ ္ င ို ္း၊ ျမဆိင ု ္း၊ ပတၱျမားဆိုင္းဟူ၍ သံုးမ်ိဳးသံုးစားရွိပါတယ္။ စိန္ဆိုင္း တြင္ အျဖဴေရာင္မန ွ မ ္ ်ားျဖင္သ ့ ာ စီျခယ္ထားကာ ဘုရင့္ ေရွ ႕ေတာ္ တ ြ င္ တီး ရန္ သာ ျဖစ္ ပ ါတယ္ ။ ျမဆို င္း ကို အစိမ္းေရာင္ ေက်ာက္မ်ား၊ မွနမ ္ ်ားျဖင့္ စီျခယ္ထားသလို မိဖရ ု ားမ်ားေရွ႕ေတာ္တင ြ ္ တီးရန္ျဖစ္ၿပီး မင္းညီမင္းသား မ်ားအတြ က္ ပတၱ ျ မားဆို င္း ျဖင့္ ေဖ်ာ္ေ ျဖေလ့ ရ ွိ ကာ အနီေရာင္ရွိေသာ ေက်ာက္မ်ား၊ မွနမ ္ ်ားျဖင့္ စီျခယ္ထား ေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာ့ဆိုင္းေလးမ်ိဳးမွာ ဇာတ္ဆိုင္း၊ ဗလာဆိင ု ္း၊ ႐ုပ္ေသးဆိင ု ္းႏွင့္ နတ္ဆင ို ္းျဖစ္ၿပီး မဂၤလာ ဆိုင္းဟု ဆိုေလ့ရွိသည့္ အတိုင္းအလွဴ၊ မဂၤလာပြဲမ်ား တြင္သာ တီးေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။

ZAW MIN LAY

tEkynm&SifwkdY\&Sifoef&m yef;qkd;wef; yef;csDjycef; ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၏ အထင္ကရ ပန္းဆိုးတန္းလမ္းမေပၚရွိ ဂံုးတံတားအနီးမွ ပန္းဆိုးတန္းပန္းခ်ီျပခန္းသည္ ရင့္က်က္မႈအလွျဖင့္ တည္ရွိေနေၾကာင္း ေတြ႕ရပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ပန္းခ်ီျပခန္းတည္ေထာင္သူ ကိုေအာင္စိုးမင္းႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံုေမးျမန္းခြင့္ရေသာအခါ ပန္းခ်ီအႏုပညာသာမက အႏုပညာ လႈပ္ရွားမႈခန္းမ (Pansondan Scene) ႏွင့္ ဓာတ္ပံုျပခန္း (Pansuriya) တို႔ကိုပါ တည္ေထာင္ထားေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။ သူ႔ရဲ႕ အႏုပညာေဇာဟာ ဂီတကိုပါ ထမ္းပိုးႏိုင္တဲ့ခြန္အားကိုလည္း ရရွိေစခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ကနဦးအစ

ကိုေ အာ င္ စိုး မ င္း သ ည္ မူ လ က စာေ ပ အႏုပညာအလုပႏ ္ င ွ ့္ စာအုပထ ္ တ ု ္ေဝေရးအလုပ္ လုပခ ္ ဲ့ ေသာ္လည္း ၂ဝဝဝ ျပည့္ႏွစ္တြင္ ပန္းခ်ီဆရာတို႔၏ လက္ရာကို ျပစရာေနရာႏွင့္ ေစ်းကြက္ေဖာ္ျပလို႔ရတဲ့ ပန္း ခ်ီ ျ ပခန္း သတ္ သ တ္ မ ွ တ္ မ ွ တ္ ရွိ သ င့္ တာကို စဥ္းစား မိခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ၂ဝဝ၁ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ပန္းခ်ီလုပ္ငန္း ကို စတင္ လုပ္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ၿပီး ျပခန္းကို ဖြင့္ျဖစ္ခဲ့သည္က ၂ဝဝ၈ ခုႏစ ွ ္ တြင္းျဖစ္လ႔ို ပန္းခ်ီဆရာအမ်ားစုမွာ ျပခန္း ေနရာကို လို က္ လံ င ွားရမ္း ၿပီး ျပပြဲ ျ ပဳလု ပ္ေ နရခ်ိ န္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သုိ႔ျဖင့္ ကိုေအာင္စိုးမင္းႏွင့္ ကေနဒါသူ Mrs. Nance Cunningham တို႔ ႏွစ္ဦး ပူးေပါင္းႀကိဳး ပမ္းမႈျဖင့္ ၂ဝဝ၈ ခုႏွစ္၊ ၾသဂုတ္လတြင္ ပန္းခ်ီျပခန္း အျဖစ္ အႏုပညာ ျမစ္တစ္စင္း ေပၚေပါက္လာျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အႏုပညာသမားေတြအတြက္ သတင္း ေကာင္းပါပဲ။

စုေဆာင္းခဲ့

ေခတ္ၿပဳိငပ ္ န္းခ်ီ (Contemporary Art) ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ပန္းခ်ီကားမ်ားကို အဓိက ထားစုေဆာင္းခဲ့ ၍ လိုအပ္လွ်င္ သမိုင္းေၾကာင္းကို ေဖာ္ျပႏိုင္ေလာက္ ေအာင္ စိတ္ဝင္တစား စုေဆာင္းခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အမ်ဳိးစံုေသာ ပန္းခ်ီကားလက္ရာမ်ား၊ သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္ႏွင့္ ေၾကာ္ျငာမ်ားပါ မက်န္ ဆုိပါေတာ့။ စင္စစ္အားျဖင့္ ျပတိက ု ္ (Museum) နဲ႔ စာၾကည့တ ္ က ုိ မ ္ ်ား မစုေဆာင္း ျဖစ္တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားဆိုလွ်င္ မမွားေပ။ ပို၍ ဆိုရလွ်င္ လူထုၾကားရွိတဲ့ သမိုင္းအစစ္ကို စုေဆာင္း လိုျခင္း အဓိက ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ စိတ္ဝင္စားစရာေကာင္း သည္ မ ွာ ျမန္ မာ့ ပ န္း ခ်ီ အ ႏု ပ ညာနဲ ႔ ျမန္ မာ့ ႏို င္ ငံေ ရး ဆက္စပ္ေနျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အစဥ္တစိုက္ စိတ္ဝင္ တစားေလ့ လာ၍သာ သိ ခဲ့ ရေၾကာင္း ဆို သ လို အဲ ဒ ါ ေၾကာင့္ပဲ ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးသမိုင္းကို ပန္းခ်ီသမိုင္း တြင္ လည္း ရွာေဖြေတြ႕ရွိႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ပံုရိပ္သမိုင္း (Visual

MYyangon _ issue 17

အစဥ္မွ ၾကာသပေတးနဲ႔ တနဂၤေႏြေန႔မ်ားတြင္ ပံုမွန္ လႊ င့္ေ ပးႏို င္ ရ န္ ပ႐ို ဂ ရမ္ တ စ္ ခု အေနျဖင့္ တင္ ဆ က္ ခဲ့ သ ည္ မ ွာ တစ္ ႏ ွ စ္ေ က်ာ္ ၿ ပီ ျ ဖစ္ ပ ါတယ္ ။ လင္း ပြ င့္ ဂီ တ ပြဲေ တာ္ အစီ အ စဥ္ ျ ဖစ္ ပ ါတယ္ ။ နယ္ေ ပါင္း စံု မ ွ ကိုယ္ပိုင္သံစဥ္ ဂီတသမားေတြကို မိတ္ဆက္ေပးတဲ့ အစီအစဥ္ျဖစ္ၿပီး အဖြဲ႕ေပါင္း ၈ဝ ေက်ာ္အထိ ရြက္ပုန္း သီး Band ေတြ ကို နားေထာင္ စိ စ စ္ေ ရြး ခ်ယ္ ကာ အသံလႊင့္ႏိုင္ရန္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနဆဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္မွာ လူမ်ဳိးစု ေတးဂီတမ်ား ေဖာ္ထုတ္၍ လည္းေကာင္း၊ အနယ္နယ္အရပ္ရပ္မွ တိမျ္ မႇဳပ္လန ု ီးပါး ျဖစ္ေ နေသာ သာေရး၊ နာေရးသံုး ေတးဂီ တ မ်ားကို ေဖာ္ ထု တ္ ၍ လည္းေကာင္း ၊ Instruments ေတြ အပါအဝင္ ႐ုိးရာႏွင့္ ေခတ္ေပၚေပါင္းစပ္၍ ဂီတသစ္ ေပၚေပါက္ရန္လည္း ေကာင္း၊ ႏိင ု င ္ ျံ ခားဂီတပညာရွငမ ္ ်ား ႏွ င့္ ပူးေပါင္း ၍လည္းေကာင္း ရွာေဖြ စိ စ စ္ေ ရြး ခ်ယ္ စုေ ဆာင္း ၍ Organizer သို ႔ မ ဟု တ္ Production Director အလုပ္လုပ္ေပးရန္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ History) ကို အေစာႀကီး ကတည္း က စုေ ဆာင္း ခဲ့ ေၾကာင္း ကိုေအာင္စိုးမင္းထံမွ သိရပါတယ္။

ႀကိဳးစားပမ္းစား

၂ဝဝဝ ခုႏစ ွ ္ ဝန္းက်င္တြင္ ပန္းခ်ီေစ်းကြက္ အားနည္းခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း လက္ရာေကာင္းပန္းခ်ီကား ေတြကို လူႀကီးလူငယ္မေရြးဘဲ ပန္းခ်ီဆရာတို႔ထံက ဝယ္ ယူ စုေ ဆာင္း ခဲ့ ရ သလို အခ်ဳိ ႕ ပန္း ခ်ီ ကားတို ႔ မ ွာ လူမသိ၊ နာမည္မေက်ာ္ဘဲ လက္ရာေကာင္းျခင္းကို လည္း ေတြ႕ရတတ္ပါတယ္။ သိျ႔ု ဖင့္ ပန္းခ်ီေစ်းကြကတ ္ င ြ ္ စံျပ (Model) ျဖစ္ေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားျခင္းျဖင့္ လူလား ေျမာက္ခပ ဲ့ ါတယ္။ ယင္းေၾကာင့္ ပန္းခ်ီျပခန္း (Gallery) တိုင္းတြင္ သမိုင္းေၾကာင္းကိုယ္စီရွိသည္လို႔လည္း ဆို ႏိင ု ပ ္ ါတယ္။ ၂ဝ၁၄ ခုႏစ ွ တ ္ င ြ ္ ရန္ကန ု ၿ္ မိဳ႕မွာ ပန္းခ်ီျပခန္း အေရအတြက္ ၃ဝ အထိ တိုးလာျခင္းကို ၾကည္ျ့ ခင္းျဖင့္

ယခုအခါ ပန္းခ်ီေလာက ထြန္းကားလာၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဆိရ ု ပါလိမမ ့္ ယ္။ ဒါ့ေၾကာင့္ ယခုျပခန္းအေနျဖင့္ ေရွ႕သု႔ိ ဆက္လက္ၿပီး လမ္းထြင္သြားရန္ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ရွိၿပီး အမ်ားျပည္ သူ ႏွ လံုး သားထဲ ဝင္ေ ရာက္ ႏို င္ေ သာ Gallery Culture ျဖစ္ ထ ြ န္း လာရန္ ႀကိ ဳးပမ္းေနဆဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္ Pansodan Media ေခါင္းစဥ္ ေအာက္တြင္ အႏုပညာလႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ားကို အင္တိုက္ အားတိုက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၿပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဂီတအႏုပညာမွာလည္းလမ္းသစ္ထြင္

ကိုႏိုင္ဝင္း (Bass Guitar) ႏွင့္ တြဲဖက္ၿပီး ျမန္မာဂီတတြင္ လိအ ု ပ္ေနေသာ ကြကလ ္ ပ္ကို ျဖည္ႏ ့ င ို ္ ရန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာသီခ်င္းမ်ားတြင္ ေကာ္ပီ အစား ကိယ ု ပ ္ င ို သ ္ စ ံ ဥ္ေတြ အားေပးႏိင ု ရ ္ န္ တစ္ေထာင့္ တစ္ေနရာမွ ပါဝင္ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး DVB အသံလႊင့္ အစီ

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ပန္းခ်ီခန္းမတစ္ခုတည္းမဟုတ္ Pansodan Scene အမည္နဲ႔ ျပခန္းတြင္ အႏုပညာလႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ား အဆက္ မျပတ္ျပဳလုပ္ေနဆဲျဖစ္သည္။ သုေတသန စာတမ္း ဖတ္ပ၊ြဲ စာအုပမ ္ တ ိ ဆ ္ က္ပလ ြဲ ည္း ပါသလို စာေရးဆရာ၊ ကဗ်ာဆရာနဲ႔ ပန္းခ်ီဆရာသမဂၢသံုးခုကလ ို ည္း ဒီေနရာ တြင္ဖြဲ႕စည္းလႈပ္ရွားၾကပါတယ္။ အရက္ဆိုင္၊ ဘီယာ ဆိုင္မဟုတ္ဘဲ Coffee shop ဖြင့္ထား၍ ရင္းရင္းႏွီးႏွီး အပန္းေျဖစကားေျပာႏိုင္ၾကသလို Pansuriya အမည္ ျဖင့္ ဓာတ္ပံုျပခန္းလည္းဖြင့္ထားပါေသးတယ္။ အပါတ္ စဥ္ Pansodan ဂ်ာနယ္ကိုလည္း ထုတ္ခဲ့ၿပီး ယခုအခါ TV အစီအစဥ္အတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုးမ်ား ေပးႏိုင္ရန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနပါတယ္လုိ႔ ပန္းဆုိးတန္း ပန္းခ်ီ ျပခန္းမွ သိခဲ့ရပါတယ္။

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MYyangon _ issue 17

Restaurant

Guide

Dining Guide

The best restaurants, cafes and gastro food for casual and smart dining

H Star for critic's choice N New Opening

Downtown

50th Street Bar and Restaurant | Western/Bar | 9-13 50th Street, Botataung Tsp | 01 397 060

365 Café | Café/Western | No.5

Café KSS | Café | 470-472,

374 891, 01 389 705

Ya Htar Road, (2) Ward, Lanmadaw

78/80 Latha Street, Lower block | 01

Road, Ahlone Tsp | 01 229 904 ext.

H APK | Thai | 392-396 Shwebonthar

Street, Pabedan Tsp | 01 250 437

H Aung Mingalar Shan Noodle Restaurant | Shan | No. 34 Bo Yar

Nyunt Street & Corner of Nawaday

Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 507 077 8, 01 385 185, 09 250 150 376

H Aung Pyae Phyo Indian Foods | Indian | No. 37th Street, Corner of

Mahabandoola Road, Kyauktada Tsp Bar Boon | Café/Western | Just

outside FMI Center, 380 Bo Gyoke Road | 09 420 321 058

Bharat Indian Restaurant |

Indian | 356 Mahabandoola Road, Seikkantha Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 01 382 253

@ MYYangon @ MYYangon

Aung Kyaw Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 09

Harley’s | Fastfood | 285, Ground

639-41 ext. 32

34th Street | 01 389 363, 01 384 779

09 313 151 31

H Cherry Man | Myanmar/Indian |

Street | 01 253 126, 09 431 67288

Coka Suki Restaurant | Thai/Hotpot

999 Shan Noodle Shop | Shan | 130 B,

Kinsakura Restaurant | Japanese

Street (lower block), Botahtaung Tsp |

Thamada Hotel, Ahlanpya Pagoda

Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 243 047, 01 243

H Green Gallery | Thai | No. 58, 52nd

Mahabandoola Road, Cor. Bo Sun Pat

Floor, The Corner of 6th Street & Anaw Tsp | 09 250 086 204

| 104/108, Kyee Myin Daing Strand

Heaven Pizza | Pizza | 38~40, Bo Yar

229 905

1383

Nyunt Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 855

H Easy Café & Restaurant | Asian |

Heiwa | Japanese | 207,32 Street

722, 01 246 755

375931

30A/C1, Bo Yar Nyunt Road | 01 220

(Upper Block), Pabedan Tsp | 01

| BAK, Olympic Tower, 1st Floor, Bo 514 7840

H Kosan Café | Bar | Branch 2-Café/

Bar-108, 19th Street (Upper Block), Latha Tsp | 01 503 232

H Linkage Restaurant | Myanmar/

Asian | 221, 1st Flr, Mahar Bandoola

Garden Street | 09 495 836 18, 09 430 529 16

Lotteria@China Town | Fastfood |

No 827, Corner of Hledan Street and

Mahabandola Road, Lanmadaw Tsp |

Fat Man Steak | Western | Bo Yar

India Kitchen | Indian | 297

666

| 01 389 367

Lotteria@Central Tower | Fastfood |

Feel | Myanmar | 124, Pyihtaungsu

Ingyin Restaurant | Indian |

and 40th Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 09

08 132

number)

Nyunt Rd, Dagon Tsp | 09 420 305

Avenue Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 732

Mahabandoola Road, Botahtaung Tsp

Anawratha Road (30th St) | (no

H Frozee Gelato Creamery | Ice

Junior Duck | Chinese | Nanthidar

Dagon Tsp | 01 1233 874

Strand Road, Kyauktada Tsp | 01 249 421

Cream | No. 23 Nawaday Street,

Jetty Compound, Pan Soe Tan Saikkan

Gallery Bar & Restaurant | Café/Bar

Kanpai | Japanese | 207 Bo Aung

ext. 6430 or 6431

739 599

| 223 Sule Pagoda Road | 01 242 828

Kyaw Street, Botataung Tsp | 09 421

H Gekko | Japanese/Bar | 535

KFC | Fastfood | No. 375 Bogyoke

902 32

Yangon.

Merchant Road | 01 386 986, 09 431

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Aung San Road, Pabedan Township,

01 230 3097

79/81, Room (001/002), between 39th 258 521 385

Marry Brown | Fastfood | 180-182,

Mahabandoola Garden Street (Middle Block), Kyauktada Tsp | 01 384 780

Maru Grill Restaurant | Japanese |

134 Shwe Taung Tan Street (Upper

Block), Lanmadaw Tsp | 011 221 568, 09 420 308 350

H Miyoshi Ramen | Japanese | 42/E,

Bo Yar Nyunt Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 420 098 866

4545

Dining

H Mondo | Japanese | 26 (B) Yaw

Nooch Restaurant & Bar |

Rangoon Teahouse | Myanmar | 1st

Spice Brasserie | Asian Fusion | Park

066 782

Room K1, Upper Shwe Bon Thar

| 09 517 832 9

Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388

Min Gyi Street | 01 252 261, 09 450

H Monsoon | Asian | No. 85-87,

Theinbyu Road (lower block), Botataung Tsp | 01 295 224

My Garden | Asian | Ahlone Road | 01

Japanese /Thai | No. 387/397,

Road, Pabedan Tsp | 01 378 166

Oishii Branch 1 | Japanese | 98,

Latha Street(Middle Block), Latha Tsp | 01 708 685, 09 312 870 53

372 822

Olive Garden | Mediterranean|

Nam Kham Shan Restaurant

09260171411

| Shan | 37th Street, Corner of Mahabandoola Road (middle block), Kyauktada Tsp | (no number)

Nan Yu | Indian/Cantonese | 81

Pansodan Street, Kyauktada Tsp | 01 252 702

170/176 Bo Aung Kyaw Street |

H Pa Pa Pizza | Pizza Delivery |

Yaw Min Gyi Street | 09 421 124 373 Parisian Cake & Coffee | Coffee Shop/Café | 46 Mahabandoola Garden Street (Lower Block), Kyauktada Tsp | 01 242 650

H Nepali Food House | Nepalese

Peacock Lounge | Café | Sule-

Block, Pabedan Tsp | 09 402 552

Road | 01 242 828 ext. 6456 or 6434

| 63, Bon Sun Pet Street, Lower

245, 09 731 423 86, 09 517 5640 Nilar Biryani | Indian | 216, Anawratha Road, Pabedan Tsp

Shangri-La Hotel, 223 Sule Pagoda

Phoenix Court (Si Chaun Dou hua) |

Chinese | Park Royal Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388

Flr, 77 Pansodan Street, Kyauktada Tsp

Saigon Baguette & Café | Coffee

Royal Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road,

H Sprouts | Salad Bar/Café | 68A

Shop | 11 Nawaday street , Dagon Tsp

Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Tsp | 09

Santino Café |Coffee Shop | 18/A-1,

Sukiya Japanese Resturant |

387 880

Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 311 350 26

| 09 250 956 019

Bo Yar Nyunt Street, Dagon Tsp | 01

Sharky’s Pansodan | Western/

Fine Dining | 81, Pansodan, (Lower Middle Block) Kyauktada Tsp | 09

264 589 615, 01 252 702, 01 370 971

H Shiawase | Sushi | 38/40 A1 Bo

Yar Nyunt Street | 09 492 591 84

421 102 223

Japanese | 42/B, Yaw Min Gyi

H Sule Shangri -La Café | Bakery/

Café | Shangri La Hotel, 223 Sule Pagoda Road | 01 242 828 ext. 6421, 6422

H Summer Palace | Chinese |

Sule Shangri La, 223 Sule Pagoda

Road | 01 242 828 ext: 6428, 6429

Shiki-Tei | Japanese | Park Royal Hotel,

Sushi Itchi | Japanese | No. 105,

| 01 250 388

Tsp | 01 218 282

33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp

Phone Gyi Street, Lanmadaw

Shwe Kaung Hot Pot | Chinese/Hot

H Sydney’s | Western Bakery

Corner of Anawrahta Road & Lanthit

1st Flr, Shwe Dagon Pagoda Road,

Pot | 306, Level 3, Junction Maw Tin,

Road, Lanmadaw Tsp | 09 731 120 46

(Order only) | 288/290 (Rm 106), MWEA Tower | 01 381 607

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Thai 47 | Thai | No (153), Cornar

Tomo Sushi & Japanese

of 47th Street & Anawyahta

Restaurant | Japanese | 702,

095169215

511 6183, 01 251 302

Road, Botahtaung Tsp |

Maharbandoola Road, Latha Tsp | 09

The Blind Tiger | Western/

Union Bar & Grill | Western/Bar

Nawaday Street | 01 388 488

the Myanmar Red Cross Building,

Tapas | United Condominium,

| 42 Strand Road, Left corner of

** Alamanda Inn Restaurant |

BBQ Chicken Restaurant|Fastfood

Road, Golden Valley | 01 534 513

Dagon Tsp | 09 250 613 329

French | 60B/Shwe Taun Gyar

Ananda Coffee and Cocoa | Café/

Billion Gold Restaurant | Fine

Mart, Dhamazedi Road

Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road) |

Coffee shop | Market Place by City

Botahtaung Tsp | 09 420 101 854

Asagiri Sausage & Restaurant

Seafood/Western | 44/56 Kannar

Ureshii Kitchen | Japanese |

Road and Nar Nat Taw Street,

41st - 42nd Street | 01 375 064

Lanmadaw Tsp | 01 224 810

The Manhattan Fish Market |

Road, Ground Floor M.M.G. Tower,

111 Shwe Taung Tan Street,

The Lobby Bar | Bar | Park Royal

Ya Kun Kaya Toast | Singaporean |

Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388

of Narnattaw Road and Kyun Taw

Hotel 33 Alan Pya Pagoda Road,

The Strand Café | Fine dining/

Western | 92 Strand Road | 01 243 377~92

The Strand Grill | Western | 92

4th Floor, Junction Square, Corner

Road, Kamayut Tsp | 09 312 854 39

H Yhet’s | Japanese | 57, 37 Street

(Lower Block), Kyauktada Tsp | 01 377 212

Strand Road | 01 243 377

YKKO@Seikkantha Street- Also

The Thiripyitsaya Sky Bistro

286, Seikkantha Street, Kyauktada

| Asian/Western | 20th Floor,

Sakura Tower, 339 Bogyoke Aung San Road, Kyauktada Tsp | 01 255 277

Botahtaug Tsp.| 01 559 548

various branches | Chinese/Thai | Tsp | 01 379 754

Midtown

| 44, Ground Floor, Pyay Road,

Dining | Yangon International 01 216 001

| Western | Corner of Kyun Taw

Black Canyon Coffee | Coffee

Kamaryut Tsp | 01 539 598

Yangon International Hotel, Dagon

Astons Specialities | Steak House

| Myanmar Plaza (HAGL), 3rd Floor,

shop | 330 Ahlone Road, In front of Tsp | 01 395 052

Brasserie International Restaurant

Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan

Level 1, Sedona Hotel Ph 09 516 669 00

Aung Thuka | Myanmar | 17(A), West

Café Bellagio | Western | 81 New

Tsp.

Shwegondine, Bahan Tsp | 01 525 194

H AV's | Indian | Room A, Ground

Floor, No(76/80)(B), Banyardala Road | 09 254 345 381

Bangkok Kitchen | Thai |

Ext :7714,7503

University Ave Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 544 930

Café Dibar | Italian | No.9, Kabaraye Pagoda Road, Yankin Tsp | 095 114 932, 09 599 6143

Kandawgyi Natural Park,Nat

Cafe Napoli | Italian | No,287, East

901

554 957, 09 420 207 233

Mauk Road,Tamwe Tsp | 01 556

Bar Boon | Dutch Deli | No. 10K,

Shwe Gon Dine Road, Bahan Tsp | 01

Café Terrace 320 | Café/Thai | Corner

Adamas | Seafood | No.14 ,

Shwe Taung Kyar Road, Bahan Tsp

After Work Bistro and Bar | Café/

Barista Lavazza | Café/Coffee

Chatime (various branches) | Café

Sanchaung Tsp | 09 250 400 753

Tamwe Tsp | 018 604 415

Housing, Bargayar Road, Sanchaung

Kanbawza Road | 09-254 006 636

Bar | 31, A1, Shan Gone Street,

H Agnes | French/Fine Dining |

| 09 431 851 44

shop | 16 Kyaik Ka San Road,

Barwachi | Indian | 37, Ground

of Pyay Road and Ahlone Road | 09 430 919 59

| 29 B-002 Shwe Pyi Aye Yeik Mon Tsp | www.chatime.com.mm

Toba Restaurant Café |

Kandawgyi Palace Hotel, Kan Yeik

Floor 1, La Pyayt Wun Plaza, Alan

Cocoon Bar | Asian/bar | 22/24

Dagon Tsp | 09 254 095 451

Yangon | 01 382 919, 01 382 912

092535 00002

Baho Road | 01 500 863

Indonesian | 15 Nawaday Street, @ @ MYYangon MYYangon

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Tha Road, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp,

Pya Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp |

Shinsawpu Road and corner of

Dining Ice Berry | Western | 230 Bargayar Road,

opposite Dagon Centre | 01 516 506, 01 700 680 - Various branches.

H Ichiban-Kan | Japanese | G17-18,

Gyo Phyu Street, Aung San Stadium

(North Wing), Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | 01 394 824

Jaspar House | Western | No. 54,

Ahlone Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 517 2589, 012 302 011

Jing Hpaw Myay | Kachin | 2B Kyun Taw Street | 01 524 525, 09 420 247 034

JoJo|HotPot|Address: 23(A), Nawaday

Street, Dagon Township |09 976 503 040

Coffee Circles | Café | 107(A)

EK Enjoy Kitchen | Fast Food | 68-

Golden View Japanese Teppanaki

01 525 157

Street, Kandawkalay. 09 310 41 915

View Tower (A), G3, U Aung Myat

Kachin | Shwe Pyi Aye, just off Bagayar

(opposite of Karaweik Park en-

09 421 167 008

Dhammazedi Road, Kamayut Tsp |

Daren Bread | Bakery/Café |

No.57, Yawmingyi Street, Dagon Tsp | 09 253 522 048

Daruma | Japanese | Yangon

International Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp | 09 492 702 71

Dining Fukurou Japanese

B, Daw Thein Road & Bandar Gone

H Family Sushi | Japanese | A-27,

Rm# 104, U Chit Maung Housing, U

Chit Maung Street, Bahan Tsp | 09 731 194 56, 095 077 223

FC Box & Food Desserts | Fastfood |

Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road) | 01 216 001

Resturant | Japanese | No.81 (C),

Freshness Burger (Myanmar Culture

Bahan Tsp | 01 542 871

Park & People’s Square, U Wisara

New University Avenue Road,

H DiVINO | Italian | 61 University

Avenue Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 525 935, 01 505 247

Doremi Café | Asian/Western |No. 33, Nigyawda Street, Kyauk Myaung,

Valley) | Fastfood/burger | People’s

Restaurant | Japanese | 23 Golden Street, Mingalar Taungnyunt Tsp

trance) | 018 619 194, 095 080 466

H Golden Kitchen Tori | Asian

fusion | 135 Inya Road, opposite of Savoy Hotel | 01 511 418 N

Goya Restaurant | Western |

Hotel Esperado, Top Floor, 23 U

Aung Myat Street, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | 01 861 9486

H Kachin Agape Restaurant |

Street (Closed Sundays) | 01 518 239,

Karaweik Palace | Western/Asian

| Kandawgyi Compound, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | 09 459 222 222

Kobe-Ya | Japanese | 615/B Marlar Street. Pyay Road, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 535 072 Kokine Bar & Restaurant | Asian/

Western | 32, Kokkine Swimming Club Lane, off Saya San Road, Bahan Tsp |

Road, Dagon Tsp | 09 323 160 61

Green Elephant Restaurant |

Freshness Burger (Nawaday

Avenue, Bahan Tsp | 01 536 498

Kohaku | Japanese | Chatrium Hotel

18/D Nawaday Road, Dagon Tsp.

Gusto Café | Coffee Shop/Italian

01 544 500

H Fuji Coffee House | Japanese

Monument Bookstore |

Ko Piteria | Café | No.23, A-1, Hledan

Road) | Fastfood/burger | No.

Myanmar | No. 37, University

| 150 Dhamazedi Road, Next to

No 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp |

Road, Kamayut Tsp | 09 730 503 61

Tamwe Tsp | 01 546 850

| No.116, University Avenue Road,

Du Fu Restaurant | Chinese | Level 2 |

512561

Happy Café & Noodles |

H Le Bistrot | French | Savoy Hotel,

H Furusato | Japanese | 137

Road, Kamayut Tsp | 01 536 985

Tsp | 01 526 289, 01 526 298

Sedona Hotel | 01 666900

Dynasty Bistro at Marketplace | Chinese | 430/A, City Mart

Marketplace, Dhamazeddi Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 523 840

Easy Café | Café | 24D Nar Nat Taw St, Kamayut Tsp | 09 250 141 098.

Kamaryut Tsp | 01 535 371 ext.

Shwe Gon Daing Road, Bahan Tsp

129, Dhammazedi Road, Kamaryut

Haru | Japanese | 81 Kabar Aye

LE CELLIER | Wine Bar & Restaurant

H Golden City Chetty Restaurant |

149 721

Pyay Road, Kamayut Tsp

Indian | Padonmar Street, Sanchaung

Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | 09 421

Tsp | 01 518 248, 095 414 526

Horn | Japanese Beef Steak | 36(A),

H Golden Duck Restaurant

09 420 003 996

| Chinese | Kan Taw Mingalar

Kamaryut Tsp | 09 259 040 853

Pagoda Road | 01 240 216

Myanmar/Asian | 104(B), Inya

| 01 556 265

H Edo Zushi | Japanese |

No.290-B, U Wisara Road, 10 Ward

09 362 145 23

095 411 253, 09 421 060 505

Garden Compound, Shwedagon

Golden Valley Street, Bahan Tsp |

H House of Memories | Myanmar

| 290 U Wisara Road | 01534 242

Rooftop, Novotel Yangon Max 459

Legacy Thai Restaurant | Thai | Yawmingyi, Dagon Tsp

Le Planteur | Fine Dining/French | 80, University Avenue, Kamayut Tsp | 01 541 230

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Lotteria @ Junction Square |

Oriental House Restaurant | Chinese/

Kyun Taw Road and Pyay Road,

Kyaung Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 371 471

Fastfood | Junction Square, Between Kamayut Tsp | 012 305 798

Lotteria @ Ocean | Fastfood | Ocean

Super Centre, Tamwe Tsp | 01 525 947 N

Lucky | Singaporean | The Best

Music Pub, Near Utopia Tower,

Kandawgyi Nature Park, Bahan Tsp | 09 513 775 3, 09 250 648 820

H Sharky’s | Western/Ice Cream |

117 Dhamazedi Road | 01 524 677, 01

Orzo Italian Restaurant Pool level |

H Shwe Kaung Hot Pot | Hot Pot/

Restaurant | Western/Asian |

Road, Shwe Gon Dine, Bahan Tsp |

Bahan Street, Near U Htaung Bo

373 009

Sedona Hotel | 01 666 900, 01 666 911

Chinese | No. 18, Ko Min Ko Chin

Pandomar | Asian | 105/107, Kha-Yae-

01 559 339

Bin Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 538 895

Peri Peri | Fastfood | 52 E/F, Royal Yaw Min Gyi Condo, Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Township | 09 791

H Shwe Li BBQ | BBQ | 485 Corner

of Pyay Road & Narnattaw Road. Kamayut Tsp | 01 535 394

666923

Singapore Kitchen | Singaporean

Bahan Tsp | 09 976150646

Pepperoni Pizza | Italian | Union Business

Compound, Ahlone Road | 01 216

H Manpuku | Japanese BBQ | No. 30,

Cho Quarter Bahan Tsp | 09 302 583 99

Manana | Mexican | Pearl Condo

C, Ga- 05, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road,

Sagawar Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 214 284 Marry Brown | Fastfood | 220, Shwe Gon Daing Road, Bahan Tsp | 018 603 215

H Min Lann | Seafood/Rakhine | 45 Baho Road, near Asia Royal

hospital | 01 510 285, 09 431 251 52

H Mojo | Asian Fusion/Tapas | 135

Inya Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 511 418

The Fingers Food Garden | Myanmar

Dim Sum | No. 126(A), Myo Ma

Center (UBC) Annex B, Nat Mauk Road, Bo

Peppers | Western | University Avenue Road | 01 548 046

Port Autonomy | Gastro Pub | 22A,

Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | 09 253 710 651

Potato Break | Fastfood | Myanmar

Culture Valley, U Wisara Road, People's Park | 01 241 103

| Yangon International Hotel 001

| 55 Shan Kone Street | 01535350

H The Garden Bistro Signature

Corner of Kan Yeikthar Street,

Roundabout, Bahan Tsp | 01 546 488

H The Lab | Tapas | 70a

Shwegondaing Rd | 09 250 537 979 The Pizza Company (various chains)

| Italian | Dagon Centre 1 Shopping Mall, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 534 036, 09 730 697 24 | www.facebook.

com/thepizzacompanymyanmar

Singapore Restaurant | Chinese |

The Serenity Restaurant | Myanmar

Compound, Dagon Tsp | 09 730 167

| 01 524 890

330 Ahlone Road, International Hotel 88, 09 492 718 66

Sport Bar | Bar | Yangon International Hotel Compound (Ahlone Road) | 01 216 001

Swensen’s | Ice Cream | Myay Ni

Gone, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 504 932, 09 731 817 58 | www.swensens-

| No. 114/ B, Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp

H Tiger Hill | Chinese | Chatrium

Hotel, 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500 ext. 6294

Tony Roma's | Steak House | No. 42-1, Sayar San Road (in front of Cafe SS), Bahan Tsp | 01 860 3907.

Mom’s Kitchen | Asian/Singaporean |

Putao Resturant | Kachin | 30 Ground

One), Tamwe Tsp | 01 545 871

Gone, Sanchaung Tsp | 09 257 171 464

Swe Thai Restaurant | Thai | 34 New

Radio Café | Sandwiches/Western

Tsp | 01 704 067

H Water Library | Fine Dining/

TheTaj | Indian | B-9, Aung San Stadium,

Manawharri Road, Dagon Tsp | 01

Lay Daungkan Road (in front of Super

Mr. Sushi | Japanese | No. 330 Banyadala Street, Tamwe Tsp | 09 240 047 373

Floor Dammayone Street, Myay Ni

| 30 Ma hlwa gone Street, Tamwe Tsp |

H Muses | Asian/Western | No.

Royal Garden | Chinese | Natmauk

503 380

Forest Zone, Bahan Tsp | 01 546 923,

485(B) Pyay Road, Kamaryut Tsp | 01

H Nacha Thai | Thai | 86 Shin Saw

Pu Road, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 510 731 Nervin Café and Bistro | Café

Road, Kandawgyi Nature Park, Central

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University Ave Road, Kokkine, Bahan

North Stand, Upper Pansodan Road,

Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | 09 252 451 353.

01 546 202

Thai Kitchen | Thai | 126 (A-1),

Sai’s Tacos | Mexican | 32A Inya

Corner, Bahan Tsp | 09 730 377 99, 098

Myaing Road | 01 514 950

Dhamazedi Street & Inya Traffic 613 400

H Vietnam Kitchen | Vietnamese |

1A Phone Sein Road, Tamwe Tsp | 09 431 839 89

European | Corner of Pyay Road and 221 721, 01 214 361

Western Park Restaurant | Chinese | Newar Bahan 3rd Street Bus Stop, Maha Myaing Kyun, Kandawgyi

Nature Park, Bahan Tsp | 01 554 266, 01 553 931, 09 730 064 91

| Karaweik Oo Yin Kabar,

Salud Restaurant | Mexican/Latin

Thai Pot | Thai/Hotpot | 250 East Myin

White Rice Restaurant | Chinese |

Taung Nyunt Tsp | 01 541 188

Wingabar Road Bahan (Its next to

610 393, 095 007 997

01 556 837

Kandawgyi Nature Park, Mingalar

New Kham Wai | Fastfood |

Green Leaf Hotel, S27, U Chit

Maung Road, Bahan Tsp | 01 860 3851 Off the Beaten Track | Café/Bar |

Kandawgyi Natural Park, Karaweik OoYin Kabar, Mingla Taung Nyunt Tsp | 095 416 437

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American | 7(C) Ground Floor, Clover Hotel) | 09 731 136 01

Pyine Kwin Road, Tamwe Tsp | 098

H The Coriander Leaf | Indian

Wild Ginger | Bar | 12(A), Shin Saw

Compound, Alone Road | 01 293 006,

690 135

Samuri Sushi | Japanese | 4E/F

| 12 Yangon International Hotel

Tsp | 09 730 818 71, 095 123 240

09 431 850 08

Ground Floor, Wingabar Street, Bahan

Secret Recipe | Cafe |

Shwe Gon Daing Ocean

Supercenter, 2nd Floor | 018604618

Nat Mauk Road, Kandawgyi Lake |

The Emporia | Western/Asian |

Chatrium Hotel, 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500 ext. 6253

Pu Road, Sanchaung Tsp.| 09 260

Win Star | BBQ/bar | No (27/30), Corner of Sanchaung Street &

Padon-mar Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 505 467

Dining

H Min Lan | Rakhine/Seafood

| No. 16, Parami Road & West of

Maykha Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 656 941, 099 926 959

Orchid Café | Café | Inya Lake

Hotel, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | 019 662 866

H Parami Pizza | Italian | No

(11/8), Corner of Malikha Road and Parami Road, 7th Quarter,

Myangone Tsp | 09 250 292 074

H Phai Lin | Thai/Chinese | 69,

Pyay Road, 61/2 Mile | 01 525 403

H Xie Yang Yang (Xiao Long Bao)

Arirang Restaurant | Korean | Thiri

Tong (No. 4) and Baho Road | 01

351 72

| Dim Sum | On corner of Nyaung 502 582

Yamagoya Ramen Restaurant |

Japanese | 520 Uyin Street, Sayasan Quater, Bahan Tsp | 01 556 774

HYangon Bakehouse | Bakery/Café |

Pearl Condo, Block C, Ground Floor, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road | 09 450 055 924, 09 250 178 879, 01 557 448, ext. 818

Zeal | Western/Café | No. 99, Myay Nu

Mingalar Street, Hledan | 09 493

Aux Saisons | European/Fine

Dining | 31/A Kan Yeik Tha Road |

Her’s |Korean Food| 879, Pinlon Rd, Ward 34 | 01 663636, 0943155647

Indian Tadka | Indian | 7(A), Pyay Road, 6 ½ Miles, Hlaing Tsp | 09 420 187 010

01 661 125

Innlay Ahmataya | Shan | 8 Kyout

BB Cake & Coffee | Café | 48, Coner

and Kyout Kone street, Yankin Tsp

of Parami Road and Myint Zu

Street, Yankin Tsp | 09 421 180 670 Café 47 | Western | 47 A, Pyay

Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 651 774

Street | 09 731 272 80

Epic Bar & Restaurant | Western

Zephyr Coffee & Restaurant | Asian

Road | 09 518 6539, 095042916

Kone street, Corner of Thitisar Road

Kone Myin Thar | Myanmar | 69 (A)

Uptown

Of Kabaraye Pagoda Road & Oak

Mayangone Township | 01 664 204

| 84, Kanbae Road (Opposite Yankin

Frolick | Frozen Yoghurt | Kyun

301 989 68

Floor | 01 527 242

Agora Café & Restaurant | Mexican Childrens Hospital) Yankin Tsp | 09

H Acacia Tea Salon | Fine Dining/

Bakery | 52 Saya San Road | 01 554 739 N

Always Café | Café | Ground Floor,

Ga Mone Pwint Shopping Mall, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01 653 644, 01 653 660

Andaman II @ Yankin | Thai/Street Bar | Yankin Tsp

01 661 839, 01 663 743

Taw Street, Junction Square, 3rd

Fuji | Japanese | Hanthawaddy Road | 09 515 147 76

Gangam Restaurant | Korean | Kabaraye Pagoda Road,

Mayangone Tsp | 01 650 689 Gourmet Corner Restaurant |

Myanmar | Parami Road | 01 667 449, 092 006 777

018 605 178

Scoop premium Italian Ice Cream | Ice Cream | Junction Square hopping Centre, Kyun Taw Road | 09 732 183 21

095007202

Lin Chan Street, Hledan | 01 503 232

La Maison 20 | Fine Dining |

Pone Seik Road, Mayangone Tsp |

Hotel), Kaba Aye Pagoda Road |

KosanCafé-BarBranch1 | Bar | 18, U Tun

Fook Mun Lau | Chinese | 102,

Nawaday Cinema Garden, Corner

H Sabai@DMZ | Thai | Inside Mya

Kyun Tha Park (Opposite Sedona

Shake Bubble Tea | Cafe |

L’Alchimiste | French | 5 U Tun Nyein

number)

Road | 01 554 748

Pyay St, 71/2 Mile, Mayangone Tsp |

Corner of Parami Road and Hninsi

| Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp | (no phone

Ryukyu | Japanese | 76 Saya San

Street, Mayangone Tsp | 01 660 612

20, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road,

H L’Opera Restaurant | Italian

| 62D, U Htun Nyein Street,

No:1201 ,Pin Lon Rd |093023595,

Shwe Pyi Moe | Myanmar Tea

Shop | level 3, corner of Ngwe Ni 13 Street, North Okkalapa Tsp | 09 421 006 237 SP Bakery

No(56), Sayarsan Road | Yangon, | 01 542 524, 09 265 388 880

H Shwe Sa Bwe | French/Fine Dining

Mayangone Tsp | 09 730 307 55

| 20 Malikha Road | 01 661 983

H La Tartine | French Bakery |

Taing Yin Tar | Myanmar | 5A,

448 ext. 858

Parami Road, Mayangone Tsp | 01

Pearl Condo A, Bahan Tsp | 01 557

Little Tokyo | Japanese | 10D,

Kabaung Road, Hlaing Tsp | 09 731 851 68, 09 731 789 46

Lotteria @ Junction 8 | Fastfood

Corner of May Kha Road and 660 792, 09 732 217 17

The Myths | Western Cuisine | 18

Thukhawaddy St., 6th Ward, Yankin Tsp | 09 431 688 08, 095 037 764

| G21- G24, Junction 8 Shopping

The Seoul Korean Restaurant |

Myangone Tsp | 01 650 771

848 88, 09 421 177 524

Mall, Kyik Wine Pagoda Road,

Korean | 142 Parami Road | 09 492

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Bars &

Clubs

Nightlife Bars

Yangon has an expanding nightlife

Friendship Bar: No(135)corner of

Branch 2: No.108, 19th Stree

Off the Beaten Track: Kandawgyi

Cheap and cheerful

232 | Popular with tourists, expats

Mingla Taung Nyunt Tsp | 09 541

Dhamazedi Road & Inya Road |

scene. No longer limited to hotel

Gallery Bar: Shangri-La Hotel,

now an emerging variety of places

01-242 828 ext. 6433 | Excellent

bars and beer stations, there is to party and socialise.

50th Street: 9/13 50th Street |

Popular with the Sports crowd After-Work Bistro and Bar: 31, A1,

Shan Gone Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 09 250 400 753, 09 420 239 822 | A

Level 2, 223 Sule Pagoda Road | Happy Hour with cosy corners Gekko: 535 Merchant Street, Kyauktada Tsp, 4th Quarter |

Stylish and discreet with excellent yet unusual Japanese inspired cocktails

new Sanchaung bar

Ginki Kids: 18 Kambawza Road,

Blind Tiger: | United condominium,

Relaxed atmosphere with cold

Nawaday Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 388

488 | Open Monday - Saturday 5 pm till late open for lunch soon. Hidden speakeasy with cocktails and tapas. Captainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar: Savoy Hotel, 129,

Dhammazedi Rd Yangon | 01-526 289, 01-526 298, 01-526 305 | Casual yet classic

Cask 81: No 81, Kabar Aye Pagoda

Bahan Township, Yangon |

(Upper Block), Latha Tsp | 01 503 and locals for their cheap and tasty mojitos

Lobby Lounge: Chatrium Hotel,

Ground Level, 40 Natmauk Road,

Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500, ext. 6277 | A relaxed hotel lobby bar with garden views

Maru Wine Bar: 130, Shwe

Taung Tan Street (Upper Block),

Penguin: 12 Hlwa Gone Street,

Tamwe Tsp | Local hangout with good, cheap cocktails

Pool Bar: Yangon International

Hotel, 330 Ahlone Road, Dagon

Tsp | Lively bar with pool tablesopen late

Sapphire Lounge & Bar: Alfa

interesting wine bar

Tsp | Discreet outside rooftop bar

8 , 09 420 308 350 | Small and

Mojo: No.135, Corner of Innya

Ice Bar: Sedona Hotel, 1 Kabar Aye

418 | Popular spot with good

but getting there with dry ice and

6437 | A place to meet other travelers

Lanmadaw Tsp | 01- 122 156

beers

Pagoda Road | Not quite frozen

Natural Park, Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar,

Hotel, 41 Nawaday Street, Dagon with great views

and Dhammazedi Road | 01-511

Space Bar: No.126 , Kabar Aye

events

and indoor rooftop setting

Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | Outdoor

a lively in-house band

Music Box: Yangon International

Sports Bar: 20 Pearl Street, Mya

Kosan Bar-Branch 1: No.18, 1-A

Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 730 364 33

Gyar Ward (2), Bahan Tsp | 09 731

U Tun Lin Chan Street, Hledan, Kamayut Tsp | 01 503 232;

Hotel Complex, No.330, Ahlone | A karaoke bar with individual booths and dance-floor

Yeik Nyo Royal Hotel, Shwe Taung 321 61 | Popular outdoor bar/ restaurant

Rd, Bahan Tsp | 09 254 083 981 | For whisky fanatics

Cocoon Bar: 22/24 Shinsawpu

Road and corner of Baho Road | 01 500 863 | Great views

Club Rizzoli: Chatrium Hotel 42, Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01

544 500 ext. 6243/6244 | Private

party paradise with Cuban cigars,

karaoke and well-stocked sake bar Escape Gastro Bar: 31D Kan Yeik Thar Street, Mayangone Tsp | 01-660 737 | A Myanmar celebrity hang-out

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The Lab: 70A Shwegondaing

09-420 180 214 | Famous for

Club Rizzoli: Chatrium Hotel 42,

The Music Club: Park Royal Hotel,

winner of Yangonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bartenders

ext. 6243/6244 | Private party

Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388 |

Road, Bahan | 09- 250 018 200, 09-

their Moscow Mule cocktails and

restaurant with excellent cocktails

competition. Runs a good variety of

250 537 979 | A new and busy bar/

The Phayre: 292 Upper Pansodan

Road | 01 246 968 | A new, no-frills downtown bar

The Strand Bar: 92 Strand Rd | 01 243

377 ext. 92 | Historical spot with some excellent free happy hour snacks The Water Library: Pyay Road/

Manawharri Road intersection | A

swanky spot for high-end cocktails The Yangon Sailing Club: 132

events, including guest DJ nights Vista Bar: 168, Corner of

corner of the Myanmar Red Cross Building, Botahtaung Tsp |

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karaoke, live percussion band and in-house DJ

DJ Bar: U Htun Nyein Street, Yangon

bar with amazing views of Shwe

option

Tar Shay Street | Open-air rooftop Dagon Pagoda

Win Star Pub: 27/30, Corner of

Sanchaung Street & Padonmar

Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 505 467 | A Local and popular beer station with frosted beer glasses

Clubs

live music. Only open to non-

Union Bar & Grill: 42 Strand Rd, Left

paradise with Cuban cigars,

Shwegonedaing Road and Old Yay

Inya Rd | Beautiful lake-views with members on Fridays

Natmauk Rd, Tamwe | 01544 500

CafĂŠ Liberal: Nat Mauk Street,

| Loud music and a good up-town

GTR: 37 Kaba Aye Pagoda Road | Popular with a young and hip crowd

Enjoy the occasional live band and themed nights; as well as regular nights with the in-house DJ

Please check out "Plot Ahead" for Nightlife events happening around Yangon.

JJ: Mingalar Mon Market, 4th

Flr, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | Well-sized dance floor. Club

is spread out over four floors.

Entry fee (3000 kyats) includes a free drink

Next to Chatrium Hotel | 01 551

Pioneer: Yangon International

standing!

crowd with pop/club music

774, 09 642 093 0 | For the last one

Basement One, 33 Alan Pha Phaya

Hotel, No.330, Ahlone Road | Fun

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