The Myanmar table from the cookbook chapter opener, laid with the dishes of the chapter.

Chapter 08

Myanmar

Oil, ferment and split peas.

  • 7recipes in the chapter
  • 1paste or dip

About the Myanmar chapter

One base opens this chapter: balachaung, a fried shrimp and garlic relish that is eaten as a condiment in its own right.

The dishes lean on fermented leaves, pulses and fried aromatics rather than on fresh chilli heat, which sets the chapter apart from its neighbours.

From this chapter

4 of the 7

A selection, not the whole chapter. All 100 are in the recipe index.

All eleven chapters

What it is built on

The base

The one this chapter is built on, in full.

All 51 foundations

The Complete Edition

The Myanmar chapter in full

All 7recipes, the headnotes, the pastes and dips, and the chapter’s place in the wider book — alongside the other ten chapters and the twenty-seven pantry studies that open the collection.

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