Blog: Myanmar Queueing Problem

Advise for visitors of Myanmar:
If you are surrounded by the average citizen and you don't see people queueing aka lining up. Don't.
If you see people queueing and you do, be prepared to stand your ground cause its very likely you'll get cut.

It saddens me to say this but the average common citizens of my beloved country do not know how to queue.

I first experienced this in Citymart when I had been patiently queueing to pay for my groceries. An older woman cut in with a basket full of item and positioned herself to be served. I politely told her we've been waiting a while and that it's proper to queue. That woman barked back and me and said I'm a rude girl. Unbelievable.
P.S: I didn't back down from that fight but that's another story.

I'm not sayin that my fellow citizens are rude, uneducated, Neanderthals.
This can happen anywhere in the world.
Myanmar people are the loveliest people.
Most just don't know how to queue.

Any experiences? Share your stories of queue problems - whether it be in Myanmar or around the world!

One Year Later

I cannot believe it has been one year ago when I left the big apple and came to Yangon.
My plan was to stay only one year, see how things are with family and the "new" Yangon and return.
And then plans changed when in 2014 I got myself a job. Now I don't know what the future holds for me.
But my past year has been amazing (no chronological order):


The birth of my kittens

Experiencing amazing food with amazing friends

Visiting Singapore since my last time in 1997 with my boyfriend

Getting my first ever full time job and getting to go to The Oxford Report event

Last but not least, my best friend's wedding. The biggest event of my past year in Myanmar.

And of course one can't forget meeting new people along the way.

And old friends visiting me all the way from Japan.


Thank you for reading folks. Sorry I haven't been able to take you along the last year's journey but this year on I will do my best!

Till next time!

Review: Xi Yang Yang

I found out via friends that there was a Xiao Long Bao place in Yangon and... not going to lie. I went MAD.

I bugged every soul to take me there (as yours truly has the worse road sense) and finally I was taken there Sunday by my childhood friend.



Note: Parking there is a nightmare (in that township area in general) so I highly recommend you go there via cab.

It's a two story narrow building. I can't attest for sure how many fits but I can safely say: not much.
I hope they have plans to expand.
Their utensils are cute.
This means that it was cleaned via a service.

And so we ordered... and we ordered a lot....
The main reason I'm here...

Sesame buns

The variety of soy milk. P.S: dark soybean was best

Fried dumpling + Beef rolls

Fried rice + Pork ribs
(we just wanted the rice to be honest...)

Shrimp wanton

Gotta have them vegies: Kalen

And we ordered this cause the other table ordered and it looked good: taro


Review: I was not disappointed. It actually surpassed my expectation and my expectation was top of all Xiao Long Baos: din tai fung. The soup dumpling had more soup and just as much meat. It didn't have that "msg" flavor. Not that there's any at din tai fung (or so they claim). Just natural flavor. Would I return? Most definitely! It's even my favorite. I truly hope they expand cause after this... I might no longer get a spot to sit anymore.

Till next time.