Note to readers: This is the first installment in a series called Kitchen Encounters, conversations with local chefs and other restaurant industry workers who add diversity and depth to the ...

Famous for its jaw-dropping cities of ancient pagodas and lush jungle sceneries, Burma has been attracting growing crowds of tourists since it began opening up in 2011. Less well-known? Its food.

You should never refuse Burmese pickled tea leaf salad. Doing so would make you a tactless ignoramus in what is now Myanmar. “Anywhere you go, any meeting, anybody’s house, it’s a sign of hospitality ...

The first day Mandalay Kitchen opened was also the first day the new restaurant’s founder and owner, Chris Tunbaw, had worked in food service. But earlier this year, when he told his family and ...

Frederick is home to the third largest Burmese population in Maryland, but the country’s culture — and culinary traditions — are easy to overlook. There’s no designated Burmese restaurant in Frederick ...

Those pesky hipsters have struck again. This time, it's a traditional dish from Myanmar called Burmese tea leaf salad. SEE ALSO: Stumped for a suitably hipster bar idea? Try this handy generator. A ...

Tucked in the center of the Davis Commons sits a restaurant that prides itself on its novelty, outstanding service and the quality of its authentic food. My Burma — located at 500 First St #11 in ...

Burgers, pizzas, we at Bill’s Bites have had many versions of each and enjoyed most of them. But to try something new, foods foreign to us, tastes we wouldn’t find most anywhere else, that’s when we ...

Rachel Leah Blumenthal is food editor for Boston Magazine. Her writing has taken her to restaurants all around Boston -- while her personal travels have taken her around the world, to destinations ...