The first thing you notice about Yoma is the sign in the window reading “Thai Food.” That’s there to attract people who know a lot about pad Thai and mee krob but probably nothing about Yoma’s real ...

Indian, Thai, and Chinese cuisine are all widespread and well known, but a cuisine that incorporates qualities from all three, Burmese food, isn’t nearly as popular in Oregon. Corvallis’s restaurant ...

On a blustery January afternoon at Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst, as shoppers hustled through the food court past McDonald’s, Panda Express, and Sbarro, Myo Lin Thway repeatedly flung a palm-sized ...

Simone Jacobson, one of the co-owners of Thamee, a new Burmese restaurant on the H Street corridor, just had to have the kitchen at the popular Sally’s Middle Name restaurant. Two years ago, Thamee’s ...

Any conversation about the new Nanu Burmese Fusion restaurant in Warwick must start with talk about their delicious and authentic food. Some dishes are familiar, pork dumplings for example, elevated ...

Over the past two decades, as restaurants featuring Thai, Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese and Japanese cuisine have become so common that many people don't think of them as foreign or exotic, Burmese ...

Emma Orlow is a former editor and reporter for the Northeast region at Eater, who focused primarily on New York City, where she was born and raised. She covered restaurants, bars, pop-ups, and the ...

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