Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In the 12 months since our last video on Bangkok's best-kept secret, the Burmese food served by migrants and refugees throughout the city, that cuisine has suddenly exploded into the mainstream. From upscale teahouses to rooftop restaurants to a thriving bar street, tea leaf salad and bowls of Shan Noodles are quickly becoming a part of local culinary culture. So in this video, we explore what's changed, how it's happened, and how ethnic cuisine hits the "big time"- from pizza to dim sum to, it seems, Myanmar's specialties.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:17 - The Explosion of Another Cuisine
3:41 - The Previous Two Videos
4:50 - Rangoon Tea House
6:53 - Creating an Image
11:14 - Changes
13:22 - Myanmar
16:36 - Thanaka
19:43 - Mandalay Cuisine
20:57 - Different
23:46 - Luka
27:06 - How a Cuisine Catches On
30:26 - Bar Crawl
32:02 - The Migrant Experience
35:40 - Fourth Beer Philosophy
38:12 - The People
41:30 - Credits and Post-Credits
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In the 12 months since our last video on Bangkok's best-kept secret, the Burmese food served by migrants and refugees throughout the city, that cuisine has suddenly exploded into the mainstream. From upscale teahouses to rooftop restaurants to a thriving bar street, tea leaf salad and bowls of Shan Noodles are quickly becoming a part of local culinary culture. So in this video, we explore what's changed, how it's happened, and how ethnic cuisine hits the "big time"- from pizza to dim sum to, it seems, Myanmar's specialties.
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Please "Like" if you enjoy the video, subscribe to the channel, and turn on notifications!
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Please consider supporting OTR on Patreon and thanks so much to anyone who does; your support truly keeps us going. patreon.com/OTRontheroad
Website: OTRontheroad.com
Instagram: instagram.com/otr.offtherails/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
FB: facebook.com/OTR-106170292218693
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0:00 - Introduction
1:17 - The Explosion of Another Cuisine
3:41 - The Previous Two Videos
4:50 - Rangoon Tea House
6:53 - Creating an Image
11:14 - Changes
13:22 - Myanmar
16:36 - Thanaka
19:43 - Mandalay Cuisine
20:57 - Different
23:46 - Luka
27:06 - How a Cuisine Catches On
30:26 - Bar Crawl
32:02 - The Migrant Experience
35:40 - Fourth Beer Philosophy
38:12 - The People
41:30 - Credits and Post-Credits
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