Places to eat in Mandalay

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On the way up to Mandalay Hill we got dissapointed climbing up and never reaching the top.... so we reached half way and then due to limited time we decided to start descending. On the way we had these lovely fleshly fried snacks made of rice and served with honey. Delicious, cheap and just the right thing to slow down our hunger. We had the chance to discuss with the owner's relative who spoke decent english (we even helped her a bit with her english lessons) and her young sibling who was happily playing around. A lot of these people have made these staircase as a living place as well.

Our guide recommended this restaurant as serving authentic Burmese food and it is in the Lonely Planet guide.

When we got there there were certainly a lot of local people eating. As soon as we arrived the waiters brought various soups, vegetable dishes and condiments on top of what we ordered. It cetainly looked nice (see photo).

However, on arrival my husband smelt something not nice (durian maybe) and when my brother took a couple of mouthfuls he could not eat any more so it was a big disappointment.
We left most of it!

Our first evening in Mandalay , allready late when we were ready to go out for dinner.
We asked our driver to bring us to a nice restaurant with a view.
So we ended up in this restaurant which name says all there is to say : restaurant with scene over the ayeyarwady river.It was black dark so no view for us to enjoy.
The same can be said about the food : spring rolls , crisp duck and fried shrimp we shared .
Little or no taste,ancient traditional dances on the background very nice to see but didn't made the food taste better.

We asked and got fried curry and got a lovely plate with rice, vegetables and meat.
We sat in the garden of the restaurant, near the water and were the only clients (at 2.30 pm, that's normal).
The whole family came to watch if we liked what they had served and when I did the international 'thumb up' sign, they laughed and were satisfied.
This is what I call diminishing the culture gap and traveling in a responsable way

This guy is getting is skiddle ready for the breakfast crowd. He will be making chapati type breads and tea! A great place for a breakfast! Most times breakfast will cost about US$.20 cents. So it won't break your wallet to eat here. I know some of you are paranoid of street food but for the most part the food is quite safe. I've gotten worse cases of the squirts from my local McDonalds then I did in Myanmar!!

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A great place for a cooling drink and a meal. Great place to people watch as well

Favorite Dish: (last date visited - April 9, 2007)

a) rice - 400 kyat
b) sweet and sour chicken - 2,000 kyat

Very pretty restaurant. Local music played by family.
Price is as much as we want to pay.

Favorite Dish: Indaa-tribe cuisine , 5-6 dishes are servrd.