My family and I went to Half Moon Bay this afternoon, for a food festival put on by a Burmese monastery there. I've rarely seen so many Burmese people (outside of Burma, that is) in one place, and I have no idea where they came from! And unlike most of the events my parents take me to, there were a lot of Burmese Burmese people, not overseas Chinese-Burmese (hua ren in Mandarin) like my family.
Soo much good food to sample. In the pictures below:
- Mandalay meeshay, similar to Yunnanese mishen (rice noodles) with pickled mustard greens (suan cai) and pork
- Spring roll salad (doke)
- Noodle doke with potatoes and tofu
- Throngs of people
- A man dishing out mohinga from the hugest pot I have ever seen in my life
- My own bowl of mohinga garnished with cilantro and chili
- The whole pot of chili sauce
- Hosing down the giant pots and woks afterward
- Some sign written in Burmese script
