Chapter 08
Myanmar
Oil, ferment and split peas.
- 7recipes in the chapter
- 1paste or dip
About the Myanmar chapter
One base opens this chapter: balachaung, a fried shrimp and garlic relish that is eaten as a condiment in its own right.
The dishes lean on fermented leaves, pulses and fried aromatics rather than on fresh chilli heat, which sets the chapter apart from its neighbours.
From this chapter
4 of the 7
A selection, not the whole chapter. All 100 are in the recipe index.
What it is built on
The base
The one this chapter is built on, in full.
The Complete Edition
The Myanmar chapter in full
All 7recipes, the headnotes, the pastes and dips, and the chapter’s place in the wider book — alongside the other ten chapters and the twenty-seven pantry studies that open the collection.
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