Rakhaing Thingyan Burmese New Year Water Festival

Shwe yin aye (literally, something like "makes you cool"; $4) is probably just as effective on a Yangon street as it was on a blacktop schoolyard.

Sticky rice, gels of coconut and assorted colorful agars, and scissor-snipped white bread are drenched in several ladles of coconut milk and tapioca (or sago) pearls; durian optional.

Unfortunately I could spend only a half-hour at this 13th annual edition of the festival, so I saw little of the exhibitions and entertainment, and I just barely sampled the food (naturally I steered toward dessert). Must make a note for next year.

Rakhaing Thingyan Burmese New Year Water Festival
J.H.S. 56 schoolyard, corner of Madison St. and Montgomery St.