Rakhaing Thingyan Burmese New Year Water Festival

Shwe yin aye — literally, something that cools and refreshes — 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 were drenched in several ladles of coconut milk and tapioca (or perhaps sago) pearls; durian optional.

Most dishes were $5; proceeds were for the benefit of cyclone victims in Burma. Also shown below: mont hin gar, or fish noodle soup; pazun gwet gyaw, shrimp fritters with watercress that were snipped in pieces, then topped with cucumber and fish sauce; pork intestines, ears, blood, and liver in hot sauce; baya gyaw thoat, or yellow bean fritter salad; mont kyar si, a hand-rolled rice flour dessert topped with shredded coconut; and a more elemental approach to cooling down on a summer day.

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

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[tiptup]

aw shucks! didn't hear about this!