(This venue is closed.) The dough for palata is "stretched to translucence by a series of acrobatic, table-slapping wrist flips, then stretched just a bit further until it seemingly must tear under its own weight." For Myo Lin Thway — shown, in the first photo, beside his wife, Rebecca, at the 2007 Myanmar Baptist Church Fun Fair — "showmanship is simply a natural byproduct of the palata-making process" that he's mastered over more than two decades. He's hardly a showoff himself.
Read more about Burmese Bites, which rose to fame at the Queens Night Market, then won new fans with a weekday food cart, on Culinary Backstreets.