Wanna try something new? How about Myanmar Food?
I had not even heard of Myanmar before. One of my classmates though is
from Myanmar and explained to me it used to be called Burma (*)
We used to go to this place called Yatana
near school about once a month after school so I've had just about everything on
their lunch menu and I can recommend all of it.
If you want to play it safe, order their most popular dish which is
distinctly marked on their menu. It's a chicken leg that's been cooked in
spices and sauce until the meat just falls off the bone. Yum! They
also have a noodles in a coconut based sauce and another noodle dish, for lack
of a better description, an egg pudding sauce. In other words it's yellow
like an egg but with the consistency of American pudding, not sweet, put over
noodles. I like it!
It's only 2 minutes from Shinokubo station which is the next stop north of
Shinjuku on the Yamanote line. Very easy to find.
I don't remember where but somewhere on the net I read
some rant about how no one should ever call Myanmar by that name because it was
the name given by a military dictator over the wishes of the people.
That's true but all my Myanmar friends introduced themselves as from Myanmar not
from Burma so I'll stick with Myanmar.