Introduction The Food of Burma Eating & Serving Customs Staple Ingredients & Suitable Alternatives Why MSG is A-OKAY Equipment in the Burmese Kitchen Cover Versions Fritters Salads Soups Rice Noodles Meat Chicken & Eggs Fish & Seafood Vegetables Pickles & Chutneys Condiments, Relishes & Dips Sweet Snacks Secret Weapons Menu Suggestions Guide to Pronunciation Glossary Index Acknowledgements About the Author
Demystifying the cuisine of Burma, MiMi Aye presents 100 authentic but simple mouth-watering recipes
MiMi Aye is the British Burmese writer of www.meemalee.com, founder of supper club and community Burmese Food and Beyond, and author of NOODLE! 100 Great Recipes (Absolute Press). MiMi has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s award-winning Woman’s Hour and Food Programme, as well as the BBC TWO show A Question of Taste, and her recipes have also appeared in METRO, The Evening Standard, Woman & Home and Red magazines. She is featured as a chef on the Good Food Channel online, and her recipes have been featured on Channel 4 Food online to accompany Gordon Ramsay’s TV show Gordon’s Great Escapes. @meemalee / @burmesebeyond
There is so much to love in MiMi Aye’s wonderful Mandalay: Recipes
& Tales from a Burmese Kitchen but, even before I got on to the
recipes, I felt that a book that told me that in Burma people greet
each other by asking whether they’ve eaten yet, belonged in my
life... I am so grateful to Mimi Aye for a really loving and
hungry-making introduction to a fascinating cuisine.
*Nigella Lawson*
Knowing next to nothing about Burmese food, it's a glorious
revelation. Autobiography, history and recipes all rolled into one
magnificent whole. A brilliant, beguiling book.
*Tom Parker Bowles*
Real insight into a cuisine I don't know nearly enough about... and
a delicious love letter to Burma.
*Marina O'Loughlin*
A gorgeous book full of narrative and recipes, with an unignorable
cover in the brightest of yellows and the deepest of crimsons. It
schooled me lightly in a culinary Burma, a country whose food is
influenced by its proximity to China, India and Thailand, but which
is much more than simply an amalgam of that. For example, the
repertoire includes a profoundly developed interest in fritters.
Apparently, the Burmese love deep-fried stuff. This is something we
can all get behind.
*The Guardian*
Aye is a gifted recipe writer and opinionated champion of the food
of her family... This is a book to read as well as cook from,
packed with evocative imagery.
*Observer Food Monthly*
It’s rare to come across a book that opens up an entirely new
cuisine to us and Mandalay does exactly that. Burmese recipes that
combine the deliverable with the authentic, written with calm
authority leavened with personal touches from an engaging
personality. Buy and learn.
*Financial Times online*
A readable, personal collection of stories and recipes from a
country [MiMi] refers to as 'home'... Enlivened with family snaps
and beautiful food photography, it's a brilliant introduction to
Myanmar's food culture.
*Delicious Magazine*
MANDALAY is an utterly charming, enlightening collection of food
and stories, written with authority and a clear sense of the author
rarely seen in the ‘cookbooks by region’ shelves of a bookshop.
*The Caterer*
Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmese Kitchen by MiMi Aye
offers surprises and inspiration with its accessible recipes. It
isn’t intimidating but just pushes culinary boundaries down a tasty
road to Mandalay.
*Mostly Food and Travel Journal*
Held close to one’s chest and handed down along bloodlines,
woman-to-woman, recipes carry great weight in Burma... Aye’s
account of Burmese food is invitingly personal, interspersed with
family photos and stories of travels. It’s also highly educational,
with sections devoted to eating and serving customs, staple
ingredients and alternatives, and “Why MSG is A-OK.”
*nationalpost.com*
In her beautiful book Mandalay, MiMi brings fresh flavours right
into British homes.
*Great British Food Magazine*
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