Saturday, December 15, 2012

At Burmese Dissident's Cafe, A Taste Of Politics And Salad | Reduction

At Burmese Dissident's Cafe, A Taste Of Politics And Salad

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Ding's cooking by oksidor
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Hide caption To prepare Aiya's Burmese and Thai dishes, the kitchen staff use a variety of spices and ingredients, including fish sauce, garlic, chili, bean powder, shallots, mushroom sauce, oyster sauce and soy bean sauce. Hide caption The menu features Indian curries and Thai noodles, but the restaurant's marquee items are fresh Burmese salads. In the foreground is a ginger salad. Hide caption Myat Thu's wife created the Thai dishes on the menu. Thu says that chicken panang curry is his wife's best dish. Chili peppers and Thai basil serve as flavorful garnishes. Early in life, Myat Thu knew that his destiny as a cook lay in salads. Not the light, leafy green salads that are so common in American restaurants, but heavy, hearty Burmese salads. Myat Thu grew up in Burma, also known as Myanmar. He was just 14 when his mother placed him in charge of making dinner.

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Myat Thu

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Relevance: 0.91148

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0.0737918"I hope this is not a game that the regime has been playing," he says. ...
0.195122"I hope one day," he says. ...
0.0986513"I hope one day," he says. "I will run a restaurant in Rangoon."
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  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.3675651
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Aiya

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0.0965457"The portion [of each ingredient] that you use is important," He says. ...
0"The portion [of each ingredient] that you use is important," He says. "That's what makes the difference between people who make good salads and bad salads."
-0.131808he worries that it could be dangerous for long-time critics of the government, such as himself, to return, "because there are still a lot of political prisoners in different prisons inside Burma."
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  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0352623
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