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]]>Mary’s opened in early June to the delight of British food lovers, with affordable English breakfasts, Myanmar classics and egg-based dishes on the menu.
Owner Honey Oo, who named the café after her grandmother, spent six years living and studying in England, where she gained an appreciation of British fare through a part-time job at a hotel in the historic town of Bath.
The 26-year-old has decorated the café’s small space with family heirlooms and curiosities, such as vintage cameras, sports trophies, her grandmother’s sawing machine, and an invitation to the wedding of King Thibaw Min (her partner is a descendant).
A couple of benches and a wicker egg basket chair shaded by mango and thanaka trees make for a pleasant outdoor sitting area, to the right of the entrance-cum-basketball court.
But what’s on the plate? Two Thai-imported pork sausages, two eggs and two bacon rashers (both locally-sourced), tomatoes, mashed potato and Heinz baked beans. Good.
Honey has plans to introduce black pudding and hash browns to the 6,000-kyat dish, as well as bamboo straws to her establishment. Naturally, Twinings tea is available (1,200 kyats) and hot coffees are only 900 kyats.
Other offerings including eggs benedict, cheese and ham omelets, and eggs on toast (from 1,500-4,000 kyats), and rice salad with chicken/fish/beef/mutton for 3,000 kyats.
Honey, who runs a delivery-only florist out back, recommends the fruit yoghurt, fruit salads, and ice cream and cake (all from 1,500-3000 kyats) too. From the all-day 4,900-kyats lunch sets is a delicious beef stew with mashed potato, or the half-English from the all-day breakfasts deals.
Mary’s is a breakfast and lunch restaurant with outdoor seating, offering friendly service and delicious breakfasts, brunch and lunch with Western and Asian dishes.
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]]>Opening up Hidden Burma: journeys with – and without – author Dr Bob Percival will launch at 6pm on Friday (January 19) at Sule Shangri-la hotel in the Peacock Lounge, the writer’s downtown oasis dubbed Room 101 in reference to George Orwell’s 1984.
Percival lived in downtown Yangon from 2012 to 2017, establishing Yangon Walking Tours offering tours of the streets of downtown and into the delta.
He began contributing to Myanmore’s weekly guide in April 2013 after meeting Myanmore owner Andreas Sigurdsson in the Peacock Lounge. Later that year his tales of the histories and people of Yangon became a popular feature in the magazine. Then, from April 2015 to mid-January 2016 he served as Myanmore’s managing editor.
His guide to local street life and quirky characteristics in Yangon, Walking the Streets of Yangon, was published in 2015, with the popular guide reprinted twice.
Editor of Opening up Hidden Burma, Keith Lyons, says the new book is a fitting tribute to the author and historian, who was awarded a PhD in 2016 in creative writing.
“More than two dozen writers, local Yangon residents as well as foreigners from 10 different countries who have lived and traveled in Myanmar, have contributed to this book, making it a unique compilation of travel stories, photographs, poems and reminiscences. In the book, readers can get to better know a wonderful person and the country he loved.”
The book is available at bookshops around Yangon, and copies have been donated to English-language libraries including the British Council library, with plans to have the book gifted to libraries throughout Myanmar.
Read Percival’s articles here: https://myanmore.wpengine.com/author/projectsdada/
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