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Myanmar Culture Valley, MCV, opened in July 2014, has a wide range of products of Myanmar cultural interest. It shares the save stretch of land with the People’s Park, and is easily accessible from the U Wisara road for those who wish to go to the Shwedagon pagoda to pay homage as well as for foreign tourists on their sight-seeing round to visit that golden pagoda.

MCV, planned and land out to serve as a one-stop shopping center is an ideal place for those who wish to have a good time together with their families and friends eatup tasty foods, buying things they want and also for those tourists looking for souvenirs of Myanmar. The Valley is open daily from 9. am to 9 p.m.

Among things you can buy, there are ornamental handicraft made of jade, gem stone and pearl as well as a variety of consumer goods. The Valley has a total of 150 shops run by 120 employees working in marketing, advertsing, sale promotion, security and sanitation. Enquires can be made at the information counter upstairs of the centre.

The sight that will meet your eyes the moment you step inside is that smiling face, a logo of Happy Cafe and Noodles. Where a variety of noodles from various parts of Myan-mar are available. For a taster of Myanmar food you can have a typical Myanmar salad – a mixture of cooked rice and ponyaygyi a sour-sweet sauce of fermeuted soya bean.

The Valley has YKKO, one of the porpular foodshops with its special attenuation to food hygiene specializes in hotpot or Kei-Oo, as Myanmar call it. Potato Break, the first outlet in Myanmar offers young people’s favourites. You can see people eating and drinking together in goups of families and friends looking as if they were bekoning you to join in. A few steps along the entrance path will bring your eyes in contact with Good, where jade ornaments are on display for sale, refluting Myanmar’s wealth in precious natural resources. There are similar shops such as Diamond, Ruby and Nine Gems where pieces of jewellery of various designs can be bought.

Myanmar people love wearing clothes of silk and cotton on formal or religious occasions, with distintive patterns of Zig-Zig or wavy lines. For trousers or pants, Myanmar men wear longyi and for skirts, Myanmar women wear Htamein. All these pieces of Myanmar – style clothing you can buy at Sein Tak Hatt Silk & Cotton, OK Mya Longyi, Venus collections etc. There are a variety of Thai silk clothes with their characteristics designs. Cotton clothes are available at Cotton Lady, Forever etc. Lovely Fashion and similar shops in the basement sell clothes, footwear and head wear that are appealing to Myanmar young people. 361 is yet another shop that sells them. these shops gives you a enhance to appreciate the free-style fashion trend in Myanmar.

As for bags required or made with silk or silvery threads, they are available in various designs, local-make as well as foreign-make. You can visit Fido Dido. Japan Brand Furla sells bags of premium quality. You can also buy Myanmar-style bags made with genuine cotton a workmanship that shows Myanmar’s artistic wigenuity.

Zawtika is a shop that sells robes exclusively for Buddhist monks to wear a sight that can afford you a feeling of serene delight associated with Buddhism.

Since the past many years Myanmar people have been fond of wearing velvet-coated flip-flops. These things Myanmar Nyunt sell in various sizes and shapes. Articles of foot wear made with or rather coated with velvet have been traditionally used by Myanmar people, young and old with no less fervour than they do with modern shoes and brots. Myanmar velvet flip flops are ideally suitable for winter. The shop that sells these footwear items, a wide range of them in size and shape is Mingalar Nyunt foot wear shop.

For those with a passion for paintings and sculpture, there are lots of them artistic depirtion of Myanmar scence beauty prominent places and persons including those of Myanmar indigenous people. Some works of culture are as long as over 5 feet. From a look at these works of arts you can make a guess of their time artistic quality. All these you can enjoy seeing there at MCV.

Thanakha is a well-known beauty-enhencing Myanmar women love wearing on their faces even in these modern times of ubiquitous prieey cosmetics. Few Myanmar’s women beautifying themselves would part with it. Bio thanakha, a unique creation by Myanmar is a beauty product, a blew of thanakha with medicinal harbal substances obtained through a repeated process. Many other beauty products including Kanebo (Japan) and Missha (Korea) are also on sale. Skincare and slimming services are also available at Yes Salon Group and Clara International.
Books including rare ones are avaible in English and Myanmar languages on a wide range of subjects – tour guide, management, politics, etc. Fiction books are available too. Almost every shop has a library where you can have a good time reading.

It you are a tea lover like many Myanmar people you can have it – plain tea. Mother love Green Tea sells just that. There are sets of tea pots, hot water pots trays of natural clay or ceraminc and all the paraphenalia.
For the convenience of tourists there is money changer facility where you can change American, Euro and Singaporean currencies.

Financial services are available at KBZ, CHD and UAB banks provide financial serives with their ATMs. It you become hungry while looking round the shops you can have typical Myanmar fries at Cherry Land where Myanmar-style fried snacks are available while also sells Sagaing cooked rice salad, Shwedaung noodles and shan foods.

Delicious in a Thai foodshop as is Pan Swe Daw. Those who have a special liking for European cuisine can have breakfast at Royal Cafe. To get a taste of Sushi made in Myanmar tourist can just step into Yangon Sushi. Ohio Sushi shops are there too. You can have Japanese noodles called Yokohama Ramen of Kumakura Tei:

(Translated by Nyunt Thaung)