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Easy do-it-yourself recipes for some Myanmar snacks_traditional delicacies people in Myanmar enjoy eating or drinking during their New Year and Thingyan Water-throwing days. You can make Mont Lone Yae Baw on your own or with friends and neighbours helping you in cheerful community spirits characteristic of Thingyan and the Myanmar New Year. These snacks are given away free to whoever comes on those days of water-throwing revelries and the New Year day that follows. You too, can enjoy them there and then. We wish you all happy Myanmar New Year.

Ingredients:

Glutinous rice           –  8 tins

Ordinary rice             –   2 tins

Brown Jaggery          –   30 ticals

Coconut                      –   1.5 nuts

Salt                              –   Just a little

Note: 1 tical               =   1% of a viss

How to do it

Put the sticky rice and the ordinary rice in water, each for about 8 hours. Grind them to a smooth paste. Let the paste filter out water and get it well-mixed with just a little salt. First, make a relatively large-size ball of it, out of which you can make smaller standard -size balls.

Make the jaggery into little pieces, as shown in the picture.

Grate the coconut.

Put a piece of jaggery in the centre of the ball.

Put these balls into the boiling water. When they come up to the surface, take them out and put them in cold water for a while. Then put them on a plate, and sprinkle grated coconut over them.