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Mandalay is believed to be great for Myanmar foods and local fare also. Local tourist, let alone foreign travellers, often dines out to sample such fare. Moreover the restaurant has separate rooms for groups bent on a working lunch.

Why Yoon Khin Khin name and the launch.

Upon choosing a name for a Myanmar restaurant, we felt it should recall things Myanmar Names suggested by astrologers were rejected. Then we chanced upon the name Yoon Khin Khin, a translated work from original The Lacquer Lady, by the great writer Mya Than Tint. We have been captivated by the name since. The shop launched on 8 September 2016 and has about 80 staff at present.

Location & Menus

No.5,65^th Street (bet.31^st Street & 32^nd Street), Chan Aye Thar San Township, Mandalay. (Phone: +959964677678, 453777678)

The Myanmar meal is paramount, but Chinese-style meal in also available. Meat & fish curries for Myanmar meal don’t have a wide variety. Side dishes are usually seasonal based. Your dining out will be like having good food for a meal at home.

What fare for breakfast?

Mohinga (rice noodles with gravy), noodles with starchy gravy, noodles with coconut milk gravy and Dim Sum, among others. Others like Shan rice noodles are under consideration.

Breakfast sell from 6:30AM; sometimes Dim Sum has to sold till 2:30 or 3:00 pm. The can be had to accompany the Myanmar meal. Hard liquor is not sold, but customer many bring along his own bottle. Beers are available, and generally sold.

Popular dishes

Dishes of hilsa, goat’s meat, and hinlay pork (cooked with some dried fruits) are very popular. Hinlay pork, which can last days, was favoured at the royal court. It is cooked with dried fruit of Eastern gooseberry, chebulic myrobalan, mango, or Bouea burmanica. Taken away in a pack, the curry does no go bad in 4-5 days.

A well-known lesser dish here is the fish paste sauce, for which the fish paste has been packed tight and left aside for many months to good effect.

Customers often enquire about singular dishes like the intestines-of-banded snakehead curry and they should be available by and by.

Our special feature

We sue no MSG at all, and use sunflower oil or groundnut oil only in cooking. The edible oil is used less than normal.

Prices

For Ks 4000 you get a curry of chicken, pork, or fish, to be accompanied by six side dishes. You may have the rice as much as you want. An additional major dish carries its own price. It is Ks 5000 per head if the major dish is goal’ meat, shrimps, or hilsa.

Target Customer

Target customer is most of the middle class people. To the Myanmar two three occasions in the month to enjoy Chinese or Continental food should be satisfying enough. But the Myanmar palate always welcome the Myanmar meal.

How much is the shops service capacity overall?

There are 31 tables for 10 people each. Each of the two special, separate rooms accommodates 3 table with 10 people each. Events like birthday parties can be serviced.

Catering Service

Catering can be serviced whatever the number of guests. Some customers have made enquiries about the meal-in-food carrier. Currently they come for a meal with their favorite dish every day. The meal-in-food carrier services also will come later

Branches in other cities…

Our initial restaurant was just opened in Mandalay. We would like to branch out, if things permit.