Spicy Chinese food popular in Myanmar

STORY: Spicy Chinese food popular in Myanmar DATELINE: May 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:05:00 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a restaurant in Yangon's Chinatown 2. various of customers enjoying spicy dishes STORYLINE: Spicy and numbing Chinese dishes are the latest Chinese food craze hitting Myanmar, local restaurant owners said. "Mala" flavor, a famous Chinese sauce or seasoning, is made from Sichuan peppercorn, chili, herbs and spices. A kaleidoscope of "mala" dishes is a growing trend in the commercial city of Yangon and elsewhere in Myanmar, restaurant owners said. "I opened the mala restaurant about eight months ago as I see an increasing number of people consuming mala food," said Nay Yi Win. Nearly 100 customers, mostly non-Chinese people, come and eat mala food at her restaurant in Yangon daily, she said, adding that most of her customers are females. "All the mala restaurants here have consumers," Nan Nwe Oo, owner of Nan Ni mala skewer restaurant in Yangon's Chinat

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