Lahpet Thoke - Eating BURMESE TEA LEAF Salad on the Streets of Yangon, Myanmar!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ย. 2014
- One of the most beloved dishes in Myanmar is lahpet thoke, or pickled tea leaf salad. Read my full post here: migrationology.com/2014/09/lah...
The northern part of Myanmar is an area where tea originated - so it’s no wonder that tea plays a major part in the social culture of the country. But most of the time when you think about tea, you think of it only as a beverage, something to drink - and throughout most of the world, this is true. But in Myanmar, one of the most famous things to eat is actually tea, known as lahpet.
Laphet thoke is a very common dish throughout Myanmar, and the base and most important ingredient are pickled tea leaves. The leaves are mixed with tomatoes, and a few different other ingredients like toasted peas and nuts, and then mixed with a dressing made from peanut oil and a few seasoning light spices. The salad is extremely delicious, and the pickled tea leaves have a unique, slightly bitter, and slightly sour component to them, with a nice chewy texture. Laphet thoke makes a wonderful snack when you’re drinking tea too - so drinking tea and eating tea at the same time is delicious!
In Yangon you’ll be able to find laphet thoke, and it’s popular to eat at small street-side stands, but that being said, not all tea stalls serve it. You have to look for a stall that has a number of plastic tubs at the front, filled with all the ingredients used to prepare the tea leaf salad. If you see the plastic tubs, you’ll known they served lahpet thoke. Sit down on one of the miniature Myanmar plastic stools, order it, and you can sit and sip on tea while you wait for your salad to be mixed up.
When we made this video, I was in Yangon during the monsoon rainy season. It wasn’t raining when we sat down to eat, while I was eating, the rain all of a sudden started pouring down, and soon we had a small river flowing right through the street food stall - so we actually had to get up and stand so we wouldn’t float away! That’s part of the fun and excitement of eating street food in Myanmar. Along with the tea leaf salad, lahpet thoke, we also ordered a plate of gyin thoke, pickled ginger salad - another delicious salad especially if you love ginger.
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My mum is from Myanmar . She always makes Burmese foods for me and laphet is by far my favourite snack .
Lol same
Same!
Pickel Tea Leaf Salad and Dry Shrimp are my Lunch when I was student 😂
Lahpet thoke, or pickled tea leaf salad, is one of the most popular and famous dishes in #Myanmar . For this video, we enjoyed a delicious plate, and then got flooded out of our table!
#Travel #food #Yangon
Mark Wiens love the table and chairs. The best places I ate at in China were actually with the same type of kids table sets out on street.
+Mark Wiens Bro 1000 kyat for 2 salad is kind of expensive.. I don't remember each one of it costing 500 kyat when I was a kid, but things can change very fast in Myanmar so I am not 100% too sure.
Mark Wiens u should visit again this year
Mark Wiens thzs
Mark What you ate there doesn't look good, I'm Lahpet thoke King. I swear her Lahpet thoke isn't good
Looks wonderful Mark, yet another destination I will have to add to my backpacking list. Keep up the wonderful videos. :)
I love Lahphat Thoke. I can't survive without it! I love all of my country's food. Thanks for the viedo, Mark.
You're welcome Saungkyelphyu, thank you for watching. I love it too!
You are my favourite youtuber/blogger. Thanks for introducing so many food to us
That looked like a great experience and food! Even the rain looked fun. :)
Thanks Tess Cooks 4u
Oh man!!! you are so lucky. You got the first experience of tea leaf salad along with the perfect weather. It hits different when you enjoy the tea leaf salad during raining.
It's a beautiful day! Tea, salads and rain...sometimes they come together.
i love this comment, hulk =]
***** Hee hee...thank you.
Hey Amristar I agree, it's a nice combination.
I'm going to Myanmar in a month. These videos are so helpful.
Thank you very much for your video Mark. I enjoy it very much
That's a good one, I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip!
hey mark, so i just wanted to say that i love traveling and i've never really done too many video journals of my travels but watching yours are just refreshing. your passion for traveling and just simply eating the foods and not being too picky with the foods just definitely shows in these videos. So, on to my question, Have you ever been deterred from visiting a country due to suspected civil unrest? I mean, as far as myanmar, it's been depicted in the media that it isn't exactly extremely safe to travel there. also, have you ever had any concerns for your safety in the countries/cities/areas you've visited? I am usually one to throw caution to the wind when I travel, so I just had to ask about your point of view on these things. thanks.
My stomach grumbles when I watch your videos! Great, and wow that rain!
Thank you for sharing your Laphet Tote taste experience and visited to Myanmar...
Wonderful video as always, Mark! Thank you! Hope all is well.
Thank you trumpet craz
My craving for laphet thoke brought me here 😭
I was born and raised in the tropics where you could set your watch by when it rained. Gotta love monsoon season!
Great to hear that See Canon, I do love that tropical rain as well.
Wow.... I love lapheitou👍👍👍👍 and tembotitou too
That's my country.... i'd love to go back there.... lucky you! U traveled so many amazing places..
Thank you Emily Zar. How long has it been since you returned?
I've been away for 8 years now and haven't get a chance to return yet.... hopefully next year ...
Emily Zar same. 8 years as well
10 years for me. Mark you're making me homesick now :D
What's on their face?
I really enjoy your videos Mark Wiens. They make me happy and hungry. Iam going to the kitchen to eat something now.
I really enjoyed the video !! A cup of tea with the rain ahhh......so nice so nice ...love it !!
Thank you Barnali's Kitchen
my most favorite Myanmar food
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pair with Cool Beer, GREAT
Looks great 😮
looks great
Absolutely love tea leaf salad!
I really love this food. :-) :-) thank u for enjoy our country dood.
Great video, Mark. Thank you!
Thank you Lina French
Looove your videos!!
Thank you Redrosie33
Looks good amd almost like papaya salad. Craving for some now. Lol!
Great video. Those salads look really good!
Thanks shawnda
Pickled young tea leaf salad is the most delicious in Burma, you can't find any where around the world. My favorite one.
Thanks for the video...thinking of visiting Yangon soon...
Thanks for watching itsraw andreal, hope you can visit soon.
It is the monsoon season in the sub-continent its bound to rain but its wonderful
Hi Mark! My daughter got me hooked on our videos..anyway, my husband and I are going to be in Bangkok from Dec. 6-9 and would love to be able to meet up for an awesome meal. We have an excursion on the 9th but would be available for a "meet up" on either the 7th or 8th. Any chance? We would love it!
Looks really nice and inexpensive, I'll have to try that someday! And as David Claymore said, your videos make me feel like I'm there too, thanks! :D
Cool, thank you very much Fernando Rivera
i love Lahpet Thoke......im glad people are selling them in MN too.....
That's a great life. Good food from people that know how to fix it.
Super awesome, these videos literally make you feel transported there!
Hope that doesn't discourage people from going to Thailand.
Thank you David Claymore!
Mark Wiens
Thank you Mark and all my best to Ying.
David Claymore Going every places is the same. Bring some positive aptitude with you and awareness wherever you go. You'll do just alright to enjoy places you visit.
hi mark, those salads looked really good. are tea leaves good for you? and are alot of the dishes in this area mostly salad/vegan ? once again great vid thx :)
Most salads from Myanmar are vegan with peanut 🥜
Oooooo you've finally got a chance to taste lapat thoat.. Yummy... I usually love eating the salad with lots of white rice :) or you can of course eat it on its own but I prefer to incorporate rice! Us Asians and rice lol!
Hey itzShuMakeUp I loved it, and that's a great idea to eat it with rice too. I agree, everything is good with rice!
I absolutely love that you put the prices in USD so we can see the bargains you get for all of those great meals you eat!
that is my favorite Myanmar dish!!!!!
Laphet Thoke is my fav!
many thx Mark....from Oz....i have a question for ya..when u visit burma, was it in a rainy season? whats the brand of your shoes n was it waterproof top n bottom pls? thx
wow... my whole mouth just filled with saliva
Hi Mark, it’ll be great if you do the tour again in Myanmar. Things are so different and clean now compared to 5 years ago. There are so many regional food that you could try in different parts of the country. It’ll be more interesting than staying in cities. Just a suggestion😊
+ massive shootings :')
My favorite food 😍😍
For a second there i thought your video title was a typo.. That looks awesome, eating on a downpour : )
Hey toastybeer thanks for watching. Yes that rain comes fast!
Ahhhh looks divine
Wow I miss this food.
I really need those salads now!
Yes HOHO Kuwait, glad you like them too!
You have been around yangon.That place is corner of Maung Htaw Lay street and MaharBanDooLa street. Near Sule Pagoda.Thank you Guy.
good delicious dish😋👍💯💖
9 years later, I wish I could visit Myanmar
Lahpet thoke good taste .i'm for Malaysia but i really like taste the lahpet thoke
Makes me salivate ! Looks yummy!!!
Thanks Tacha
“You get the tomato-y flavor from the.. tomato” haha
Its tasty all my family loves to eat
We've just have Laphet Toke with added dried shrimp and fish paste (ngapi)
It’s very delicious 🤤 I wanted to eating there with you 😄
watering my mouth......
I miss the monsoon rains of the tropics. There it will rain more in an hour than it will here in 2 days straight but you rarely go a day without at least some sun. Unlike here where it can be overcast for 6 months or more.
These tea Salads and snacks are addictive to say the least. Yummy
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What a great video, congratulations Mark!
PS: It would be great also you traveled to places like Tibet, China, Japan (again), Bhutan, Nepal, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia.
Greetings from Mexico!
Gracias AntoninhoMorales, thank you for the country suggestions, I would love to visit all the places you mentioned, especially Tibet and Bhutan, and more in China, and also Mexico! What part of Mexico are you from?
You welcome, and thanks for answering and being attentive to your fans
I'm from Mexicali, Baja California in the north of the country with U.S.A. border, in one of the hottest cities in the wolrd!
Keep working like this, your videos are AWESOME!!
Another excellent video Mark. The salads look awesome. Surprised you didn't finish that plate of chili peppers.
Thanks Tosh T, haha, I had to save some for the next customers!
Wau Myanmar love from Nepal.
We enjoyed on your video ,,, Mark,, very great.. :)
Can you make jeow bong to dip green mangos?
Mark is awesome !
Thanks Kh4lidz
Hi Mark, have you travelled to Ecuador, South América??
We have a bunch of tipical dishes I'm sure you are going to love.
Next week I'm going to Beijing followed by Tokio. First time ever!!
So happy and I'm checking your cool videos for advises.
Thanks for sharing.
Take care.
Hey Diego Jaramillo great to hear from you. Yes, I did travel to Ecuador when I was in university, I did a summer program studying in Tena, in the Amazon. I really enjoyed my time, but would love to go back again (that was about 8 years ago). What part of Ecuador are you from? Hope you have a great trip!
There’s mores Alots lot lots of things to eat In Myanmar, trust me they’re delicious!!
Good to see a nice neighborhood in Myanmar, my last view of Burma was from the Rambo movie.
In Myanmar they usually prepare lahpet in more conventional way which is similar to Chinese Hakka community style which called Thunder Tea known as Lei Cha 雷茶.
You should try Wat Tar Dote Hto ( Pork Stick). That is a bit expensive but taste is really good.
10 sticks will be a dollar
I MISS IT SO MUCH!!!
Lapet thote is very popular in Myanmar. Every myanmar shopping site you go to you will see tons of it. My parents usually order them from a site. They are prepackaged btw.
Hey Oo2k10 thank you for sharing. Sounds great!
I love that :-)
well done mark!
Thank you KangaM
What is the brown powder she put in?
mark--i ask again. how did you get your Myanmar visa on your US passport? please advise on how you did it....would like to know. your UTUBE vids on Myanmar is one reason why i wish to visit that country.....mahalo---don
Mark where is the nice intro song??
I love how i can actually recognize lahpet thoke, its a pickled tea salad haha, i eat it once or twice in 2 weeks
Cool to hear that Soe lin, do you live in Myanmar?
Mark Wiens no I don't I live in Indiana
Yummmmm-my!
You make me so hungry.
Thanks for watching jackie sandoval
Yeap that is best food yall no matter wherever u go u wanted that n we manage to get it anyway. Best of the best
Can anyone share Jai recipe with me thank you
Yuzana is one of my favorite brand instant Lahpet thoke.
Yuzana has been banned in many countries for their use of cheap chemical dye auramine o not permitted for the food industry instead of the traditional food dye.
@@BabyBuddhaG bro it because of the rohingya crisis or Myanmar was hated
@@BabyBuddhaG and also no chemical
@@portmafiaexecutive4099 well not all products were banned as far as I remember. If it's true as you said then it's very sad to know that we as human beings are stuck with caste and religion. I wish if everyone become a global citizen and treat each other respectfully despite of whatever God we chose to pray to. Peace bro
@@BabyBuddhaG yeah the rohingya are fine now
A delicious and healthy salad do not need any MSG to ruin it. Many people do not know the danger of long term consumption of MSG creates havoc to the brain.. Just make sure every time when you order the salad, just remind the vendor not to put any MSG in your salad. You can then safely enjoy your salad.
Most stalls don't have MSG seasoning.
I'm a huge fan of ginger. Was the pickled ginger anything similar to Japanese style ginger? Is sounds like it's less flavorful.
Hey Bobby B glad you love ginger too. I think it's similar, but not sweet like the Japanese pink ginger, this one is more just sour.
U should try traditional foods of other states in Myanmar. Trust me~ u will like all of them
P.s - i'm from Myanmar
Can you share the recipe for tea leaf salad? I absolutely loved it.
i love your life ... wish I could travel world
+MarkWiens The salads look delicious. But, I wonder, have you ever get food poisoning from the street food ?
lahpet thoke and hot tea on a rainy day. what more can you ask for
I agree John Thompson, it's a good combo.
It is a really unique and funky flavor!! I love it. Too bad they sell it at thai/Burmese fusion restaurants near me for about $7. Prob will have to learn myself!
Hey mchu5 glad you love it too. Yah, you should try to make it!
It is absurdly expensive. Might as well it at a market if you can, and even there be prepared to spend some money.
Do you pre-film these videos?
Hey ***** yes, this video was filmed about 1 month ago. I keep an archive mainly because I publish 2 videos per week, and just to stick to my schedule.
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I've always wondering if street foods are hygienic or not >
It all depends Sprinto Silences, but the same could be said about any kitchen / restaurant around the world. What I like about street food is that you can see everything and make a judgement for yourself if it looks alright of not.
😊
Come to the north eastern regions of india for once also
I loved that tea leave salad