🇲🇲 Yangon

Tony met with culinary writer Ma Thanegi. They had pig’s-head salad with Kaffir lime leaf, long-bean salad with sesame and fish sauce, pennywort-leaf salad, a salad of Indian-style samosa.

Tony had prawn curry here and cringed at the local cultural norm of making kissing noises to call a waiter over.

"Once one of the swankest department stores in Rangoon," says Tony. "Now people live here."

Tea shop where Tony had morning tea with U Thiha Saw, a journalist. They had the hot black tea with a dollop of sweetened condensed milk and a fish soup.

Tony had a meal with Philippe Lajaunie, restaurateur, former owner of Brasserie Les Halles. They had chicken necks and cold beer. 

Tony visited this town during Thadingyut, the Full Moon festival celebrated by Buddhists at the end of October. He ate street food and watched the human-powered ferris wheels

Not sure if this location still exists, the CNN site says it is on Saya San Road, but not showing up on the map. Tony met with San Zarni Bo and had fermented tea leaf salad, which is served with peanuts, lime, and chilies.

Tony met with a local punk band at this night market.

Tony and the punk band ate barbecue at this stand in the night market.