Yangon Post

Did you know that the Burmese are more into tea than we are? Or that our furniture is made from old Burmese buildings? Or that there are 3000 miles of...

You’ll know when you see one: chaotic and bustling, with full grown adults sitting on tiny child-sized stools at knee-high tables, deep in conversation or hidden behind newspapers. The clientele...

Female voices are generally missing from twentieth century accounts of life in Burma, but Ma Ma Lay is an exception. A journalist and tireless advocate for women, both intellectually and politically,...

Micaela Sharp is an interior designer, upholsterer and TV design personality whose design theories combine upcycling existing furniture with carefully curated new pieces. An experienced upholsterer herself, she really cares...

Why Monsoon? Well, they're made from Rain Wood, and we wanted to pay tribute to the power of Burma's magnificent monsoon season. Each day from June to October, the heat...

In June, we visited one of our carpentry workshops near Bago in Burma, and made this video while we were there of one of our salad bowls coming to life....

If you'd like to wow your guests, or perhaps just your own taste buds, here are two of my favourite Burmese salads. The recipes come from the Rangoon Sisters, and...

This is a fearless, phenomenal book. Myanmar is a place where “history weigh[s] so heavily…that decades of it ha[ve] to be explained before any conversation with an outsider could even...

I was in Yangon last week to spend time with our new Country Manager, Yadanar. As always, it was an invaluable week plugging into the heart of the company and...

Number 1 - There is nothing more joyful than daffodils. Put them everywhere. They're £2 in the supermarket, or free from the garden if you're lucky. I put them on the table, in...

We were in Yangon last week to catch up with our team and makers. I took Jenny, our new Operations Lead, who had never been to Burma before. It’s always...

Alex is the editor of the award-winning website The Frugality and the owner of a beautiful Edwardian house which she and her husband have renovated very slowly over the past three years. She...