Yangon Post

Cast your minds back to the 1980s. Asian restaurants were few and far between in the UK, and rarely given as much airtime as French bistros and Italian restaurants which...

It's here and is jam-packed with stories about Burma, its people, history and food, along with the inside track on Kalinko, our homes and our makers.

The hidden meaning within our wall art; these patterns have been passed down through generations, and their meaning is as old as the trade.

Our nine weavers were chosen from a wider group of 27 for their incredible weaving skills. They are ethnically Chin and were displaced from Burma’s western Rakhine State in late...

Isn't craft gluing and sticking with loo rolls and lolly pop sticks? Crotchet? Well yes, but it's also a huge and vital pillar of employment across the globe which has...

We know we're meant to care. Meant to value the artisanal over the factory-made. Are somehow afforded greater social worth for eschewing the mechanised, for chewing on hand-kneaded sourdough. But...

Sustainability can feel like such a buzzword. Something we flippantly throw around over the dinner table, or something that’s embedded in every brand’s SEO so we see it on our screens a...

One of the great glories of summer is the reading surge that comes with it. We tend to slow down and recline on soft surfaces. What else to do when...

In a village in the Ayeyarwady region of southwest Burma, everyone weaves. Rattan – which grows voraciously in the northern Burmese rainforests, regrows rapidly once harvested and is totally biodegradable...

​There is nothing more British than to talk about the weather. It's a skill that becomes engrained in you, whether you grew up here or you've just been here for...

The Rangoon Tea House is rightly an institution in Yangon. It opened in 2014 on the busiest drag in downtown Yangon, serving spruced-up street-food inspired by the entire region. From...

Cooking itself is an entirely sensory pursuit. Certain aromas and tastes can feel so nostalgic, a true Proustian madeleine that transports us back to those food-filled moments.  This is our ode to the tactile...