Beer City

Mandalay


The manager at this better-than-average beer garden speaks good English, which is a plus when you're ordering food and requesting a channel change on the TVs always tuned to soccer. It's a mix of veggies and meat dishes; the Chinese broccoli is a favourite.


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Nearby Mandalay attractions

1. Fire Lookout Tower

0.47 MILES

This former fire-lookout tower sits next to the main Mandalay fire station. Unfortunately, it can't be climbed.

2. Gold-Pounders’ District

0.52 MILES

Those 1-sq-in gold-leaf sheets that worshippers piously place on sacred buddha images are laboriously hand-pounded in dozens of specialist workshops in…

3. Sri Ganesh Temple

0.59 MILES

This temple's colourful, sculpture-crusted gopuram (monumental tower) will excite you if you’ve never been to southern India or Singapore.

4. Central Mosque

0.63 MILES

This mosque is not a tourist attraction per se, but it has been the site of tense confrontation when anti-Muslim anger has been stoked in the past. The…

5. Sacred Heart Cathedral

0.75 MILES

Founded in the 19th century, this is Mandalay's main Catholic church. It has some historical charm from the colonial period, and is a good place to meet…

6. Cultural Museum & Library

0.79 MILES

This dusty, dowdy and poorly lit collection displays archaeological finds, buddhas and a bullock cart. As is the case in many local archaeology museums,…

7. Setkyathiha Paya

0.88 MILES

Mostly hidden behind shopfronts, this large elevated pagoda complex includes a ‘golden rock’ lookalike and an enormous sacred bodhi tree planted by U Nu,…

8. Clock Tower

0.91 MILES

Mandalay's clock tower mixes Western and Eastern architecture.