Yangon Kitchen

Myanmar (Burma)


Acclaimed and highly exclusive gourmet restaurant inside the Kempinski Hotel. This is the place to come for succulent duck confit served with plum sauce on banana leaves, or delicate pan-fried sea bass. There's also a set Myanmar multicourse menu (K29,000) that's a tour de force of Burmese tastes.

Your fellow diners are likely to be the movers and shakers of Myanmar life. One time we stopped by, numerous top military brass were eating here (we weren't invited to sit down and join them…).


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