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Preparing time for Thadingyut Festival (Festival of
Light)
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 It is time for Myanmar people get ready to enjoy the
Thadingyut lights Festival with all their mood. All of
children and people in Myanmar enjoy this lights
festival around October according to Myanmar calendar
which is falling pleasant season and end of Buddhist
lent. Many Shops are display in variety of the beautiful
and colorful paper lanterns to sell. Students are very
happy due to their Thadingyut holidays. Children play
with many different kinds of hand-made lighting toys
with wheels. One of the playing things that children
like most are crickets of fire works that made up of gun
powder which can explode with a lot of noises but not
harm. Students are preparing to pay their respect to
teachers. Young people who live away from their parents
prepare to return home to pay homage in this time. The
couples to be are preparing throughout the entire Lenten
period for their wedding reception at Thadingyut. In the
countryside, farmers have a breathing space now that
most of monsoon cultivation is over and they devote
their time and energy to fun and festivities for a
change. People in the villages prepare to make Myanmar
pan-cakes to be offered to monks. The month of
Thadingyut roughly coinciding with October is replete
with festivities, acts of charity, fine weather and
freedom of movement or to get married!
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Custard Apple Season |
 We would like to give information
about one of Myanmar seasonal fruit.
You can see Custard Apples abundantly everywhere in Myanmar
since this is the peak yielding period of the Custard Apple
season. Custard Apple is the seasonal fruit which bear only once
in a year. Custard Apple season starts from August to around
October.
Custard Apple is as the same size of apple but that is a kind of
cluster of encoding seed with flesh. The taste of Custard Apple
is honey sweet. What more, children play with the seed after
they have eaten.There can be seen other seasonal fruits together with Custard
Apple, such as mangoes, mangoesteens, rambutans, Myanma-grapes,
apples, durians, etc. Custard Apples are also abundantly
available in fruit market with reasonable price.
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Mobile Artists of downtown Yangon
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 Downtown Yangon is one
of the places of interest for a stranger. Along the pavement if
you walk you have to move very slowly since the both of the
pavement has occupied by the street vendors and walking area
gets narrow. The vendors sell food, old books, hundreds of
miscellaneous small items such as batteries, nail clippers, key
chain, etc. Among them you can see rarely found these Artists;
painting beautiful pictures of sceneries like village-life,
landscape, elephant at work; dragging teak logs, sunset scene,
portrait and something ordered.
Since Myanmar believe a couple of Owls as a lucky charms these
street painters make the picture of Owl couples to sell readily.
Two or three members of these Artists take a space of 8’x4’ on
the pavement at crowded place in downtown. They use water colour
and oils for painting on the art paper. They usually charge K.
300 per painting. Perhaps, charge more for portrait and special
order. They are skill enough to complete a painting within ten
minutes.
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Shwe Yee, Myanmar Traditional Food Shop
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 Myanmar
Traditional food shop named Shwe Yee has opened in Yangon for
those who would like to try Myanmar foods. You can taste variety
of Myanmar Traditional foods there. The foods of Shwe Yee are
made of hygienic ingredients and cholesterol free genuine ground
nut oil without MSG saccharin and Palm oil. Myanmar foods are
based on rice flour, sticky rice and palm sugar for the sweet.
Shwe Yee offers three dozens items of Myanmar Traditional food
such as Mohingar (rice noodles with gravy), Ohnohkhaukswe
(noodles served with coconut milk), boiled gluten rice balls,
steamed gluten rice, rice flake stuff with red bean jam, etc.
So, when you arrive to Myanmar, we recommend that it is a good
place to taste the Myanmar Traditional Food.
Address: No. (78/80), 48th Street,
Between Mahabondula Road & Anawyahta Road,
Botataung Township.
Yangon.
Open Hours: 6AM to 6PM.
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Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival
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biggest event in the southern area of Shan takes place
at Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda that situated in Inle Lake, one
of the most amazing and magical places in Asia. It is
held from 30th September to 17th October in year 2008.
It takes about 18 days.
During the 18 days of the festival, a ceremonial
Karaweik- a replica of the ancient Royal Barge displays
and carries four of the Buddha Images which are much
revered around the lake, from village to village, to
bless of leg-rowers and hundreds of boats follow the
procession. Among the dance shows and fan-fairs, the
most interesting event of the festival, especially for
foreigners is Shan traditional boat races due to their
unique leg rowing. It is the one and only place in the
world that one can see such marvelous act. Thousand of
people from all villages nearby and the Pilgrims of the
whole country come to pay homage to the Images and enjoy
this most holy of Shan celebrations.
If you will have a plan to visit to Myanmar in October,
you can observe the religious ceremony of Shan Tribes in
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