"Of all fruit the best is the mango, of all meat the best is the pork, and of all leaves it's the lahpet (tea)."

Tonight after sumi class Nikki and I wandered down to the lower east side for Burmese food at  a place she found called Village Mingala.  Salad of glass noodles, peanuts, cilantro, sesame seeds, soy beans,  a simple broth soup with wood ear mushrooms and cucumber, roast pork loin with tamarind sauce, and a "1000 layer pancake" with beef and potato curry.  Although most of the time I didn't even know what kingdom the thing in my mouth once belonged to, and that the number of layers in my pancake was, at most, 67 or so, we really enjoyed the food. It was cheap,tasty, simple, and filling.

So I came home to read up on Burmese food and managed to stray onto the article about the ruling  military junta and its penchant for extortion, torture, and cremating living dissidents.  The World is a poor digestif.