Shan State Cooking: The Mountain Tradition

The Shan people of Myanmar's eastern highlands — one of the country's largest ethnic groups — maintain a distinct culinary tradition that reflects their geographic position between Burma, Thailand, Laos, and China's Yunnan province. Shan food is lighter than Burmese cooking, more herb-forward, less oil-dependent, and specifically connected to the mountain agriculture of the Shan plateau.

Shan culinary techniques.

• Burmese mohinga (same rice noodle tradition — different broth), Thai northern noodles (same mountain Southeast Asian noodle tradition), Yunnan crossing the bridge noodles (same northern tradition thro