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Padonmar Restaurant, Yangon

The Padonmar Restaurant in Yangon is one of the very few Fine Dining Restaurants offering authentic Myanmar Cuisine retaining the Home cooked flavor and health conscious using less cooking oil and strictly no Monosodium Glutamate (M.S.G). Not only the foreign tourists, visitors and local expats are afraid to eat Myanmar curries which are swimming in cooking oil but also the local Myanmar people. The age old tradition of the Myanmar hospitality is the more oil in the curry the more welcome you are . Entrance to the restaurant. Appetizers. Soup. Main course. Dessert. See also Daw Aung San Suu Kyi House House of Memories Restaurant Maha Bandula Par...

Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon

The Shwedagon Pagoda, officially named Shwedagon Zedi Daw (lit. 'Golden Dagon Pagoda') and also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda, is a gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar. The 99 m (326 ft) tall pagoda is situated on Singuttara Hill, to the west of Kandawgyi Lake, and dominates the Yangon skyline. Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, as it is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the present kalpa. These relics include the staff of Kakusandha, the water filter of Konagamana, a piece of the robe of Kassapa, and eight strands of hair from the head of Gautama. Large mythological lion (Chinthe) at the south gate of Shwedagon Pagoda. Chinthe is the Burmese word for 'lion'. The leograph of Chinthe is a highly stylized lion commonly depicted in Bur...