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How to find good Burmese food

Burmese food sits between Indian, Thai and Chinese cooking and tastes like none of them. It is built on fermentation, crunch and sourness, and the dish that wins over almost everyone is a salad made from pickled tea leaves.

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What separates a good one from a bad one

Tea leaf salad mixed at the table — Fermented tea leaves with fried beans, peanuts, sesame, tomato and cabbage. The best places bring the components separately and mix it in front of you. It should be crunchy, sour and slightly bitter.
Mohinga with depth — The national breakfast: rice noodles in a fish and lemongrass broth thickened with chickpea flour, topped with crispy fritters. A thin broth means it has been simplified.
Crunch everywhere — Fried garlic, fried split peas, crispy shallots. Burmese food is about textures, and a kitchen that fries its own toppings shows it.
Sour and fermented flavours left in — Fish sauce, shrimp paste and lime should be present. Burmese food made too mild for a general audience loses its identity.
Curries cooked in oil — Burmese curries separate their oil on purpose — it means the paste has been cooked long enough.

What to order

Tea leaf salad — Essential.
Mohinga — Breakfast, lunch, or whenever.
Ohn no khao swe — Coconut chicken noodle soup, the ancestor of khao soi.
Platha with curry — Flaky flatbread with dipping curry.
Samusa soup — Samosas broken into a sour lentil soup. Strange, and excellent.

Where to find Burmese food

Open listings put 137 Burmese restaurants across the US. These are the cities and campuses with the most of them.

Cities with the most

San Francisco, CA 17 Indianapolis, IN 8 Portland, OR 6 New York, NY 4 Aurora, CO 4 Washington, DC 3 Oakland, CA 3 Daly City, CA 3

Campuses with the most within a mile

University of San Francisco 3 IUB 2

A few to start with

Teakwood — San Francisco, CA
399 Grove St, San Francisco
Kaung Kaung Burmese Restaurant — Indianapolis, IN
7040 Madison Ave, Indianapolis
M Bar — Portland, OR
417 NW 21st Ave, Portland
Little Myanmar — New York, NY
150 E 2nd St, New York
Yum Yum Asian Restaurant — Aurora, CO
106 Del Mar Cir, Aurora
Bandoola Bowl — Washington, DC
1069 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington

Counts are listings in Overture Maps open data (September 2026), counted by the town in each address. Independent places only in the examples above, and they are a starting point rather than a ranking.

How Savor Scout looks for it

The search reads for tea leaf salad, mohinga and Burmese, and for reviews describing the salad mixed at the table — a small detail that reliably separates kitchens doing the real thing.

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Looking in a particular city?

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