There might not be a more enjoyable experience while dining in San Francisco than watching your waiter or waitress mix together the legendary, crunchy and pungent tea leaf salad at your table when ...

One of the Bay Area’s most iconic salads has gotten rather elusive these days. Burma Superstar and its family of restaurants is currently rationing its famous tea leaf salad due to supply chain issues ...

Those pesky hipsters have struck again. This time, it's a traditional dish from Myanmar called Burmese tea leaf salad. SEE ALSO: Stumped for a suitably hipster bar idea? Try this handy generator. A ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 29 — My friend Hong, a fellow writer and avid “foodie” – a label that makes me squirm, and I hope makes him squirm too – is an interesting character. When he’s not talking about ...

I first fell for fermented tea leaf salad at a Burmese restaurant 13 years ago. The staple from the Southeast Asian country also known as Myanmar exploded in my mouth with salinity and tang; abundant ...

Paolo Bicchieri is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups. Customers clicking onto the ...

Tea leaf salad, or laphet thoke, will forever be the emblem of Burmese food inside the U.S.: its hamburger and its filet mignon, glorified and prosaic all at once. As one of very few places in the ...

Things you know about Myanmar/Burma: 1) On May 3-4, the country’s Irrawaddy delta region was hit by a powerful cyclone, killing 22,500 and leaving over 40,000 missing as of publication time ...

The last time I tried Burmese food, I had to drive hours to get it. But on this sunny afternoon, the car only has to make it as far as Rancho Bernardo. Still, I’m impatient all the way there, ...