Hpa-an
This local institution is one of the most appealing Burmese restaurants anywhere in the country. It serves a vast selection of rich curries, hearty soups…
Must-see restaurants in Southern Myanmar
Mawlamyine
Humble Daw Yee does some of the best Burmese food you'll find anywhere. It has a great selection of curries, including an insanely fatty prawn curry, all…
Hpa-an
Established to provide job training for young people from the conflict areas of Kayin State, the Veranda is a big and breezy cafe with a large garden out…
Tanintharyi Region
Simple but cute restaurant-cafe with a friendly English-speaking owner. The vegetarian-friendly menu ranges from noodle and rice dishes to more…
Myeik
Myeik's most-happening restaurant come nightfall, this place offers fine barbecue – with the proteins and veggies all on display – or you can choose from…
Myeik
This friendly Bamar restaurant serves what is one of the richest, tastiest chicken curries we've come across yet, as well as a yummy prawn curry. Be sure…
Tha Hto Daw San Family Rice & Curry Shop
Tanintharyi Region
Now in an expanded location, Daw San has been serving superior Burmese curries to the people of Dawei for over 40 years. They are all on display, so just…
Mon State
No longer a grungy beer station, Dream has been transformed into a bar-cum-restaurant that's unusually sophisticated for provincial Myanmar. The picture…
Myeik
Atmospheric teashop-restaurant located in a traditional wooden house. It's popular for tea and snacks, but also does curries, rice and noodle plates, and…
Tanintharyi Region
In addition to selling the requisite ingredients for leq·p’eq thouq (Burmese tea-leaf salad) this vendor also serves a selection of other equally…
Mawlamyine
There's a big menu here, mostly featuring Chinese-inspired dishes but also including a few Thai ones and even some spicy Rakhine State–style soups. It's…
Mawlamyine
The advertising tagline for this new riverside place is 'Beyond the boundaries of taste'. We're not so sure about that, but there is a big selection of…
Tanintharyi Region
Many of the beachside restaurants at Maungmagan close during the week. This place stays open and offers good baked crab, prawn dishes, and steamed and…
Myeik
This hole-in-the-wall noodle vendor specialises in tasty kaq kyi kaiq: scissor-cut noodles fried with seafood in a wok over a wood fire. The shop is in…
Tanintharyi Region
This tin-roofed restaurant (no roman-script sign) serves a big spread of Burmese curries, as well as good vegetable side dishes. Located on the uphill…
Mon State
On the main street in Kinpun, this amiable, Mon-run place cooks up a big selection of reliable curries – fish, chicken, pork and mutton – for lunch, as…
Mon State
A reasonably authentic take on Thai food is offered here – the husband and wife owners worked in Phuket for five years. There's no English menu, but there…
Tanintharyi Region
Laidback, French-owned hole-in-the-wall restaurant. There's a vague Mediterranean theme to the menu – fresh gazpacho – but it also serves tasty pasta,…
Tanintharyi Region
In addition to snacks and frothy tea, this friendly and popular Muslim teashop does tasty noodles, fine chicken paratha and, on Sundays, hearty biryani…
Tanintharyi Region
We'd recommend avoiding the same-named hotel, but the attached restaurant offers a decent take on Chinese-style dishes, as well as more pricey seafood,…
Hpa-an
Chinese-inspired dishes fill the menu at this friendly, clean place that also screens football (soccer) games. The English-language menu has many options,…
Myeik
Zan Pya is a small place serving heaped plates of delicious chicken biryani that often sell out early. Look for the large aluminum pots a couple of doors…
Mawlamyine
This busy place serves excellent Muslim-style Burmese cuisine; in particular, a rich biryani and a delicious dhal soup. Look for the small yellow English…
Mon State
This modest but popular place serves a limited menu of Thai classics – curries and rice and noodle dishes – and you get to eat by the lake. It's on the…
Hpa-an
Hpa-an's small-but-good night market unfolds by the side of Kan Thar Yar Lake in the south of town. Popular with the locals, it's fine for barbecue,…
Myeik
This teashop-restaurant sells tasty and cheap Southern Indian–style curries, biryanis and dosa. Look for the small English sign.
Grandfather & Grandmother Restaurant
Mawlamyine
The money raised at this teashop and simple restaurant goes to a charity helping the town’s elderly. No alcohol is served, but it does have decent fruit…
Tanintharyi Region
No relation to the same-named hotel in Kawthoung, this friendly curry house has its dishes on display so you can point and pick. There are meat and fish…
Myeik
Myeik institution that serves bowls of kyè òu (noodles) and other noodle and rice dishes to hordes of locals. Look for the big white villa and the small…
Hpa-an
This hole-in-the-wall place serves a variety of tasty Shan noodle dishes, as well as soups, dumplings and a few Chinese-style dishes. There's an English…
Mawlamyine
Standard Burmese-influenced Chinese dishes are available here. It's as much a place to drink as it is to eat, and the riverside setting and draught beer…
Hpa-an
It's a little grungy but this teahouse serves decent tea and freshly baked paratha (Indian flat bread) – great for breakfast. It's just north of the clock…
Mawlamyine
The tasty and substantial vegetarian thali platter is the reason to come to this hole-in-the-wall restaurant, although it does serve chicken dishes as…
Myeik
This long-standing Muslim teashop serves good tea and a variety of freshly made snacks, as well as simple rice and noodle dishes. It never closes.
Hpa-an
This busy place is the closest thing Hpa-an has to a bar – with Myanmar lager on tap – and also serves reasonable Chinese-style dishes.
