Must-see restaurants in 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's most-happening restaurant come nightfall, this place offers fine barbecue – with the proteins and veggies all on display – or you can choose from…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

In addition to snacks and frothy tea, this friendly and popular Muslim teashop does tasty noodles, fine chicken paratha and, on Sundays, hearty biryani…

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,…

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…

This teashop-restaurant sells tasty and cheap Southern Indian–style curries, biryanis and dosa. Look for the small English sign.

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 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…

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.