Myanmar Recipes

Dévi-licious began with a pen and a notebook sitting in my mom’s kitchen watching my mom and aunts cooking beef curry. Basically, I wanted to learn to cook one of my favorite childhood foods. Learning to cook my favorites, led to discovering more and more delicious food. As an adult my tastes changed and I liked eating more of a variety of foods from different cultures and ethnicities. I wanted to learn about the foods my grandmother ate in Myanmar and how she prepared them. Pwa Pwa (Grandma) grew up in a village in Upper Myanmar named the Shan State and finally settled in Yangon with the family. She cooked enough food for an army most of the time. There were lots of children in the house and many church activities that always needed meals to feed people. Read More