When it moved from its College Park home to its current Silver Spring location, Mandalay Restaurant garnered a great deal of attention. If you neglected to check out the Burmese Restaurant when the critics were sweeping through, give the authentic, delicious and reasonably-priced place a chance now that the chatter has died down.
Located in an unassuming spot on Bonifant Street in Silver Spring, the place is borderline empty for a weekday lunch, but hopping when Saturday night dinner comes around. Though the service can be slow, it
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I can’t believe you didn’t mention the awesome slash weird dessert thing we had! Rice pudding meets pie meets flan meets raisins meets coconut milk? That was crazy, and yet oddly *delicious*.
Burmese food is the very best!
Its hard to find in these parts; I’ll have to check out Mandalay.
Try the green tea salad – amazing!
but be careful it will keep you up all night!
Burmese food is the very best!
Its hard to find in these parts; I’ll have to check out Mandalay.
Try the green tea salad – amazing!
but be careful it will keep you up all night!
The tea salad has a really strong fish sauce component and the leaves are also fermented, I think, so it’s a pretty heady concoction. I haven’t tried it mostly because of the smell, but everyone I know that HAS tried it has loved it.
Safer to try and equally scrumptious are the green mango and green papaya salads, and if you’re a real nut for ginger, the ginger salad. Makes a great cool & crunchy accompaniment to your most-likely-hot-and-stewlike entree, something many Asian restaurants are sorely lacking.