Yangon Street Life 🇲🇲 | Chinatown Walk, Street Food & Local Markets

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:04]Good afternoon and greetings to all of you.

[00:00:08]Hope you have an amazing weekend.

[00:00:11]Now I'm walking across a neighborhood at Synind Odani Street in Chinatown, Yangum. Let's walk.

[00:00:28]As you can see, there are lots of uh old buildings on both side of this neighborhood.

[00:00:36]There are some Chinese clans or association.

[00:00:40]As you can see over there, that is a Chinese clan.

[00:00:51]Most of Chinese origin people live in this neighborhood.

[00:01:14]As you can see over there, people are playing Myanmar traditional game Chinlon.

[00:01:47]On the left side, this is a food store named Hola Food stall. Here you can get takoyaki.

[00:01:54]This man is preparing takoyaki.

[00:02:06]People are enjoying street food, sitting beside the street.

[00:02:26]This is a food restaurant. Here you can get various uh meat ball, fish ball and also seafood and green leaves.

[00:02:36]You can see over there the man is preparing some seafood noodles.

[00:02:58]These are some green leaves.

[00:03:25]This man is selling various snacks.

[00:03:40]>> Quite uh busy traffic atmosphere now.

[00:03:43]Lots of vehicles are in traffic jam in this road. This is Moabandula road.

[00:04:00]This is the atmosphere in Chinatown.

[00:04:02]Yangu.

[00:04:06]People come here with friends and family in the afternoon to enjoy their weekend.

[00:04:26]There are lots of street food stalls here. This man is uh preparing. This lady is preparing uh corn and peanut salad.

[00:04:38]These are steamed corn and peanut salad.

[00:04:46]These are some uh takayaki.

[00:04:50]How much?

[00:04:53]>> 600.

[00:04:54]Okay. How many piece? Two piece. Twe 600. Okay. So, this tuaki price is 2 rupees 600. These are prepared with uh corn and the squidos.

[00:05:12]This is a Hong Kong uh restaurant food stall. You can get Hong Kong noodles here.

[00:05:20]These are fried chicken.

[00:05:36]This lady is selling mango stein.

[00:05:42]There are various types of street food stalls here. Some fried uh shrimps, fried chicken, crabs.

[00:05:52]These are some crabs.

[00:05:55]These are uh field cricket.

[00:05:58]These are one kind of insects.

[00:06:00]Uh these are source of proteins. As you can see, people are buying field cricket.

[00:06:09]This lady is eating uh field cricket.

[00:06:13]>> Uh how much? One box.

[00:06:18]>> This box, how much?

[00:06:19]>> One one piece. Uh two 200 >> 200.

[00:06:23]>> Yeah. One piece.

[00:06:24]>> How you eat direct? Direct or cook?

[00:06:27]>> I know like Oh, okay. Okay. It's good, right? Protein.

[00:06:30]>> Yeah.

[00:06:31]>> Okay. Okay. Like protein.

[00:06:33]>> Okay. Okay. Thank you.

[00:06:34]>> Yes.

[00:06:36]>> So, these are field cricket. Uh this lady is selling various kinds of food such as dragon fruit, orange. How much?

[00:06:43]One dragon fruit. One piece. 500 >> 1,500 >> 1,500. These are some guavas. Mango stein wraps.

[00:06:55]Now I'm walking across 19th Street of Chinatown.

[00:06:59]This is the center point of Chinatown.

[00:07:03]People come here, get together, chitchat while eating.

[00:07:09]As you can see, atmospheres are building up as people are coming in a group with friends.

[00:07:27]This is afternoon atmosphere in Chinatown. People are enjoying street food as well as soft drinks.

[00:07:51]This is a restaurant.

[00:07:54]There are lots of restaurants here. You can get Chinese, Thai, Burmese cuisine.

[00:08:02]These are corn and peanut salad.

[00:08:07]This man is preparing corn and peanut salad with tea leaf.

[00:08:16]Quite a busy atmosphere now. Atmospheres that are building up as people are coming.

[00:08:38]Thank you.

[00:08:48]Here you go.

[00:09:10]This is the center point of Chinatown.

[00:09:17]This man is selling fish barbecue, ladies finger barbecue, fish ball and meatball.

[00:09:26]You can get various kinds of sausage, meatball, tofu, squidos, sea fish, fish, freshwater fish, etc. Here these are talapia fish barbecue.

[00:09:50]>> This one, how much? One piece. One piece.

[00:09:53]>> How much?

[00:09:55]7,000 >> 11,000 >> No 700 >> Oh 7 this one 7,000 this one 7 and this one >> 8,500 >> 8,000 uh 8,500.

[00:10:05]>> Oh this is tilapia, right?

[00:10:06]>> Yeah, talapia, right?

[00:10:07]>> No sea fish. Sea fish. No. Oh, okay.

[00:10:10]>> You want a sea fish?

[00:10:11]>> Yes. Okay. Okay.

[00:10:13]So these are tapia fish. Uh one piece is is 8,000 y.

[00:10:30]This is Moabandula Road in Chinatown.

[00:10:38]There are various uh fruit stalls here.

[00:10:40]This man is selling guava. How much one guava?

[00:10:45]>> Okay, cut. So I am buying a guava. He will uh he's now cutting this guava as you can see one piece 1,000 y which is around uh 50 cent.

[00:11:14]This is Friday atmosphere in Chinatown.

[00:11:18]Now he's washing the guava with water.

[00:11:27]He's uh slicing the guava.

[00:11:49]No, no, no, no need. Just keep.

[00:11:55]Thank you. This is a guava. 1,000. This lady is selling various kinds of clothing. These are some trouser.

[00:12:04]Is it for ladies, right? Uh one piece.

[00:12:07]How much? Palo 500.

[00:12:10]>> 500 5,000 or 5,000. 5,000. Okay. Okay.

[00:12:16]>> These are some fruit stalls. Various kinds of dragon fruit, apple and grabs are available here.

[00:12:25]As [music] you can see, these are some bulian. One piece. How much this one?

[00:12:28]Fellow.

[00:12:30]>> This one. This one,000.

[00:12:33]>> This is 10,000.

[00:12:36]>> 20,000. 12,000. Oh, >> sorry. 12,000. This is 12,000. And this one 10,000.

[00:12:43]8,000. This one 8,000.

[00:12:45]>> So 12,000 is uh >> which is around 5 US one durian.

[00:12:53]As you can see, Burmese ladies are coming.

[00:13:00]As you can see over there, that is a Chinese temple named Guaning Gumao. It is more than 100 years old temple.

[00:13:08]Now I'm walking across 20th Street of Chinatown. These are some street foods.

[00:13:14]People are enjoying street foods here.

[00:13:41]People are coming to Chinatown to enjoy their weekend. Some clothing here. People are choosing [music] clothing.

[00:13:52]These are some snacks. Various kinds of snacks here.

[00:13:59]These are some traditional dessert.

[00:14:05]>> These are uh some Chinese uh food. Uh how much this dumpling?

[00:14:11]>> 5,000.

[00:14:11]>> 5,000. Uh can you give me uh 5 piece?

[00:14:16]>> No. Uh this one 3,000.

[00:14:18]>> Oh, this is 3,000. How many piece?

[00:14:20]>> 10 pieces.

[00:14:21]>> 10 piece. Uh can I take five piece? No.

[00:14:25]I Okay. Okay. Uh this one >> this one 5,000. Uh >> no one uh can you sell one piece or two piece? No, I have to take full. Oh, so this is 5,000. This is dumpling, right?

[00:14:36]Chinese dumpling.

[00:14:37]>> Okay. Okay. Thank you.

[00:14:40]>> As you [music] can see, this is the entrance of uh Chinese temple guaningo.

[00:14:46]>> Chinese community people come here.

[00:14:49]>> These are Chinese community people.

[00:14:57]This is a fruit store. Here you can get orange, apple, mango, dragon fruit. This lady is selling uh watermelon and pineapple.

[00:15:10]Some noodles and snacks. Here.

[00:15:22]This is noodle salad.

[00:15:25]How much? One noodle salad.

[00:15:30]Uh, excuse me. How much? One salad.

[00:15:40]Okay. Okay. 1,000.

[00:15:43]These are sandal stall sticky rice.

[00:15:53]There are various clothing stores here.

[00:15:58][music] People are enjoying their weekend.

[00:16:05]Various fruit salad.

[00:16:08][music] This is fruit juices stall. This man is selling fruit juice. [music] These are steamed corn and [music] sweet potato and uh peanut. People are buying uh corn here. Steamed corn.

[00:16:28]That's it from today's video. Hope you have enjoyed this update. Thanks for watching and see you in the next [music] video.