Chinatown Noodle Bowl · Pork Offal Soup
Kyay Oh
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The name refers to the vessel rather than the food: kyay oh means 'copper pot', after the small metal pot the soup was traditionally cooked and served in.
Rice vermicelli is served in a light pork broth loaded with a mix of pork offal, meatballs and sometimes wontons, garnished with fried garlic and coriander. Yangon's Chinatown and its surrounding noodle shops are where the dish is most firmly rooted.
Why it's made this way: Kyay oh reflects the Chinese immigrant communities who settled in Yangon's Latha township, bringing a noodle-soup style built around ingredients Chinese cooks worked with across the wider region.
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