Diet of the Mon
Traditionally, Burmese eat their meals from dishes on a low table, while sitting on a bamboo mat. Dishes are served simultaneously. A typical meal includes steamed rice as the main dish and accompanying dishes called hin, including a curried freshwater fish or dried/salted fish dish, a curried meat or poultry dish instead, a light soup called hin gyo, called chinyay hin if sour, and fresh or boiled vegetables to go with a salty dish, almost invariably a curried sauce of pickled fish (ngapi yayjo) in Lower Burma. Fritters such as gourd or onions in batter as well as fish or dried tofu crackers are extra.
Mon-Inspired Food
- Thingyan htamin - fully boiled rice in candle-smelt water served with mango salad
- Htamane – dessert made from glutinous rice, shredded coconuts and peanuts
- Banana pudding – dessert made from banana boiled in coconut milk and sugar
- Wet mohinga – like mohinga but vermicelli is served while wet
- Durian jam – also known as Katut jam
- Nga baung thohk - Mixed vegetables and prawn, wrapped in morinda leaves and then banana leaves outside
- Sa-nwin makin – dessert cake made from semolina, sugar, butter, coconut
