Burmese food expert on her ‘unusual life’ – she met her parents when she was 12, emigrated to Australia, then returned to Myanmar and opened a restaurant
On August 6, 1988, a girl was born in Mawlamyine, southern Burma, but the joy of the moment was not to last for long. Two days later, the Southeast Asian country was plunged into anarchy as crowds of protesters – incensed by economic mismanagement and political oppression – took to the streets. Thousands suffered in the subsequent crackdown, and the country, renamed Myanmar in 1989, entered one of...
