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Yangon Day 1.5 - Street Food and Yangon Riverfront - Pansodan Jetty

Rangoon - The curtain rises by Doug Colligan 2014 From the centre of town I turn south towards the river. But I get distracted by the alluring aromas of food stalls across the street. As I try to make culinary sense of what I see, the only food I recognize are triangular samosas. A poised young Burmese woman grace fully glides by, effortlessly balancing a towering basket of melons on her head. It strikes me how modestly Burmese women dress in tunic tops buttoned to the chin, ankle-length skirts. I decide to forgo street snacks, for now, to check out the Yangon riverfront, once a busy port exporting rice and timber. Today it is a sleepy stretch of the Yangon River. The only traffic is a small freighter from Singapore and a creaky ferry. I stroll to the Pansodan Jetty for a ride. The heat is building, but there is a breeze on the upper deck. As a bonus I get a long view of Yangon. What is remarkable is its skyline, or rather lack of one. Most of the city’s buildings rarely exceed seven stories. (2014)