Mandalay Restaurant
The famous Burmese Tea Leaf Salad (Lap Pat Dok) is prepared with imported Burmese tea leaves, toasted with lentil seeds, dried shrimp, fried garlic, green pepper, sesame seeds, peanuts & dressing. The salad arrives with the ingredients separated on the plate and are tossed at the table by the server, who first identifies each component to us before mixing it. It is a brilliant combination of textures and interesting flavours, crunchy from the toasted nuts, seeds and dried legumes, intense flavour from the fried garlic and shrimp, mixed up with fresh juicy pieces of grape tomato and slices of spicy jalapeno. Then it is tossed with a squeeze of fresh lemon, some kind of oil and the pungent fermented tealeaves.