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Tea leaf salad

  • TechniqueFerment

Lahpet thoke, a salad of fermented tea leaves, the dish Burmese food is known for. It opens the meal, one between two.

Also on our table

  • Salad, bowl and curry make the meal

Lahpet

Burmese · Shoreditch

58 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6JW

A Burmese kitchen on Bethnal Green Road cooking tea leaf salad, mohinga fish broth and curries with turmeric and lemongrass. Where we'd go for Burmese food, specifically.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the tea leaf salad

Strong evidence
  • Technique

    Pickled tea leaves with beans and peanuts fried twice.

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  • Tradition

    Cooked by a chef of Burmese heritage.

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  • Local choice

    The restaurant is named after it.

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We'd add

Our runner-up

Mohinga

Mohinga, fish broth with noodles, turmeric and lemongrass, Myanmar's breakfast. After the salad.

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