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Text | Qing Yufei
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As everyone's living conditions are getting better and better, many people not only travel around the country, but also choose to go abroad to see different exotic scenery.
And Myanmar, as a country closer to China, has a lot of good reviews on the Internet.
For example, the scenery is good, there are many beautiful women, the salary is high and the job is good, etc., and there is also a saying that going to Myanmar will be "Ga waist", many statements are mixed, so what is the real Myanmar?
Since it is a trip, then it is definitely necessary to taste the local food, and the taste of Myanmar and Thailand is somewhat similar, the food is mainly sour and spicy, but Myanmar is relatively less heavy than Thailand.
When you arrive in Myanmar, the most common snack you see on the street is chili mixed with fruit, chili mixed fruit is a very popular snack in Myanmar, and the production method is also very simple, just cut your favorite fruit into small pieces and mix it with chili powder.
The taste of this snack is very sour and spicy, and you may think that it is a dark dish when you see this preparation method before tasting it, but when you actually eat it, it will have a different flavor.
However, Chinese people who have just come to Myanmar are generally not used to eating local food in Myanmar, but there are also Chinese Chinese restaurants in Myanmar, and there are quite a few of them.
When you arrive at the Chinese restaurant, you will find a phenomenon, Burmese people eat a lot in Chinese restaurants, and they have their own unique way of eating, such as eating with their right hand to eat rice, no matter how bad they are, they also eat with their right hand holding a spoon.
The reason for this is that for the Burmese people, the right hand is very honorable, and the right hand is used to do important things, such as greeting, eating, shaking hands with others, etc., while the left hand is used to go to the toilet.
In addition to the snack of chili mixed with fruits, Myanmar also has many local staple foods, such as rice noodles and fried rice. Pasta, on the other hand, Burmese people prefer "dry" noodle snacks, which are made from noodles to make salad, which is usually eaten with soup.
In addition, the main attraction is the insects, and in the food stalls in Myanmar, you must have fried bugs, you will see all kinds of bugs and bugs of various colors being skewered and fried, and even spiders are among them.
If the outsiders who can't adapt to it see it, they will definitely be disgusted and can't eat, but even if they have this mentality, they must refrain from it, because the Burmese people love this food very much, and even this is one of the most characteristic foods in the local area.
Burmese people believe that bugs are a gift from nature, and fried bugs can not only retain the umami taste of the bugs themselves, but also enjoy their rich protein, which can be described as very nutritious, which is also the favorite food of poor families in Myanmar.
If you're visiting Myanmar for a short time, you can enjoy a range of local cuisines, while in Myanmar you can eat three meals a day for about the same time as in China, where you eat steamed rice and palm sugar.
Of course, Myanmar also eats dumplings in the morning, but Burmese dumplings are not quite the same as our Chinese dumplings, they are filled with pork or bean paste, and Chinese food and dinner are similar to those in China.
However, although Myanmar cuisine has many characteristics, it is indeed not very friendly to outsiders, first of all, people are not used to eating from other places, and secondly, the price of goods is unexpected.
Myanmar's per capita GDP is about 1,423 US dollars, equivalent to 10,113 yuan, only a quarter of that of Gansu Province on the mainland, ranking third from the bottom among the 11 countries in Southeast Asia, and its development is extremely slow.
However, there have been many cost-effective posts on the Internet about going to Myanmar, but after arriving in Myanmar, when all the food and drink need to be solved here, I found that the consumption level here is not low.
Some people even say that the price of food and beverage in Myanmar is higher than that of Chinese restaurants, and even the snacks in the street and alley stalls are not cheaper than those in the restaurants.
If you choose a relatively better hotel for accommodation, the price is more expensive than the same level hotel in China, and even the most basic goods shopping is not as cheap as everyone thinks, after all, many people want to come out to play and bring some gifts to their families.
However, the goods sold in Myanmar are not cheap, and even the goods that seem to many tourists to be ordinary are sold at a relatively high price, which is beyond everyone's imagination.
Of course, this situation cannot be ruled out because the locals see that the prices are deliberately raised by foreign tourists, but the overall consumption level in Myanmar is not low.
However, compared with the high level of consumption in Myanmar, the housing prices are low, and the ordinary houses in Myanmar are sold in Yangon as an example, and the price of the locals is 1,000 yuan to 2,000 yuan per square meter, but if it is a foreigner, it is 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan per square meter.
From here, there is a huge gap between the two, because someone has long ago revealed on the Internet that because they feel that Myanmar has a low standard of living, they will earn a sum of money in the country and go to Myanmar to live a good life.
But seeing this, it seems that everything is not as simple as everyone thinks. Even if you choose to rent an apartment in Myanmar, the rent is a lot of money.
The rent is also in Yangon, for example, with furnished and unfurnished prices of 100 square meters in the city center, and the monthly rent is more than 4,000 yuan.
The furnished ones will be more expensive, with a monthly rent of about 7,000 yuan. This rent may be good for friends who live in first-tier cities and second-tier cities in China, but the premise of this housing price positioning is directly proportional to income.
But Myanmar's income is clearly not proportional to its spending.
Just because, the per capita salary level in Myanmar is about 1,000 yuan, and the average salary level of employees is about 800 yuan, but the technical staff will be relatively higher.
For example, the salary of an engineer is as high as more than 3,000 yuan, but the salary of the textile industry is only about 600 yuan, and even the salary of white-collar workers is only 1,000 yuan to 2,000 yuan, relatively speaking, the salary difference is also very large.
On the whole, the salary level of Myanmar people is somewhat low, but the consumption level is very high, and it can only be said that Myanmar people have their own way of survival.
Like many locals, they don't need to spend extra money to buy a house to live in, and as for eating Burmese local specialties, they can make a lot of money.
Even fruits are rarely eaten, because Burmese fruits are sold, whether it is a foot or an avocado, pineapple, etc., they are all sold, and the price of these fruits is cheaper, but apples, pomegranates, and persimmons are very expensive.
So, what about medical care in Myanmar?
In fact, in Myanmar, many people would rather choose to go to fortune telling than spend money to go to the hospital to see a doctor, which is enough to see that the trust of Myanmar people in the hospital is not high, but fortune telling cannot solve the fundamental problem, so in desperation, Myanmar locals will choose to go abroad.
Generally, when going abroad, I go to neighboring Thailand to see a doctor, which shows that Myanmar people do not trust the local medical care at all, and the local medical environment in Myanmar is indeed not small.
Just because the locals don't trust the low profitability of natural hospitals, and there is even a high probability that medical conditions will be reduced over time, this is a fatal development for the Burmese people.
But if you think about it carefully, if the local medical conditions are good and can make great achievements, there is no reason for Myanmar locals not to believe it, and as a local, it is natural that they have heard about and even seen some things for a long time to be so distrustful of local medical care.
Therefore, medical care is also one of the biggest problems in Myanmar, and friends who choose to travel to Myanmar should pay attention to the fact that if you really go in case of any physical condition in the middle, the medical conditions may not be optimistic.
In fact, the Burmese people's way of life is somewhat ancient, and there is a big information gap, where because the families are relatively poor and the salary is not high, so they have almost no electronic products such as mobile phones, so many people can only take care of themselves.
As a result, many people in Myanmar do not understand the situation of the outside world, and the poor can only take care of their own three meals a day, and the most they think about is how to save money.
Even the basic household equipment such as televisions, refrigerators and washing machines, which are thought to be popular among the public, are luxury goods for many Burmese people, and such furniture is only available to the wealthy in Myanmar.
Therefore, in Myanmar, you will find that many people wash their clothes by the river, there is no so-called water bill, and even many people save on electricity bills, so they can live with such a low salary.
In addition, the phenomenon of patriarchy in Myanmar is extremely serious, such as the custom of "male right and female left" in Myanmar, "right" is expensive, "left" means cheap, so women have little status at home on weekdays.
Even when eating, women can only sit on the left, while men sit on the right, and every household is patriarchal, so women have little independent opinion, and they have long been deeply bound by local customs and cultural transmissions.
It is precisely because of this that it does not cost too much money to travel to Myanmar, which is what some people on the Internet say does not cost money, but it also shows that the overall level of Myanmar is very low, and there is not even a so-called high-paying job, and the locals are living hard, let alone outsiders?
Therefore, I would like to remind my friends not to be confused by the high-paying jobs in Myanmar and to be responsible for their personal safety!