| Last updated February 27th, 2010 | 1,351 page views so far | 
One of our visitors to our site asked whether it is easy to find a Muslim Halal food stall or restaurant in Myanmar. Although Myanmar is not a Muslim majority country, it is a multi cultural, multi religious country. Thus it is fairly easy, especially in large cities and towns, to find a Muslim Halal restaurant or food stall that caters not only the Muslim population, but also caters for the local non-Muslim population. Actually, contrary to outsiders’ believe, Muslim food is quite popular among the local Burmese people.
Most of the shops that sell Muslim Halal food are small to medium size restaurants or food stalls. There are a few Muslim Halal restaurants that serve Chinese food, but they are not very popular, and only a few can be found even in a large city like Yangon (Rangoon). Most of the time, it is shops that serve traditional Indian and Muslim food that are popular among the local people. These small restaurants and food stalls serve traditional Indian and Muslim food such as nan, roti, prata, puri, dosai, mutton curry, potato curry, beef curry and kabab. These food are quite popular among local Muslim population as well as non Muslim Burmese. All cities and most large towns in Myanmar have Muslim food shops and restaurants.
Muslim Halal restaurants and food stalls in Myanmar usually do not put the regular Arabic Halal sign, except those few high end restaurants that serve foreign visitors. Most of the time, they just write down “786” on their sign board. This is “786“ symbol is used as a substitute for Bismillah “In the name of Allah” or “In the name of God”. This is a traditional sign used in South Asia, mainly in Pakistan, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
In large cities, like Yangon (Rangoon) and Mandalay, you can find Muslim Halal shops everywhere. In smaller cities and towns, it might be a little difficult to find one. However, if you could find a mosque, you will be able to find some Muslim Halal food stalls and small restaurants nearby. Just look for a mosque in any town. They are similar to the traditional Arabic style mosques everywhere in the world. Ask your taxi driver or trishaw driver to bring you to “Ba-li“.
Muslin Halal shops will usually write the letter “786″ in Myanmar numeral. It looks like this.
786 Muslim Halal food restaurant in Myanmar
We hope this information will be useful to all those Muslim visitors coming to our country.
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Thanks for the info. I am not Muslim but I learnt something from this post… I did not know “786″ has to do with Bismallah. Now I know
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Oops… my mistake there. Please allow me to correct my wrong spelling (“Bismallah”) to the correct one (“Bismillah”) in my previous comment.
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Good info. I’ll be going to myanmar on the 1st. may till 7th may 2010. so 786 is the symbol of halal. thanks
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shuhaimi Reply:
May 18th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Norayah and Alfaytd. M going to Myanmar from 28 – 31 May. Pls drop to me the address or shop and restaurant selling halal food. email tu shuhaimi_mohamed@yahoo.com.sg
Kuala Lumpur
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There’s literally no where else to find this good of content. I really appreciate you making this viewable to everyone for free. What a respectable thing to do!
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Assallammualikum … Norayah. I am a Moslem too and planning to Myanmar on 12th to 18th. I will be around town area (Yangon). If you really can help please drop address or shops and restaurant selling Halal food. My email alfayatd@gmail.com
Johor, Malaysia.
Wassallam
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salam..
i will be in yangon myself on 30-31 May.. appreciate if u guys could share where to find halal food in yangon..
btw.. where do u guys staying..? i will be staying in Sedona hotel.. they told me they have halal food there.. but not sure whether their definition of ‘halal’ is the same with us or not.. how about your hotels..?
Zafrul
KL
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Pls drop me adress of muslim restoran at yangon.or hotel that serve muslim restoran. Thank you
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mr khair Reply:
July 8th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
pls tell me muslim shop in yangon
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Muslim or whatever if you are from other country don’t eat anything that they sell on street.I mean food.Myanmar is really poor country so most of the people who make their living by selling food can’t effort good ingredient.Like oil.The major problem is oil.
The oil they use in fried and curry are not clean.And there are a lot of unclean thing like plate and cup.They barely wash them.So if you eat that food you had a chance of infect tape worm if you eating meat.And cool and soft drink you will get cough.
It is not like adventure from discovery travel and living.85% The restaurant in Myanmar are really dirty.
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salam,
I’ve been to Yangon several times n will be going there again on 15-28 Aug. There’s a few halal foodstall there. Behind Traders Hotel, there is a row of shops selling bryani. I dont remember the name, but one of it is halal, the one nearest to the intersection.
Opposite Bogyoke Market, there is a shop selling friend chicken. This is halal. It is the same row as the pizza shop.
I heard that Micasa hotel has halal food. I have yet to check it out. HTH
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