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Colorful Vegetables and Fruit that are good for your health
Friday, August 13th, 2010Some of the colorful vegetables and fruit that are good for your health are:
- Vegetables and fruit that are RED in color, for example, tomatoes, strawberries and watermelons
- Vegetables and fruit that are GREEN in color, for example, peas, avocado, bok choy, kiwi fruit
- Vegetables and fruit that are YELLOW AND ORANGE in color, for [...]
Sour Fish Head Soup
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Burmese Version
Source: Mandalay Icon Magazine
Vietnamese Version
Ingredients:
* 1 large fish head or fish carcass, split down the center
* 2 scallions, white part only, crushed with the side of a knife
* Sprinkling of freshly ground black pepper
* 2 teaspoons salt
[...]
Beautiful Photos of Myanmar
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010There are quite a few beautiful photos of Myanmar at Garuda Indonesia International Photo Contest 2010 – My Beautiful Country. Here are some of our favourites that made it to the finalists, top 500.
Title : Just before sunrise
Location : Myanmar
Name : Aung Pyae Soe
Country : Indonesia
Title : Dusty Evening
Location : Myanmar
Name : Aung [...]
Food Photography: Korean Stone Rice – Bibimbap
Friday, June 18th, 2010Bibimbap Recipe
Serves 4
This can be served at room temperature on top of hot rice in individual bowls. Korean Markets typically have many varieties of side dishes in their refrigerator cases. You can buy some and make some of your own.
The Toppings
Use 1 cup of each of the vegetable toppings for the rice.
Seasoned Bean Sprouts
About [...]
Numeric Astrology by San Zarni Bo
Thursday, June 10th, 2010Click on the image to Enlarge
By San Zarni Bo as published in Lifestyle Magazine
10 Amazing Photo Manipulation
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Have a look at these amazing photo manipulation works done by talented designers and artists around the world.
Source: pelfusion
Hainanese Chicken Rice
Friday, May 28th, 2010 Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe (from about)
A local specialty from the island of Hainan off the coast of China
Serves 4
Ingredients:
* Chicken:
* 1 whole chicken, about 3 pounds
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 2 cloves garlic, peeled
* 4 [...]
5 Japanese Weirdest Kit Kit Flavours
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Apple Vinegar KitKat
Candid Sweet Potato KitKat
Sweet Corn KitKat
Soy Sauce KitKat
Baked Potato KitKat
KFC’s New Double Down Sandwich
Friday, April 30th, 2010This undated product image provided by KFC shows their new Double Down sandwich. The Double Down is essentially a sandwich with two chicken filets taking the place of bread slices. In between are two pieces of bacon, melted slices of Monterey Jack and Pepper Jack cheese and a zesty sauce.
(AP Photo/KFC, Dan Kremer)
Food Photography: Fried Rice
Sunday, April 25th, 2010Chinese Fried Rice Recipe
(from chinesefood.about.com)
Serves 4 to 6
This is a basic recipe for fried rice that you can add to as desired. If adding other ingredients, increase the number of eggs to 3.
Ingredients:
* 1 – 2 green onions, as desired
* 2 large eggs
* [...]
Food Photography: Hot cross Buns
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Hot Cross Buns Recipe
(from allrecipes.com)
Ingredients
* 4 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/3 cup sugar
* 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
* 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup fat-free milk
* 1/4 cup butter or stick margarine
* 2 eggs
* 3/4 cup raisins
* 1 egg yolk
* 2 tablespoons cold water
* ICING:
* 1 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar
* [...]
Food Photography: Chocolate Cake
Friday, March 12th, 2010Keywords for each star sign
Friday, February 26th, 2010Aries
Aries is energetic, innovative, original, pioneering, assertive, quick-tempered, strong drive, leader, ambitious, extroverted, sometimes aggressive, competitive, enthusiastic, self-reliant, and self-assured.
Taurus
Taurus is determined, efficient, stubborn, cautious, placid, persistent, enduring, introverted, conservative, conventional, materialistic, security conscious, stable, industrious, dependable, and one generally having significant financial ability.
Gemini
Gemini is flexible, versatile, restless, a jack-of-all-trades, lively, alert, quick-witted, literary, communicative, [...]
Food Photography: Pasta
Sunday, February 21st, 2010Chinese Horoscopes for 2010 – the year of tiger
Monday, February 15th, 2010Pig (1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007)
Positive: Gallant, kind-hearted, and sincere. Pigs rarely lose their temper and always try to avoid arguing.
Negative: Materialistic and pig-headed. These individuals have a problem saying “no” — to people, and to food!
Chinese Astrology Horoscope 2010 for the Pig: While the love life is expected to be much [...]
Food Photography: Salad
Friday, February 5th, 2010Cute Japanese Snacks
Wednesday, January 20th, 20102010 Astrology Predictions (FREE)
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Free Yearly Astrology Forecast/Predictions for 2010 from various astrology websites
ARIES | TAURUS | GEMINI | CANCER | LEO | VIRGO | LIBRA | SCORPIO | SAGITTARIUS | CAPRICORN | AQUARIUS | PISCES
ARIES | TAURUS | GEMINI | CANCER | LEO | VIRGO | LIBRA | SCORPIO | SAGITTARIUS | CAPRICORN | AQUARIUS | PISCES
Aries [...]
Photography: Myanmar Family
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself.
Food Photography: Sushi
Saturday, December 19th, 2009Food Photography: Kimchi
Sunday, December 13th, 2009Food Photography: Tom Yum
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Odd Stuff: Bread Shoes
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Bread Shoes by R&E Praspaliauskas
The shoes come in a variety of designs and dough recipes and are not wearable on foots.
You can buy them here.
Photography: Bagan, Myanmar
Friday, November 20th, 2009Food Photography: Vietnamese Pho Soup
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009San Zarni Bo – Astrology ebooks
Monday, November 2nd, 2009စံဇာဏီဘုိ – အခ်စ္ေဗဒင္
စံဇာဏီဘုိ – အခ်စ္လကၡဏာ
What does your star sign say about you? by Zan Zarni Bo
Monday, October 12th, 2009မိႆအခ်စ္ဒႆန (ARIES)
မိႆရာသီဖြားတို႔၏ ႏွလံုးသားသည္ အလြန္ၿမင့္ၿမတ္သိမ္ေမြ႔သည္ဟု ကမၻာ့နကၡတ္ပညာရွင္မ်ားက တညီတညြတ္တည္း သတ္မွတ္ထားသည္။ “ႏွလံုးသားစစ္ပြဲမ်ား။ဒဏ္ရာဒဏ္
ခ်က္မ်ား၊မီးေတာက္၊မီးလွ်ံမ်ားၾ ကားမွ အလြန္ခ်စ္တတ္ေသာ ႏွလံုးသားပိုင္ရွင္၊ ၿမင့္ၿမတ္ေသာ အခ်စ္ရွိသူ”ဟု ေဖာ္က်ဴးထားသည္။
အၿပင္သဏၭာန္တြင္ ၾကမ္းတမ္းသည္ဟု ထင္ရလင့္ကစား အတြင္းစိတ္မွာႏုညံ့သည္။ ေမတာၱေရးတြင္ အေပးသမားၿဖစ္သည္။ရယူၿခင္းထက္ ေပးဆပ္ၿခင္းကို ဦးစားေပးမည္။ လူတစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္ကိုခ်စ္မိလွ်င္ မ်က္စိေအာက္ကအေပ်ာက္မခံ။ မုန္းမိလွ်င္လည္း မေမ႔ႏုိင္။ သံေယာဇဥ္တႏြယ္ႏြယ္ ၿဖစ္တတ္သည္။ သေဘာထားၿကီးၿမတ္မည္။ သည္းခံခြင့္လႊတ္တတ္ေသာ အခ်စ္ႏွင့္ ႏွလံုးသားကို ပိုင္ဆုိင္သည္။
“အလြန္အခ်စ္ခံလိုေသာ အခ်စ္ကို ပိုင္ဆိုင္ထားသည္။အခ်စ္အားလိုလားသည္။ မိမိအေပၚ ေအးေအးခ်မ္းခ်မ္း သိမ္သိမ္ေမြ႔ေမြ႔ ႏူးႏူး ညံ့ည့ံ အေလးေပး၍ ဆက္ဆံသူအား လိုလားသည္။ ထို႔အၿပင္ သနားခ်စ္၊အားနာခ်စ္ကိုလည္း ဦးစားေပးတတ္သည္”
အခ်စ္ေရးကိစၥ၊အိမ္ေထာင္ေရးကိစၥ အားလံုးစံုတြင္ ဦးေႏွာက္ကို ဦးစားမေပး၊ ႏွလံုးသားႏွင့္ ဆံုးၿဖတ္တတ္သည္။ အခ်စ္အတြက္ ဘာမဆိုေပးဆပ္ရဲေသာ သတၱိရွိသည္။ တဇြတ္ထုိး လုပ္ၿခင္း [...]
Shwedagon Pagoda
Friday, October 9th, 2009Click on the image to enlarge
Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar
Yummy Korean Food
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Food Photography: Pretty Cupcakes
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Kulfi or Indian Ice-cream Recipe (Video)
Monday, July 27th, 2009Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 – Video
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009What is Solar Eclipse? (Ref: Wikipedia)
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Sun and the Earth so that the Sun is fully or partially covered. This can only happen during a new moon, when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth. At least two and up [...]
Myanmar Restaurant in Sydney – Bagan, Strathfield
Sunday, May 17th, 2009Bagan Restaurant, located in Strathfield, Sydney, New South Wales is the only authentic Burmese restaurant in Sydney, Australia.
Address
Shop 4, 41 The Boulevard
Strathfield, NSW 2135
(02) 8746 0666
Opening Hours
Tue – Sun: 11am – 10pm
Closed on Monday
Our recommendation
Entree
Fried Long Melon ($5.50)
Salad * Have it as an entree
Lemon Salad ($5.50)
Soup
Fish Head and Tofu Soup ($10.00)
Noodle
Kyay Oo (Soup / [...]
Thingyan Sar for Myanmar Calendar 1371 (English Calendar 2009 – 2010)
Sunday, April 12th, 2009Source: mmastrology
Cute Bento Lunches
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 (Flickr)
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Thai Papaya Salad
Saturday, January 17th, 2009How to make a [star sign] for in love with you (Videos)
Sunday, November 9th, 2008ARIES
MARCH 21 – APRIL 20
[...]
Photography: Amarapura, Myanmar
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Photography by jmhullot (Flickr)
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Myanmar Recipes e-Book
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Free Horoscopes 2008
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Image from Daily Astrology Horoscope
eAstrolog 2008 Horoscopes: see what the stars have in store for each zodiac sign in 2008
2008 Free Annual Full Year Predictions for Your Sun Sign
2008 Horoscope predictions based on Hindu Vedic Astrology
Explore horoscope forecast for 2008
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Photography: Nyaungshwe – Floating Village
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Photography by yeowatzup (Flickr)
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Photography: Bagan
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Photography by phonehtoo (Flickr)
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Myanmar astrologers to observe stars to forecast disasters
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Myanmar astrologers are hoping that by observing the stars and planets, they will be able to forecast storms and earthquakes, a newspaper reported.
A group of local astrologers is comparing their 2006 storm predictions with data from the meteorology department. If they are proven to be true, the astrologers plan to include storm forecasts in the [...]
Your love personality based on Zodiac sign
Sunday, May 27th, 2007 VIRGO – The One that Waits
Dominant in relationships. Someone loves them right now. Always wants the last word. Caring, smart, loud, loyal, easy to talk to, Everything you ever wanted, easy to please, the one and only.
SCORPIO [...]
Coconut Rice Recipe
Sunday, May 27th, 2007Ingredients
2 1/2 cups Long grain rice
5 cups Coconut Milk
2 1/2 teaspoons Salt
Method
Put the rice, coconut milk and salt into a saucepan and bring to the boil.
Turn heat very low, give it a good stir.
Put the lid on and cook for 20 minutes, not lifting the lid or stirring.
If all the coconut milk is not [...]
Burmese Horoscope/Astrology for 2007
Sunday, May 20th, 2007Burmese Horoscope/Astrology for 2007 6 pages special!
Photography: Grace
Sunday, April 29th, 2007Technorati Tags: woman, grace, myanmar, burmese, photography, fotos
Photography: Downtown Yangon
Sunday, April 8th, 2007Photography by Syeefa Jay (Flickr)
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Photography: Silk on sale in Mandalay, Myanmar
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Photography by exfordy (Flickr)
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What does your “love number” say about you?
Sunday, March 18th, 2007Your LOVE NUMBER is 1 if your birth date falls on: 1st, 10th, 19th and 28th
Your LOVE NUMBER is 2 if your birth date falls on: 2nd, 11th, 20th and 29th
Your LOVE NUMBER is 3 if your birth date falls on: 3rd, 12th, 21st and 30th
Your LOVE NUMBER is 4 if your birth date falls [...]
Photography: The making of earth-friendly pots
Friday, March 16th, 2007Technorati Tags: woman, workers, blue color, working, labor, myanmar, yangon, photography, fotos
March 2007 Forecast
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Check it out at shweDarling.com Horoscope section.
Photography: Traffic Jam in Yangon
Friday, March 9th, 2007Technorati Tags: traffic, transportation, driving, photography, taxis, cars, myanmar, yangon, photography, fotos
Photography: Men at work in Myanmar
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Technorati Tags: men, workers, blue color, working, labor, myanmar, yangon, photography, fotos
Let’s cook up a storm – Part I
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Cooking your favourite meal/dish/curry can be a bit of a challenge sometimes, but that’s until you check out these videos on youtube.
Mushroom Risotto Recipe
Shrimp Fried Rice Recipe
Stir Fried Ginger Chicken Recipe
Aloo Halwa Recipe
Spicy Chic Peas Recipe
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Monthly Burmese Horoscope Forecast for February 2007
Thursday, February 1st, 2007Click above to read more
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Myanmar on flickr
Saturday, January 27th, 2007Piccole cose – Little things, myanmar april 2005 112, 2 reuze boedha’s Bago- Myanmar, Myanmar woman, Myanmar, Myanmar Lafforgue, Myanmar 2005, Inle Lake, Yangon, Myanmar
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Photography: On a road in Yangon
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007A picture is worth a thousand words and thus shweDarling.com Blog has introduced a new category called Photography.
If you have some nice photos that you’d like to share with the rest of the world, please comment here and get your photos featured.
And today’s featured photo is…
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2007 Astrology Horoscope Predictions
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006Astro Profile
Jyotisha
Astro: 2007
Eastrolog (2007 Sneak Preview)
Travour.com Horoscopes
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How bad is your temper according to your horoscope
Sunday, November 26th, 2006ARIES : MARCH 21 – APRIL 20
Nothing seems to ruffle you more than a lack of discipline, disloyalty and decorum. But Arians are also known to go into a rage very easily when challenged. Those of you who have been on the receiving end of the Aries temper know that if not calmed [...]
Thanksgiving Recipe: Thai Roasted Chicken with Rice & Vegetables
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006Thai roasted chicken with rice is sure to be a hit, whether you’re planning a big dinner party (such as Thanksgiving or Christmas), or simply preparing supper for your family. This one-pot roast allows you to cook an array of fall vegetables alongside the chicken, which makes it much less labor-intensive than your typical Turkey [...]
Lentil Soup
Sunday, August 13th, 2006Lentil Soup
(4-6 servings)
2 cups dry lentils
4 cups water
2 carrots, finely chopped *
1 15oz. can tomatoes, crushed or chopped *
1 onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced or pressed
1 tablespoon fresh parsley, or 1/2 tablespoon dried flakes
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1. Wash the lentils by rinsing them under running water.
2. Put water in a large [...]
Myanmar Astrology based on your date of birth
Thursday, July 27th, 2006Technorati Tags: myanmar, burmese, astrology
Burmese Fish Curry
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006Burmese Fish Curry
Serves: 6
2 Pounds Fish — any kind, diced
1 Teaspoon Turmeric
1 Teaspoon Salt
2/3 Cup Olive Oil
6 Cloves Garlic — finely chopped
1 Large Onion — grated
1 Teaspoon Ground Ginger
1 Teaspoon Cayenne
2 Medium Tomatoes — chopped
1 Tablespoon Fish Sauce
1/3 Cup Water
8 Medium Scallion — chopped
Rub fish with turmeric and salt. Heat oil to high and [...]
Use the Stars as Your Guide To Finding Great Birthday Presents
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006Use the Stars as Your Guide To Finding Great Birthday Presents
By Anne Clarke
Having trouble deciding which birthday presents to get for friends and family? Never fear, astrology is here! You can be sure that the recipient will love the birthday presents that you give him or her if you follow his or her astrological [...]
Burmese Chicken Curry Recipe
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006An easy-to-prepare chicken curry recipe! A taste from home.
Ingredients :
1 kg – Chicken thigh
2 – Large onions, roughly chopped
5 cloves – Garlic, roughly chopped
5 cm – Fresh ginger, roughly chopped
2 tablespoons – Cooking oil
1/2 teaspoon – Shrimp paste (belacan)
1 teaspoon – Salt
2 cups – Coconut milk
1 teaspoon – Chili powder
200 g [...]
What does your partner’s star sign say?
Saturday, December 24th, 2005We hope that the following characteristics of star/sun signs will tell you a little more about the person you have met online at shwedarling.com.
Aries – March 21 to April 20
Adventurous and energetic
Pioneering and courageous
Enthusiastic and confident
Dynamic and quick-witted
Selfish and quick-tempered
Impulsive and impatient
Foolhardy and daredevil
Taurus – April 21 to May [...]