Myanmar Snack - Laphet or Pickled Tea Leaves

Laphet or pickled tea leaves with a dash of oil and served with sesame seeds, fried garlic and roasted peanuts, is another popular snack typical of Myanmar. We normally eat this snack with tea. It tasted good even the ingredients were mixed together. Even this is snack, most of the people eat it with rice as breakfast or lunch. You can see the picture below: If you are in Myanmar, Please do not forget to try this snack!! I love this a lot. You may taste the very new taste but because of various ingredients of it will be yummy.

There also have many kind of Laphet (La - Phat) such as sour, spicy, sour-spicy, village La-Phat, etc. I hope you will like this.