THE GUIDE - The Rough Guide to Myanmar - page 242

Daw San 560 Nibban Rd 09 4987 2584. A low-key Burmese restaurant, which dishes
up delicious curries all afternoon. The beef curry is particularly good, but there are plenty
of vegetarian options available too. A meal with side dishes will cost around K2000. Daily
10am-8pm.
Dream Journey 661 Pakaukku Kyaung St 09 500 7091. This café serves up reasonably
priced doughnuts and coffee (espresso K500) - the latter particularly popular with fatigued
teachers from the school opposite. The helpful young owner, Zin Wai, speaks excellent Eng-
lish. Daily 7am-10pm.
Miss You Myeik Rd. Although it's out of the town centre, it's worth making the trip to
Miss You to sample their delicious Thai-Burmese food - the seafood is particularly good.
The eminently cool owner spent years working in Thailand. Daily 9am-10pm.
Pale Eikari 572 Ye Yeiktha Rd 059 21282. A kind of upmarket beer station, this garden
restaurant is a popular nightspot with well-to-do locals dining on fairly average Chinese and
Thai food and enthusiastically drinking draught beer. Daily 6am-10pm.
DIRECTORY
Banks KBZ Bank (Nibban Rd) and Ayeyarwady Bank (Arzarni Rd) both have ATMs; the
former also offers currency exchange. Neither ATM currently accepts MasterCard.
Internet MCCInternetat68ArzarniRd(daily8am-11pm;K400/hr)hasagoodconnection
and also sells international calling cards.
Myeik
Surrounded by pearl-filled tropical waters and home to floating villages of Salone sea
gypsies, MYEIK - Tanintharyi's largest city - enjoys a rather exotic reputation. Inevitably,
however, the reality falls somewhat short. The town sprawls around the estuary of the Tan-
intharyi River, its Strand Road looking out over a rubbish-littered bank to the Twin Islands
(Padaw Taung and Pathet Taung), now linked by reclaimed land and home to a large fish
factory. And the Myeik Archipelago , of which the town stands at the northern end, is largely
off limits, as are the resident Salone.
However, Myeik is still an interesting place to explore, mainly for the opportunity to see
an impressive range of exotic industries in action. Entire neighbourhoods are given over to
drying fish and making ngăpí (fermented fish paste), and there's the chance to poke around
nearby shipyards and cashew nut factories, although you'll need a guide to find most places.
There's also plenty of attractive colonial architecture, and an interesting hilltop pagoda,
Theindawgyi , from where you can watch the sunset.
NotethatatthetimeofresearchalloverlandtravelsouthofMyeikwasofflimitstoforeign-
ers.