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Mintha Theater
DANCE
(
www.minthatheater.com
; 27th St, 65/66; admission K8000; 8.30pm Jul-Mar)
Colourfully
costumed dancers perform around 10 dances from a larger repertoire. Some give human
form to many traditional stories, others are oddballs - perhaps a swan-necked harp recit-
al, a comedy drunkard or the jokily incompetant moustachioed U Shwe Yoe, tumbling
off the stage as he fails to impress his beau.
Win-Win 35
LIVE MUSIC
(35th St, 60/62; 9am-11pm, music from 7.30pm)
A small stage in the garden of this spa-
cious beer station provides live music from talented local bands. The show we enjoyed
featured Hotel California-esque chords and a singer with a Joe Cocker rasp. No cover,
cheap beer and sizzler-plate meals where the main vegetable is roast garlic.
Shopping
Mandalay is a major arts and crafts centre. It's probably the best place in Myanmar for
traditional puppets and handwoven tapestries. Beware: items may be deliberately scuffed
or weathered to look older than they are. Handicraft places generally have to pay com-
missions to drivers or guides, so prices may prove better if you visit alone.
Puppets
are sold at Moustache Brothers and Mandalay Marionettes.
Monks' ac-
coutrements
(alms bowls, robes, fans etc) are sold in the street west of Eindawya Paya.
Some gold-leaf-pounding workshops have a selections of
souvenir items
.
Shwe Pathein
SOUVENIRS
(141 36th St, 77/78; 8am-5pm)
Pathein-style parasols. Next door there's a leather-work-
shop and a gold-leaf shop.
Rocky
SOUVENIRS
(Sein Win Myint; 27th St, 62/63; 8am-9pm)
Various handicrafts including stuffed 'gold-
thread' appliqué tapestries, plus gems and jade.
Sut Ngai
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