Each weekend in Singapore, the Burmese diaspora congregates at Peninsula Plaza for news — and a taste — of home.
Customers stream into a pop-up food stall graced by a life-sized image of Myanmar’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, where volunteers sell home-made delicacies such as tea leaf salad and mohinga, a rice noodle and fish soup.
The stall’s owner, May Kyaw Soe Nyunt, said she takes in about S$5,000 (US$3,694) in per weekend, with all the funds sent to her homeland to help those having to endure life under Myanmar’s military regime.
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