Meeshay is a Burmese cuisine dish of rice noodles with a meat sauce. The dish originated from the Chinese mixian and became a specialty of the Shan people of Eastern Myanmar. Regional variants exist, but the two main types are the normal Mogok meeshay and the Mandalay version. Myay-oh meeshay is a Yunnanese version in which the rice noodles are cooked in a clay pot and the dish is served with a large quantity of soup and fresh vegetables.
The meat sauce is mainly made with pork or chicken. All forms of meeshay may be accompanied by mohnyin tjin (a popular Shan pickle made of mustard greens, carrots and other vegetables fermented in rice wine) and clear soup usually of chicken broth with scallions. Another common side dish to meeshay is fried Burmese tofu fritters.

Categories: Noodle dish
Characteristic of: Burmese cuisine
Contains, including ancestors: Pasta
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Wikidata ID: Q6807728
Wikipedia title: Meeshay
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