Street vendor builds Yangon's top seafood chain

Rakhine migrant's fiery noodles triumph in Myanmar's business capital

May Cho rose from selling rice noodles in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to founding one of Myanmar’s most beloved seafood chains..jpg

Khin Khin San, who is widely known as May Cho (Sweet Mother), rose from selling rice noodles in Myanmar’s Rakhine State to founding one of Myanmar’s most beloved seafood chains. (Lorcan Lovett)

LORCAN LOVETT and MIN PYAE SONE, Contributing writers

June 29, 2020 08:03 JST

YANGON -- In 1987, when Khin Khin San was 13, she began selling bowls of mont ti fish soup under the shade of a tamarind tree in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine, where the rice noodle dish is fishier and fierier than elsewhere in the country.