Shwe Sa Bwe Hospitality Training School & Restaurant, Yangon.

Shwe Sa Bwe  is a restaurant & hospitality training school, training some 20-25 hospitality students every year. Their programs are offered free of charge to disadvantaged students coming from the poorer provinces, as well as local monastery schools and orphanages. Students are divided into groups for culinary or front of house service training, and undergo…

Perfume Making With KUKA-aromateque, Yangon.

KUKA-aromateque is Myanmar’s first perfume studio, where guests can make their own personalised eau de perfum under the tutelage of (the very lovely) perfume designer Ana Cecilia Cervigni. KUKA-aromateque offers two courses, a 2 hour session where you have access to 50 different ingredients from which to make your own bespoke eau de parfum, or…

Returning to Myanmar During Covid-19 – An INGO Workers Account – GUEST POST

In the midst of all these relocations, I thought it might also be of interest to see an account of how one of my friends made it back into Myanmar (woohoo!) I should point out that this is currently ONLY valid for INGO employees, and the WFP flight mentioned is only available for humanitarian workers and diplomats to re-enter Myanmar….

Relocating to Seoul, South Korea from Yangon, Myanmar During Covid-19 – GUEST POST

Packing up your life into a few suitcases and moving countries is never the easiest thing to do, but the sense of excitement tends to overcome the feelings of uncertainty of having to start all over again in a new home, job & country. Here my friend Breanna writes about her, and her husbands experiences moving from Yangon, Myanmar…