BURMESE BBQ & GOLDEN BUDDHAS | Mandalay, Myanmar
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The creator documents the final day of a ten day river cruise aboard the Irrawaddy Explore, focusing on an excursion in Mandalay, Myanmar. The journey begins with a visit to a holy Buddha image that is covered in layers of gold leaf. The creator observes the intensive manual process of manufacturing gold leaf, noting how large pieces of gold are pounded with hammers and rolled into paper thin sheets. The tour continues to a massive complex of marble slabs inscribed with Buddhist teachings, which would take a year and a half to read if studied for eight hours daily. After navigating the motorbike heavy streets of Mandalay, the creator explores local clothing and concludes the trip with a street food experience. The creator visits a stall where various meat and vegetable skewers are cooked on a charcoal grill. The video concludes with the creator expressing high praise for the quality of the Burmese BBQ, noting that the entire meal for two people cost only nine dollars.
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this is one of the most holy Buddha images in all the world is people from all over come they put gold lead on this Buddha
that's hard work doesn't it for about 30 seconds pretty good sweat
this entire meal cost nine dollars we each have three veggies peelers three meat skewers as much as we get both you know we paid a total of nine
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