This country - wide traditional festival celebrates on or around full-moon day of Tabaung in Myanmar calendar among the Myanmar community. The celebration on a good harvesting, although the name actually comes from the food made of glutinous rice cooked with groundnuts, coconut shreds, sesame oil, ginger and garlic traditional eaten at this time or year. It is cooked in water and then in oil in large, concave iron cooking pots.
HTAMANE'
Htamane' is one of the famous Myanmar traditional edibles made from sticky rice. Stick rice is the major ingredient and others such as cooking oil, peanut, sesame, coconut flakes, garlic, onion and water are to cook in a huge pan/wok on a big stove using fire-wood. Since the diameter of the pan/wok is over 3ft in diameter (4) strong men are required to operate a pan to cook. While cooking the continuous stirring is required for evenly cooked. Then (4) strong men have to stir with (4) big long wooden spoons like oars to cook evenly. When cooking end you can try the delicious and nutritious "Htamane". Then taking some for offering Buddha and monks and all the rest are made into packets and sharing the neighbor.
