🇲🇲 Direct import from Myanmar

Myanmar food wholesale importer in Spain, Portugal and France

Over 240 authentic references from Myanmar. Laphet (fermented tea), ngapi (fish paste), cold-pressed sesame oil, highland legumes and the ingredients of one of the least-known and most fascinating cuisines in Southeast Asia.

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🍵 Fermented laphet

🐟 Authentic ngapi

🫘 Shan legumes

🌿 Sesame oil

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Myanmar is the least-known cuisine in Southeast Asia and, at the same time, the one that connects the most traditions: Indian, Chinese, Thai and unique ethnic identities such as the Shan and the Rakhine. An untapped culinary terroir in Europe.

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Laphet — Myanmar fermented tea

Laphet thoke (fermented tea leaf salad) is Myanmar's national snack. Green tea leaves fermented for months in bamboo, served with sesame, peanut and fried garlic. A world-unique ingredient with no equivalent in any other Asian cuisine.

Laphet thokeFermented tea leavesDried laphet

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Ngapi — Myanmar fish paste

Ngapi is the backbone of Myanmar cuisine: fermented fish paste more intense than Cambodian prahok or Malaysian belacan. Ngapi kyaw (crispy fried), ngapi yay (liquid sauce) and ngapi htaung (chilli paste). The base of sauces and dressings throughout the country.

Ngapi kyawNgapi yayNgapi htaung

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Sesame oil and nuts

Cold-pressed sesame oil from Magwe (the heartland of Myanmar sesame), toasted black and white sesame, highland peanut oil and sunflower seed oil. The country's most aromatic oils, used in everything from salads to curries.

Magwe sesame oilBlack sesamePeanut oil

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Highland legumes and rice

Shan black beans, Mandalay red lentils, Myanmar chickpea, Shan highland glutinous rice, Inle red rice and Shan tofu flour (made from chickpea flour, not soy). Unique plant proteins from the northern mountains.

Shan beansShan tofuInle rice

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Spices and curry pastes

Myanmar curry paste (with turmeric, ginger, garlic and chilli, no coconut), Myanmar masala spice blend, fermented tomato paste chin baung and the fresh turmeric leaf so characteristic of Mandalay and northern regional cuisine.

Myanmar curry pasteChin baungMyanmar masala

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Noodles and snacks

Mohinga (rice noodles for the national breakfast), mont hin khar (fish noodles), flat Shan noodles, chickpea fritters pe kyaw and hlipyar rice crackers. Myanmar street food in professional format for restaurants and catering.

Mohinga noodlesShan noodlesPe kyaw

Laphet and ngapi: the two unique pillars of Myanmar cuisine

No other cuisine in the world has laphet: green tea leaves fermented and eaten as food, not drunk. And few have a fish ferment as intense and complex as ngapi. These two ingredients make Myanmar cuisine absolutely unreproducible with substitutes. For anyone who wants to offer a genuinely different Southeast Asian proposition, Myanmar is the country.

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Laphet thoke — Fermented tea leaf salad

Tea + sesame + peanut + fried garlic + dried shrimp + tomato. The national snack, unique in the world

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Ngapi — Fermented fish paste

The base of almost all Myanmar sauces. More intense than any other ferment in the region

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Mohinga — The national breakfast

Rice noodle soup with fish broth, lemongrass and turmeric. Eaten across the country every morning

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Shan tofu — Not soy, it's chickpea

Shan tofu is made from chickpea flour, not soy. Deep yellow colour, firm texture and unique flavour

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Myanmar salads — A thoke

The salad culture is unique in Asia. Ginger salad, tea leaf salad, pennywort salad — all fermented or pickled

The essential Myanmar pantry

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Laphet

Fermented green tea leaves for eating

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Ngapi

Fermented fish paste

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Fresh turmeric

Used whole, not as powder

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Shan tofu

Made from chickpea flour

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Magwe sesame

The most aromatic in the country

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Fried garlic

In everything: salads, soups, curries

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Dried shrimp

Concentrated umami in every dish

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Myanmar dried chilli

Less hot, more smoky

From Rangoon to the Shan highlands

Myanmar has seven regions and seven states with very distinct culinary identities. The coastal cuisine features seafood and intense ngapi; the Shan highlands cuisine is light and vegetable-forward; Mandalay's is more spiced with Indian influence; and Rakhine in the west is the spiciest in the country. We import from the most representative regions.

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Rangoon (Yangon) — The former capital

The country's culinary hub. Mohinga at dawn in the markets, Indian-influenced biryani, Shan noodles and the country's most diverse street food scene. A melting pot of all ethnicities.

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Shan State — The highlands

Light, Chinese-influenced and vegetable-forward cuisine. Shan noodles, chickpea Shan tofu, the finest-quality laphet tea, glutinous rice and Inle Lake with its floating-garden tomatoes and vegetables.

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Mandalay — The royal city

The second city and cultural heartland. Mandalay mont di noodles, chapati with Burmese-Indian style curry, the most complex spice blends and the country's most aromatic sesame oil.

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Rakhine — The western coast

Myanmar's spiciest cuisine. The most intense ngapi, crab curry, Rakhine mohinga with coconut and chilli, and the country's richest fermented food culture due to its proximity to the Andaman Sea.

Map of Myanmar showing AsiaFoods sourcing regions

How we work with you

Specialists in Southeast Asia's least-known cuisine so you can offer a genuinely unique proposition that nobody else has in Spain.

Certified unique ingredients

Authentic laphet with certificate of origin from the Shan highlands, verified ngapi, Magwe sesame oil with full technical data sheet. The only ingredients of this kind available in the Spanish market.

Permanent stock

Regular direct imports from Yangon and Mandalay. Myanmar holds the most exclusive ingredients in our range — we maintain safety stock to guarantee supply continuity.

Myanmar cuisine specialist

Expert guidance on laphet, ngapi and a thoke salads. Team training focused on the most distinctive dishes and support to build the first authentic Myanmar menu in Spain.

24–48h delivery

Own refrigerated fleet across the entire Peninsula within 24h. Islands in 48h. Temperature control for fresh laphet, refrigerated ngapi and dry goods with real-time tracking.