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Lahpet Thoke

Name: Lahpet Thoke
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 3
Cuisine: Myanmar
Ingredients: 50g Fermented Tea Leaves (laphet); 1 Tomato; 1/4 Cabbage; 30g Roasted Peanuts; 1 tbsp Garlic Chips; 1 tbsp Lime juice; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Side Dish

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 3

Difficulty ⭐

Fermented tea leaves tossed with beans and nuts — Myanmar's unique tea leaf salad.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Lahpet thoke symbolizes Myanmar's rare culture of eating tea leaves. Steamed and fermented tea leaves are tossed with tomato, cabbage, and fried beans and nuts into a salad. Their slight bitterness and fermented flavor pair with the crunch of the nuts, and it's eaten with tea or after meals — one of the most distinctive dishes in Burmese cuisine.

🌆 Where it's eaten: When guests visit in Myanmar, lahpet thoke is often served first, and conversation starts over it.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 3)

Fermented Tea Leaves (laphet) 50g
Tomato 1
Cabbage 1/4
Roasted Peanuts 30g
Garlic Chips 1 tbsp
Lime juice 1 tbsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the fermented tea leaves with oil and garlic chips.
Cut the tomato into wedges and shred the cabbage.
Arrange the vegetables on a plate and place the tea leaves in the center.
Scatter with roasted peanuts.
Squeeze over lime juice and mix well before eating.

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