Myanma Traditional Food " Pone Ye Gyi "

   

   

The must production of the best Pone Ye Gyi in Myanmar is in Bagan.
Pone Ye Gyi is one the Myanma Traditional foods which is made from hose-gram. And it is consumed as a side-dish all over Myanmar. And it can also be used as salad mixing with chilli, onion and oil (or) it can be cooked with meat. The process of making pone Ye Gyi, first of all, horse gram was sieved and washed. Then the cleaned horse-gram was boiled.

After boiling for three hours, it is time for sieving. In order to make Pone Ye Gyi, only the liquid portions are used. So the remaining horse gram becomes animal's feedstuff. The liquid horse gram has a taste of slightly acid or some are rich in taste.

If this liquid horse-gram is put into the pot for a night, it turns into a sour taste.
To change the taste, no chemicals are used. It naturally changes the taste from a rich to a sour taste. To get more pure in quality, the liquid is sieved again. The remaining cleaned liquid was boiled for about 3 hours. It becomes Pone Ye Gyi when it is getting sticky. These are cooled for a night. At the packing stage, Pone Ye Gyi is packed tightly to last long.

Those for dried powder Pone Ye Gyi, the cooled one are then grounded and sell as a dry powder one to last longer than the natural one.