While pickling vegetables, meat, and even fruit is a long-standing preservation ... Lahpet has been an important part of Burmese culture since ancient times when fermented tea leaves were symbols ...

to which offerings of fruit or cooked rice are made with music and dancing. Now what has been happening to Burmese music since the radio and the cinema have vastly magnified the influence of ...

As Burmese astrology had its origins in Hindu ... and such recognition could be expressed by an offering of rice or fruit, or by a few words of supplication, or a gesture of homage.