Betel Chewing

You can not escape to seeing a small shop at every corner of the street in Yangon. The small shop sells the Betel quid, various cigarettes, and Burmese cheroot. Betel quid is a betel leaf packed with some ingredients such as a dash of lime, the small pieces of betel nuts, a little bit of anise seed, and a strip of tobacco which is ready to chew in the mouth of many Burmese people, and Indian people.

The chewing of betel leaf is to be done leisurely, and relax manner so that one will get the real taste of betel quid. You might be gone away if you are offered the pulp of chewed betel quid, but it was done only by the King and Queen who showed their preference to their followers during Myanmar Kingdom. The man of offered the pulp of chewed betel leaf is popular and proud among the others. The result of chewing betel leaf is the lip become red. So For the women and girls, it is a kind of beautifying their lips without any modern lip-stick.