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  • 4
  • Excellent Burmese Food

Burma Superstar was a great experience - each dish included simple flavors executed extremely well, combined with very friendly and attentive service. We went for lunch, which turned out to be a good idea, as they said the wait could be 1-2 hours during dinnertime. The menu was huge and really had something for everyone - vegetarian, carnivore, spice lovers and not. Drinks- I had ginger lemon iced tea and my boyfriend had a mango lassi. Both were great - they give you a mini-pitcher of tea when you order the iced tea, and it was great - the ginger and lemon were combined in a perfect mixture without being overwhelming and also had a pinch of sweetness to it. The lassi was filling and sweet, like a mango milkshake! Food- After surveying the menu, we planned on ordering the tea leaf salad and eggplant/tofu curry. However, our waitress also mentioned that most people come particularly for the samosa soup - while we knew it'd be a lot of food, we didn't want to miss out! The soup came out first, served piping hot. It was full of a lot of flavors - samosa, falafel, onion, cabbage and a hearty broth. The samosa and falafel both had many components to them, and the serving was more than enough for two people - we were each able to have two bowls-worth. The salad came out before the soup was done, each component was served up separately on one large dish and tossed in front of us. The salad looked rather uneventful before being tossed, but each of the flavors complemented one another so nicely. The tea leaf dressing pulled everything together, and there was lots of crunch in this salad and all the vegetables were quite fresh! At this point, we were already getting full, when a rather large eggplant dish was brought out. The eggplant was particularly tender and the curry served with it had quite a heat! The tofu tasted like it was marinated in a bit of a sweet sauce, which gave at least a bit of a reprieve from all of the heat! At this point, we were both extremely full. Our waitress had checked up on us many times to make sure we were satisfied and happy, without being overbearing. While there are very few (I'm not sure there are any!) restaurants I'd wait outside for two hours for (they don't take reservations), all of the food was very quality. Definitely a bit pricey, particularly for a lunch time meal, though servings were very generous and you could easily have a bowl of cereal or very light meal for dinner.


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