You ever bump into those co-founders of multiple start-ups at events or bars? We all know it’s not easy to start a business, let alone being successful so it’s always energizing to meet these young fellas with nice belts and shiny business cards that smell like success. Impressive. We wish everybody in the country had … Continue reading Entrepreneur Starter Pack for Myanmar 4.0

For the last decade, change has been one of the most common descriptions of Myanmar. Expats and tourists alike always talked about how much Myanmar has changed since the last time they have visited. Us locals talk of things we didn’t have a few years back. From cheap sim cards and decent usable Internet connection … Continue reading From Invisible Boxes to Unreadable Squiggles

Bus rides are my favorite experience to observe people. Various kinds of people with different appearances and personalities hop on the same bus, interacting with each other for a very brief period of their lives. Does it sound interesting to you, too? Because it does to me. It wasn't long ago that our notorious bus … Continue reading Tales from YBS

The year is 2019, Yangon is supposedly the most (and only) cosmopolitan city in Myanmar. We celebrated Pride a while back, with the first Pride March on the Yangon River, with multiple little boats boasting the beautiful rainbow flags, people of many sexual orientations on cruises celebrating. It was like magic. Everyone is having a … Continue reading Straight Talk from a Gay Guy

Time from time, we come across lovely messages sent by our loyal readers from all over the world. (A little exaggerating you might think but it’s true; we have roughly about 23 regular readers around the Globe) Among the messages that we received, one caught our attention. This email said some people here in Myanmar … Continue reading 52 Types of People Who Think They Are Better Than You

We all love internet quizzes and half-ass IQ tests, don’t we? We must because that’s how we helped build BuzzFeed to become nearly one billion dollar company today. Drooling over similar potential fortune and wealth, we at Mohinga Matters come up with some interesting questions/ problems for our readers who are bored enough to click … Continue reading Myanmar Trivia: For politicians & Non-politicians

What is the first thing that comes into your mind when you hear the word “YCDC”? To us, we think of an orange-shirt-wearing figure who collects the trash we throw on a dirty garbage truck or grey-colored-uniform-wearing officers who leave utility bills at our doors. Guess what, now we have a chance to elect their … Continue reading Voting is Our Responsibility

Last week, we found out that Refinery29 published a Money-Diaries story about a foreign worker with $4,000 monthly income, working in Myanmar. (Thanks to Baelachaung!)  Money-Diaries is basically a person’s daily journal entry on finances. This girl is a 25-year-old with student loans, working in Yangon as a program coordinator at a nonprofit and her … Continue reading A Week of Non-Expat Living in Yangon