This week’s recommendations will require a leap of faith. If you’re willing to wait in line for your food or to possibly sit in traffic for a restaurant with no set menu or hours, then you’re in luck.

A colorful spread Clockwise from top left: Crispy tofu with salad filling ($14), pumpkin stew ($16), Brussels sprouts ($15), Burmese samusa ($14), vegetable curry ($16), nan gyi thoke ($18) and ...

Rangoon Bistro started spreading the gospel of Burmese street food through pop-up dinners. It later became a fixture of the King Farmers Market, and shifted to a takeout-only concept operating out of ...

Finding my favorite Burmese restaurant dining room still closed, I went for the closest place that I knew of, the Thai-Burmese menu a few blocks south on Tonawanda Street. I didn’t know Family Thai at ...

Rangoon Bistro is not a kooky restaurant iterating on crab puffs; in fact, it doesn’t serve the eponymous fried wontons. Instead, the place takes its name from Myanmar’s capital city from 1948 until ...

Houstonian food blogger Suu Khin impressed the judges with her Burmese menu on the season finale of "MasterChef," which aired Sept. 15. She was one of two Houstonians competing in the 11th season of ...

From left, an order of Shan tofu noodles, "sour cabbage salad," noodles with no tofu, and chile oil from Asia Supermarket in Alhambra. (Jenn Harris / Los Angeles Times) This week's recommendations ...