Alternative names | Takapaw |
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Type | soup |
Place of origin | Myanmar |
Associated cuisine | Karen cuisine |
Created by | Karen people |
Main ingredients | bamboo shoot, snakehead fish |
Ingredients generally used | Fish sauce, fish paste, rice powder, pepper powder, chicken powder, green chilli, okra, lemongrass, basil leaf, climbing wattle leaf, drumstick leaf, bean curd |
Talabaw (S'gaw Karen: တၢ်လပီၣ်, Burmese: တာလပေါ, Burmese pronunciation: [tàləbɔ́]; also transliterated as talapaw, lit. 'great soup' in Karen[1]), is a soup that originated in Karen cuisine. It is typically prepared with bamboo shoots, snakehead fish and basil leaves. A small amount of rice and some shreds of meat or seafood may also be added.[2][3][4][5]
The Karen traditionally used the soup to supplement rice, which was not cheaply available to them, consuming a large amount of soup with a small amount of rice in order to conserve the valuable rice.[1]
Talabaw is one of the most well-known soups in Myanmar, and widely considered to be the essential dish of Karen cuisine.[1]