A Taste of Burma

It was restaurateur Ankit Gupta's curiosity about his mother's much sought-after Burmese cuisine during his growing up years that acted as a catalyst in the creation of the vegetarian Burmese dinery brand Burma Burma, which launched its tenth outlet at Sattva Knowledge City in Hyderabad recently.

“My mother, Urmila Gupta, was raised in Burma, now Myanmar, but her family had to flee to Mumbai in the wake of the political coup of 1960. Growing up as a child, I was vaguely aware that the spice boxes in our kitchen were quite distinct from our Indian spice box. Gradually, the curiosity took me through travels to Burma and explored Burmese food, which has several cross-cultural influences, such as Indian, Thai, and Chinese too,” shares Ankit, who was born into a family of restauranteurs.

Having found a like-minded partner in childhood friend Chirag Chajjer, who also realized that there was a niche market for Burmese cuisine as there was no restaurant offering the same, the duo began scripting the success story of Burma Burma from the year 2014, when they opened the first outlet in Mumbai. Burma Burma already has a presence across Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Kolkata, and Ahmedabad, and now in Hyderabad, the largest outlet, spanning about 4,000 sq. feet.

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