Egg noodles in a coconut-and-turmeric chicken curry, finished tableside with crispy fried garlic, hard-boiled egg, chilli oil and a splash of fish sauce. The SF-Burmese restaurant template.

Burma Superstar opened on Clement Street in the Richmond District in 1992 and helped establish San Francisco as the largest centre of Burmese cuisine outside Burma. The Bay Area is home to one of the largest Burmese diasporas in the US, and the city's Burmese restaurants codified versions of ohn no khao swe and tea-leaf salad that travelled back into the broader American food press. Burma Superstar's queue runs nightly; its sibling Burma Love and several Burmese restaurants citywide carry the genre.

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Burma Superstar ★ 4.3

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Burma Superstar in San Francisco is the Clement Street Burmese room that taught the city to eat lahpet thoke; the tea leaf salad is the order.

OrderThe tea leaf salad, tossed table-side with crunchy lentils and fried garlic.

TipNo reservations; put your name in then walk down Clement to B Star for tea while you wait.

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