Mont (food)

Mont
	A plate of mont kywe the, a rice flour cake sweetened with jaggery and garnished with grated coconut
Type	Snack or dessert
Place of origin	Myanmar (Burma)
Region or state	Southeast Asia
Associated cuisine	Burmese cuisine
Main ingredients	Various
Similar dishes	Bánh, Kakanin, Khanom, Kue, Kuih

In the Burmese language, the term mont (Template:Lang-my; pronounced [mo̰ʊɴ]) translates to "snack", and refers to a wide variety of prepared foods, ranging from sweet desserts to savory food items that may be cooked by steaming, baking, frying, deep-frying, or boiling. Foods made from wheat or rice flour are generally called mont, but the term may also refer to certain varieties of noodle dishes, such as mohinga. Burmese mont are typically eaten with tea during breakfast or afternoon tea time.^[1]

Each variety of mont is designated by a descriptive word or phrase that precedes or follows the word mont, such as htoe mont (lit. 'snack that is prodded') or mont lone yay baw (lit. 'floating snack balls'). The term mont has been borrowed into several regional languages, including into Shan as မုၼ်း and into Jingpho as muk.

In Burmese, the term mont is not limited to Burmese cuisine: it applies equally to items as varied as Western-style breads (Template:My or paung mont), Chinese moon cakes (Template:My or la mont), ice cream (Template:My or yay ge mont) and tinned biscuits (Template:My or mont thitta).

Ingredients

Lower-amylose rice varieties are commonly used as a key ingredient in Burmese mont.^[2] Sweet Burmese mont are generally less sweet than counterparts in other parts of Southeast Asia, instead deriving their natural sweetness from constituent ingredients (e.g., grated coconut, coconut milk, glutinous rice, etc.).^[3]^[1]

Varieties

There is a nearly endless variety of named dishes with the prefix or suffix mont. What follows is a list of the most typical traditional varieties of mont.

Noodles

Noodle dishes made with fresh rice vermicelli, which is called mont phat (Template:My), are typically prefixed with the term mont, including:

Mont hinga (Template:My) – savory noodle soup made in a fish broth
Mont di (Template:My) – a variety of regional dishes throughout Myanmar that use mont phat
Mandalay mont di (Template:My) - a noodle salad from Mandalay that uses thick round rice noodles

Savory snacks

Betha mont (Template:My, lit. 'duck meat snack') – curry puff
Htamane (Template:My) – seasonal delicacy made with glutinous rice, coconut, peanuts, ginger, and sesame
Khanon htok (Template:My) – stuffed savory crepe
Mont baing daung (Template:My) – steamed rice flour slivers sprinkled with roasted sesame seeds, salt, and coconut shavings
Mont kya gwet (Template:My) or mont salin daung (Template:My) – pancake made of rice flour and palm sugar batter
Mont lay bway (Template:My) – glutinous rice crisps
Mont lin maya (Template:My, lit. 'husband and wife snack')
Mont oh gin gat (Template:My) – rice flour griddle cake
Mont kyo lein (Template:My) – pretzel-like snack made of rice and bean flour
Nga mont (Template:My, lit. 'fish snack') – deep-fried fish crackers
Yay mont (Template:My, lit. 'water snack') – paper-thin crisp pancake of rice batter

Desserts

Aung Bala mont (Template:My) – rice pancake topped with syrup
Bein mont (Template:My, lit. 'poppy snack') – pancake made of rice flour, palm sugar, coconut chips, and peanuts, garnished with poppy seeds^[4]
Gadut mont (Template:My) – an Indian sweetmeat
Pathein halawa (Template:My) – a regional delicacy from Pathein
Htanthi mont (Template:My, lit. 'toddy palm snack') – steamed rice cake similar to Chinese fa gao
Htoe mont (Template:My; lit. 'prodded snack') – pudding made of glutinous rice, sugar, coconut and oil^[5]
Kauk hlaing ti mont (Template:My) – steamed purple rice cakes colored with kauk hlaing ti blossoms^[6]
Kayay kaya mont (Template:My)
Khanon i (Template:My) – glutinous rice patty with coconut shavings
Khauk mont (Template:My; lit. 'folded snack') – folded pancake made with rice flour, palm sugar, and coconut,^[7] similar to Thai khanom bueang
Kyaukkyaw (Template:My) – jelly made with coconut milk
Malaing mont (Template:My) – Burmese-style dairy desserts, similar to ras malai
Masakat (Template:My) – translucent rice pudding similar to Karachi halwa
Mayway mont (Template:My) – puffed grains of early ripened glutinous rice congealed into a mass with palm sugar syrup, similar to Chinese sachima
Mont baung (Template:My, lit. 'steamed snack') steamed rice cakes, similar to Indonesian putu piring^[8]
Mont gaung ohn (Template:My; lit. 'pillow snack')^[2]
Mont kalama (Template:My)
Mont khaw byin (Template:My) – steamed glutinous rice cake garnished with coconut shavings
Kway binka (Template:My) - a steamed golden rice cake similar to the bika ambon, introduced by the Sino-Burmese^[9]
Kway talan (Template:My) - a layered pudding introduced by the Sino-Burmese^[9]
Kway lapaysa or ahtat taya mont (Template:My) - a multi-layered jelly pudding introduced by the Sino-Burmese^[9]
Mont kya gwet (Template:My; lit. 'lotus cup snack')
Mont kyazi (Template:My; lit. 'lotus seed snack') – small balls of boiled glutinous rice in palm sugar syrup
Mont kyet u (Template:My, lit. 'chicken intestine snack') or mont gyo thwin (Template:My) – rice flour strings, similar to Indian jalebi
Mont kywe the (Template:My, lit. 'buffalo liver snack') – rice flour pudding sweetened with jaggery^[10]
Mont let hsaung (Template:My) - Burmese-style cendol
Mont let kauk (Template:My, lit. 'bracelet snack') – glutinous rice donuts
Mont lone yay baw (Template:My, lit. 'floating snack balls')
Mont lone gyi (Template:My; lit. 'big snack balls') – steamed sweet rice dumplings with sweet fillings, similar to Chinese tangyuan
Mont lone gyi kyaw (Template:My; lit. 'big fried snack balls') -fried sweet rice dumplings with sweet fillings, similar to Chinese jian dui
Mont leikpya (Template:My; lit. 'butterfly snack') – griddle cake of course rice, served with peas or jaggery^[2]
Mont nat (Template:My) – fine rice flour mixed with palm sugar boiled into a thick fudge
Mont onnauk (Template:My; lit. 'brain snack') – steamed rice flour jelly
Mont phet htok (Template:My) – steamed sticky rice dumplings, similar to Chinese zongzi^[11]
Mont pya thalet (Template:My) – batter cake shaped like a honeycomb, made of rice flour with or without palm sugar syrup^[2]
Mont pya tu on (Template:My) – spongy cake of rice flour and palm sugar batter shaped like a vespiary
Mont sein baung (Template:My, lit. 'freshly steamed snack') – steamed rice cake
Mont thaing gyon (Template:My) – rice flour griddle cake
Mont hsatthapu (Template:My) – griddle cake of rice flour covered with coconut shreds, palm sugar syrup and folded
Mont hsi gyaw (Template:My; lit. 'oil-fried snack') – fried sweet pancakes made from glutinous rice
Mont zan (Template:My) – glutinous rice flakes
Nankhatai (Template:My) – Indian shortbread cookies
Onno thagu (Template:My) – sago with coconut milk
Pashu mont (Template:My; lit. 'Malay snack') – confection of roasted glutinous rice flour mixed with sugar and coconut shreds
Pilawpinan mont (Template:My, lit. 'Pulau Pinang snack') – a cake made with grated cassava, similar to Filipino cassava cake
Sanwin makin (Template:My) – semolina pudding cake made with sugar, coconut, and butter^[2]
Saw hlaing mont (Template:My) – a baked sweet, made from millet, raisins, coconut and butter
Salu mont (Template:My)
Shwe htamin (Template:My. lit. 'golden rice') – brown glutinous rice cake sweetened with jaggery
Shwe yin aye (Template:My; lit. 'cools the golden chest')
Thagu byin (Template:My) – sago pudding sweetened with coconut milk and condensed milk

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v t e Burmese cuisine
List of Burmese dishes List of ingredients in Burmese cuisine
Salads	Burmese salads Cassia flower bud salad Fermented tea leaf salad Khauk swè thoke Nan gyi thohk Mont di Papaya salad
Rice dishes	Burmese fried rice Buttered rice Coconut rice Congee Danpauk Glutinous rice Hsi htamin Htamanè Sticky rice in bamboo Htamin jin Milk rice Thingyan rice
Noodle dishes	Dry Kat kyi kaik Sigyet khauk swè Noodle soups Kawyay khauk swe Kya zan hinga Kyay oh Meeshay Misua Mohinga Nam ngiao Ohn no khao swè
Other dishes	Burmese curry Chicken curry Goat curry Nga thalaut paung Shrimp curry Burmese fritters Baya gyaw Banana fritters Samuza Burmese tofu Lahpet Breads Chapati Nanbya Palata Puri Toshay Soups Thizone hin Talabaw
Snacks	Burmese mont Apon Bein mont Curry puff Halawa Pathein halawa Htamane Gyalabi Khanon i Khanon htok Khauk mont Kulfi Kyaukkyaw Ladu Malaing lone Masakat Mayway mont Mont baung Mont kalama Mont kywe the Mont lin maya Mont lone yay baw Nankhatai Nga mont Ngapyaw baung Ounhmangu Pashu mont Sanwin makin Shwe htamin Thagu Thagu byin Htanthi mont Htoe mont Burmese fruit preserves Burmese pork offal skewers Kawpyan
Drinks and beverages	Burmese tea Burmese milk tea Mont let saung Palm wine Phaluda Shalabat Sugarcane juice Shwe yin aye Yogurt Zozu
Seasonings and ingredients	Dried shrimp Jaggery Ngachin Ngapi Mango pickle Mohnyin tjin Paw hsan hmwe Pon ye gyi
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