A woman cooks at a Rakhine traditional food restaurant in Yangon on May 13. (AFP)

Tasting Myanmar’s coastal cuisine, pushed to the brink by war

War has left people hungry in western Myanmar's Rakhine State, but conflict-displaced chefs preserve the local flavours of its delicate noodles and briny broth far from a region where conflict blights harvests.

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