Maybe you've only had the tea leaf salad at Burma Superstar, after an hour and a half wait when -- honestly -- once you sat down, you could've been served a plate of compost from the restaurant's green cart. Would have eaten it just the same.
Sit down for a far roomier lunch nearby at Mandalay, which doesn't mince words about which Burmese restaurant was first to open shop in the Inner Richmond (in 1984). Check out the lap pat dok (tea leaf salad), lemongrass with seafood soup, and mango chicken (bring a couple bros), and spread out a little.
Mandalay 4344 California (at Sixth Ave.), 386-3896
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