ECHO Dining – Fine Dining in Yangon with a View to DINE for!

Fine dining in Yangon doesn’t come with a finer view than the one you get over the city from ECHO Dining. Claiming to be the loftiest fine dining restaurant in Yangon, if not all of Myanmar, the Echo Restaurant is a celebration of Asian cuisine inspired by the cooking of the countries that border Myanmar including India, China, and Thailand. At the helm is Chef Orng Joitamoi who says what makes his kitchen create some of the best food in Yangon is a close working relationship with the people who supply those ingredients and delicious produce right down the chain from farmers and artisan growers to purveyors and foragers, all who have generations worth of knowledge and experience when it comes to scouring the country for the very tastiest ingredients available. Chef Orng and his dedicated team in the kitchen use their background and accumulated experience to create some of the best food in Yangon from some of the highest quality farm-to-table ingredients.

The ECHO Restaurant maintains its position among the top restaurants in Yangon by relying on Chef Orng’s creative sparks of genius and his ability to create a menu that reflects the seasons in the produce and ingredients employed, and incorporate them into the Yangon fine dining experience. Guests of ECHO Dining know that they are going to experience the best food in Yangon as soon as they step out of the elevator on the 24th floor of Yangon’s M Tower as they are greeted by a view not to be found elsewhere in the city. Chef Orng says he may not be able to assure guests that the dishes they want are available all year round, but that he can guarantee a Yangon fine dining experience like no other and one that cannot be found anywhere else in Myanmar.

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Art Deco Ambience at ECHO Dining

Guests at ECHO Dining step out of the elevator onto the 24th floor where they are invited to relax in the lounge with a drink while their table is prepared. Here they can enjoy the incredible vista from the tallest fine dining restaurant in Yangon. The art deco interior creates a casual vibe with music to match. Seating at the best restaurant in Yangon includes cozy booths and informal loose seating as well as a selection of private dining rooms. Each of the three private rooms has a unique decor and ambience to match the fine dining Yangon experience patrons are looking for. The ECHO Restaurant is designed to offer an atmosphere that suits casual dining, business meetings, and can also be the perfect spot for romantic Yangon fine dining for two. The restaurant can also be hired out for intimate social gatherings where guests can get to know one another while experiencing some of the best food in Yangon along with a glass of fine wine.

Chef Orng draws inspiration from cross-border cuisine and the ECHO Restaurant prides itself on creating dishes from the highest quality seasonal ingredients. Standout favorite dishes include Myanmar Htamin Hinn (a signature dish and regional specialty of Inle Lake in Shan State made with fermented rice), Kyay Oh (a popular noodle soup usually made with pork and egg), and Mohingya (a delicious fish soup with rice noodles). Although a deft hand at creating his take on traditional dishes, Chef Orng is open to learning about different dishes and creations from around the globe too and prides himself on seeking out different ways to do this from expanding his local knowledge, eating at other top restaurants in Yangon, and watching what other creative chefs and foodies are sharing on their channels in the internet. He is highly trained in French and European cuisine so there are always some international favorites to be found on the ECHO menu.

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Chef Orng Joitamoi Brings a Lifetime of Experience to the ECHO Menu

Chef Orng has a vision of putting fine dining in Yangon on the international map through his ECHO menu. While growing up, Chef Orng says he and the other children in the village were expected to help prepare meals and that he learnt how to prepare food by watching his mother and his uncle. Creating the best food in Yangon reminds him of a time when meat wasn’t available every day so there was real excitement on the days when chicken curry made it onto the menu. Chef Orngs’s path to running a fine dining restaurant in Yangon took him to the UK where he was given the chance to cook with the finest ingredients including wagyu beef, caviar, and fois gras. However, he does not believe that the best restaurant in Yangon should rely on such high-class Western staples and that these ingredients no longer offer the inspiration they once did.

At ECHO Restaurant he wishes to champion undervalued and underrated ingredients found locally and elevate them to the level of fine dining in Yangon. He added that cooking had taken him to many different places and made him aware that in a world where cuisine is essentially borderless and ingredients can be flown in from anywhere in the world, there are ways of creating tastes that everyone can appreciate while experiencing the best food in Yangon. Chef Orng added that he aimed to prove through the ECHO Restaurant that a cook from Myanmar can create cuisine that is at least as good as the dishes created by other internationally admired chefs. He said he aimed to do this firstly by proving it regionally through his fine dining restaurant in Yangon and then to the rest of the world. ECHO Dining is located in the M Building on Yangon’s main road. Although parking is available a taxi will drop you off at the entrance to the main lobby where an ECHO Dining hostess will be waiting to take you to the 24th floor.

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