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Even though it was not quite 5:30 AM, this kun ya (beetle nut) vendor was already doing business outside Rangoon's Central Fish Wholesale Market. Sliced beetle nut is mixed with tobacco, calcium hydroxide paste and lime juice and wrapped in a beetle nut tree leaf to form a small package. It is placed in the mouth and chewed to extract the mildly intoxicating (or so I am told) dark red juices, which are then spit on the ground with seeming reckless abandon.
Uploaded: Apr, 09 2010 | Taken: Mar, 18 2009| Viewed: 42 times  | 4 votes
Camera: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD. | Model: EX-S600 | Exposure 1/15s | FLength: 6mm | SW: 1.00

pesu - Apr, 09 2010 02:04am
Well describing info, good pic.

jacko1 - Apr, 09 2010 04:04am
Our old soldiers knew this as Betel Nut, the info on it is very interesting!


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