7th Annual Moegyo Burmese Food Fair

Sunday, June 8th, 2014

12:00 noon to 3:30 pm

Long Island City
Aviation High School

 45-30 36th Street

Long Island City, NY 11101

Event entrance is on 35th Street

Corner of Queens Blvd and 35th Street

By Train: 7 train to 33rd St / Rawson St Station on Queens Blvd.

By Car: 35th Street between Queens Blvd (East Bound) and 47th Avenue

See the 7th Annual Moegyo Burmese Food Fair Menu.

 See the photos of 6th Annual Burmese food fair from last year.

REVIEWS

Dave of Eating in Translation said, "I arrived 15 minutes before the scheduled starting time and found the joint already jumping.".

Meg Cotner mentions Meogyo Burmese Food Fair as "the most anticipated food festivals in Queens" in the book "Food Lovers' Guide to Queens".

James Boo of the Eaten Path calls it, "a smörgåsbord of home-cooked Burmese food that joyously undoes New York’s lack of Burmese restaurants for one delicious day in Queens". 

Joe DiStefano of Chopsticks + Marrow calls it, "the grandaddy of them all Burmese food festivals".

Liz of GlobalAsianCulture.com said, "I just had the most amazing bowl of noodles in a long, long time.". 

Max Falkowitz of Serious Eats said, "lots of brothy noodles, salads with unexpected nuts, stewed meats, and slurpable desserts".

William of Edible Queens said, "Burmese food is just as amazing as I remember it."

Corey Reis of Marhaba Wa Aloha said, "As you don't often find Burmese food in Manhattan, I was looking forward to trying a new type of cuisine.".

Wendy Wong of Real Cheap Eats NYC said, "I got an excellent introduction to the cuisine at the Moegyo Humanitarian Foundation’s annual Burmese Food Fair in Long Island City, Queens."

This activity is not sponsored or endorsed by the New York City Department of Education or the City of New York.

Moegyo sends tens of thousands of books to the people of Myanmar (Burma)

Myanmar Book Aid & Preservation Foundation in Myanmar partnered with the Nargis Library Recovery in the United States has been working in rebuilding libraries and providing books to the people of Myanmar (Burma) since 2001. In 2013, it partnered with Daw Khin Kyi Foundation and Beyond Access to acquire and distribute books to the public libraries, schools libraries and universities across Myanmar. The process of shipping and distribution of 1,000,000 (a million) books donated by Thrift Books in the United States has begun in the late 2103 and expected to be completed by the end of 2014.

Moegyo Humanitarian Foundation is grateful to be able to provide the logistics cost to deliver a 40 foot container full of over 50,000 (fifty thousand) books from the United States to the people of Myanmar.