Rangoon (AFP)
From fish soup to spicy frog legs, cooking lessons for an eight-year-old girl in pajamas and charlotte on her head delight Burmese internet users, always invited to stay at home because of the coronavirus epidemic .
It all started at the end of April when the mom of Moe Myint May Thu, an influencer, published a first online video showing her daughter preparing a dish of shrimp.
Very quickly, the clip toured social networks, and the girl with a broad smile acquired a sudden fame and the nickname "Little Chef".
"I love to cook," she told AFP.
"It was a pleasure to cook together during confinement," she explains, alongside her mother, Honey Cho, in the family kitchen in Rangoon.
In her most popular video, seen over 200,000 times, she wears a unicorn T-shirt and explains how to make the Burmese national dish, Mohingya, a soup made from rice noodles and catfish.
Moe Myint May Thu says he has mastered fifteen dishes, such as tomato fish curry, pork stew or spicy frog legs.
"It is heart-warming to see so many people in Burma and other countries sharing her videos," said Honey Cho, for whom her daughter has gained confidence.
The young chef now has her own Facebook account, which garnered 8,000 likes in just four days.
"She is so adorable that I can no longer focus on anything else, I watch her videos over and over," read a comment.
Building on this success, "the little Chef" began to offer dishes on order, around 7 euros each, which she delivered herself at the end of the day.
She would like to make her passion a career, but for the moment, she is content to put a little money in her piggy bank to buy a small dog.
Moe Myint May Thu plans to continue cooking until August, the start of the school year which has been postponed by two months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In Rangoon, the activity resumes even if the watchword remains not to go out, except for essential reason.
Burma has so far recorded 228 cases of contamination and six deaths.
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