When I was in Myanmar with my family last year, I couldn’t help but notice that most of the women and children had odd-looking yellow patches on their cheeks.
We reckoned that it was probably their version of the Malaysian bedak sejuk (cooling rice powder) and it was amusing to see that even some of the men had smeared the yellow stuff on their cheeks and forehead.
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