Min Khin Kyaw : 15 July 09 : aminor-amajor.blogspot.com

The 2010 pot has been boiling on the 2008 stove. The junta and UN have been so keen in piling up firewood underneath the tiny ceramic pot as though it was a bonfire or a cremation. Yet what ingredients would be in the pot and who are going to be the chefs, haven’t been seen although they seem predictable.

So the pot is boiling and steaming ahead as water is the only ingredient in it for the moment. Water is truly invisible too.

The stove which is also made of clay and the pot are made in 2008 during the Nargis era as clay was the only material most abundant in Burma during that time. But good on the generals, they have been already cooking something.

How far are they going to keep the secret?

How longer do we have to wait to know the secret ingredients? Where should the ingredients come from – the generals, or the west, or China, or all?

If the ingredients have to be from the UN, perhaps it might be good for the vegetarians but how would the generals accept its offer – obviously it shouldn’t be how General Than Shwe, the Chairman, denied Mr. Ban meeting Ms. Suu Kyi?

If it were from the west, it must be stylish and classy (they’d afford that) cheese: about sanctions applied on the generals or aids to the people who need their lives to rejuvenate. Alas, the Burmese generals hate cheese?!

If they have to be from China, (modern Chinese ‘noodle’ is still artistic in colourful plastic bags but I don’t recommend it here) it must be persuasion or hosting (an) engagement between the junta and the west – that was once attempted by the Thais; but Chinese are no Thais as we all know.

And finally, if some of the ingredients have to be from the people of Burma, I’d never recommend any Mownk Let-Cout (bracelet snack); it must be a fair participation: the way of voting and freedom of choice.

Can they each bring some ingredients into the competition?

If the generals have made their mind that they will only reveal their secret ingredients at a certain time to the election. Then they have to make sure to have enough time to cook – got to have the quality worthy to be served in a dinner party where the noblemen and the international diplomats are attending.

And let us know sooner who the chefs are as Iron Chef Burmese and the opponent. This will be the largest event of all after 20 years.

But if the generals are not really letting anybody to cook new dishes but would serve the dinner with known dishes only, kept in the fridge for years, that won’t make a nice party.