Pork Strips with Star Anise

One evening in Mandalay I went out to supper at a little Shan restaurant with a German woman named Ann and a young monk friend of hers, even though he couldn’t eat at that hour (see “Offerings at Dawn”). Afterward we went to see the Moustache Brothers, a comedy troupe headed by three brothers. Their show was subversive, funny, and touching all at once. Now that is changing, for as Burma moves toward democracy, they don’t have as much edgy material to