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Myanmar's emerging middle class warms up to cafe culture
A surge in swish coffee bars points to the changing tastes of the middle-class, and widening gap between them and the poor
Published Sun, Feb 1, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Yangon
BEHIND a wooden counter in downtown Yangon's Coffee Club, the unmistakable hiss of a barista steaming milk briefly drowns out a funky soundtrack piped through a store filled with students glued to their smartphones.
In any other Asian capital, it would be a ubiquitous sight. But in Yangon, this is something new.
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