BURMA O CLOCK - Wheaton (IL)

5 /5 Lee Chow: Burma O’Clock offers 100% authentic dishes with homemade flavors that remind me of my Burmese mother’s cooking! We started with the Burmese fritters, tea leaf salad and ginger salad for appetizers. The batter on the fritters was light and crispy and the sweet & sour tamarind sauce was a perfect balance to the fritters. Both the tea leaf and ginger salads were refreshing and texture-rich. We sampled all the traditional dishes, including Khao Swe, Moh Hinga, Nan Gyi Thoke - all wonderfully rich broth full of authentic flavors: coconut, curry, turmeric, fish sauce paired with very fresh and perfectly cooked (and bouncy) noodles. The beef curry with coconut infused rice was exceptionally tender and fragrant! Of course, we couldn’t resist finishing the wonderful meal with a serving of Falooda for dessert. The owner was so sweet and generous, she gifted us with some complimentary Burmese banana cake. I wish I can give Burma O’Clock more than 5-stars because it exceeds all expectations! It deserves a Michelin star, if not 4! If you’re familiar with Burmese food, you will find Burma O’Clock to be an authentic treasure and a culinary gift for those craving delicious food from the homeland… and if you are a first timer to Burmese food, this is the place to go to take your tastebuds on an unbelievable adventure! Wheaton and the surrounding areas are lucky to have such an authentic restaurant! My 92-year old Burmese father was transported to old memories of Yangon, with every delicious bite! Burma O’Clock is not just authentically delicious food, it’s a culturally rich experience! Thank you, Mra, we can taste your passion in your cooking! Much success to you for such a fine restaurant!

5 /5 Nathan and Grace Bliss: Amazing food, and polite and attentive server, though they were short-staffed. We loved everything we ordered, from the fried tofu appetizer to the shwe taung noodles to the mango sticky rice. Not overly noisy which was nice for us. Absolutely recommend!!

5 /5 Ash M: My friends and I love Burmese cuisine, so how lucky for us for another option available in this area! We tried several dishes and were quite pleased with them. Stand out dishes for us: Tea Leaf salad (flavorful and refreshing), Shan Noodles (savory and full of tomato flavor), and surprisingly the mashed potatoes (fried garlic and chili oil mixed in… so good). Everything else was great too. We liked the spiced tamarind sauce to dip our fried appetizers in. The restaurant itself is cute and very cozy. Service was very good as well. I will keep the review at 5 stars, but one area they can improve is the spice level based on customer requests. We did ask for “extra spicy everything”, but apparently they do not spice up your food for you. This was a first for us at this type of establishment. Our poor server had to run back and forth to the kitchen to constantly fetch us more chili oil. I heard the table next to ours complain their food wasn’t spicy enough either and I yelled across to them to ask for chili oil as well. If Burma O’Clock refuses to take spice level requests, then they should keep a container of chili oil on each table so customers don’t have to keep asking for more. I have a feeling they go mild on the spice as they try to navigate the demographics of this area. That’s fair. But if customers are asking for spice, they truly should take it into consideration when creating the dish or at the very least make chili oil easily accessible on each table.

4 /5 Denise Mak: First Burmese cuisine experience. A little pricey for portion size but tasty Tea leaf salad: tasty Pork curry: tasty and good texture but a little dry (just wish there was a little bit more sauce for the amount of rice) Mohinga: tasty and pleasant fish flavor Decor was nice and everything appeared clean, just 1 small roach in bathroom.