In the roadside teashops, men in longyis sit on low stools. They talk over sweet milky tea and acrid cheroot cigarettes.

街边茶馆里，包着头巾的男人们坐在矮凳上。他们喝着甜奶茶，抽着辛辣的方头雪茄烟交谈。

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Many teashops, restaurants, and cafes offer a teatime comparable to those in Europe.

许多本地的茶馆、餐厅、咖啡厅都提供了足以和欧洲媲美的下午茶。

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Today's market includes stores such include souvenir shops of various types and teashops;

今天的街上的商店主要是卖旅游纪念品的商店和一些茶馆。

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Still, he may take some comfort from the fact that the University of Pathein has finally reopened and is thronged with students, who, on the Saturday evening I was there, crowded the teashops along the road leading to the campus gates, chatting, reading, flirting and listening to noisy music as students do the world over.

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But in the teashops of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, the talk two decades on is not of sanctions but of the need for dialogue, of frustration with the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, and even with its detained leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and of the widening gap between those who oppose the junta from abroad and those who live under its thumb.

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