On my first day in Mandalay, I walked up to a tea house/beer garden.  This is a very common scene in Myanmar – basically a nondescript pavilion overlaying wobbly tables and chairs that serves as a restaurant/bar.  I hesitated at the entrance when I realized only men were inside; perhaps it was culturally taboo for women to dine there?  Just then a woman brushed past me.  Phew, I didn’t have to …