Lahpet is considered one of the national dishes of Burma and is a pickled tea salad mixes with ingredients such as crisp fried garlic, peas, peanuts, fresh tomatoes, fish sauce, toasted sesame, crushed dried shrimp, preserved shredded ginger and/or fried shredded coconut. Almost every Burmese meal, whether a simple one or a meal served at a special occasion, has lahpet.