My life in Myanmar: A morning in and around the Shwedagon Pagoda

I would recommend:

999 Noodle Shop (excellent Shan noodels)
California Skin Spa (40% reduction on some weekdays (call before going)- using Dermatologica skin products)
Gallery 65 for the art exhibitions
Hla Day on Pansodan Rd (opposite Rangoon Tea House) for beautiful Myanmar souvenirs
Hotel Chatrium (nice little gym, nice pool)
Hotel Savoy (nice bar on the pool side)
Min Lann Rakhine Seafood Restaurant, Yangon
Rangoon Tea House on Pansodan Rd for Myanmar cuisine with a twist
Sailing Club, Inya Lake (Friday evening drinks on the lake)
buying reconditioned furniture from Helping Hands (social project)

Books which I read on Myanmar

Tinsa Maw-Naing&Y.M.V. Han - A Burmese Heart
Emma Larkin - Finding George Orwell in Burma
Zoya Phan - Little Daughter
Ma Thanegi - Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy
Ma Thanegi - The native tourist
Inge Sargent - Twilight over Burma
Amitav Ghosh - The Glass Palace
Mya Than Tint - On the Road to Mandalay
Thant Myint-U - The River of Lost Footsteps (Histories of Burma)
Pascal Khoo Thwe - From the Land of Green Ghosts
Maung Maung (compiled&edited) - Aung San of Burma
George Orwell - Burmese Days
Khin Myo Chit - Stories and Sketches of Myanmar