| A few enterprising residents have opened vegetable stands, tailor shops, carpentry mills and teahouses in tiny shacks. |
| They were sitting on the steps or resting on the balconies of the teahouses, staring at the tired, footsore pilgrims as they trudged past. |
| In urban areas, men enjoy spending their leisure time in teahouses, socializing and smoking the hookah, or water pipe. |
| But the whispered questions at teahouses in Rangoon and across Burma were always delivered the same way. |
