Very glad to hear that you enjoyed the pictures and my commentary (and my feeble attempts to find humor in travel/culture).

That tradition of sharing drinking cups is not limited to Burma though. In Vietnam, at a roadside food stall, there will be a bunch of cups for people to drink tea from a tea pot. When I was growing up there, I had no problems doing what everyone was doing. After living in the US for a while, that just grosses me out.

On the other hand, that tradition of sharing drinking cups at the water cooler in Burma and elsewhere would disappear overnight if there were an infectious disease that spread via sharing cups.