The same goes for lacquerware, which is a proud part of Burmese heritage.

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Europeans imported enormous amounts of consumer goods, ranging from cotton products, tea, and ceramics, to lacquerware and seasonings such as pepper and cloves.

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Today, Chiang Mai's infamous Night Bazaar is located a stone's throw away from the original trade movements that brought silk, opium, tea, dried fruit, lacquerware, musk, ponies and mules, gold, copper, cotton, edible birds' nests, betel nut, tobacco and ivory into the province.

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