This is a fresh pineapple juice I drank in a restaurant in Phnom Penh. It’s really delicious and fresh – since my tongue could sense its pineapple flavor and sweetness. Still my tongue felt that the sweetness wasn’t completely honest; I think they add sugar into the juice but at a little amount or they use a kind of sugar that I’m not familiar with. … Continue reading Do they add sugar?
It’s a kind of snack that Cambodian women, especially young and adults, like to eat. The old women don’t because it’s sour. Mostly they are fruits including mango, jujube, jicama and others. The popular one is mango which is made fresh and pickled slices. Though it’s pickled, we Cambodian women eat it with fried fish paste with pork – which is called ‘kapi’ in Khmer … Continue reading Cambodian women’s sour snack
Sometimes, my dinner is not healthy. Like this one: – steamed rice – pickled shrimp (which in Cambodia is called Yao He) – and pork. All of them, except rice, are salty. After eating it, I drank a glass of warm water—to prevent my throat from getting any trouble. Continue reading Not healthy but I love it
Cambodia is rich in fish. That’s why the traditional main ingredient of Cambodian food is fish including soup, grilling and frying. Snakeskin gourami is one of the fish dishes in Cambodia. However it is grilled or fried more than in soup. And mostly Cambodian make it to be a salted dried fish before it is taken to cook. Like in the photo, it is fried … Continue reading Fried snakeskin gourami
I’m not sure if it is lotus root or stem in English. I decided to call it young lotus root. In general, my house cooked it by frying it with oil and pork, sometimes with poultry. These days Cambodia is facing a weather problem. I don’t know what it exactly is, but it makes us lose appetite. We find all foods are boring, and we … Continue reading Homemade – breakfast, lunch, dinner
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