Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Cambodia: The Food.

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Here is our usual culinary column: to start here is what the Khmer use for cooking.


The Lok-lak is a dish Traditional Khmer it's minced meat (usually beef) and cooked in sauce. It can be accompanied with rice, fries and eggs or vegetables.


Two other dishes very typical: on the left, the Amok, a fish curry with herbs and spices, delicious. On the right the exquisite Khmer small pasta, stuffed with meat, vegetables, spices and sometimes sugar also, all steamed, delicious ...



Fruits: top left lotus seeds, has the right, the rambutan whose taste is very similar to that of lychee, bottom left a fruit which we do not know the name but is deliciously sweet. Notice to connoisseurs who are willing to enlighten us!



Unusual: The fertilized egg skewers (that is inside the shell there is the egg white as you know or almost yellow and it looks a little chick with a beak and wings), roasted tarantulas (good!), locusts (we had already spoken to in Thailand, here is a luxury dish ) Finally, quail or very young chickens or even a different species of bird, grilled or lacquered ...


papillae sensitive abstain: left pepper, specialty Kampot (before the civil war in Cambodia all the Parisian chefs used). Right: From chili drying in the sun (It smells very good !!!).



Southern Cambodia is renowned for its delicious shellfish, people in the capital are very often has Kep example to try the crab (top left) , crab pepper (top right, Kampot pepper of course), crayfish grilled, salty, peppery and citrusy (bottom left) and Grilled cuttlefish (bottom right).


Baguettes in Laos but not so good.


This man is a glacier in his right hand he holds a huge cube of ice in the ice keeps it at the back of his bike, he raps the ice, then salvaged the ice grated in a glass (in his left hand under the ice cube), then he planted a stick in the glass, ice and extracted then sprinkles syrup (you can see the bottles in the front of the bike). To see the matches look in the left hand of a young man in green t-shirt at the bottom right corner of the photo.


Vegetables: In the middle of the left picture there is a lot of little red things, it's actually banana flower, the Khmer soups and curries accomodent. Right: Pumpkin, Khmers rafollent.

Bon appetit!

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