The Food Part
Cambodian food is never considered Cambodian without the peppermint leaves. It just makes the food taste odd. Peppermint should stay as a candy flavouring, that's all it should do.
We tried the fried spider on our way up to Siem Reap. We were told by Sakett that it is like crab meat and is very tasty. And we should have known better that he is not known to be very honest in non-serious matters. 4 of us shared the one spider we bought, we threw the remaining 4 legs of the 8 and the body away.
Then there was the tukalok, our favourite fruit smoothie. The ice-blended mix is a riot of flavours. One moment you taste pineapple, another you sense durians, in another moment you discover traces of other fruits in their as well. Cambodia also had the sweetest dragonfruit I've ever eaten. I am disappointed each time I eat the fruit again in Singapore.
Our hopes for the 'amoc' was also artificially inflated by Sakett, who told us that 'amoc' was food for the kings, and made from ingredients that are very rare and hence very tasty and fit for eating only by the nobles. Well, either he bluffed or we expected too much. It just feels like a very well crafted curry by a good cook. But still it was pretty nice to eat.
As part of the set meal that accompanied the 'amoc', there was the sticky mango rice. It was a great dessert! The mango was very sweet and the sticky rice was laced with lethal saccharine that provided a 'high' and strong craving for more.
We also tried 'pon tia korn', something we told ourselves that we die die must try, if not we could not consider ourselves never been to Cambodia. It is duck foetus, half cooked inside it's egg shell. It's pretty hard to swallow, and stomach. I had to share with Hailiang to finish just one egg.
We tried the fried spider on our way up to Siem Reap. We were told by Sakett that it is like crab meat and is very tasty. And we should have known better that he is not known to be very honest in non-serious matters. 4 of us shared the one spider we bought, we threw the remaining 4 legs of the 8 and the body away.
Then there was the tukalok, our favourite fruit smoothie. The ice-blended mix is a riot of flavours. One moment you taste pineapple, another you sense durians, in another moment you discover traces of other fruits in their as well. Cambodia also had the sweetest dragonfruit I've ever eaten. I am disappointed each time I eat the fruit again in Singapore.
Our hopes for the 'amoc' was also artificially inflated by Sakett, who told us that 'amoc' was food for the kings, and made from ingredients that are very rare and hence very tasty and fit for eating only by the nobles. Well, either he bluffed or we expected too much. It just feels like a very well crafted curry by a good cook. But still it was pretty nice to eat.
As part of the set meal that accompanied the 'amoc', there was the sticky mango rice. It was a great dessert! The mango was very sweet and the sticky rice was laced with lethal saccharine that provided a 'high' and strong craving for more.
We also tried 'pon tia korn', something we told ourselves that we die die must try, if not we could not consider ourselves never been to Cambodia. It is duck foetus, half cooked inside it's egg shell. It's pretty hard to swallow, and stomach. I had to share with Hailiang to finish just one egg.
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