Traveling helps me realize how much I don't know. Here are a few food-related sights and sounds that were new to me in Cambodia.
FRUIT
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| Just me and some local "durian" fruit. It's heavy. |
DRAGON FRUIT. The inside is polka-dotted
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| Dragon fruit on the outside |
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| See the polka dots! Fruit salad for breakfast every morning. |
My mouth is watering just writing about the mangos! Delicious.
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| Snake fruit - scaly on the outside; sweet on the inside |
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| Before cutting |
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| After cutting |
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| The biggest grapes I have ever seen! |
CARBS: Rice and Noodles
Just one example: rice sweetened with coconut milk and a few red beans. Cooked in a piece of bamboo. Yummy!
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| Bought at a road-side stand for 50-cents (USD) |
PROTEIN
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| Fresh eel at the market |
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| Eggs for sale |
Luckily for us, we visited Cambodia during cricket season:
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| Fried crickets and beetles. Remove legs and wings, head optional. Taste like potato chips. |
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| One dollar's worth of friend crickets. |
This is how Khmer people catch crickets:
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| There are certain leprechaun-loving Miller cousins that might enjoy setting up these kinds of traps. |
The white pole attached to the vertical plastic is a light. The light attracts the crickets at night. The crickets hit the vertical plastic and fall into the water on the ground. Crickets are trapped in the water.
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| chicken - organic and local |
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| frog legs |
Pleasurable moment, food-related: during Relief Society, the women spent time discussing an upcoming cooking activity. At one point, a woman sitting in front of me stood and walked to the front of the room, where she started to sing a song. The room hushed for the first time (I've never seen such animated church meetings!) as this woman sang a song that had been passed down for generations in her family. The words of the song reminded the musician-cook of the different ingredients needed for a certain kind of Khmer soup. It was delightful.
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