Archive for the 'food' Category

Snack Time

Sorting some publishing plans, I was at the office of a local print shop waiting for a friend. After looking around I found he'd stepped outside for a quick deep fried frog. (With hot sauce.) Can't say I've seen this too frequently, but then there is always some new munchable to be ...

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Snakehead Fish

spotted on their way to someone's dinner in Phnom Penh traffic. For more on where these fish come from, and how they get to the dinner table, take a look at Phil's excellent writeup on the Chbar Ampouv fish markets. Tags:fish,food

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The Smell Like Hell

"...and the taste like heaven." Hard to go wrong with a little Durian. Okay, let's not go overboard.

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After intake, evaluation, a brief policy assessment and strategy meeting, Mission of Empathy On Welfare of Quadrupeds (MEOW) has issued a brief statement: Two Phnom Penh kittens are yours if you want them. As is, no instruction manual. http://jinja.apsara.org/kittens_2007.pdf Somebody adopt 'em. Otherwise, they're going in the stew. Contact via this ...

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It’s always the bad news that gets front-paged about Cambodia. Genocide, land mines, prostitution, smuggling. Forget the fact that there’s some great food. That said, I nearly fell off my moto when I first saw a Khmer driver wearing a ‘Café Society’ t-shirt. (Fresco's a Western restaurant that seems to be ...

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