This simple dish, originated in Kampot province, but is appreciated nationwide. This is freestyle dining where all the ingredients are prepared and placed in the centre of the table in separate bowls and everyone helps themselves according to their taste. Put the dried shrimps in water and while they soak prepare the fruit and vegetables. [...]
Add salt to the water, then boil in a large pot over a medium-high heat. Place prohok in a sieve over the pot and pour boiling water over it, scraping with the back of a spoon so the flesh and juice fall into the soup. Discard the skin and bones. Add the catfish whole to [...]
The head is considered the most delicious part of the fish in Cambodia. It is usually sold in markets along with innards like the stomach and liver. These parts of the fish, along with the brain, are also used in this salad. Boil fish head for about 20 minutes and when cool remove the flesh [...]
In order to learn to cook this kind of food, firstly you have to boil chicken, soak dried shrimps and remove chi leaves from stems. Basil and mint leaves can be left whole, but the longer chi should be chopped into smaller pieces. Set to one side. And then you remove hard pink-purple cover from [...]
Some like eating this food but some people do not like it because S’dao is a kind of a bitter vegetable and is available seasonally between October and March. To help reduce the bitterness many people blanch the S’dao stems in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, then they use only the young leaves and blossom [...]
Lotus roots have a hard exterior which need to be removed before cooking. This is done by using a knife to make a shallow cut at the tip of the shoot and pulling the skin upwards similar to how you might remove the stringy veins from celery. Then the shoots are cut at an angle [...]
Wash and drain the fish. Stir vinegar and palm sugar until smooth then add salt, pepper and garlic. Place the fish in the palm sugar mixture and let it stand for 30 minutes. Cut sugar cane lengthways and place at the bottom of a brass pot. Lift the fish from the palm sugar and arrange [...]
It is easy way to cook the kind of that food. Firstly, you brown shallots, garlic and ginger and then set aside. And then you have to fry fish until it is golden and crispy. Next, you use the back of a spoon in a small bowl, break up the fermented soy beans, before adding [...]
That is the kind of Khmer food that most of Cambodian people like to make it because it is so easy to do it. Now, we instruct you how to make such a dish as following: you brush smoked fish over flames and when cool remove flesh from the bones. And then you should cut [...]
Some people really like to eat turtle but some do not like it because they think that if they eat it, it is possible to make them unlucky. Once, the evening, one friend of mine asked me to eat boiled turtle in small restaurant in Phnom Penh city. As I know there are a few [...]