Khmer cusine

Comparing to Thai food, Khmer cusine doesn't have that striking spicyness. Yes there's plenty of chili and pepper used in it, but they also use lots of Coconut, and ginger, these two together create a very mild yet soothing taste. And this land's trade mark products, if you like rice and fish you'll find something to make you happy in any restaurant you go to. Here's some recommendation from my daily eating routine in Siem Reap.
Soup Dragon has best breakfast menu. Actually it's Vietnamese, their Pho(o with their vowel sign above pronounces this word "Phar" meaning rice noodle soup) Bo(beef) and Saigon kickstart dripping coffee with condenced milk on the bottom, my way of kickstarting the day. Pho Bo is only 75 cent! and while sipping $1 coffee and planing out the new day they serve me free tea.

Singing Tree Cafe, across the river from Old Market/Touristy district near Wat Bo and Wat Demnak, has a great atmosphere of community and healthy, artistic events. Every day they have music jam session, language class, yoga class and so on. visit www.singingtreecafe.com
And they have a great menu. especially at lunch time they make Papaya salada mixed with glass noodles and shrimp. $2.50!

When you are in Cambodia you have to try theit national dish Amok once. it's like a fish curry but much milder than what you imagine curry from Thai/Indian standard. Picture shows Fish Amok from Red Piano, in the center of the town. Their menu have wide variety of western and south east asian food. and this Amok is only $4, and it is delicious!

i also try to cook as much as i could. especially when i'm with group of friends, cooking for them becomes such a pleasure. Greentwon guest house is kind enough to let me use their kitchen, above is when rachel and lindi stay there me making tofu green curry. sweet girls of guesthouse staff help me with slicing and chopping.

this is a time when i take Hoko and Khorn to Poum Steung school, i wanted to thank them and my team Sophat and Chey by cooking for them, then there are sewing girls at Chey's and Chey's neice Chandrene brings some of her friends. We together work on two stoves one frying pan, two pots to make Curry, Fresh shrimp spring rolls, Pan-fried fish. There end up being 14 people gathering for the big dinner and we have made enough food. I wouldn't say I cooked it, everybody else did. Nonetheless it was the first time i orchestrated this such big feast and it was fun!