Cambodia is tightly squeezed by neighboring countries Thailand and Vietnam, so people tend to ignore her. In fact, once you have tasted the high cotton food (formerly known as Cambodia), you will never forget it.

Pork rice

Pork rice is one of the simplest and most delicious foods in Cambodia, and it appears on the streets all over the country every morning.

Pork slices are naturally sweet, because they are slowly roasted on charcoal fire. Sometimes pork is soaked in coconut juice or garlic juice. Put the roast pork on a large portion of rice, add fresh pickles and radishes and a lot of ginger. There is usually a bowl of chicken soup covered with green onions and fried onions.

Amoke Fish (Fish Amoke)

Amoke fish is one of the most famous foods in Cambodia, but you will see similar foods in neighboring countries. The local spice Slonkngor's Amoke fish is slightly bitter, which makes it easy for Cambodian versions to distinguish between versions.

Amoke fish is a kind of fresh fish with coconut juice and sauce. Kroeung is a Khmer curry sauce, which is made of lemon vanilla, turmeric, garlic, onion, galangal and China ginger. High-end restaurants will steam Amoke fish on banana leaves, and street food stalls will make it into thick soup curry fish instead of Mu Si.

Khmer red curry (Khmer red curry)

Khmer red curry is not as spicy as Thai curry, but also uses coconut juice as the base, without adding too much pepper. Dishes include beef, chicken or fish, eggplant, mung beans, fresh coconut milk, lemon vanilla and kroeung sauce. Due to the influence of French culture, Khmer red curry is often eaten with bread.

This dish is usually served in Cambodian special occasions, such as weddings, family gatherings or religious festivals, such as the Day of the Dead and Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Lime Khmer beef salad (Lahore)

The beef in the lime Khmer beef salad will be sliced, so it is easy to absorb lime juice. It is more like steak than salad. This dish is very popular with Cambodian men who like raw meat, but roast beef is often served in restaurants.

The whole dish contains lemon vanilla, onion, garlic, fish sauce, nine-story tower, mint, mung bean and green pepper. This sweet, salty and delicious dish is also full of spicy taste because of a lot of fresh red peppers.

Rice noodle soup (Nom banh chok)

Rice noodle soup is often used as breakfast food. It consists of rice flour and green curry made of lemon vanilla, ginger root and Thai lime, covered with mint leaves, bean sprouts, mung beans, banana flowers, cucumbers and other vegetables. There are also red curry versions at celebrations and weddings.

Fried crab (Kdam chaa)

Fried crab is a specialty of Baima, a coastal city in Cambodia. This dish is fried with fresh crabs and local Kampot green peppers.

The fragrant Kampot green pepper is very famous in the world food industry. Although there are dried Kampot green peppers all over the world, you'd better come to Cambodia to taste its unique flavor.

Mangrove ants with beef and basil

You will see all kinds of insects on the menu in Cambodia, including poisonous spiders. But the most attractive thing for foreigners is the mangrove ant beef with St. basil.

It is made of ants, ginger, citronella, onion, garlic and beef slices of different sizes. There are a lot of red peppers in the dish, but they have not suppressed the sour taste of beef given by ants. This dish comes with rice. With luck, you may find some ant larvae in the bowl.

Roasted squid (Ang dtray-meuk)

In Cambodia's coastal cities such as Sihanoukville and Baima, you will find seafood sellers selling their grilled squid.

Squid is brushed with lime juice or fish sauce, then barbecued on a wooden stick, and finally served with Cambodian sauce from Kampot. This sauce is made of garlic, fresh pepper, fish sauce, lemon juice and sugar.

Cha houy teuk

The price of Khmer dessert is about 65,438+0.5 yuan RMB. Some desserts will put glutinous rice or sago in coconut milk, and then cover with taro, red beans, pumpkin and durian. The most popular is Cao Xian Guo Jelly, a jelly-like dessert made of gelatin extracted from seaweed.

Cao Xian jelly is rich in colors, such as pink and green, so it is very popular with children. It is often sold in small bowls. In addition to shaved ice, sago, bleached mung beans and coconut milk were added.

Huohu fried fish

Fried fish in Huohu Lake is a dish made of coconut juice. Fry the fish for a whole day, then put it on a fish-shaped iron plate with coconut curry.

Besides yellow sauce and pepper, there are cauliflower and cabbage in coconut curry. Fried fish in Huohu Lake is usually served with rice or rice noodles.