Pork rice
Pork rice is one of the simplest and most delicious foods in Cambodia. Sliced meat is naturally sweet, because it is slowly roasted on a 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
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 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
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
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
Fried crab is a specialty of Baima, a coastal city in Cambodia. This dish is fried with fresh crabs and local Kampot green peppers.
Saint basil mangrove ant beef
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.
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.
Xiancaodong
Khmer dessert, 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.
There are countless delicious foods in Cambodia, all of which are delicious.