1. Khmer red curry

Khmer red curry is not as spicy as Thai curry, and coconut juice is also used as the base without adding too much pepper. The dishes include beef, chicken or fish, eggplant, mung beans, fresh coconut juice, 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 on special occasions in Cambodia, such as weddings, family gatherings or religious festivals such as the Day of the Dead and Tomb-Sweeping Day.

2, lime Khmer beef salad (Lap Khmer)

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

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

3. Nom banh chok

Rice noodle soup is often used as breakfast food. It consists of rice flour and green curry made of lemon vanilla, turmeric 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.

4. Red Tree Ants with Beef and Holy Basil

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

It is stir-fried by ants of different sizes, ginger, lemon vanilla, shallots, garlic and sliced beef. There are many red peppers in the dish, but it does not suppress the sour taste of beef given by ants. This dish is served with rice. If you are lucky, you may find some ant larvae in the bowl.

Extended information:

the Kingdom of Cambodia, formerly known as Cambodia, is located in Indo-China Peninsula, bordering Thailand in the west and northwest, Laos in the northeast, Vietnam in the east and southeast, and the Gulf of Siam in the south.

Cambodia is a dish-shaped basin, surrounded by hills and mountains on three sides, with a vast and rich plain in the middle, accounting for more than three quarters of the country's area. There are Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, and Phnom Penh, the capital. Cambodian population is about 15 million, and khmer people accounts for 8% of the total population. There are about 1 million overseas Chinese.

Cambodia is an ancient civilization with a long history. As early as the 1st century AD, a unified kingdom was established. Since 197s, Cambodia has experienced a long war. In 1993, with the establishment of Cambodian state power institutions and the realization of national reconciliation, Cambodia entered a new era of peace and development.

Cambodia is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Its economy is dominated by agriculture and its industrial base is weak. It is one of the least developed countries in the world.

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