1. Khmer red curry

Khmer red curry is not as spicy as Thai curry. It also uses coconut milk as the base without adding too much. Add chili. Dishes include beef, chicken or fish, eggplant, mung beans, fresh coconut milk, lemongrass 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 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 cut into thin slices, so it absorbs the lime juice easily. It's more like a steak than a salad. This dish is popular with Cambodian men who prefer their meats to be rare, but restaurants often serve roast beef.

The whole dish contains lemongrass, scallions, garlic, fish sauce, nine-layer pagoda, mint, mung beans and green peppers. This sweet and salty treat is also spiced up with lots of fresh red peppers.

3. Rice noodle soup (Nom banh chok)

Rice noodle soup is often served as breakfast food. It consists of rice noodles and green curry made with lemongrass, turmeric root and Thai lime, and is topped with mint leaves, bean sprouts, mung beans, banana flowers, cucumbers and other vegetables. There is also a red curry version served at celebrations and weddings.

4. Red tree ants with beef and holy basil

You will see various insects on Cambodian menus, including poisonous spiders. But what appeals most to foreign palates is the holy basil and mangrove ant beef.

It consists of ants of various sizes stir-fried with ginger, lemongrass, shallots, garlic and thinly sliced ??beef. There is also a lot of red pepper in the dish, but it does not suppress the ants. Gives the beef a sour taste. This dish is served with rice, and if you're lucky, you might find some ant larvae in the bowl.

Extended information:

The Kingdom of Cambodia, commonly known as Cambodia and formerly known as Khmer, is located in the Indochina Peninsula, bordering Thailand to the west and northwest, and Laos to the northeast. , adjacent to Vietnam in the east and southeast, and facing the Gulf of Siam in the south.

Cambodia’s territory is a saucer-shaped basin, surrounded by hills and mountains on three sides, and a vast and fertile plain in the middle, accounting for more than three-quarters of the country’s area. Within the territory are the Mekong River and the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia - Tonle Sap Lake (also known as Phnom Penh Lake), with the capital Phnom Penh. Cambodia has a population of approximately 15 million, with Khmer accounting for 80% of the total population. There are about 1 million overseas Chinese.

Cambodia is an ancient civilization with a long history. It established a unified kingdom as early as the 1st century AD. Since the 1970s, Cambodia has experienced a long war. In 1993, with the establishment of Cambodian national authorities 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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