Sorry…I made a quick trip to Sydney and forgot that I was meant to be posting this on Friday. Enjoy your long weekend, Australians. We must hunt the elephants to save them – "Sustainable use" doesn’t make for great bumper stickers, but "I shoot ferals" does. Food trends: Wet Market Diplomacy – Celebrity chef and… Continue reading Five links on ummm…Sunday
Tag: Cambodia
Just a small in-joke for my Khmer speaking homies
The falling price of the barang, Kota Bharu, Malaysia
The found pepper of Cambodia
What does the visit of Chinese emissary Zhou Daguan to Angkor Wat in 1297, Khmer Rouge kidnappings and the recent landgrabbing of Okhna Ly Yong Phat in rural Sre Ambel, Cambodia have in common? Cambodian pepper: which is how I tenuously link them all together in this month’s Chile Pepper magazine (US). With photos from… Continue reading The found pepper of Cambodia
Choul Chnam Thmei: Cambodian is the New Thai
While I’ve been saying for what seems like years that Sihanoukville is the new Luanda, in one of its final posts of the year, Epicurious has announced that for 2008, Cambodian food will supplant Thai food. A triangulation between Vietnamese, Chinese, and Thai cooking, Cambodian’s emphasis on noodle dishes, curries, stir fries and prahok, the… Continue reading Choul Chnam Thmei: Cambodian is the New Thai
Seasons Greetings from Cambodia
This morning, a group of approximately 40-50 Kampuchea Krom (KK) monks gathered peacefully in front of the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh to appeal for the release of Kampuchea Krom monks who are detained and convicted in Vietnam. Intervention and local police immediately set up road blocks to prevent people from entering the area and… Continue reading Seasons Greetings from Cambodia
Menu For Hope 2007
What is Menu for Hope? It’s when food bloggers from all over the world join together, and take leave from our usual obsession with our own stomachs. Throughout the year, we tend to wank on about food, beer, wine and other such visceral pleasures, but for two weeks every December, we pull together a bunch… Continue reading Menu For Hope 2007
How to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day
After doing the most scant research on the Internet, it seems that although many people mention that the new border crossing between Prek Chak in Cambodia and Xa Xia/Ha Tien in Vietnam is open to foreigners, nobody tells you how to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day or that two of the… Continue reading How to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day
Cambodian food
If you’re looking for a more detailed look at Cambodian food, it’s worth checking out my Cambodian food blog, Phnomenon.com, which I wrote between 2005 and 2007 while living in Phnom Penh.