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Tag: Cambodian Food
Selling raw human misery to Quincy Jones
Originally sent: 22 November 2005. About this series My bizarre marketing task for the month has been deciding how to suitably horrify Quincy Jones. For those of you playing at home, Quincy Jones is the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 77 nominations and 27 winning Grammys. He has won an Emmy… Continue reading Selling raw human misery to Quincy Jones
Loc Lac Variation Spotting
Image via Serving Sake to a Serb Loc Lac (as I’ve talked about before) is one of those dishes in Cambodia that has no authentic version but multitude variations – pretty much any dish which has a primary component of cubed, stir-fried beef fits the bill, which can be fried with anything insofar as it… Continue reading Loc Lac Variation Spotting
Cambodian food reviewing: You’re doing it right.
It turns out that with only three months left in 2008, Cambodian is not the new Thai. But what has changed over the year is the tone of reviewing. Reviewers are starting to understand how to eat Cambodian food. This week the NY Times revisits two Cambodian restaurants in New York. The results are mixed,… Continue reading Cambodian food reviewing: You’re doing it right.
Maintaining the spider rage
Ten miles out of town, my guide pulls up at a little shack on a winding roadside. This is real boondocks Cambodia. Little kids are staring at me like they’ve never seen a white man before, which they probably haven’t. From “Man bites frog” I miss the days when I used to rant about the… Continue reading Maintaining the spider rage
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
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.