Cambodian Food

May 06, 2013 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Ratspotting

Originally sent: 12 May 2005. About this series. I spotted my first rat on the way to work this morning which was the size of a small pony. It was headed in the direction of my house. Things bode ill. I’ve just finished my first few weeks of work and

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Mar 28, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments

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

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Jun 06, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

On the lack of food blog coherence

Grapes, apropos of nothing Sorry I’ve been a bit light on providing content over the past few weeks, I’ve been busy elsewhere, in a frenzy that sounds lke it comes straight from the kitchen of a Wes Anderson film. At SBS, I’ve been writing on those interlinked topics of mince

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Sep 20, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

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

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Aug 07, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 15 Comments

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

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Jan 14, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments

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

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Jan 02, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 6 Comments

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,

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Sep 10, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

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.

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