Tuesday, February 20, 2007

'Exotic' Cambodia Food

Being a foodie, I'm always game for different kinds of food and Cambodia have some very interesting ones. The famous 'exotic' food in Cambodia are fried spiders. They are bbq to a crisp with a sauce that taste like teriyaki and they don't taste too bad. Then I had the bbq snake and it contains some kind of goo which tasted odd but edible.
Next on the menu is stuffed frogs. Some kind of beef ball mix is stuffed into the tiny frog's body and bbq to a crisp.
Then there's also half-grown duck eggs similar to the Phillipines' 'Baluk'. You cracked the top part of the shell and drink the 'soup' that is inside the egg and it's actually quite tasty. Looking into the egg may spoil your appetite so just scoop whatever is inside and eat it. Otherwise the sight of the half-grown duckling's head and feathers might put you off.
Last but not least, I tried the local Palm 'juice'. It's some kind of juice that is extracted from the branch/stem of the palm tree and sold on the streets. I suspect this caused my first week's food poisoning when i was offered by the locals the drink. Other than that, I have had no problems with outside food and their wonderful lime sugar cane thus far. Bon appetit.