Cambodian Food Is Good, You’re Just Crap At Eating It [Phnom Penh]
Posted on March 1st, 2008 in Tips, Tricks, and Guides
Food blogger, national treasure and ardent defender of all things both Cambodian and edible, Phnomenon, recently explained why Khmer food gets such a bad wrap: Y’all sonsofbitches just don’t know to order it. Phnomenon takes on travelers’ common mistakes when ordering which basically amount to timidity and ignorance.
Things to Do
Order a balance of dishes: Don’t rely on each dish to acheive equilibrium, Phnomenon councils, it is the combination of dishes that acheive culinary harmony. Try a sour soup, a curry, a fried fish, steamed rice for a good balance.
Order the Right Meats: Fish, pork, and in coastal areas, crustaceans goooood. Cow, chicken, frog baaaaad.
reign in your imperialist idea of “authenticity”: Just because it’s street food doesn’t mean it’s good.
Things to Not Do
Be Vegetarian: Cambodia’s all about its meat, not its vegetables.
Believe the weird meat food journalism
hype
Eating spiders? Just another example of the liberal media elite’s fetishization of the Other, man.
Why Travelers Dislike Khmer Food [Phnomenon]
[Photo: Phnomenon]
Previously: Gastrocambogooglocartography, Eating Spiders in Phnom Penh, I’ve Been Working On The Bamboo Railroad, Stung Meanchey Dump, Friends Fried
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