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Food in South East Asia.
Food in Bangkok was a surprise mainly due to the street kitchens. These could be small cafes with seats on the street, moveable stalls with people selling fruit, drinks and also prepared foods or the view from our hotel window which looked down on a lady settled by the wall preparing veg and maybe meat and cooking in her wok. She had about 2 chairs for diners. She arrived about 8 o'clock with her stall and packed up about 6 to 7 pm. Breakfast brought to our table purple and then white fruit which was dragon fruit alongside white melon, pineapple and mango. The taste though was disappointingly bland. Thai green and red curry was fiery and delicious as were the rolls made from a rolled flat pancake dipped in wasabi sauce.
Cambodia has seen us eating mainly vegetables we are a little wary of meat and fish. Cambodian curry sauce is milder Jon tells me, I ordered Vietnamese last night by mistake. We ate also a lot of eggs in Siem Reap, yellow noodles with veg and an egg on top is good. Omelettes were also good.
Early morning at Ankor Wat saw us eating banana pancakes, these were rather cakey for a pancake. A trip past the kitchen and we peeped inside 2 women were cooking over an open fire with large pots and woks. The food all clean and sorted on the table behind, an earth floor underneath. We were not ill and it tasted good.
Another feature of café life is the fruit shakes, not with milk but cold juice and ice, refreshing. We went to a vegetarian restaurant, I had cassava fritters with spicy dip, and a kind of salsa made from peanuts and pineapple. Jon ate fried rice with veg. This was the evening of the rain storm so we dashed home quickly by Tuk Tuk.
In Siem Reap we generally ate a simple breakfast of bread with laughing cow cheese or again an omelette from the dinning room on top of Global Teer. We were looking forward to the roast chicken Jenny had promised us, but the chef was ill. In town the French influence was visible with baguettes and pastries but the supermarkets had a strange collection of food from all over the world, milk from Oz, cereals from Oz, Japanese/Korean noodles, laughing cow cheese triangles and tins of fish from France. Drinking involves much bottled water and a little Cambodian beer but in back packer land you can get most things including extra strong Cambodian Red Bull, not good for some.
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