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This natang recipe makes an addictively delicious Cambodian dip of minced pork, coconut cream and peanuts that’s made to be eaten with homemade crispy rice cakes, which in turn are intended to use up the rice that sticks to the bottom of a pot or use up any leftover rice. Since I made this Cambodian … Read more
Our best Asian street food recipes cover everything from the fresh spring rolls found in markets and street food stalls across Southeast Asia to the spicy noodle soups from Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, and Malaysia that you can slurp on the streets, from mobile carts, and at simple shophouse eateries. We’re just back from Saigon, where … Read more
This Cambodian chicken curry recipe makes one of Southeast Asia’s most comforting chicken curries. While it has a depth of flavour that comes from dried spices and fresh aromatic ingredients, it has a richness thanks to a liberal use of coconut cream and milk, and a gentleness due to the mild red chillies. When Terence … Read more
Our Cambodian fish amok recipe is traditional – an authentic steamed fish curry made to a classic recipe from an older generation of cooks who believe that if it’s not properly steamed, it’s not amok trei, a steamed fish curry. ‘Amok’ means to steam in banana leaves in Khmer and many Cambodians believe this refined … Read more