How's the food?

Spider snacks

A lot of people asked me how the food in Cambodia was like. I guess it's just typical Asian food. Cambodia doesn't really have any specialty, not that we know of. Well, they do have delicacies such as the deep fry spider. Anybody wanna try that? Sorry we didn't bring the snackie back. ;))

Eating at Siem Reap
Day 1
Venue: Old Market
Our first dinner in Cambodia was pretty good. Well, that's coz we both love peppery stuff and the fried rice (with chicken?) we ordered was pounded with lots and lots of black pepper. Yummy! Plus of course we were hungry. Added bonus. We ordered 4 plates of the same food, 2 for us and 2 for our motorbike drivers. It costs us USD 1.50 per plate. They gave free iced tea (the chinese tea kind) but at this point, we dared not drink it.

Day 2
Venue: Angkor Wat
My (not "our") first unofficial breakfast in this land was courtesy of cpfun. I must really thank her for the Banana Nut Crunch cereal bars. It saved my tummy from producing unmelodic rumbles. A perfect munchie to make up for the unreasonable morning call at 4.30am just to watch sunrise.

Venue: Peace of Angkor villa
Finally, our first official breakfast. Breakfast was included in the room price. Just baguette with butter and jam and coffee/tea. Plus nice staff to talk to.

Venue: A stall in front of Ta Phrom
Our first lunch was ok. I had the fried rice again. This time, it was cooked in a slightly different style. Not as yummy as the previous one but ok. Nirree tried the banana pancake, which was recommended by Shan. What I liked about this stall is the cute 11 year old Cambodian boy who can speak so many languages. Sorry, distracted. ;)) Food price here is more expensive coz it's the tourist area. I think I paid USD 2.00 for my plate of vegetarian fried rice. Again, we said no to the iced tea.

Venue: Peace of Angkor villa
Second dinner is a meal that you all wouldn't want to know!!! ;D All the way from Malaysia. Clue: Add hot water. No prize for correct guess.

Day 3
Venue: Peace of Angkor villa
Yes, we kiasu cheapo travellers always go back for our free breakfast after another sunrise.

Venue: ???
Err... Did we have lunch?? I know I survived a lot on the numerous cereal bars that I brought. Sshh... I must tell you a secret... Nirree may not be human... she didn't feel hungry even after walking and climbing a lot.

Venue: A stall in front of Angkor Wat
Third dinner was a different experience. We had ikan bakar and pickled cucumbers. The fish was yummy but please stay away from the pickled cucumbers. Not like our acar at all. This was the cheapest meal we had in Cambodia. Nirree, how much was it?

Day 4
Venue: Peace of Angkor villa
No further words required.

Venue: Ta Phrom
We decided to have a picnic lunch. We each had a bun and a cake plus bananas.

Venue: The same stall in front of Angkor Wat
We wanted to go back to this stall to try their ayam bakar. This time, just the chicken without any of the vegetables. And it's the chicken is really really delicious!

Well, I guess you can roughly imagine how the food is like and do not need me to detail out everything we ate throughout our trip. But I must say, we are really happy to go back to Malaysian food.