Foods to try when coming to Cambodia to watch the SEA Games

Sour fish soup, white rice with grilled meat, and rice noodle curry are easy-to-eat dishes that CNN suggests diners should try when visiting Cambodia during the 32nd SEA Games.

Below is a list of dishes that are CNN Suggestions "every tourist should try" when traveling to this Southeast Asian country.

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This is a dish of white rice with grilled pork, served in the morning on every street corner. The dish is simple, but is considered by many to be "the best in the country". Thinly sliced pork is marinated with palm sugar and fish sauce, then grilled over charcoal. People often eat it with pickled cucumbers, radishes, and chopped onions.

Samlor Korkor

Samlor korkor is a traditional soup, considered a "national dish", appearing daily in restaurants, roadside eateries or in family meals.

The dish is made up of a variety of local vegetables and meat, most commonly catfish and pork belly. The two main ingredients are prahok (fermented fish) and kroeung (aromatic curry paste).

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The dish is simply called “Khmer noodles”. People usually eat this dish in the morning, at street vendors. The dish consists of rice noodles, topped with a green curry sauce made from fish, lemongrass, ginger, turmeric and garlic. It also has cucumber, banana flower, okra, and sliced local vegetables.

Diners can also enjoy Kola noodles, including fresh noodles served with dried shrimp, soft-boiled eggs, and char siu-style pork.

Amok

This is one of the most famous dishes in Cambodian cuisine . Traditionally, Amok is made with coconut milk and kroeung curry paste, along with fish or snails. Nowadays, visitors can enjoy amok made with chicken or vegetarian.

Prahok ktis

After rice, the most important ingredient in Cambodian cuisine is prahok, a salty fermented fish paste. Prahok is commonly used as a condiment in many dishes, but in prahok ktis, it is the main ingredient.

Prahok ktis consists of fermented fish cooked with coconut milk, palm sugar, and minced pork. Thanks to the accompanying ingredients, the spicy prahok becomes mild, making it suitable for even the most demanding diners. This is a savory dish, served with rice and boiled vegetables or sliced cucumbers.

Kari Sach Moan

Chicken curry cooked with local mild red chillies, creating a rich yet mild dish. Other ingredients used include daikon, sweet potato, coconut milk and curry powder. This dish is often served at weddings, ceremonies and special occasions, and is served with fresh noodles or flatbread and white rice.

Bok trop pgnon

Bok in Cambodian means "to pound," referring to the way the dish is prepared: pounding ingredients in a large wooden mortar. Trop pgnon is a small, bitter, wild eggplant.

People grill the eggplants, then pound them with garlic, chives, chili, sugar, and mix them with smoked fish or prahok (fermented fish). The dish is then served with boiled vegetables.

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This is a beef stew with palm sugar. Palm sugar is melted until thick and cooked with marinated beef. Each family in Cambodia will have their own recipe for this dish, but basically it consists of beef mixed with galangal, garlic, chili, black pepper, star anise or cloves, coconut water, tamarind, soy sauce. Kha sach is not served with sliced bread, sliced onions and fried garlic.

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Soup is an important dish in Cambodian cuisine, rarely missing from meals. One of the soups that is CNN Suggested dish is Sngor chruak sach trei or sour fish soup. Fish is caught from Tonle Sap, a large freshwater lake and popular tourist destination in Cambodia, and cooked in a broth with lemongrass, lime juice, fried garlic and herbs such as basil.

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People often eat green or sour fruits instead of vegetables. One of them is grapefruit salad or nhoam krauch thlong. They will mix grapefruit segments with pork belly, grilled coconut, small dried shrimps, mint, fried shallots.

In addition, visitors can enjoy other dishes such as: Kari saraman (beef curry), Kha trei svay kchai (fish stewed with green mango), Kangkep baob (stuffed frog) or Plea sach ko (beef salad marinated with lemon).

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