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Khmer Cakes ...  
   

Khmer Cakes ...

... for the low price (by Western standards), we expected a plate with just a couple of pieces of cake, not an entire platter! While the individual portions were fairly small, this was still a hell of a lot of sweets - had we known, we wouldn't have also ordered some passion fruit ice cream to go along with it. Most of the desserts were quite similar to each other, a lot like Chinese steamed desserts - in other words, not my style!
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January 14th 2014
Geo: 13.4691, 104.041People come to Siem Reap for one reason - to quickly get the hell out of here and go to the temples of Angkor! To most travelers, Siem Reap is little more than a base for visiting the area's famous temples, but we discovered today that it's actually a pretty cool little place - we've seen backpackers gone wrong in Thailand, but today we found a great example of ... read more
Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap

Cambodian Flag Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... ... read more
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