Snacks

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Cambodia is the land of snacking.

Along streets everywhere in Phnom Penh there are food vendors that push, pedal or moto their food carts, stopping whenever they have a customer or when they are at a "good" corner. The vendors sell anything you can imagine: fruit, eggs, bread, fried noodles, sandwiches, ice cream, the list goes on and on! Yesterday, we even saw a cart that sells baguettes with ice cream inside - that, we will have to try!

In addition to all these mobile carts, there are permanent stands all over the place. Around the corner from our office is a women who sells fried bananas and fried potatoes every afternoon, in front of her house. Delicious! (Side note: The way to say "stay at" in Khmer, sounds like the English words "snack now." Daron and I think this is fantastic, so whenever we're hungry for fried bananas, we say "snack now!" Yes, it doesn't make sense, but we think we're hilarious.)

Outside the market near our apartment, there are several fruit smoothy vendors. Our favorite is run by a women that makes delicious pineapple smoothies. She cuts up the fruit, adds a little sweetened condensed milk, ice and puts this all in a blender. Then (and this is our favorite part), she hands the blender to her husband who walks it across the street where he proceeds to plug it into an outlet leading directly into the electric lines. Awesome! (Update: as of last week, she now has electricity connecting directly to her stand. Obviously this is great for her, but it's less exciting for us...)

Anyway, we're definitely getting plenty to eat around here! And actually, as I type this, I'm enjoying some of those delicious fried bananas. "Snack Now!"

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Comments

[Ani]

awesome..
hi Kirs and Daron, that's what i miss from indo... the snack and vendors.... yuummm... especially since this pregnancy i am craving even more street food than ever!! hahahaha.. awesome entry though... pls keep us updated!! :D u guys are doing a great job at telling us ur experiences... the crazy one was with the motorcycle that u guys left outside unlocked, and there was an elder man yelling at you guys... anyway... take care dudes... i am still telling andrew and myself that we're going to cambodia in the next 2 3/4 years!! ps: we can show off the junior when we come to cambodia11 God bless, Ani

[tess]

Yum!! Send a pineapple smoothie this way!

[leland]

So how much weight has Daron gained. He was looking a little chunky in the "naked chef" video. I can hardly wait for one of those smoothies.

[dom Docken]

Appreciate getting your blogs -very interesting. Do you have a blog about the temples