We’ve just come back to our hotel room to freshen up (and get out of the afternoon storm) so I thought I’d take this opportunity to tell you about the lunch we had today!!! For those of you still wondering – yes, I finally braved up and bought something from a street vendor. I got (what I eventually worked out to be) a bag of fried potato and banana. Now, I’m generally a banana loather! I hate the fruit, it makes me want to be sick and it’s due entirely to the fact that my mother force fed me a banana smoothie at the age of 10!
So this bag of fried goodness, that I originally thought was some obscure type of meat, was phenomenal! The banana was all melted and caramalised within this crispy, sweet and golden batter…yummy.
This morning we set out to visit the Wat Phnom, The Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda, the National Museum and the Russian Markets. After our walk up to Wat Phnom (where Amy and I were asked to be in a Cambodian family’s holiday photo!) we trekked down to the National Museum and on the way we spotted the restaurant Friends. We’d read about it in lonely planet – it supports street children by training them for a career in hospitality as a chef or waiter – and were keen to try it out.
Our first impression of it was how clean everything was which was then over shadowed by how friendly, helpful and attentive the wait staff were… then we got our lunch! We decided to try some more traditional Khmer food – after all this is Cambodia! – and opted for a Khmer style pork and glass noodle salad, spicy shrimp wontons, and a grilled Mekong fish fillet with tomato and red onion salad…we followed this with a delicious dessert of caramelised pineapple with red chilli and coconut ice-cream! I know – we ordered dessert at lunch time…
My salad was to die for – the flavours packed a punch, yet, at the same time were very subtle and delicate!
Amy described her fish as amazing… that’s all she had to say!
Anyway – we loved being out and about, the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda was an enormous complex and we worked up a serious sweat walking around it with our tour guide… I don’t think my pictures do it any justice!
I’m keeping this short and sweet – the rain is stopped and I need a shower so we can go to dinner! Tomorrow we’re heading to Siem Reap on a bus (I’ll have my eyes closed most of the way!) and checking out the Angkor Wat and other temples so stay tuned – hopefully I’ll have some decent photos!
Eat lots, work hard and don’t drive your tuk-tuk through pot holes (story still to come)!
SQ
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