khmer cuisin

rarrr!!!!!! to khmer food.
taken: 22nd May 2007 - Siem Reap (At the hotel's restaurant on a rainy late morning)
even while i was eating it, i already know i will miss it when i come home.
1 of the most popular khmer dish is the amok, which is fish in curry gravy.
somewhat like the thai green curry.
ngong lam! (*very good)
ok that's in vietnamese but nevermind.

girl at angkor

taken at Angkor (Cambodia) 21 May 2007
she followed us around, wanting us to buy her postcards.
we didn't have much use for them so we just shared our chewing gum with her and requested for a photo taken.
for which, she striked a lovely pose.

May 20th - Way to Siem Reap

Phnom Penh. This picture reminds me of Squatterpunks which was screened during film fest.

May 16th - Hoi An

My Son is this Vietnamese equivalent of the Cambodian Angkor. just ALOT smaller. but I got to sit in a jeep! I guess I have a thing for retro automobiles. And Vietnam has them, all the Vespas and Jeeps, I was busy oogling at them.



*by the way, i came across this other person who uploaded her Angkor pictures and it felt good, warm, familiar, cool in a way to see that someone saw the same things that you did and took the same photos that you did. What made me notice was I saw the picture of the monks, and my brain went "I think I saw these monks before". well, pretty amazing in a weidd sort of way isnt it. I know its a tourist attraction and there's probably loads of these pictures out there but well, her pictures kinda did its work on me. well, it helps u do a little cheating. at the rate I am doing, it will be Christmas when I finally go into Cambodia here.

credits to ngader

Angkor

greetings from Siem Reap! fi & I reached Siem Reap after a 12hr bus ride with an hour break in between last night. Our first thought upon reaching our hotel was relief that we are not dead yet. our bus from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap consisted of less than 10 people out of which only 2 of us are girls and the rest of non-english speaking men. the bus stopped at some godforsaken place in a middle of the road, the only civilisation nearby was a roadside stall. we were then mobbed by a group of motorbikers who wanted to give us a lift to our hotel, and we have no choice but to trust and take 1 of them else there is no way to get to our hotel at 8pm at night. I was on one bike with my haversack and fi on another with her hugeass luaggage. we are talking about a motorbike here, mind you. We managed to get a last room in the hotel so after all the drama, we are now safe at a touristy area.

We visited Angkor today and busted our memory card space. Our pictures will come will a disclaimer that says "taken with our blood, sweat and more sweat". weather is blistering hot!

p/s: I'm totally abandoned by my own race, Vietnamese think I am Vietnamese. And in Cambodia, under the disgusting sun, I am çonverted to a Cambodian. Put me in the sun somemore and I'd become a bengala soon.

Angkor is spectacular, you have to see it for yourself really. Rather wiped out from all climbing and walking.

We are running out of money, trying to enjoy our time in Siem reap which is much more peaceful than ho Chi Minh which is really chaotic and not a single inch of clean air for us to breathe.

Heading back to HCMC day after tomorrow, spend another day there and its home sweet home.