Monday Mellow Yellows: Dried fish
My younger brother returned to Cambodia from a two-week holiday in the Philippines. He brought back several kilos of dried fish and divided it amongst ourselves.
Don’t get me wrong, there are dried fish available here but they’re mostly freshwater fish. I miss the saltwater fish from the Philippines and it’s always a welcome and a special treat whenever my parents would send us some. A taste of home, so to speak.
When kept for a long time, even in a moist-free container, dried fish tend to grow molds. So what I do is take them out every now and then and hang them under direct sunlight to dry and get as much air as possible.
Hanging fish to dry. I think the fly is more attracted to the scent of red chili peppers more than the dried fish. Odd.
I didn’t have any hooks but my husband made me one – a DIY hook made from an old, plastic hanger 🙂 And I reused the net bags (used previously to hold onions and potatoes) from the grocery.
Even though my husband thinks the dried fish smell like a dirty sock, and could envelope the house with its “nasty” odour, he doesn’t mind me having them occasionally at meal times.
Our World Tuesday: Monks at the mall
Not even these monks could resist the call of the mall.
Monks’ day out. Seen them at Aeon Mall last week.
Monday Mellow Yellows: Wheels
Weekend window-shopping over the weekend and this yellow motorbike (and the tiny yellow sign in the background) caught my attention.
A lot of motorcyle bikes for sale along Sihanouk Boulevard.
Skywatch Friday: Up in the sky
Lucky to be in the right place at the right time, with my trusty point-and-shoot digicam 🙂
No, it’s not Superman. Just an airplane flying over residential buildings in Camko City in Phnom Penh.
Signs, signs: Chocolate Shop
Last week, I was planning to go to Daiso Japanese shop at Aeon Mall to buy bottles of calligraphy ink when my husband said he was going with me. I was surprised, of course, but pleasantly surprised. He seldom goes to the mall with me so this should be fun, I thought.
It was actually a quiet mall when we arrived. There were not many shoppers. After getting my ink and several more miscellaneous stuff, we bought sugar-free chocolates from this shop:
The Chocolate Shop at Aeon Mall.
The Chocolate shop is owned by Belgian expats who have lived in Cambodia for more than a decade now. I actually enjoyed going to their shop at St. 240 where they also have sandwiches, pies and smoothies. Their chocolate selection are varied, and they recently introduced Cambodian flavours infused to their chocolates, one of which is, the most popular, their signature Kampot pepper chocolate.
Wordless Wednesday: Balloon
I was riding on a motorbike with my husband traversing France St. when I took this photo. It is for this kind of moments I am thankful for my compact point-and-shoot digi-cam. It’s always in my pocket, ready for action.
Giant balloon.
It is not often I see a giant balloon, strapped to a passenger on a back of a motorcycle, traversing the city but it is not uncommon. I bet most of you wouldn’t have or get this kind of scene in your part of the world.
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