Posted by The Insider on May 30, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, buildings, Mellow Yellow Monday | 7 comments
I find this round, yellow building odd, don’t you think so, too? It’s like a birthday cake or something. This building is used as an office of a private company located across the Caltex Bokor gas station, just a stone’s throw away from the junction of Monivong and Mao Tse Tung Boulevards.
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Posted by The Insider on May 23, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Cambodia life, crafting, crochet, hobby, Mellow Yellow Monday | 7 comments
These are just some of the items my PELUKA friends and I have made and put up for sale on occasions here in Phnom Penh. We are proud of our products – beaded jewelries and crocheted stuffs – all lovingly handmade.
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Posted by The Insider on May 16, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, food, Mellow Yellow Monday | 5 comments
This is a very refreshing side dish, great with grilled fish. Delectable mango strips with fish sauce, lime juice, a bit of palm sugar, red shallots, and lots of chillies, of course.
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Posted by The Insider on May 9, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, food, Mellow Yellow Monday | 6 comments
Took this photo using my old Kodak Instamatic camera. When the negatives were printed, most of the prints have this yellow colouring on them. I wonder why.
Winter melons look like cucumber, only they are larger in size and paler in skin (peeling). Often used as a vegetable when unripe (used in soups) and eaten as a fruit when it’s already ripe and sweet. Winter melons are commonly grown in rural Cambodia, especially those near the river banks.
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Posted by The Insider on May 2, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, Mellow Yellow Monday | 0 comments
This is how a typical wat (temple) in Cambodia looks like. The ceilings and walls are painted with illustrations depicting the life and death of the Lord Buddha. There are golden trees where devotees rub golden (paper) leaves on them. I don’t know what the significance of this but I’ve seen it done on temples. Candles and Buddha images of different sizes and colour are also present, and there is a distinct heady scent coming from the seemingly inexhaustible supply of lighted incense (joss) sticks.
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Posted by The Insider on Apr 25, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, food, Mellow Yellow Monday | 6 comments
This is called
khnao in Khmer language, or jackfruit in English, and jackfruit trees are in season now in Cambodia. We also have this fruit in the Philippines and we call it
langka.
If I am not mistaken, the jackfruit is the world’s largest fruit. It is commonly eaten when it is ripe – when it develops a very strong sweet odour – and has a sweet flavour. It can also be eaten when unripe, as a vegetable. As you can see, the spiky skin of the fruit has segments of yellow flesh underneath it, and each surrounds a large seed. The seeds can be boiled and eaten, too. I’m not really fond of jackfruit but I do like it when it is made into a smoothie.
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