APAD 099: Nom pang
I remembered taking this photo almost a month ago. My husband, younger brother and I left our house very early in the morning to drive out of Phnom Penh heading west.
It was a Sunday, and the whole country is celebrating the Chinese New Year. We were supposed to turn left at a junction where there is a small but bustling market. It’s called the Prek Phnov market. Anything and everything can be bought there.
Had the lady in colourful shirt not moved you would’ve seen some more nom pang (a local French bread) stacked neatly. My brother called it the “great wall of bread”.
To her right, which is not seen in the photo, are huge baskets of nom pang and another set of neatly stacked nom pang. Nom pang is really great with Khmer curry, or simply toasted over charcoal and dipped in condensed milk. A local sandwich known as nom pang pate is also a popular streetfood here. A pate is the Khmer version of the western meatloaf.
APAD 021: School advert
Everywhere you go in the city – and most especially in the countryside – one can see the numerous {outdoor advertising} signs for goods and services. The signs range from beauty parlours, medical and dental clinics, car-wash, to BBQ restaurants and sound-system rentals.
My husband and I were on a road trip several weeks ago and we were traversing the new road along Prek Phnov and saw this sign.
It is obviously an advert for a school and is digitally-produced. I wonder what happened to the hand-painted signs that I so adore?
APAD 017: Rural life
A small wooden house surrounded by a small lotus pond – typical scene in rural Cambodia. Slow-paced and a laid-back lifestyle awaits the weary-souls of city-dwellers who come home to the countryside once in a while.
This is rural Cambodia.
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