Explore Phsar Thmey, Phnom Penh's central market, and discover the local cuisine.
Start the tour with Cambodian noodle soup. Put together your own bowl of soup, add noodles and choose from a variety of garnishes such as cooked shrimp, pork, sliced radish, and fried garlic. Ladle enough broth to cover your noodles and top off the bowl with chopped cilantro, green onion, ground red chili peppers, and lemon juice. Mix the ingredients with your chopsticks and enjoy.
Follow your guide through the labyrinth of stalls and take in the scenes of local life and activity in the market. Taste a local snack of fried crispy shrimp with pepper sauce. Continue through the market as your guide points out the fresh meat and seafood corner, the fresh vegetable corner, the tailoring corner, the gold, silver, and gemstone corner, as well as the fortune-telling corner. Next try rice with pork or chicken “Bai Sach Chrouk or Sach Moan,” an all-time favorite of Cambodians. The dish has smoky-sweet, charcoal-grilled pork or chicken served with rice and tangy pickled radish and cucumber. This is one of Cambodia's most popular breakfasts.
The last thing to try is a traditional Cambodian donut “NumKorng”. This completely addicting dessert has a soft and chewy inside and a deliciously crunchy outside combined with a mildly sweet nutty flavor. It is impossible to eat just one.
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