Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Dosa Heaven


If you love food, like I do, Phnom Penh is a wonderful city to live in. Soooo many great restaurants serving food from all over the world; Lebanese, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Thai, French, Maroccan, Spanish, Mexican.... I think that the only kitchen I haven´t seen represented here so far is the Ethiopian.

Most restaurants are doing home delivery as well. I´ve completely forgot how to cook. Or, I´ve rather found a new way of doing it; I´m taking out my plastic folder that contains all the home delivery menues that I´ve collected during my year here. I´m going through the menues carefully, but will most likely finally pick the same Indian restaurant as usual. I´m making a phone call, placing my order, stating my adress and voilá - 20 minutes later there´s a delicious Indian meal on my plate. That´s the art of cooking, folks!

Some of you might be familiar with my passion for Indian food, and when I first moved here I was very happy to find that there are plenty of good, very good, Indian restaurants here. And tonight I´ve made a new discovery on the Indian restaurant scene here in Phnom Penh; "Dosa Corner" on street 51. It has only been open for a couple of months, but the rumours has started to spread that they serve the most delicious dosas. And I can only agree - Dosa Corner should be named Dosa Heaven!!! Mmmm...!!! The taste sent me 15 years back in time, to Kerala in southern India where I was doing my very first study trip to Asia. At the village project where I was studying, the wonderful Mitraniketan, dosa was served no less than three times a day, and you had to be careful not to over eat it. But now, after visiting "Dosa Corner", I´m certainly facing the same risk again. I´m just happy that I don´t have to make the dosa myself. It´s soooo much easier to just pick up the phone... :-) But if you would like to try, here´s a master to learn from;

Monday, 5 May 2008

Khmer delicacies (?) and Spider Man

This evening after work, I went to "Lucky Supermarket" for some grocery shopping. And I found some ingredients that I thought might serve as an inspiration for you if you don´t know what to have for dinner tonight. 

Unfortunately the photos are not very sharp (those mobile phone cameras never keep what they promise, right?!), but this label says "Frog meat"...(look closely and you´ll see that it´s skinned half frogs with toes and everything)....

...and this one says "Chicken leg - claws".
And yes; the claws are still there as you can see for yourself.

If you´re not inspired enough, just take a look at these pics below of my father eating spiders - more specifically fried tarantulas.
I ordered this Khmer delicacy for him at a restaurant here in Phnom Penh which serves specialities from all parts of Cambodia. The restaurant serves them with a dipping sauce which might add some more flavour, otherwise they are not known for having very much of a taste.

Talking about restaurants serving Khmer delicacies; after the grocery shopping I went to a restaurant owned by some Khmer friends of mine. Most of their menu is Italian, but they do serve some Asian specialities as well. I noticed today that one of the dishes on the menu (nr 10) is described as "Mount Frog - price of frog meat served with hot sauces". I have no idea what that means, but I tend to always go for the pasta, anyway...