Month: April 2015

  • A Fruit and a Root!

    A Fruit and a Root!

    For our Cambodian cooking class, I chose mango salad and lotus root with pork. I picked the salad because I love mangoes and I picked lotus root with pork because it was different.  Success! Everything was delicious! Try these recipes to taste for yourself! For the mango salad: Ingredients: Salad 1 green mango, peeled and…

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  • Food glorious FOOD!!

    Food glorious FOOD!!

    What do Banana Flowers, Chicken and Bok Choy have in common? Not much!  However, you can use these ingredients to make a delicious Khmer meal! We usually try to take a cooking class in different countries we visit.  As part of our cooking class in Siem Reap, I thought that Banana Flower Salad (as a starter),…

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  • Cooking the Khmer Way!

    Cooking the Khmer Way!

    So here we are in Siem Reap and wanting to cook some of the local Khmer fare. We scoured the Internet and tourist areas for cooking schools and came up with Le Tigre de Papier.  What makes their cooking classes different is that they allow the customers to select the dishes they would like to make…

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  • The Moment You Have All Been Waiting For…

    The Moment You Have All Been Waiting For…

    For those of you who have read my other post on Apsara dancing, this is the moment you have all been waiting for… As another Backstreet Academy activity, we did Apsara dancing. We arrived at the Plateau association, where we would learn how to this traditional Cambodian dance. We met our backstreet facilitator who translated…

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  • Our Cambodian Temple Run

    Our Cambodian Temple Run

    Welcome to day two of our temple run! On this adventure, we explored other temples around Angkor Wat which were really interesting and beautiful. Ta Prohm One of the main features of the Ta Prohm temple are the trees which have grown and worked their way into the ruins. The two main types of tree…

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