The pastry is a good, solid base, with a thin, flaky, spicy top. The curiously colored insides could well have sprung from the pages of a Mary Shelley novel. Only $5 at 7Eleven and, like skydiving, sub aqua coitus and raw scallops in Fiji, it is an experience best had only once in a lifetime… 
Month: September 2018
STORM OVER CAMBODIA AS A FIERY SUN SETS OVER CHINA … LIKE THE FLAMING DRAGON COMING OVER THE HORIZON
A dark storm, spitting thunder and lightning, hangs over Cambodia’s Phnom Penh, as the fiery red sunset bathes Laos and China to the northwest… 
IN S.E. ASIA U CAN AFFORD TO HAVE SMASHED AVO AND GOOD ACCOMM
My last day in Phnom Penh so reconditioning the tummy for back in Aus. This is the US$6 House Special Big Western Breakfast, a La Caverne De Kim cafe bar. My morning walk may now have to be put on hold for a bit…
TAKING MEAT-AND-RICE TO A NEW LEVEL
Lunch is courtesy of Hak Mithona: a Khmer-style charcuturie of sun dried fishes, beef and Siem Reap pork sausage, served with rice and Cambodian green tamarind paste. The large green vegetable is sngo mareash (bitter melon stuffed with pork mince in soup). It has just a hint of bitterness. I can’t resist: I also add a good dash of Kampot pepper/lime sauce… Angkor Mithona Guesthouse, Phnom Penh 
1.2.6. – GRAB YOUR CHOPSTICKS
In Asia I don’t normally send back food when served the wrong item; I take it as fate inviting me to try something different. But today when I asked for “No.106 seafood noodle soup” and got “No.105 meat organs” (ie offal), I had to act. It was the gristle ball that looked like a burst testicle. Cook and waitress were cranky but it was a good decision: the seafood was delicious. The bill, though, jumped from 10,000 riel to 13,000 riel (US$3.25), so they’ve charged me a “nuisance fee”. I got even – I made the waitress go and get change for a US$20 note. Haha. Oh, the little things that amuse me on my travels…
126 The Noodle Factory, Phnom Penh
DUCK AIN’T EASY TO DO
Lashing out for lunch, roasted duck ($US6.25) at touristy Chinese chain, TiNat. Duck skin crispy but flesh either undercooked or dry. The noodles, vegies and sauce are delicious. Yeah I’ve been spoilt: the simple, little, street eateries do duck better for half the price…
I’M SUCH A LEMON…
Phnom Penh dispatches: Lunch with the local workers; sticky rice with a small bowl of bitter chicken soup (US$1.50). See that round thing in the soup? It’s a Cambodian pickled lime and astringently sour. Not smart to scoff it whole – knowledge I learned after the fact. I’m damaged goods for a little while…
I LOVE PHNOM PENH
It’s so good to be back here, by the Royal Palace, where the calming Mekong and Tonle rivers merge. And progress respects old trees…
MY TRADITIONAL TUK TUK BLOKE
The friendly smile is genuine. And the friendly smile is genuinely bigger when u give him US$5. 👍
THE “UBER TUK TUK” IS TAKING OVER IN CAMBODIA
The digital age tuk tuk: It’s booked via the PassApp on your mobile phone or tablet; it’s fully enclosed with side covers; its driver is in constant contact with base via mobile earpiece; and it runs on LPG. If nothing else, just the LPG fact has got to be good…
Haxtrax 