Best Khmer Breakfast

Kung-fu Hillbilly · Post by **Kung-fu Hillbilly** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:47 pm

By The Street Food Guy
Feb 8th 2021

Being English you do not get to be too snobby when it comes to food.

When it comes to Cambodian food, what is a Khmer breakfast? Being English you do not get to be too snobby when it comes to food. Our imprint on the culinary world is mostly two things, fish and chips and the English Breakfast. So, when I say “too snobby” we do get to be snobby about those two things.

Cambodia is probably one of the most expat friendly countries in Asia. This means there is very much an expat scene. You can therefore get a great British/American breakfast throughout the land. This is particularly so alongside the riverside in Phnom Penh.

We have put together the 5 most best Cambodian/Khmer breakfast dishes. Some are obviously better than others, but these are the ones probably best suited to the western palate.

1.Bobor – Cambodian Porridge – Porridge out east is not the gruel you were served as kid in Europe. Rice porridge is essentially rice mixed with water. You can then optionally mix meat, vegetables and spices with it. I used to truly hate Asian porridge, but it has grown on me in Cambodia. During the Khmer Rouge era this was pretty much all anyone ate.

2) Num Pang! All hail the French, and, or Vietnamese. Num Pang is the Khmer equivalent of Banh Mi. It is a baguette filled with meat and veg. Great fusion food and you will see hawkers selling this everywhere. You can read more about Num Pang

3) Nom Korng – Cambodian Donuts – So it turns out that Cambodia make really good donuts. These are perfect if you are on the go and don’t have time for a formal type breakfast. Sickly sweet you will see them being sold by hawkers throughout the country.

4) Num Banh Chok – Cambodian Rice Noodle Soup – A mainstay of Cambodian cuisine and after porridge probably the most eaten and famous. It is for all intents a rice noodle soup. If you’re familiar with my writing you’ll know I am personally not fan. Main reason? I end up with food all over me. One of the easiest breakfast dishes to get hold of.

5) Bai Sach Chrouk – Rice and pork – The joy of this dish is frankly the simplicity of it. It is a bed of rice, some veggies and spicy marinated pork. Reminds me a little of a Filipino breakfast. This is perfectly filling, carbs, meat, veg and very easy to get hold of (and cheap).

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Phnom Poon · Post by **Phnom Poon** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:47 pm

not sure these are all breakfast, and where's kuy teav?

AndyKK · Post by **AndyKK** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:05 pm

Enjoyed the Ban Chow, small pancake with minced pork and vegetable leafs, peanut dressing. But can't find in my area of Phnom Penh.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus · Post by **Bitte_Kein_Lexus** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 7:05 am

Yeah they're not really breakfast staples (besides Bohboh and Bai Sak Chrouk). Can never to wrong with pork/chicken and rice ice though!

Doc67 · Post by **Doc67** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:04 am

Being English you do not get to be too snobby when it comes to food.

Wanna bet?

750 different varieties of cheese;

Some of the best beef in the world (and exported worldwide - most US herds are from British breeds);

Seafood, in a abundance, and being purloined by all of Europe (still);

Berkshire and Tamworth and many more unique heritage pig breeds;

Over 1300 Michelin accredited restaurants (mostly in and around London);

Lamb as good as anything else in the world - and cheap too;

Burford Brown and Old Cotswold Legbar and many other heritage egg breeds;

Organic foodstuffs available everywhere;

the list goes on.

To imply that England is just fish and chips, even as a bad joke, tells me all I need to know about the author. Hell, he even has an article dedicated on "How to eat Fish and Chips". Riveting.

I'll tell you another thing too, you want to know one of the best places on the world for either fine, medium or value dining of authentic cuisines from all over the world, and owned and operated by people from those countries?

It's London. You try finding the variety and abundance of choice in any other city. You name it, we got it. Even a couple of Khmer ones too.

The reason for this is we don't have a unique national cuisine that is drummed into us from birth and adhered to all the time. Go to other European countries and generally all you get is their food, and an awful lot of that is nasty. Spain has to be the most boring of menus after about a week, and that's pretty much all you get in Spain, (the north being the best). France is French food or you can foutre le camp. If I was French I too would have that attitude - it is the best cuisine in the world.

London attracts the best of the best, and only the best survive in those conditions.

The Fish and Chips are the best too, so there!

https://www.clarencecourt.co.uk/our-eggs/egg-range/
https://www.leadingrestaurants.co.uk/da ... lin-guide/
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/featu ... -varieties
https://homesteadontherange.com/2017/11 ... le-breeds/

Apollo91881 · Post by **Apollo91881** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:14 am

So, where are the best Fish and Chips in PP?

Doc67 · Post by **Doc67** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:47 am

Apollo91881 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:14 am So, where are the best Fish and Chips in PP?

Harry's on Riverside are pretty good, you can get a small serving, from the bar snacks menu, for about $5. Full size is a bit more but go on Fridays and it is $6 on the Friday Specials menu.

Post by **Freightdog** » Wed Feb 10, 2021 12:27 am

I actually don’t like fish and chips that much. But when it’s done well, AND I’m in the mood, it’s good. Done averagely, it may as well have been cooked by a hotdog seller or a Scot.
No mushy peas, cheers. Devil’s tucker.

The Irish have a fairly good reputation for bleaching food interminably until everything is a uniform grey. My grandmother, as dear and revered as she was, was an avid proponent of this particular torture. A decent cheese and tomato sarnie was a godsend to someone brought up surrounded by French, Italian, Mediterranean, Asian, African and numerous other culinary inputs, yet periodically subjected to such trauma. Despite this, once you get beyond the stereo type, some of the seafood was to die for. I used to go fishing with my uncles, and later in the evening, enjoy some of the catch. ...and I can still, some forty years later, taste the succulent beef that was served at a wedding feast in Cobh.

Khmer food is an interest curiosity. There’s stuff I like which the other half hates. There’s stuff I hate that the other half consumes with reckless abandon. Breakfast- the chrouk/bai/Sutt combo and Borbor are the two that I enjoy, if in the mood to eat. But a few cups of mondulkiri coffee and a few char-vye (however it may be anglicised) are often enough. Sadly, for all her ability at cooking, I do not enjoy home cooked Borbor. To avoid the domestic beating, I’m just not hungry at the appropriate time.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Wed Feb 10, 2021 12:48 am

I hate that dish. All the ingredients seem ok and I've seen people spending a while preparing it but it's just not very tasty to me. There's some green paste in it that I don't like. I don't know what the hell to do with all those leaves they give you with many dishes here. Most of them taste like dandelions or some other bitter weed. Usually half it seems cold anyway.
I eat that Bai Sat Chrook the odd time near work, it's always easy enough to get down but I rarely finish the rice, it's just too bland. There's an alleyway I go to to buy coffee and they do soup, it looks tasty enough but way too much sweated offal in the display for my liking. I'll eat stuff like that if there's nothing else around but that hasn't happened in years. The soup with slices of pork is good.
Borbor is fine too but I can't remember the last time I had some. It's great if you are sick. There are those places where they have a buffet sort of thing with different dishes like cut in half boiled eggs in gravy with jelly worm sized pieces of beef and gristle, semi-raw cauliflower with pits of pork, chicken knuckles fried in ginger, morning glory with chicken livers or whatever. All with a big spongy pile of rice. It's all really delicious.

Ghostwriter · Post by **Ghostwriter** » Wed Feb 10, 2021 5:40 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:04 am
Being English you do not get to be too snobby when it comes to food.

Wanna bet?

Just kiddin. Great spice rack, anyway.
750 cheeses really, i had to google that...Stinky bishop seems funky.

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