The 'best' Cambodian Street food

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Country fried rat smells just like chicken when being cooked
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Maybe try looking at a semi regular diet of street food, and the occasional bad bug, as survival training.
The more exposure one has to a variety of bacteria and viruses, the less likely you are to die when a big one hits.

You not only develop resistance to many particular infections - your immune system itself will react more quickly and effectively if it is well practiced at doing its job.

A major US Army study after WW1 clearly showed troops from clean living rural areas died from the spanish influenza epidemic, at a much higher the rate than those who came from the cities.
Many epidemiology studies have demonstrated this phenomena since.
A clorox clean sterilised lifestyle may end up killing you.

After a lifetime of eating in strange places, i hardly ever have stomach problems these days - and when I do it fixes itself very quickly. A few hours, a few times a year.

(I have almost entirely eliminated antibiotics from my diet these days, i reckon that helps my gut handle bugs better too.)
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I love street food, but not in Cambodia. Much better street food in Vietnam, Thailand, and even Laos.
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Ricky Dunn wrote: Sat May 25, 2019 8:32 am Don't risk it. Eat nothing from Aeon Mall unless you quick boil it in a pot or microwave the shit out of it. Boil all your cut fruit and veggies, when you quick boil tomatoes, 5 seconds or so, you kill the fungus spores too, so they last forever in your refrigerator. If you have a serviced apartment, make sure the cleaning ladies wear surgical masks and after they leave wipe everything they touched with a Clorox solution. And then spray for Mozzies, 17 species in PP! The beer is safe however.
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John Bingham wrote: Sat May 25, 2019 1:58 pm
Ricky Dunn wrote: Sat May 25, 2019 8:32 am Don't risk it. Eat nothing from Aeon Mall unless you quick boil it in a pot or microwave the shit out of it. Boil all your cut fruit and veggies, when you quick boil tomatoes, 5 seconds or so, you kill the fungus spores too, so they last forever in your refrigerator. If you have a serviced apartment, make sure the cleaning ladies wear surgical masks and after they leave wipe everything they touched with a Clorox solution. And then spray for Mozzies, 17 species in PP! The beer is safe however.
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The beer is safe, but the can is not. Don't forget to wipe your beer can before drinking.
( To be on the safe side, you can boil the can of beer for 30 minutes, then wipe it with bleach while wearing a surgical mask before you put it in the fridge . :mrgreen: It's really bad for the beer, but will give you a germ-free can. Do not put it in the microwave.)
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Fried bananas, nootpahn (spelling bad a waffle looking thing), barbecue chicken, pork. Only found one stall each for all these items that was good /worth going regular. Only one place big chickens, barbecued good, not sick sweet At least 20 different stall attempts. I say if you find any street food worth eating never ever go to different place... I've wondered if local desire add sugat to everything works as a calorie filler so they get full quicker make customer happy.... As far as Cambodia food/cooking in general I think it's terrible. Many of them eat local stuff that they admit "smell bad eat good". As a westerner if it smells bad I don't wanna eat it. Ever...... Spouse worked at higher end Cambodia restaurant years ago for 5 years. After watching main cook sneeze, wipe his nose, use bucket style shitter where you rinse with hand (no wash hands ever after) ect most of staff used private rice cooker in break area and wouldn't eat the free food at restaurant. That's how scared they were of the dirty cooks...... The smell of Cambodia curries I don't like either... At the end of the day most locals seem to have iron stomachs and will at least finish their meal even if don't like it. Especially older generations. Maybe this why recipes not worth a sheet, no pressure on the seller/cook/owner.....I do like Cambodian rice
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Sara Stelzer, Pretty huh? Dead in 36 hours from some shit in San Diego, USA!!
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Ricky Dunn wrote: Sun May 26, 2019 9:44 am Image

Sara Stelzer, Pretty huh? Dead in 36 hours from some shit in San Diego, USA!!
I give up. What's the link between Sara, an 18yo US student who died from meningitis, and Cambodian street food ? :o
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Was chatting to the missus about why Cambodian Street food is so bad. She seems to think it is that the salaries are so poor, which means most people eat at home.

In Thailand & Vietnam the salary to food cost seems much more reasonable, which leads to more people eating out every night. Whereas in Cambodia, most people will eat very cheaply at home, prob eat the same food the next morning for the same price as one meal on the street.

The wealthier people will eat at a restaurant, or beer garden, which the majority of locals can not afford regularly.

I have had some very good food cooked for me at peoples houses, it’s such a shame that you can’t get the same quality on the street.

There used to be one lady on 172, near quealy’s that did some very good street food, curries/soups/noodle salads on rotation with rice soup every day. Sadly she managed to electrocute herself on a dodgy fan and hasn’t opened since
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I think there are some good daytime street food places that cater mainly for the local office staff. Regular customers so the quality has to be good, the prices reasonable and the demand is predictable so minimal waste for the owner. I know of one on st. 208 that serves the staff of three local banks.
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