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Khmer stuff for cooking

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Help! What is dteuk ampeul? Some sour liquid used for cooking.
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Just asked the Mrs, and she said it means being very upset, stressed. Fuck all to do with cooking.
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Popeye wrote:Just asked the Mrs, and she said it means being very upset, stressed. Fuck all to do with cooking.
Guess that depends on who is cooking.....
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Perfume mate!
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Poor show this chaps, it is a liquid used in cooking. Ampeul is a fruit.
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Got the dictionary out and guessed om-pil as they spell it might be tamarind. It is indeed. Thanks anyway, back to the shops. We are in FNQ where there are no other scruffy Khmers.
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ampeul is salt.

dteuk ampeul would be salty water. Brine?

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On the other hand, ampil is tamarind. So, it could be ripe tamarind mixed with water in a nice stew for a sour taste.

Good luck with that.
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Ampeul is indeed tamarind but since your wife said, "it means being very upset, stressed", I suspect that she either used or had the following idiom in mind, "Mien muk chu doach nyam ampeul.". I.e. To have a sour face like eating tamarind. I think it is best translated as "to be out of sorts." Something is wrong but there no indication of its origin. A comparable idiom is found in muk s'oi muk s'oi.
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Dteuk means water , ampeul means tamarind. They use tamarind to make sour sauce for cooking.

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