What is some of the best food in Cambodia? Or food that is traditional to Cambodia?
Re: What is some of the best food in Cambodia? Or food that is traditional to Cambodia?
All that fear of MSG is laughable, especially when you consider that sugar is a real killer and everywhere, in huge quantities.
Re: What is some of the best food in Cambodia? Or food that is traditional to Cambodia?
Nothing, when used in small quantities and when you're not overly sensitive to it.cautious colin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:57 amwhat's wrong with msg?Kammekor wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:42 amMakes you wonder how MSG has become a main ingredient for virtually all dishes in a conservative country like Cambodia.Freightdog wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:49 pm Salt and MSG.
It’s a small bone of contention as I don’t use much, let alone a lot, of salt when cooking. The other half has jars of sugar, salt and MSG which I truly want to nail down and superglue shut.
Hell, they even like to put it in the lemon juice-salt-pepper-(sugar, optional) dip.
I tried to ban it from the kitchen. So far failed.
But when making food from fresh ingredients I don't like it in my food. Just like too much salt or sugar.
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The salt, pepper and lime dipping sauce that is often served in ramikens is called "beurmereak", or is my recall incorrect?
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Well, out with it then @cautious colin. And, the beur part sounds like the pronunciation for the Khmer word for butter. My sense is that locals do call it beurmureak or very similar and that that term is a bastardized French loaner term.
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Is this not just us dullard Barang trying to get their tongues and ears around the different and very subtle pronunciations? I know I still have some big trouble, especially where the first and last letter, sometimes words and syllables, seemingly mumble into incoherency…
Beurre (frog for butter)
Bu, Latinized from ប៊ឺ, which is Khmer for beurre, which is frog for butter
Beur, latinised from បឺរ which is a short form Khmer for avocado?
KamBaor, from កំបេារ (which I’m still unsure of as Khmer keep telling me lime and lemon, same same)
And then
AmbelMrechKrauchma
អំបិលម្រេចក្រូចឆ្មា
This latter one voiced quickly, the first syllable and last word often get missed to become (or sound like) BuhMrek?
Beurre (frog for butter)
Bu, Latinized from ប៊ឺ, which is Khmer for beurre, which is frog for butter
Beur, latinised from បឺរ which is a short form Khmer for avocado?
KamBaor, from កំបេារ (which I’m still unsure of as Khmer keep telling me lime and lemon, same same)
And then
AmbelMrechKrauchma
អំបិលម្រេចក្រូចឆ្មា
This latter one voiced quickly, the first syllable and last word often get missed to become (or sound like) BuhMrek?
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Re: What is some of the best food in Cambodia? Or food that is traditional to Cambodia?
I'm no expert, but I think it is salt pepper
Also as @Kammekor says, sometimes also water pepper
Salt in khmer is mbel (the m is pretty silent to most)
Sounds very similar to slang 7 too. As with a lot of Khmer words, you can pretty much miss the first syllable or 2
Therefore salt pepper, អំបិលម្រេច
Butter, at least to my ear sounds different, like beurre as you say.
Also butter wouldn't make sense here, as there is no butter (and the sauce not creamy in the slightest)
On a side note, avacado is butter fruit, but that does make sense
Re: What is some of the best food in Cambodia? Or food that is traditional to Cambodia?
Yes, it's called salt-pepper (ambul-mrech) and 'pepper water' (tuk mrech). You can use both (in Khmer).cautious colin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:49 pmI'm no expert, but I think it is salt pepper
Also as @Kammekor says, sometimes also water pepper
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TukMrek/AmbelMrek seem to be used interchangeably.
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