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Cambodian Cooking Course

Continuing with my trend of doing a cooking course in every country I did my Cambodian cooking course in Siem Reap. I did it at a place called "Le Tigre de Papier" and it was a super good deal because you got to pick whatever you wanted to cook from their menu and a trip to the market.

I saw a lot of interesting meats at the market. Cant really tell you what the middle one is but I was told that they were in fact meat.

Here is my favourite fruit of all time. Do you know what it is?


Lots of spices in this market, oddly packaged considering we were in a pretty local market.


This is white papaya which I havent seen before. Have you?


All sorts of different rice. We ended up getting the black sticky rice for our dessert.



When we got back all the ingredients we needed for the dishes we chose were all set up wrapped with plastic wrap along with our knives and cutting boards. I was surprised that the table wasnt wrapped as well.


We cut up all our ingredients and our chef set them all up and "now you take photo" she would say. Even if it wasnt something interesting enough she would wait until we did to move on.



Didnt take many pictures as we were cooking but I made a mango salad and a Khmer chicken with bok choy. it was super tasty. We also leant how to cut banana leaves into cups and plate decorations as you can see below


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