Archive for the 'Battambang' Category

Special Sauce

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

It’s something of a food blogger invasion in Cambodia at present; more than one of us in the same country is a trend. Ex-expat and frequent revisitor Karen Coates is touring the countryside. Her recent grim observation on what makes Cambodian tuk trei that little bit different:
We recently visited a small fish-sauce operation near Battambang, […]

Slow News Day: Maddox Jolie hopped-up on crickets

Friday, December 15th, 2006

After a hard day of terminating contracts in Samlot, infamous Third World infant exporter Angelina Jolie feeds her son a plateful of late night Cambodian crickets. At the moment, this is about the best coverage that Cambodian food can receive from the mainstream press.

Take your stinking paws off my stout, you damned dirty ape!

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

New to the Cambodian blog scene, Details are Sketchy reprints the Cambodia Daily’s monkey o’ the day scoop: jealous ape hooked on stout.
Forestry officials will investigate reports that customers at a Battambang province restaurant have been plying a pet monkey with multiple cans of ABC Stout after it developed a taste for the eight-percent alcoholic […]

Zepp on Battambang Food

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Ray Zepp, author of Cambodia’s best (if occasionally wat-obsessed) niche travel guide, “Battambang and Around”, is back in the country, and has written a nice wrap up of the changes that Battambang has undergone in the preceding few years at Khmer440. On food and drink in Battambang:
Evenings in Battambang, granted, are not as exciting as […]

Menu Weirdness in Battambang

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Teo Hotel in Battambang not only features an inappropriately encyclopedic menu ranging from pizza to hamburgers to Thai classics, but also plays host to some of the strangest menu translations available in the whole of Cambodia.
Next time I’m up north, I’ll be devoting my meal time to all kinds of on […]