Comments on: The Russian Market (Psar Toul Tom Poung) http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/phnom-penh/russian-market/ Khmer food, restaurant reviews and recipes served to you from Phnom Penh by Phil Lees Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:38:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: The Last Appetite » Assam Laksa: The power of sour http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/phnom-penh/russian-market/#comment-42579 The Last Appetite » Assam Laksa: The power of sour Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:52:40 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=82#comment-42579 [...] A few years in Southeast Asia has me captivated by sour. I literally can’t get enough tamarind paste. In Cambodia, I’d buy it by the kilo block from the Russian Market and suck the piquant pulp straight from the seeds whenever I felt like an overwhelming sour kick. Lunch without a sour Khmer soup was not lunch. [...] [...] A few years in Southeast Asia has me captivated by sour. I literally can’t get enough tamarind paste. In Cambodia, I’d buy it by the kilo block from the Russian Market and suck the piquant pulp straight from the seeds whenever I felt like an overwhelming sour kick. Lunch without a sour Khmer soup was not lunch. [...]

]]> By: marklatham http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/phnom-penh/russian-market/#comment-7824 marklatham Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:30:53 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=82#comment-7824 Great post garry-what a shame progress has reared it's ugly head. Great post garry-what a shame progress has reared it’s ugly head.

]]> By: Garry http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/phnom-penh/russian-market/#comment-7156 Garry Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:12:10 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=82#comment-7156 Until the 1997 marijuana crackdown, Psar Toul Tom Poung was the market where old Khmer women openly sold ganga from 20 kilo burlap sacks. The action was all from a single stall or two, and usually there were a few of these degenerate pusher-women and 4 to 6 sacks of the deadly weed, if I recall in various strengths and qualities. Fittingly, in the more open cafe area of the market (just before you entered the rabbit warren of the market itself) a couple of the cigarette vendors always a few glassine-wrapped packages of blunt, white hand-rolled jobbies among the Ankors and Heros, usually secured with a rubber band. These were the ganga cigarettes, $1 USD per pack, which was 20-count. Those also disappeared from Toul Tom Poung in 1997. Until the 1997 marijuana crackdown, Psar Toul Tom Poung was the market where old Khmer women openly sold ganga from 20 kilo burlap sacks. The action was all from a single stall or two, and usually there were a few of these degenerate pusher-women and 4 to 6 sacks of the deadly weed, if I recall in various strengths and qualities.

Fittingly, in the more open cafe area of the market (just before you entered the rabbit warren of the market itself) a couple of the cigarette vendors always a few glassine-wrapped packages of blunt, white hand-rolled jobbies among the Ankors and Heros, usually secured with a rubber band. These were the ganga cigarettes, $1 USD per pack, which was 20-count.

Those also disappeared from Toul Tom Poung in 1997.

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