Comments on: Icecream Sandwich on Wheels

By: Phnomenon: food in Cambodia » As full as an egg

Phnomenon: food in Cambodia » As full as an egg — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:04:50 +0000

[...] So says Mercutio, regarding the “Egg Man” debate currently raging in The Cambodia Daily letters page. For those of you playing at home, Phnom Penh’s aural landscape is punctuated by motorcyclists with a cartful of eggs and a loudspeaker that intones the looped words “PORNG MOAN AING PSOUM KROUENG PISEH” (Barbecued eggs with special sauce!). He’s up there with my favorite street vendor sounds: not as good as the Lambada-obsessed icecream vendor but more entertaining that the bread delivery guy who yells “nuuuuuum pan” (Breeeead!). [...]

By: Phnomenon: food in Cambodia » The pornography of tropical ice cream.

Phnomenon: food in Cambodia » The pornography of tropical ice cream. — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:13:25 +0000

[...] Ice cream in the tropics is pornographic. There is a moral wrongness about consummating your lather of hot season sweat with something cold and creamy. It’s a fleeting pleasure riddled with First World guilt. What’s more it’s for sale, quite openly, on the streets of Phnom Penh. Presumably, ice cream arrived in Phnom Penh with the French colonisers and has since become popular with the colonised as a street food (which I have covered previously in both a microbiological and more sociological sense). What has changed within the past year is the opening of a handful of upmarket establishments, pimping their rich flavours to richer Phnom Penhois. [...]

By: Phnomenon: Cambodian food, food in Cambodia » Mobile Ice Cream: Droppin’ Science

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:09:31 +0000

[...] Previously: Icecream Sandwich on Wheels [...]

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:45:31 +0000

The Thai version of that ice cream is made from coconut; the Khmer is not the same? The bread in Thailand is a real bread roll, making it a real ice cream sandwich!

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:12:13 +0000

Cheers. I’m a pretty big fan of Stickyrice myself – I’ll have to add it to my currently anemic list of blogs.

On the icecream front, I’ve also seen a few carts serving waffles instead of cake/bread in the past month which is an interesting development. I’ll have to keep track of it.

By: Sticky

Sticky — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:54:06 +0000

I’ve had numbers like this in Nha Trang and Saigon. Bread and ice-cream equals chalk and cheese.
Give me a cone any day!

Liking your blog a lot! Finally had a gander just now.

By: Lord Playboy

Lord Playboy — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:31:50 +0000

The sweet bread roll is not a lot better !

This is one area where I bow to the import market – Ben and Jerry’s or Haagen-Dazs curtacy of Lucky Market.

Playboy