Comments on: Num Anksom Cheik on Mao Tse Tung Boulevard

By: Phnomenon: food in Cambodia » Victoria St. Melbourne: Known unknowns

Phnomenon: food in Cambodia » Victoria St. Melbourne: Known unknowns — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:00:12 +0000

[...] The anksom cheik chien (A$2), which in Phnom Penh can be conveniently found in front of the Chinese Embassy on Mao Tse Toung Blvd, comes chopped, smothered in tinned coconut milk [...]

By: venitha

venitha — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:15:36 +0000

Thanks for letting me know what these are! Banana doesn’t sound bad, but why do they have to ruin it with yellow beans? =)

By: Phnomenon: Cambodian food, food in Cambodia » Blog Archive » Khmer New Year

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:50:08 +0000

[...] Speaking of which, on the food front, New Year is another chance to fatten up your local monks and appease the spirits of the dead at your local wat with some num anksom. The only trustworthy Khmer recipe resource on the web, Khmer Krom Recipes, serves up Num anksom sach chrouk (rice cakes wrapped in banana leaf with pork): Like many Khmer Krom families, each year, a few days before the New Year, my family will dedicate a day just for making rice cakes. Some of my relatives, neighbors and friends will get together usually at our house, some brings sweet rice, some bring mung beans, some bring meat for the cooking event. We’ll makes and shares hundreds of num anksom chrouk , num anksom chet, num kom. Most the cakes will be giving away to neighbors, friends and the poor. We’ll take some sweet rice cakes to Wats for food offerings to our ancestors. [...]