{"id":160,"date":"2007-01-11T04:05:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2007-05-27T08:55:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T01:55:22","slug":"two-recent-street-food-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/cambodian-food\/street-food\/two-recent-street-food-regrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Two recent  street food regrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--adsense#largerect--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50781821@N00\/351073473\/\" title=\"Awful barbecued cake\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/149\/351073473_f14b398b0d_o.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Awful barbecued cake\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the few street food regrets that I have acquired is eating the above barbecued cake. I don&#8217;t know what it is named in Khmer and despite exuding the lush aroma of roasted banana and sesame seeds, it appears to be made of either papier-m\u00c3\u00a2ch\u00c3\u00a9 or its even less edible substitute, taro. Taro is proof of God&#8217;s disdain for humanity. Cooked on a stand out the front of the French Cultural Centre, its sole purpose seems to be to remind the French not to eat Cambodian food. 200 riel (US$0.05) apiece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50781821@N00\/351073444\/\" title=\"miniature Cambodian donuts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/163\/351073444_312aa57278_o.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"miniature Cambodian donuts\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you could fry a ring of lard in pure hogfat and then somehow bind it all together with toffee, you&#8217;d end up with one of the above cakes. These candied miniature donuts test my faith in the rule that deep-frying improves everything (except for taro). Possibly it is designed to mimic the edible equivalent of a looped, hardened artery. 100 riel (US$0.02) each from a guy wandering around the Russian market. He was a bit shirty that I paid the Khmer price and not the tourist price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the few street food regrets that I have acquired is eating the above barbecued cake. I don&#8217;t know what it is named in Khmer and despite exuding the lush aroma of roasted banana and sesame seeds, it appears to be made of either papier-m\u00c3\u00a2ch\u00c3\u00a9 or its even less edible substitute, taro. Taro is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/cambodian-food\/street-food\/two-recent-street-food-regrets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two recent  street food regrets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-fried","category-street-food"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}