ITHACA: Khmer Angkor (Cambodian Food)

Top 3 Favorite things about Ithaca/Cornell:

1) Cambodian Food at the Farmer's Market

2) Cornell Cinema

3) Male Architecture Students

...in that order.

The traditional Cambodian street food at the Khmer Angkor farmer's market is transcendental.  This is what I imagine Cambodian food tastes like in Cambodia.  This is like having my own Cambodian mother cooking for me every Saturday and Sunday.  The purple sticky rice with mango and the spicy chicken curry with sweet potato, pineapple, bamboo shoot and coconut milk are Last Meal on Death Row, The Best Thing I Ever Ate, lick the bottom of the compostable paper container in which they are served good.

Purple sticky rice with sweetened coconut milk and mango

Chicken curry with sweet potato, bamboo shoot, pineapple, and basil

Kmer Pancake: omelette filled with ground meat or vegetables and mung beans, seasoned with basil, garlic, and chopped peanuts.

Seasoned sticky rice wrapped in a banana leaf. Yum.