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Helena poses in front of a pile of jack fruit at a...
Why am I somehow not surprised that our bus broke down?
A crowd awaits a New Year's Day sunset at the temple
Things you cannot do in a Khmer bathroom.
Helena, a bit worried the wooden structure might give...
Helena, standing among the roots of a silk-cotton tree...
Garuda-bird carving at one of the gates used in the...
Helena, trying the village catch of dried shrimp at...
Lots of cooked shrimp, laying out to dry at Kampong Phluuk.
Apparently occasionally they have boat races against...
Floating crocodile farm at Kampong Phluuk.
Pigs in a floating pen at Kampong Phluuk. Not much mud...
Kampong Phluuk villagers among the mangroves.
Mangrove forest near Kampong Phluuk.
Lone fisherman in the Lake of the Tonle Sap. This...
The Venice of Cambodia, as it were.
Delicious little freshwater clams for sale. You put...
Cambodian moving van.
Cambodian gas station: 1 liter of gasoline costs $1 US,...
Helena at some temple whose name I am going to have to look up.
Helena inside a gate being taken over by an aptly named...
How much for a fried grasshopper?
Remember to break off the legs first!
Does Helena look a little nervous?
Tastes like chicken!
Ok, now the stakes have been raised: I see you one...
Luckily you only eat the legs, and not the meaty body.
Helena: 1. Tarantula: 0. Oh wait, Tarantula: 7.
500 riel (about 13 cents) rice snacks wrapped in palm fronds.
On the road, Cambodian style.
Helena photographs the beautiful lunch prepared by our...
A girl goes to collect her cow from the rice paddies in...
Neighbor's children early in the morning.
A rice polisher!
Why did I never grow weary of seeing piles of tarantulas...
3 softshell crabs with world-famous Kampot green...
Green market in Kampot. It was such a rabbit-warren of...
The only type of pine tree in Cambodia, on Bokor Hill, a...
View of the southern coast of Cambodia from the top of...
Riding our pickup truck with 8 in the bed to the top of...
Catholic church at Bokor Hill, where the Khmer Rouge...
Fog moving in across Bokor Hill.
Wild peppercorns, I think.
Looking straight down off a cliff to the back of Bokor...
Fog coming up over the top of Bokor Hill.
View from within the Bokor Hill Casino. I loved the...
Stairway to nowhere. Inside the Bokor Hill Casino,...
Bokor Hill hotel/casino. Creepy.
These buildings seemed so ancient to me in their...
Bokor Hill Casino tower with sunlight behind it.
Another tour group overtakes our poky but reliable...
I found a bird's nest! During my jungle hike on Bokor Hill.
A durian stand!
A change of scenery: a boat trip down the Kampot River...
One of these trees is not like the other.
Sunset scene in Kampot.
Some sort of rice product in the Kampot market for making breads.
Various animal parts for sale at the Kampot Market. ...
Eggs for sale. I am still not clear what they are covered in.
Who knew that the insides of chickens were so brigtly...
Taking chickens apart, step by step. In the Kampot Market.
What are these big green vegetables? I never found out.
Woman selling vegetables at the Kampot market.
Palm sugar snack for sale at the Kampot Market. ...
Women selling seafood at the wet market in the Kampot market.
View from the back of a motorbike approaching the market...
Site of the 1994 killing of 6 Australian tourists by the...
Deforestation near some peppercorn plantations outside Kep.
Baby durians!
My guide showing me peppercorns on a peppercorn plantation.
John, amongst the pepper plants.
John on a pepper plantation near Kampot.
A durian tree!
John next to a durian tree.
Mountains begging to be climbed, somewhere in the...
So I went on this epic multi-day quest to eat...
Close up of crunchy rice drying on a table on a sidewalk...
A really cool acid-washed French colonial building in...
Part of the royal family's residence. I love the way...
The Throne Hall of the Royal Palace of Cambodia.
Detail of a building near the Throne Hall.
A picture of many Royal Palace buildings taken from the...
A stoupa outside the Silver Pagoda in the Royal Palace.
The Royal Palace included a scaled replica of Angkor...
Giant pigeons plot their attack of Angkor Wat.
Inside this pagoda is a seated figure on horseback -...
Louise julienning carrot for our spring rolls.
John, grinding peanuts into paste for spring rolls.
John mortar-and-pistil'ing some peanuts.
Spring rolls a-frying in King Crab vegetable oil.
File under T for They might not even have it in...
Louise shows off our creation: crispy spring rolls made...
A fisherman rowing his way by our cooking class on the...
Ingredients for green curry. All 4 students' plates...
Close-up of ingredients for green curry. Kafir lime...
All the vegetables for a dish called "som loh coco"...
Pea eggplant, Japanese eggplant, white jack fruit, long...
Who knew long beans were so long? Not me. I always...
Using a mortar and pistil to make green curry.
Shrimp paste, rock salt, palm sugar, and in the...
Vegetable oil of choice. This stuff was everywhere in Cambodia.
Som loh koko cooking away on
Niki and Louise cooking som loh koko.
Completed som loh koko ready to eat. Some rice (not) mixed in.
John, Louise and Irma eating som loh koko.
Poisonous tree frog who dropped in on our cooking class...
Kaffir lime.
Banana leave rounds, which we just traced and cut using...
Ingredients for red curry, which will be the base of our...
Here we have red curry ingredients. Lemongrass root,...
Sauce to be mixed with red curry for fish amok. ...
I think I should have been using a spoon for this. ...
Garnish for fish amok: very, very thinly cut slices of...
Folding our banana leaves into bowls with the help of...
Louise's completed banana leaf bowl, and some extra...
Yellow lentils, which we will turn into mung bean paste...
A "doily" as it were, for our fish amok.
Making doilies for our fish amok.
Fish amok dishes steaming away (they were cooked with a lid on).
Niki's completed fish amok.
My fish amok... looks better than the picture on the...
The students with their completed main course meal.
Cooked yellow lentils, ready to be made into dessert.
Glutenous rice flour (in the bag) being mixed with water.
Kneading the glutenous rice flour and water into dough.
This makes for a sticky mess, until the glutenous rice...
The dough starts to come together.
Mung bean balls.
Making dough balls.
Mung bean paste goes inside the glutenous rice flour...
Mung bean and glutenous rice wrapped in banana leaf and...
Note: fingers stained yellow from fresh turmeric handling.
Dessert, ready to be steamed.
So, while we were making dessert, Mr. Poisonous frog...
Our instructor, gassing the frog family in the bathroom.
Meanwhile, dessert is ready!
Dessert, ready for eating (well, you probably want to...
Little girls selling lotus flower seeds and bread, at...
The stoupa of Wat Phnom.
Man sleeping on a park bench in Phnom Penh while more...