In Cambodia, certain things are considered “breakfast food,” and retaurants stop serving certain things after 9:30am. Some of those things are Beef Stew and Chicken and Rice. I can’t intuitively feel out which foods are for breakfast and which are not. Seriously.
We started the day a bit late and we had to go to two restaurants in order to find a place that served us chicken and rice. (You know, I would have taken anything else, but our hosts insisted.) The sauce was delicious and the chicken leg was done really tender. The chicken in Cambodia was MUCH smaller than American chicken. I mean, just look at those fried wings. That’s to be expected, I suppose. It was a damn skinny chicken!
Actually, a lot of the beef we had there was really chewy. The cows that we would see on the road were really skinny, too. They work too damn much, I think. And Americans are way too spoiled with fat livestock. Well, at least everything we had was organic, right? And it should also be noted that chicken was more expensive than beef or shrimp. Hah! That confused us for a while, but the chicken meat is more delicious and desirable than beef, I think. And shrimp might be a plenty.
You pour this scallion sauce on the chicken and rice, which was damn good. On the side they provided picked radishes and picked green tomatoes and cucumbers. I even got over my fright of the ice there and got a Sugarcane drink with lemon in it. It was refreshing, although mild. It wasn’t too sweet at all, although my American sensibilities wanted the drink to be tarter. (It actually isn’t suppose to come with lemon at all, but we had them put some in)
Sophear ordered another leg, because we’re fat Americans. I shared it with her. Yum!
