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One of the nights, the BP Staff and some of the early arrived customers went for some Khmer Food at a restaurant downtown... It was a set menu - Khmer Cuisine Set, costing US$19/pax. Woo... so it had better be good...

It started with drinks... I tried their local beer... "LAO" Beer... not bad!


For Starters we had Fried Spring Rolls (Vegetables Fried in Rice Paper & Served with Mildly Spicy Peanut Sauce) - This really is just normal Spring Rolls u can prolly get anywhere in Malaysia lah... maybe for some foreigners this is special.


Then came our soup, Siem Reap Soup (Lightly Spicy sour with Seafood & Vegetables, Cooked in Coconut Milk, served with Jasmine Steamed Rice) - most of us ate up all the rice with this dish thinking it was the mains... cuz it had enough condiments to be a full meal! It was "tom yam" like... but lemak!


Our Mains, Khmer Fish Amok (Fresh Water Fish Steamed in Coconut Milk with Local Greens, served with Jasmine Steamed Rice) - It really tasted like Otak-Otak - Penang style with lots of fish... quite alot of them was not used to it and couldn't even finish half of it, whatmore with more rice being served... woo! it was very filling!


For Dessert we had Banana Chef (Small Khmer Bananas Sauteed & Topped with Passion Fruit Sauce), keh like grilled bananas... the sauce was very nice... definately a sweet-tooth dream!


Everyone was very full by the end of the meal... but i still can't believe the price... fooh! Ex man! I guess since the place was air-conditioned and a proper restaurant, u pay for ambience also kua!