Pregnant women food

 


I hate to admit that one of my favourite snacks in Cambodia is synonymous to food taken mostly by women, specifically pregnant women.

Mchoo, is a combination of fresh local fruits mixed with spices that include chilli, dried shrimp, cambodian cheese (kpik), sugar and tamarind. Fresh fruits are cut into bite size so that they can blend well with the spices. Jujube, young green unpeeled banana, cashew nut fruit (not the nut but the fruit) ktut, cambodian cherry are some of the interesting fruits that give mchoo a unique taste of tanginess, sweetness, sourness and some bitterness. The explosion of taste in your mouth is just gastronomically satisfying as once you have it on your palate, you just cant stop...well at least that bears truth for me. 








Whenever tuk tuk drivers see me on the road with a bag of mchoo munching away, they would ask me, without fail "bong, are you pregnant?". 

 If eating mchoo is meant only for pregnant women, then I am continually pregnant many times over.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fighting Corona khmer style

Image
Ting mong, is a name given to propped up human sized dolls armed with a broom, some wearing a helmet guarding or standing in a fighting position with a water gun or a wooden sword. Traditionally there is a belief that such figures, if put in front of the gate or the entrance to a home, would ward off ghost or evil spirit and also against viruses and illnesses. The reason is to trick the spirit or the virus into attacking these dolls instead of the home dwellers. Some villagers would even put ting mongs to fight malaria and dengue fever.  During this corona pandemic, a drive from Siem reap city to Phnom Pehn is like driving through a toy store, where practically every house we went past by would be adorned by ting mongs in their most artistic poses and creative antiques. I have even heard some villagers saying that the reason why Cambodia's corona cases are low is because they are protected by ting mongs. Maybe we should, for the fun, have a ting mong in front of our houses to ...
Read more