Its my place: Cambodia: Siem Reap - Siem Reap Street Foods and Lucky Mall

John always say i don't have guts, because i refuse to eat most of the street/local food when i was travelling. (Hello at least i eat raw octopus leg man!)

I got a reason for that, because i don't wanna ruin the trip by getting myself food poisoning (i have weak stomach ever since i come back to Malaysia. Ok you may say i'm getting old so my immune system gone bad).

I had a very bad food poisoning in my Nepal trip last year end, that really killing me and spoil my birthday trip. I shall blog it out after Siem Reap and Pai.

Back to this post, this is the last Siem Reap post and all about street foods and the street.

Lets start with the food, and later the street.

1. Bamboo Sticky Rice

Malaysia has bamboo rice as well but we're really curious what is the different between Malaysia and Cambodia bamboo rice, so we let the driver stop and give a try on the way we went to remote temple.

You can find this along the way to go out from town, lot of stall that selling bamboo rice on the road side.

we don't even get out from car, just wave the window down and make the purchase.

I do have some photo but blur, luckily we took down a video and you might wanna see it how the rice look like.

This is not exactly same with Malaysia version of bamboo rice, the rice mix with black/red bean so taste like a dessert more than a main dishes.

The rice smells nice, i think they put in some coconut juice in it to make it taste rice.

I don't remember the price but this is not expensive at all, probably like RM2 for one, and one bamboo portion is big enough.

2. Fried Spring Onion Cake

This is not the first time we see it, I believe you have seen this in Malaysia or Thailand, just like us.

We saw this on the roadside of Pub Street, we were hungry and John wanted to try.

The juice on the plastic plate taste sour, go well with the oily salty cake. I must say the square cake is nicer than the round one, crispy on the outside and soft in the inside, the spring onion smell really good.

While the round one is just okay, thick glutinous rice flour cover some spring onion, i feel kinda oily.

If not mistaken, about RM2 or RM3 for 3 pieces, you can choose all square one or mix with round one.

3. Baguettes

FYI, Cambodia was French colonial country, you can still found alot of French-style building in the town, some very old Cambodian people can even speak French there.

Baguettes is important for Cambodian, just as important for the French. You can see baguettes selling everywhere, and you can find baguettes in the local market.

Stall that selling baguettes is very common on the street, people buy it for either breakfast, lunch, dinner or tea.

Of course Cambodia baguettes is not eat it with butter or jam, and ham or cheese, they localize to Cambodian style and i think its worth to try it.

You can choose to go with local hot and sour salad or grill pork with salad, but the pork looks a bit freaky for us.

Local baguettes stall

this is the pork, its look like cooked pork with red coloring.

and this is local salad. Refreshing.

Baguettes is cheap here, with RM2 to RM4 you can easily fill your stomach, we had at least 5 baguettes in the whole trip and tasted differently. Every stall has their secret receipt for the sauce and salad.

Here come to the end of street food. Now we move on to the street.

Siem Reap has only one or two shopping center, we when to the one named Lucky Mall.

In this Lucky Mall, you will find Lucky Fast Food, Lucky Supermarket, Lucky Bookstore and Lucky Restaurant, all under Lucky Group, haha.

We wanted to get some local product as sourvenir so we stepped into this Lucky Mall, and we actually had our lunch in this Lucky Fast Food (FYI Siem Reap has no any international fast food chain).

Lucky Mall.

Lucky Fast Food

We got 2 pieces of fried chicken and coconut pie, $2.90

John later add on a hamburger and sausage roll.

The food is okay but i really like this coconut pie, so damn yummy yet not too sweet! Why McDonald is not selling this?!

And then we went to Lucky Supermarket to get some souvenir and survey what is selling in the local supermarket.

And we found few interesting things.

This is scorpion and snake drink. Look so freaky. I think the scorpion and snake are real.

Variety of beer, and so darn cheap!!!!!

John say: "Hey look at the Apple latest product, iMee!" =.="

I have seen egg in white, yellow, brown and even black, but i never see raw red color egg.

We stepped out the supermarket with some local instant noodle (i love trying local instand noodle) and walk back to the hotel.

Below are some street / interesting photos that we snapped on the way back.