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French Sense and Cambodian Sensibility
Khema is the name given to the beautifully appointed and delightfully sophisticated French restaurant, café, wine bar, boulangerie, patisserie, charcuterie and fromagerie that is the epicurean heart and soul of the Arunreas Hotel.
The title...
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High Water Mark
Sevensea, (sic) is the latest culinary concept of Cambodia’s most accomplished and celebrated chef Luu Meng, the stated aim is to combine popular Asian cooking styles with the finest seafood available.
Specializing in Cambodian, Chinese...
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The Mexican coming up Trumps in Cambodia
Question: what do Angkor Wat and Mexican cuisine have in common?
Answer: both are on Unesco Heritage Lists, Angkor on the ‘World Heritage List’ and Mexican Cuisine on its ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage List’ oh, and...
Memory of an Elephant
There was a time when European merchants, writers, adventurers and those out for a grand tour would travel throughout South East Asia by steamer, going about their business, enduring their hardships and either building...
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The Tao of Jiaozi
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
Lao Tzu
After queuing out on the sidewalk for an age, patiently day-dreaming about the magic going on inside, you enter a...
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Hanoi by the Glass
"In a city one thousand years old, everyone is a visitor."
I have been ‘dropping’ in to Hanoi for over a dozen years, for the past 9 months I have found myself a resident.
Hanoi has...
The Speakeasy – part one, Prohibition
The modern day Speakeasy is typically a small, urban bar tucked into an out of the way and sometimes unlikely space; it is usually an establishment that specializes in the serving high quality spirits,...
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The Song of Teng – Part Two
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Song Teng estimates that he cooked under eighteen French chefs during his formative years at the Cambodiana Hotel. Some stayed the full one year term, many left a lot sooner, Cambodia in the 1990's...