ជំពូក ៧ · Chapter 7
Palm sugar sweets, banana-leaf cakes, iced coffee, and the drinks of very hot afternoons.
Sweets & Drinks · 25 min · Beginner
Whole bananas grilled in their skins over coals and split open under wild forest honey and toasted sesame — the simplest sweet of the Mondulkiri hills.
Sweets & Drinks · 50 min · Beginner
A cooling glass of grass jelly, sago pearls and jellies in sweet syrup and coconut over crushed ice — Phnom Penh's classic hot-afternoon dessert drink.
Sweets & Drinks · 75 min · Intermediate
Coconut-and-palm-sugar custard steamed inside a whole small pumpkin until set — Cambodia's showpiece dessert, sliced into wedges of gold and orange.
Sweets & Drinks · 270 min · Intermediate
Kampot durian folded into warm coconut sticky rice — the coast's most decadent sweet, from the orchards of the town's famous durian roundabout.
Sweets & Drinks · 60 min · Advanced
The classic glazed raised donut behind California's Cambodian donut-shop story — light, yeasted, honestly made at home in the spirit of Ted Ngoy.
Sweets & Drinks · 100 min · Intermediate
Num chak kachan is the striped steamed cake of the south — pandan-green and palm-gold layers of rice flour and coconut, built one thin pour at a time.
Sweets & Drinks · 480 min · Advanced
Num ansom chrouk is the New Year log — sticky rice, pork belly and mung beans bound in banana leaf and boiled for hours. The cake that means Chaul Chnam.
Sweets & Drinks · 10 min · Beginner
Cambodian iced coffee — dark, sock-filtered brew poured over sweetened condensed milk and ice. A protectorate habit the whole country made its own.
Sweets & Drinks · 300 min · Advanced
The banana log of Khmer New Year and Pchum Ben: sticky rice and coconut wrapped around ripe banana in banana leaf, bound and boiled for hours until set.
Sweets & Drinks · 105 min · Advanced
An honest home explainer for sraa peang, the communal rice jar wine of the Bunong and Jarai highlands, drunk warm through shared reed straws.
Sweets & Drinks · 60 min · Beginner
Num t'not is Takéo's palm-sugar cake — steamed rounds of rice flour and ripe palm fruit, sweet, fragrant and stained gold by the sugar-palm country itself.
Sweets & Drinks · 60 min · Intermediate
Chewy rice-flour balls hiding a molten palm-sugar center, rolled in fresh grated coconut and salt — the Khmer sweet that pops when you bite it.
