The ancient brick temple of Ta Prohm at Tonlé Bati, Takéo, with bougainvillea

តំបន់Regional cooking

Takéo & the Southតាកែវ

The cradle. Angkor Borei’s ancient canals, palm sugar country, and the oldest cooking in the kingdom.

8 recipes

Salads & Pickles · 25 min · Beginner

Bok Svay — Green Mango Pounded Saladបុកស្វាយ

Bok svay is the pounded green mango salad of the south — sour shredded mango bruised in the mortar with palm sugar, chilli, prahok and dried shrimp.

Sach Moan Carii — Red Khmer Chicken Curry

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Amok, Curries & Stir-Fries · 80 min · Intermediate

Sach Moan Carii — Red Khmer Chicken Curryសម្លរការីសាច់មាន់

Sach moan carii is the Khmer wedding curry — red kroeung, chicken, sweet potato and coconut, gentler and more fragrant than its Thai and Indian cousins.

Num Chak Kachan — Layered Palm Sugar Cake

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Sweets & Drinks · 100 min · Intermediate

Num Chak Kachan — Layered Palm Sugar Cakeនំចាក់កាចាន់

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.

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Sweets & Drinks · 480 min · Advanced

Num Ansom Chroukនំអន្សមជ្រូក

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.

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Sweets & Drinks · 60 min · Beginner

Num T'not — Palm Sugar Cakeនំត្នោត

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.

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Samlor & Soups · 55 min · Beginner

Kho Treyត្រីខ

Kho trey is southern home cooking at its plainest and best — fish braised slow in palm-sugar caramel and fish sauce until dark, sweet and deep.

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Foundations · 120 min · Advanced

Teuk T'not — Palm Sugarស្ករត្នោត

Palm sugar is the sweetness under all Khmer cooking — tapped from the sugar palm at dawn and cooked down over fire. An honest look at how it is made.

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Samlor & Soups · 85 min · Intermediate

Samlor Korkoសម្លរកកូរ

Samlor korko is the great Khmer everything-soup — a whole garden simmered with prahok and thickened with toasted ground rice. The national bowl.