THE SPECIALS AND ACCOMPANIMENTS

For slightly less common dishes, specific to Khmer cuisine, such as preparations of Chrouk pickles, whose vegetables are sometimes dried before being marinated in a sweet and sour solution, and which are consumed as an aperitif or as an accompaniment to some dishes, the Mam, the different types of Prohok, specific fish preparations that seem uninviting but nonetheless tasty, or the Toek krueng, which are sometimes eaten as an accompaniment, sometimes as a main course with rice and vegetables ...

CANE EGG OMELETTE WITH SALTED FISH

Cambodians appreciate eggs, especially duck eggs, and consume them in all kinds of ways. Hard-boiled eggs, fried eggs grilled on both sides, incubated eggs ...

During meals, omelets are popular, and we commonly find on menus the dogg trey proma pong tea, a duck egg omelet cooked with a type of salted fish, similar to prahok, trey proma.
This omelet is always accompanied by some raw vegetables, and fish sauce spiced up with a little chili, and we eat it all with rice.

In markets and places where dishes are prepared ahead of time, it is easier to find duck egg omelettes with sloek s'om, a very fragrant aromatic plant. Again, they are eaten with rice, a little fish sauce and chili.

PROHOK DOT

Prohok is therefore the strong fragrant Cambodian fish paste, one of the elements of the basic Cambodian meal. Often used in small quantities to flavor certain dishes and especially soups, it is sometimes eaten as is with a little rice in the countryside, and will sometimes be embellished with various ingredients for a slightly more elaborate preparation.

The prohok dot, or grilled, contains a base of prohok and minced pork - often pork belly - to which we have added various flavors, including garlic, lemongrass and chili, before being spread and then grilled. It is eaten with raw vegetables, cucumber, long beans, small round eggplants ..., and sometimes green mango and fresh ginger cut into thin strips.

The prohok being very salty, the dish is eaten with white rice.