First Meal

It was a 2 hours flight from KL and we reached Siem Riep about 8 am. We stayed at Golden Mango Inn, a highly recommended hotel (rated #1) we could find in HostelWorld. A triple room costed around $27 and since there're 4 gals, we had to add another $5. With that additional $5, all you get is an extra pillow and not an extra bed.  How weird is that? Apart from that (and limited lighting in the room), I am quite satisfied with the hotel's cleanliness (bathrooms are super clean) and services. They provided us:

• free pickup from the airport,
• free breakfast,
• free fruits in each room, 
• hot shower
• unlimited drinking water in the room and in the van & tuk tuk we hired,
• charge $4 for each tuk tuk after 10 pm. (which is considerably cheap),
• great advices on where to go/what to eat, 
• friendly hotel owners who helped us buy our bus tickets to Phnom Penh and called the van to pick us up directly,
• and of course, free wi-fi for some of us who cannot stand a day without facebook/online.

Triple room @ Golden Mango Inn

We stopped by Artisans d'Angkor that does crafts, silk, etc which I have no interest in and prefer not to blog about. Some of the workshops are carried out by deaf and mute artisans and it's a great way to help these people make a living I would say.

Lunch was at Socheata Restaurant, somewhere near the old market/central market/Psar Chaa. Frankly speaking, everything Sophea (my Cambodian friend) ordered is yummylicious! It's kinda cheap with dishes running around $1.50.

This is similar to Chinese sausage.

Homemade Cambodian style salty sun-dried fish - Trey Ngeat

Basically the above two dishes can be found anywhere at the wet market. A friend even bought the dried fish back for his mum to try. It's a bit hard but it tasted so good with the paste they provided.

Dried fish and sausages along the stall @ Central Market

Khmer curry which taste a bit like tom yam.
Basically the food here is hard to describe as they mixed with almost everything.

Mango salad

Delicious minced meat that we had almost everyday.
Basically, you have to wrap the meat with the raw cabbages, cucumber, etc.
First time I tried something that raw. LOL.

Not forgetting the famous Amok Fish, a traditional Khmer dish seasoned with coconut milk, turmeric, paprika, ginger, garlic, chili and fish sauce.

I guess that's it for today's 'mou tak teng' Khmer food. For a total number of 7 pax, it costed us around $15-$20. Cheap no?

Zeekco, I've completed my assignment. Make sure you do yours too!

Angkor Wat NEXT! Stay tune!