For week 2 of the Connecting Cultures Culinary Challenge, we enjoyed a Cambodian style lunch with Chan Ny and Chan Tu. Growing up as the head chef in her family home in Cambodia, Chan yi is used to cooking a meal for about 15 people very day. This delicious lunch consisted of traditional Khmer pancakes wrapped in lettuce leaves and dipped in a tasty fish sauce. Followed by Khmer sweet and sour soup with fish. To complete this tasty meal, we enjoyed a tasty desert of sticky rice with coconut milk and sesame seeds.Chan Ny introduced us to some of her favourite Khmer music and we all enjoyed hearing her interesting stories about life in Cambodia. For this style of casual lunch women usually wear a long sarong wrapped about their waist and eat sitting on on a grass mat. With the weather being a little chillier in Beijing, we stuck to our winter woolies rather than the sarong, however we did enjoy sitting on the floor to eat Cambodian style.
The food was so delicious and Chan Yi so friendly and informative, that everyone requested that she takes a Cambodian Cooking class to show us how to ccok this tasty Khmer food. Chan Yi has kindly agreed to do this, wo we are extremely happy to welcome her as part of the Hutong Team and to announce that she will be taking a Khmer Cooking class on the 15th of April.
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