A Goodbye Feast

BIG cola

On my last day in Siem Reap my students organised a farewell party for me. It was awesome. I really appreciated the enthusiasm of the students even though it was pouring with rain and we had to alter the original plan. To eat they brought a plastic shopping bag of cooked rice, several grilled chickens, litres land litres of cola, and the very interesting 'prahok', commonly known as Cambodian fish cheese. It actually has nothing to do with cheese, but everthing to do with fish... it is salted and fermented fish paste. Yup, it tastes as good as it sounds! :P

That's the fish-cheese in the top left corner

The chicken is actually pretty tasty though, I look forward to eating it when I get back to Cambodia. They (very kindly) provided me with a fork and a spoon for eating the rice, but then went on to tell me that I wasn't allowed to use them! I didn't mind though, I like eating with my hands.

That weird feeling on the roof of your mouth...

Banana is my least favourite food in the whole world. I'm quite unhappy about that, I really WANT to like banana, it's such a convenient fruit, naturally packaged, filling, healthy, versatile...

But I think it tastes awful. And feels disgusting in your mouth. (food texture is very important)

Apparently you can train yourself to like foods. I keep meaning to try out the theory, but I just can't bring myself to spend money on yucky old bananas.

Anyway, if there is one thing worse than eating a banana (the traditional way), it's eating green banana with the skin still on. The skin just sucks all the moisture out of your mouth which is a very bizarre feeling.