[Two links offered by Beth]

Wanna has written an essay on the southeast asian sugar palm tree (Borassus flabellifer), the omnipresent and beautiful tree you’ll find everywhere in Cambodia. This is a national tree, by fact and not by decree.

Next, Phnomenon is a khmer food & drinks blog, and I can only be in love with that idea. Angkor Beer gets an inferior grade (I’m not a beer guy, so I won’t discuss), but there’s a recipe for Amok Trei (I’d suggest flan de poisson), one of the most wonderful dish on Earth, when properly done.