Sunday night (Sunday Morning for you)I went to the Night Market here in Phnom Penh. The night market is down by the river front and is exactly what it sounds like, a market at night :) There is a city square which people set up their booths all around the inside. The booths run mostly along the edge of the square and a few rows in. At the center of the square is a stage set up with singing and some comedy/acting which Kunthea (pronounced koon te-a...who is a Cambodian, said was not funny). At the front or start of the market is a big area where food is set up. These booths also run along the outer rim of the square and make up the food court for the market (or P'za in Khmer for market). Here is the parking area and a picture of some of the booths.
You go to the different food booths and pick which one you want to eat from one of them (they all have about the same food). After selecting what you want ayou go to the eating area for that booth. The eating area is all woven mats on the ground and you take your shoes off to sit on the ground. They bring your food out and a drink lady comes over to see what you want. They have different kinds of juice such as soy and sugar cane. The Sugar cane juice is pretty good and fun to watch them make. They take and crush the whole stalk through a machine a couple of times and as it goes through the juice gets pressed out. I was quite fascinated as I watched :)Here is some of the food and where we sat to eat.
The food was very good! I am eating some deep fried shrimp.
Once we finished eating we walked through the market, listened to the music (which the people were lip syncing to) and then headed to an ice cream (ca-reme) place for desert. It was a lot of fun being out in the city and just being with the Cambodia's. Ra and Kunthea explained things to me and Cath (who is from New Zealand)as we had questions. It was a very cool experience. Tons of people were out and as I was told most people are out on the weekend nights down by the river walking around or sitting in small groups chatting. There were even guys going around selling light up toys and other paraphernalia that you would see at a fair in the evenings. Here is a video of some of the singing...
You go to the different food booths and pick which one you want to eat from one of them (they all have about the same food). After selecting what you want ayou go to the eating area for that booth. The eating area is all woven mats on the ground and you take your shoes off to sit on the ground. They bring your food out and a drink lady comes over to see what you want. They have different kinds of juice such as soy and sugar cane. The Sugar cane juice is pretty good and fun to watch them make. They take and crush the whole stalk through a machine a couple of times and as it goes through the juice gets pressed out. I was quite fascinated as I watched :)Here is some of the food and where we sat to eat. 
The food was very good! I am eating some deep fried shrimp. 
Once we finished eating we walked through the market, listened to the music (which the people were lip syncing to) and then headed to an ice cream (ca-reme) place for desert. It was a lot of fun being out in the city and just being with the Cambodia's. Ra and Kunthea explained things to me and Cath (who is from New Zealand)as we had questions. It was a very cool experience. Tons of people were out and as I was told most people are out on the weekend nights down by the river walking around or sitting in small groups chatting. There were even guys going around selling light up toys and other paraphernalia that you would see at a fair in the evenings. Here is a video of some of the singing...
1 comment:
I think that is the absolute largest shrimp I have ever seen! Can they really get that big???? Crazy!
The whole experience looks pretty cool.
Michelle
PS..nice shirt by the way :) :)
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