00:00I don't know where the hell I am, but this is not a street food market.
00:06Okay, this skewer was not chicken. I didn't like that. I'm sure it's all good.
00:10Just eating random stuff. I don't know what it is on the side of the road.
00:13Oh man, this is pretty intense, hey?
00:16Holy shit, they're probably gonna think I did a runner.
00:19I better run back and pay.
00:20It's really nice. I thought it was gonna be really hot.
00:24If you put the sauce on it, it's really hot, but without the sauce is really mild.
00:28Fried snake, alligator steak, fried bird, fried bat, fried frog, and deep fried alligator.
00:40Being a nomad is not a vacation. It's freedom, but it's also discipline.
00:44It's an exchange of security for enhanced experiences. It's a way of life.
01:14It's just a commitment.
01:16it's just a point, it shit, yeah.
01:17It's just a moment, it's a moment.
01:18I don't want everyone to go in, it's like a boat.
01:41G'day guys welcome back to another video we're coming to you today from Siem Reap in Cambodia
01:47and tonight is all about eating local food we've had so many suggestions of Cambodian dishes that
01:55we need to try before we leave Cambodia it's Saturday night here in Siem Reap we're gonna
02:00head to one of the local markets first and I'm gonna eat some local street food then I'm gonna
02:05go to one of our favorite local restaurants and eat some highly recommended local dishes there
02:12that are really popular and probably end the night on pub Street it's just me tonight I'm flying solo
02:18it is a little bit hard to do stuff like this when you have a baby when you got to
02:23carry a baby around
02:24it's not really stroller friendly and her bedtimes like between 7 and 8 o'clock but I'm gonna take
02:30you guys with me and we're gonna try some of this local food I'm pretty pumped I haven't eaten much
02:35all day let's see how we go okay we're just pulling up now this is looking like a really really
03:02local market
03:03maybe I should have gone to something a little bit more touristy but this is what I was recommended
03:08and I think there's gonna be a lot of local food obviously and it's probably gonna be really cheap
03:13and interesting I just hope I don't look like a weirdo filming everything that I'm eating but we'll see I
03:21guess
03:29thank you
03:31thank you
03:34thank you
03:35thank you
03:55okay I don't know where the hell I am but this is not a street food market honestly I can
04:03just
04:03see like there's a bunch of police and trucks and vans and it looks like nothing's set up
04:10maybe they're giving stuff away maybe something to Christmas maybe it's something to do with
04:16the with the violence going on near the border I don't know but either way I'm in
04:21the wrong place so I'm gonna go to the traditional night markets which is a bit
04:27more touristy in the middle of Siem Reap so I can actually get some good food
04:51okay this is more like it we're at the night markets here just on the river in Siem Reap I
04:57guess getting off the beaten path wasn't really an option tonight but this looks awesome actually
05:02there's so many options here so I'm gonna start eating because I am starving I'm gonna try and
05:09start with some barbecue beef maybe pork skewers and see how we go
05:17hello welcome hello this one chicken chicken yeah
05:24this one this one is one of these three
05:51thank you you have a balloon egg egg balloon balloon balloon you have yeah one
06:01one thank you all right this is pretty basic but I just ordered some barbecue chicken skewers
06:08while I'm waiting for the balloon egg so balloon egg if you don't know we've had
06:14it once before actually I don't know if Mandy had it I think she did in Vietnam years ago
06:27it's kind of a delicacy and it's basically a chicken fetus in an egg that gets boiled it
06:37sounds fucking disgusting but it's actually it's actually pretty tasty here it comes
06:43down thank you might eat some of the chicken first and then I'll have this
06:50balloon and finish off with some chicken afterwards so I'm not grossed out
07:03okay this skewer was not chicken
07:10that's liver I think I'm pretty sure it's liver I hope so I don't know what that was that texture
07:15is not great and it's very yeah I've had liver before it tastes like liver I didn't like that
07:26this one I think looks like pork maybe
07:31um yeah tastes kind of like pork but it's very tough
07:36fucking hell what am I doing I'm sure it's all good just eating random stuff I don't know
07:41what it is on the side of the road if I remember correctly you're supposed to just crack the top
07:51open like this like that oh man you see that oh man this is pretty intense hey the first one
08:09we
08:09heard in Vietnam wasn't this hectic um there was a lot of like juice or whatever in it
08:17it was more yolky doesn't taste bad it does just taste like egg but it's the texture of it
08:29yeah honestly it's not bad um but would I order it usually probably not and there's parts of it I
08:38just
08:39don't even want to touch but it pretty much just tastes like egg I think that's an offer I think
08:50I need to
08:51chase that down
08:54oh
08:54oh
08:54oh
09:03oh
09:04oh
09:04oh
09:04oh
09:18oh
09:19oh
09:20oh
09:20can I get
09:21lock black
09:22rice
09:24and
09:25a mock
09:26a mock
09:26lock and a mock
09:28yep
09:29yeah yeah
09:30okay I'm just kicking it off with the lock black which looks delicious
09:34I got chicken and it's basically got like Easter oyster sauce Easter sauce
09:40oyster sauce black pepper
09:42kind of looks like a almost like a stroganoff or something and it comes with rice and this like
09:50really dark green chili pepper and this is one of Cambodia's favorite foods and it looks really
09:56good it's very good it's not too spicy it's really nice I thought it was going to be really hot
10:04if you put the sauce on it it's really hot but without the sauce is really mild and I've said
10:09this before but there is something about sitting in a plastic chair on the side of the road eating
10:14Asian food that you just can't beat now we have the fish amok which is a Khmer or Cambodian curry
10:24apparently the most popular dish in Cambodia I'm assuming this one's going to be a little bit
10:30spicy actually tastes more like a masamun I think it's got some nuts or something in it peanuts again
10:35not too spicy yeah I think that's the big difference between Cambodia and Thailand that
10:41we've noticed so far the food in general isn't like as crazy spicy as Thailand I just spat everywhere
10:49this is really nice though very good tempted to order a beer but it's like 50 cent beers here and
10:56we've been going out to dinner almost every night and it's just so hard not to drink beer I'm trying
11:01to uh at least string a few days in a row of not having beers we'll see how we go
11:08tonight hey okay
11:09I wouldn't oh shit I didn't pay I just walked off without paying
11:17holy shit they're probably gonna think I did a runner I better run back and pay
11:26sorry I can pay
11:35oh that was a close one I was talking to a local guy who just sat down next to me
11:40yeah I guess I got a
11:41bit distracted and just got up and walked off and realized halfway down the street that I hadn't paid
11:47there's only about two bucks or something but uh not really looking to do a runner on local restaurants
11:53here I'm just gonna head to uh this really cool local spot here near pub street not quite on pub
12:00street
12:01I think it's called I think it's old pub street or something no little pub street they've got some
12:06really cool stuff on the menu like alligator burgers alligator steaks just some weird stuff which
12:12I've been meaning to try without Mandy because she just doesn't love that stuff at all she gets grossed
12:18out by it so I'm gonna give it a crack because I think it's actually gonna be nice
12:31all right we're upping the steaks a little bit here we've got
12:36five options six options fried snake alligator steak fried bird fried bat fried frog and deep fried alligator
12:47ah fuck me
12:53deep fried alligator looks fine fried frog okay
12:57the bat the bird nah the snake
13:02alligator steak looks all right I don't know man I'm gonna ask them what they recommend
13:07okay I'm gonna start a little easy and I went with the deep fried alligator which I think will be
13:12fine fried snake which kind of freaks me out but might be all right and then we'll see how we
13:18go
13:18I don't have to eat any of this stuff but it's in all the restaurants here not all of them
13:23but it's
13:23in a lot of restaurants here alligator snake frog bird I guess they kind of eat a lot of different
13:28types of meat here that we wouldn't usually eat so I'm gonna give it a try I'm having a beer
13:32for this one
13:33the snake in particular freaks me out alligator I don't really care but um I need a beer to get
13:38through this snake because I hate snakes honestly this doesn't look that bad at all I was expecting
13:57the snake to be a lot bigger the alligator just looks like deep dried chicken so I think this is
14:04actually going pretty good we'll see maybe we'll step it up a notch and get some fried bat I don't
14:11know about that but this actually looks pretty good I'm gonna try it first here we go
14:25if you just don't think about the fact that it's snake it just tastes like grisly not grisly
14:30like deep fried chicken it's kind of tasty honestly
14:38still weird that it's a snake though I think yeah we got to taste a little bit like
14:42veal not as tender as chicken a bit more like beef or veal or something not bad
15:05so
15:23I'm
15:24so
15:25I'm
15:26so
15:26I'm
15:27so
15:28I'm
15:29so
15:29I'm
15:30so
15:49You have never seen before?
15:52No.
15:53You can try it if you want.
15:55Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll try.
16:14I don't know if you can hear me over this music, but this is black rice ice cream.
16:20It's actually pretty good.
16:24I don't know how it's made out of rice or if there's just rice in it, but it's just what
16:30I needed after that deep fried snake.
16:34I found this cool little food court and they're doing like a free show, which I guess they
16:40do every night.
16:45There's so much to see them reap that you don't notice during the day until you come
16:49out at night, which we don't really do much because obviously we have a baby, but there's
16:54so much going on.
16:55Let's go.
16:57Let's go.
17:45All right, well, I think that's it for tonight, and I'm stuffed.
17:48I've eaten so much food, so much good Cambodian food.
17:51If I've missed anything, which I'm sure I've missed a lot, there's only so much I can eat in one
17:55night.
17:55Let me know down below in the comments, and we'll probably do this again in another city, maybe Phnom Penh.
18:00Man, Sam Reap's got a really, really good food scene.
18:04If you come to Sam Reap, spend like a couple of weeks at least because there's so much to do.
18:09So many restaurants to go to, like that food court I was just at.
18:12I didn't even know that existed.
18:13I'm seeing all these new bars and restaurants around here.
18:16They've got westernized food, like if you just want to eat normal food as well.
18:20But if you want to try some of the local dishes, they're really nice.
18:25That Loclack, probably my favorite.
18:27I really like the fish amok as well.
18:30I'm definitely going to be eating that again during our trip.
18:33I think I'll stay away from the snakes.
18:36Maybe I'll work my way up to eating a bat, but I don't honestly see what the point is of
18:40that, except for just clickbait.
18:42And I'm not really too keen to get sick, so we might just stick to the regular stuff.
18:48But I hope you enjoyed this video.
18:50If you want to see more travel content, check out our full Cambodian series.
18:54We've got a ton of videos coming out.
18:55We've got a ton of videos already out.
18:58And as you can see, the people here are super friendly.
19:00It's super safe.
19:02Can't recommend it high enough.
19:05Run away, run away, run away to your escape.
19:09Run away, run away, run away to your escape.
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