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Siem Reap during Khmer New Year turns into pure chaos as nonstop music, a wedding outside the room, and the packed energy of Pub Street set the tone for an unforgettable Cambodia travel vlog. What starts as a family trip quickly becomes a loud, hot, and hilarious experience of trying to sleep through the noise, then heading out to taste some of the strangest foods in Southeast Asia.

The food challenge takes on insects, grubs, frogs, alligator, and even bat, with reactions ranging from surprisingly good to absolutely unforgettable. It is part travel vlog, part street food adventure, and part family travel story, all captured in the middle of Siem Reap’s Khmer New Year celebrations. For anyone searching Cambodia travel, Siem Reap vlog, Pub Street, street food challenge, or weird food tasting in Southeast Asia, this is a chaotic and memorable watch.

Perfect for viewers who enjoy travel vlogs, food challenges, Cambodia street food, family travel in Asia, and adventurous eating content. If you like real-life travel chaos, local festival atmosphere, and bold food tasting videos, this Siem Reap Khmer New Year vlog delivers exactly that.

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00:22Stay full of this music, all day or night.
00:30Oh, it's even crunchy, eww, it's not crunchy.
00:33Alrighty, we are here trying the insects of Cambodia with our friends.
00:39Okay, we've just come to Siem Reap just for Khmer New Year.
00:45It's going off.
00:46Update!
00:47I look like I've been through a war, what should happen?
01:18Okay, so...
01:24In South East Asia, it is not always quiet.
01:29As you can see, it is 6 o'clock in the morning, there's been a wedding going on literally
01:35right outside our window for the last four days, and I'm not complaining, like this is
01:43South East Asia, this is what it is.
01:46It's beautiful.
01:47They're having a wedding, they're having a nice time, but we still need to sleep.
01:52Luckily, our baby sleeps through pretty much anything.
01:56But us two, not so much, so luckily we're still able to take notes, which we need as parents,
02:03as content creators, travellers, and business owners.
02:08We're going to take a look at the house.
02:12We're going to take a look at the house.
02:15We're going to take a look at the house, and we're going to go to the house.
02:37to Siem Reap just for Khmer New Year.
02:41It's going off.
02:43Currently, we're at Pub Street, it's gotten so busy.
02:45It's about 5 p.m., the sun's about to set,
02:48and it's getting crazy.
02:49This is a three-day event.
02:51It's gonna be nuts for the next few days.
02:53We're so excited to experience this.
02:56It doesn't feel as aggressive as Thailand so far.
02:59Not yet.
03:01No.
03:01Maybe later.
03:03No, but like, I remember when we were in Thailand,
03:07at 10 o'clock in the morning, it was like,
03:09everything was mental.
03:10It's 5 o'clock now, and it still feels kind of like,
03:15just civilized.
03:26I need my water.
03:37Oh, it's perfect!
03:40You know?
03:41Doing good!
03:43I was thinking.
03:45Who's loving it?
03:51I always thought we could trust life for somewhere.
03:51and wait.
03:52You want to work!рыв
03:53hug! Maybe.
03:56I need
03:56to break it. It doesn't
03:59я не признали. I can easily divorce
03:59on this medication team. I peace in the
04:00game. I어야 conness.
04:04Especially if you had to
04:05do it for me.
04:26Today!
04:27I think I've been through a war.
04:32What should happen?
04:33Really?
05:08Alrighty, we are here trying the bugs, trying the insects of Cambodia with our friends.
05:16Here we've got Lloyd.
05:18Hello.
05:19How are you doing?
05:20Hello.
05:20What are we having here?
05:22We've got a bit of crickets, we've got a bit of witchetty grub.
05:26Abby's going first.
05:27Oh yeah, I'm going first?
05:28Yeah.
05:29Alrighty.
05:29It's a cricket isn't it?
05:30Is it?
05:31Yeah, I think so.
05:32Let's go.
05:33Yeah.
05:33Oh, beautiful.
05:35Alright.
05:36Soz.
05:38Double whammy.
05:43Do you reckon it's just the cricket, you know how cicadas leave a cover?
05:47Nah, it'd be the full thing, wouldn't it?
05:49Alright.
05:50If I put it all in my mouth, I'll bite it.
05:56Describe it.
05:58I mean, the seasoning she's put on is quite lovely.
06:02Do you like it?
06:04It's actually quite delicious.
06:05Better than popcorn, she reckons.
06:08Maybe.
06:10This is the grub, yeah?
06:11Yeah, the witchetty grub.
06:12That's my favourite, I reckon.
06:12Oh, that's the witchetty grub.
06:13Oh, Jesus.
06:15Okay.
06:16The whole thing.
06:17The whole thing, you've got to bite it in when you take it.
06:19Wait, wait, wait, wait.
06:20Bite it?
06:21No.
06:22Yeah.
06:24I'm going to kill it.
06:25What do you reckon?
06:26That's spicy.
06:27Spicy?
06:29And fishy.
06:32It's not my favourite.
06:34It's not your favourite?
06:35No.
06:36Shit.
06:39Do you get peanuts?
06:40I don't want that.
06:41No.
06:42No?
06:42See, they taste like peanut a bit for us last night.
06:45Okay.
06:45That's not what you ate last night.
06:47Yeah.
06:47It's not?
06:48You were eating peanuts last night.
06:50Okay.
06:51Lloyd's off it.
06:52Lloyd's off it.
06:53Lloyd's off it.
06:54He's not pumped.
06:55He's not pumped.
06:56But we'll see.
06:57I think Mandy's up next.
07:00Oh, it's not even crunchy.
07:01Ewww.
07:02It's not crunchy.
07:02It's even worse.
07:05I've got like a wing in my mouth.
07:14The flavour's okay.
07:16The flavour's okay?
07:18It kind of tastes like two minute noodles.
07:20Yeah.
07:20Mmm.
07:21What flavour to you?
07:22Like chicken.
07:25Not that bad, but the texture.
07:27And I feel like a wing's stuck in the back of my throat right now.
07:30A wing?
07:31What'd you eat?
07:32Like a cricket flying.
07:34Maybe it's a leg.
07:36I like it.
07:37Not too bad.
07:38We're going to try this.
07:39Look at that.
07:41But you know, you don't get the good reactions off me because I usually like them.
07:48Yeah, you'll do your normal, this is delicious face.
07:52Man, you've got to come here.
07:53Number one spot in all of Cambodia for the best crickets of your life.
07:59Five stars.
08:00Yum.
08:01What have you got there, honey?
08:03Whatchity grub?
08:05Is that what it's called?
08:06That's so Australian.
08:07Well, that's what we call it.
08:08Yeah.
08:08Whatchity grubs.
08:09What would I call that?
08:10A grub, I think.
08:11Just a grub.
08:12Don't know what I would.
08:13It's been too long.
08:14Okay.
08:17Look inside of it.
08:20It's like tofu.
08:21It's like tofu.
08:22It is like tofu.
08:24Ew, it's so gross.
08:26You've got to finish it.
08:28Wash it down with a beer.
08:30Nice warm beer.
08:31That one was a bad one.
08:32That one sucks.
08:33I mean.
08:35Sorry.
08:36We won't put that up.
08:37Thanks.
08:40First stop done.
08:41And I think we're all pretty happy with that.
08:44How did we feel?
08:45Very happy.
08:46A little queasy.
08:47A little bit queasy.
08:48A little bit queasy.
08:49What's the weirdest food that you've eaten, Mandy?
08:53I guess probably the balut egg, would you say, Lloyd?
08:57Yeah.
08:58The balut egg.
08:58The balut egg.
08:59Yeah, I think ours was like, it was like a full chicken.
09:03Really?
09:03It was at the point where it was like a proper baby chicken and like the beak and everything
09:07was formed.
09:08Oh my God.
09:09And yeah, it tasted like chicken soup or like just like chicken.
09:14Were you nervous?
09:14Yeah, I was freaking out.
09:15But I was also really drunk.
09:17So I was like, okay, we can do this.
09:19It was like at the end of a food tour.
09:20But yeah.
09:21The first time we tried it was, yeah, yesterday.
09:23And it was like, it was, it was pretty good.
09:26Abby was too nervous to do it.
09:27But I think like there, you can see the veins like grow through the egg and stuff.
09:31Yeah.
09:31All the blue veins.
09:32Yeah.
09:34Oh my goodness.
09:35That was wild.
09:36Awesome.
09:36It's a, it's, you have to do it.
09:38If you come to Southeast Asia, you have to do it at least once.
09:41Yeah.
09:41Because other, like, otherwise you don't get it.
09:43Yeah.
09:43And where else are you going to do it?
09:45Yeah.
09:45And once you do it, you realize it's like not that bad.
09:48Yeah.
09:48I think it's just getting your head over it.
09:50Yeah.
09:51Same with most of them, except for that witchetty grub.
09:53Yeah.
09:53Yeah.
10:01Yeah.
10:05Yeah.
10:07Yeah.
10:08Yeah.
10:11Yeah.
10:13I'm going to try all of these.
10:15Oh, what doesn't he have?
10:20No fried bird and no fried snake guys.
10:23That's all right.
10:23No worries.
10:24So we'll get the alligator please.
10:25The bat, the frog and the deep fried alligator as well.
10:29Yes.
10:30Yes.
10:30That's the bat.
10:32Guys.
10:34It's not fried frogs.
10:36Oh my God.
10:37It's like frogs.
10:39That's fine.
10:40That's alligator.
10:40That's the alligator.
10:42Yes.
10:43And alligator steak.
10:48Is he free range?
10:50Yes.
10:52Look at that.
10:53We got a bit of everything.
10:55How are we feeling about it?
10:57A little nervous about the bats.
10:59They look pretty creepy.
11:01Okay.
11:01So Tice looked it up on chat GPT and it basically said, if you care about your health, don't go
11:09anywhere near the bats.
11:13And I was already pretty wary about that.
11:17I expected the bats to be bigger.
11:18Oh my God.
11:20Look at him.
11:21He's so cute.
11:22Can you see it?
11:25Wow.
11:25He looks like a little person.
11:26Okay.
11:27It does look adorable.
11:29Yeah.
11:29I'm going to do it but I just don't know if I want to do the head because that's...
11:32That's where it is.
11:34Get the breast.
11:37Is it?
11:38Nah.
11:41I'm going to start easy, okay?
11:43Okay.
11:45That is not easy.
11:48Delicious.
11:49It's really?
11:49Yeah.
11:50It's chicken wing.
11:51Oh.
11:51There it is.
11:54But look at how fat that gut is.
11:57Look at that.
11:57That is why.
12:03It tastes fine.
12:07But it's a bat.
12:08It's a bat.
12:08It's still a bat.
12:10Okay, I'll take that.
12:15Are you doing that body?
12:16Wow.
12:19Oh.
12:20It doesn't taste better.
12:22It's actually pretty fucking good.
12:28I won't take another bite, but...
12:30Yeah.
12:32It's fried chicken wing really.
12:34Yeah.
12:34Mandy reckons she's going to take this up full time.
12:39I'm not eating anything other than bats now.
12:42Should we chuck a bit of that on?
12:43A bit of lime.
12:44A bit of lime.
12:47Beautiful.
12:48And then we'll add a little bit of this.
12:49Yeah.
12:51Dress him up.
12:52Dress him up.
12:53Dress him up.
12:53He deserves it.
12:55Yeah, I'll have one.
12:56Yeah, of course.
12:57Yeah.
12:58Did you just take a huge bite?
13:00The whole thing it is now.
13:01Holy shit.
13:03The head.
13:04Everything.
13:05That was a good one.
13:07It's pretty good, isn't it?
13:11You can't...
13:12What does it taste like?
13:13You can't deny it.
13:15What did Chad GVT say?
13:16What diseases did it have?
13:17Ebola.
13:18No, I don't...
13:19Like, well...
13:19Yeah, I'm not coming back to Australia, guys, so don't worry.
13:22Not for a while.
13:24You'll know.
13:28But yes, it does...
13:30These do carry some of the most hectic viruses,
13:32but they did say, these guys did say,
13:35and they promised these were locally sourced
13:37and very, very healthy.
13:38But my mum always told me
13:39if I was going to get some food from the side of the road,
13:42just make sure it's fried.
13:44You know?
13:45And then...
13:47Halfway there.
13:47Can you do them at your top?
13:48Yeah.
13:49Thanks, Mum.
13:52It actually looks good.
13:54Oh, that's yum.
13:56Really?
13:56That's really, really yum.
13:58Is it like fish or chicken?
14:00It's like chicken.
14:00Like chicken as well?
14:02Tastes like chicken.
14:03Would you order that for a meal?
14:05Yeah.
14:05That's really good.
14:07Wow.
14:09I was not expecting that.
14:11It is beautiful.
14:12Look at his leg.
14:16This guy's a fatty as well, you know?
14:19This guy's a real fatty.
14:26That's really good.
14:30Very good.
14:31Mmm.
14:33It's like soy sauce or like a...
14:34Sweet chili or something.
14:36Yeah.
14:37So this is...
14:39Alligator...
14:39Alligator...
14:40Alligator steak.
14:42Grilled.
14:43Yep.
14:44Barbecue.
14:47Squishy.
14:49Salt and pepper on it.
14:53Bit tough, though.
14:55Yeah, that one's tough.
14:57You don't like it?
14:59Oh, what?
15:00See?
15:01I don't need bats now.
15:03I don't need bats.
15:04Is there any napkins?
15:05I really can't swallow that.
15:06I don't know.
15:07Seriously?
15:08It's so tough.
15:09Oh, yeah.
15:09I might have just got like a really fatty piece.
15:11I'm not sure.
15:12But that was like...
15:13Just like chewing on...
15:14Just fat.
15:16Oh, man.
15:17He doesn't like gristles.
15:18So...
15:18Oh, man.
15:19Yeah.
15:19Oh, fuck.
15:20Man, he doesn't want it.
15:25No, that's bad.
15:27I'm afraid it's really fatty.
15:28Okay.
15:28We just finished our weird food tour with Abbie and Tubbies.
15:35Honestly, the bat...
15:37Not my favorite, but...
15:39Had to try it.
15:40Tasted okay.
15:41Yeah, you reckon?
15:42Yeah, the bat tasted good.
15:44Bat and the frog, yeah.
15:45Yeah.
15:46Just a bit creepy.
15:48But I'm happy we did it.
16:08But I'm happy we out there with a lot of great food.
16:10We've got some doncs to get together.
16:12All right.
16:15We got some sort of stuff.
16:19No, no, no, no.
16:19No, no, no.
16:20No, no.
16:20You

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