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Cuisine In Khmer Empire!

Foods in the Khmer Empire are normally thick, saucy and spicy. Chicken is a favorite in Khmer Empire, and you will find it in most dishes!

Amok Chicken and Khmer Curry

Amok Chicken is the most popular dish in Khmer, it mainly is chicken, but than simmered in rich coconut and has many spices added to it, and finally it’s all wrapped in coconut leaves Khmer Curry is made of chicken breast with a Khmer curry paste. It has many vegetables added to it with coconut milk added, finally it has star anis and silmon. It ends up looking like a soup.

Facts about food!

The main food production in the empire is rice and fish. The rice farmers need to make sure there is enough food to feed the whole village and also have enough to trade or sell to other empires.

Diet

The Khmer Empire’s peoples diet had mostly fish and rice. They also used irrigation systems to bring water to there rice paddy fields so they could make more rice.

Seafood!

The Khmer Empire also had big fisheries to collect fish. But their diet didn't just contain fish and rice it also contained other seafood like crabs, frogs, shrimp and snails as well as that they also grew a variety of fruits and vegetables.

Coconut

Coconut was also a big part of their diet. The Khmer Empire also ate soup out of bowls made from woven leaves, but soup wasn't eaten alone it was almost always eaten with other courses.

Where you eat!

You can eat on the temples balcony, people did this long ago when the Khmer Empire was not ruins and many people lived there. On the balcony you get a taste of the local foods and get to see what people tried to create with the resources they had. On the balcony there is a bar and different types of foods, from nibbles, curries and all you can eat.