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| A restaurant, or some type of place for people to gather.
| Statues for sale.
As I said I took of everything, taking pictures
constantly as we went, and only deleted those that were out of focus or
blurry.
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This bridge looks more solid than most I saw.
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| Kids walking home from school.
| Lots more people heading home from school.
| A temple surrounded by lush foliage.
| Street life in a non-touristy part of Siem Reap.
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| A crocodile farm, and more cattle on the street being herded.
| | | Nearing downtown and one of the main bridges across the Siem Reap river.
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| Dinner at Neary Khmer Restaurant
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| The verdant entrance to Neary Khmer Restaurant, our dinner spot.
| The restaurant's colorful, airy dining area.
(We had an early dinner, so no one else was there when we arrived.)
| A good soup. The broth was based on coconut milk and chili paste, making
it vaguely similar to some Thai soups.
| The menu entry for the soup. (We ordered the top one.)
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| A steamed "serpant fish" in a large, cute serving platter, topped with
vermicelli noodles and various onions and mushrooms. Good. A serpent
fish, according to the web, is a species of fish with "a long, thin,
compressed body, and a band of red running lengthwise."
| The menu entry for the serpant fish.
| Fried fish in Khmer curry sauce. Delicious. As you can tell, like the
steamed fish, this was also presented very well. Also, the cucumbers were
sliced remarkably thin. By the way, we identified peanuts in the sauce.
| The menu entry for our fish curry is second from bottom.
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Jackfruit (left), pineapple (top), and banana (right). Jackfruit is a
difficult fruit to describe. It tastes sweet like honey, with perhaps a
hint of banana. It has the same freshness as lychee, but it's definitely
harder than it. It has veins/fibers similar to but longer and stronger
than the ones in pomelo, but the texture resemble nevertheless made us
think we could plausibly say it was like dried pomelo.
Anyway, you see how hard it is to describe?
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| Siem Reap at Night
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| A short movie of Siem Reap's riverfront promenade as seen from the tuk-tuk
we rode from the restaurant back to our hotel.
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| Fodder for Panorama of Preah Khan Reliefs
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