Lok lak is a Cambodian stir-fry utilizing beef, chicken, or shrimp as the key ingredients, although beef is typically the most popular option. For the beef version, a bed of lettuce leaves is traditionally topped with cucumbers, tomatoes, raw onions, and stir-fried beef along with its juices.
The dish is typically consumed by pulling lettuce leaves from the bottom and adding other ingredients into it, so it is consumed similar to a wrap. Lok lak is often paired with rice on the side, and it was supposedly brought to the country by the French people from Vietnam.
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View moreMee ketang is a Cambodian take on the Cantonese noodle dish known as beef chow fun. This Cambodian dish consists of wide rice noodles stir-fried with a flavor-packed gravy, vegetables, various condiments, meat, and (sometimes) seafood.
Typical ingredients include Chinese broccoli, baby corn, carrots, mushrooms, and eggs, while the selection of meat and seafood usually includes beef, chicken breasts, shrimps, squids, and fish. The dish uses plenty of condiments and seasonings such as oyster sauce, soy sauce, black bean sauce, chicken bouillon, rice wine, fried garlic, ginger, and black pepper, and it is usually sweetened with sugar.
All these condiments and seasonings impart a wide range of flavors to this dish, which is widely consumed in all its variations throughout Cambodia, China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos.
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Chha kh’nhei is a Cambodian dish of crispy, stir-fried ginger combined with chicken, pork, fish, or frog legs. Thin slices or strips of julienned ginger are first briefly fried on their own before they are mixed and fried with the remaining ingredients.
This cooking method allows the ginger to develop a nice crispiness and a pleasant flavor apart from its natural peppery flavor and spicy aroma. Other typical ingredients of the dish include garlic, chives, onions, soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce, jalapeño peppers or Thai chilis, pepper, and sugar.
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