What Locals Eat for BREAKFAST at the LARGEST Traditional Market in Preah Sihanouk Cambodia

[Music] Welcome to Cambodia. Today is really good because there there's a shuttle that takes us directly into the city. Oh, there's a shuttle bus to the beach, too. So, there's a shuttle actually taking people to the beach. I don't know how much of a beach day this is, but that one is going straight to the city, and that's where the market I want to go to is. This is nice. It's usually like you have to just get your own cab. [Music] So, I think there's a lot of Chinese in this city cuz everywhere you look, like everywhere you look, the signs for businesses, ads, it's in Chinese. Like, it's in Cambodian, too. But they're also in Chinese almost all the signs. I mean, it's convenient for me, but it's really interesting. [Music] First thing I do when I get to a new country, especially one that I assume this is going to be more cash ccentric, got to get some cash. Luckily, they dropped me off. It looks like the center of the city. And it is a thunderstorm looming. It looks like there's an ATM right there, which is nice. In the few minutes it took to get my money, it is an official downpour right now. At Starbucks, it is this is a cool little collectible thing to get whenever you're travel to. So, this is a like a kiwi passion fruit drink they have here in Cambodia. Oh, a kiwi drink. Little passion fruit popping bubbles. That's refreshing. The ring stop. I mean, just as I hope, the ring comes in very short bursts. Also, like I was talking about, look, sign in Chinese. Sign in Chinese. The Starbucks sign is in Cambodian English and Chinese on the bottom. So, I'm going to finish my drink and get a tuk tuk. Then, we'll head to the local market. Chinese hot pot, Chinese restaurant. And these people have definitely made their way into this beach town. And by the way, I am in the little beach town of Seaugville. Of course, it's known for its beautiful beaches, and the ship's only docked here for about seven or eight hours, so I'm going to make the best of it. And there's a local market about 2 kilometers from here that I really want to go to. And of course, when you're in Southeast Asia, you got to download Grab. This thing is just so useful. And right now, going to use it to book me a tuk tuk. I think that's my tuk tuk right there for Mike. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Get little rainroof flaps right here. These things have gotten a lot cozier from what I remember. I'm starting to smell all the food from these breakfast vendors. I smell the fish sauce. It's smelling so good, man. I can't wait to get this market. Cambodian food is incredible. Oh man, it's keeping the rain out. Oh my. Look at this. It is storming. Luckily, we got this barrier here. Oh man. Oh, it's coming. Oh, he doesn't have the barrier. Well, that's not good. This stuff just comes off and on like a matter of minutes. Wow. Wow. Yeah, you need to close your drape. Oh man, you're getting wet. Maybe this should have been the day I stayed on the boat. Feels like you almost need a bowl to get around these streets. Wow. Wow. Yeah, this is gnarly. [Music] I had no idea what my plan was going to be. As I saw the ride was coming to a close, I was thinking I was looking around. I was like, is there a restaurant I can duck into? Everything was like a block away. Oh man, I did not I thought this was an open market. Like goodness is a cover market. By the way, this is a nice market. Obviously, not a lot of people here because of the range. Man, this is a cool market. It's pretty wide spaces. Oh, I smell Dorian. Oh, that smells good. Dorian looks awesome. These cherries look beautiful. You can hear the rain hitting the roof. This is definitely one of the most spread out airy markets I've ever been to. So, entrance, entrance, entrance, entrance. And everyone is trapped. There's so much fruit. This looks so good. Mango sting luchi. Wow. Oh, these are the biggest sours ever. [Music] Oh, this market is so cool. There's seafood, there's veg. Look at all this amazing shellfish at this market. Shrimp, cocktail, different types of squid. There's different types of crabs, ginormous oysters. Of course, you got the mantis shrimp. All types of fish as well. This is probably where the where the restaurants go to get seafood. This is definitely fresh as you can get. [Music] Wow, it's a ginormous squid here. Look at the difference between this one and and these ones. You have the poultry and the meat section over there. [Music] All sorts of shellfish. So, I guess a lot of the seafood just goes straight to these vendors who are cooking up a storm here. There's fish, there's chicken, there's pork. Yeah, this market is so expansive. It's got these random food stalls kind of just tucked away. [Music] I think that might be a food court over yonder. Oh no, these are jewelry shops. You can buy gold here. You don't see that every day at a white market. Like just ton of jewelry. I think this might be the eating area right here. I see a lot of stalls. People sitting in enjoying some rice and noodles. This looks good. Oh man. Let's Let's get some of these noodles. Rice looks good. [Music] So many ingredients went into this little bowl. Right on top looks like a fried crisp, some sprouts, greens, looks like some pork or liver, fried garlic, sea onions. Look at this. Yeah, pork with nice amounts of fat hanging on to it. Yeah, definitely liver here for sure. Some inards. Pork inards. Oh my gosh, this is so awesome. Different parts of the pork. This is like a like a either a fish cake or a pork cake. Egg noodles on the bottom. Oh man, this is amazing. And wantton inside as well. Oh, this is so cool. Oh my gosh, these noodles look and smell incredible. Let me try this without any uh additional seasoning first. They also give me a some sauce. Let's make this for the wonton with the meat. Oh, look. Soup with pork coagulated blood inside. This is turning out to be a pretty fancy breakfast. It's got a little bit of everything. Awesome. That is a sauced up umami filled meaty bowl of noodles. Oh yeah. You definitely taste that porky flavor in each strand. And everyone is adding stuff to their condiments. So, I'm going to go ahead and add some, too. I see people adding chilies. I think this is probably chilis and vinegar to these noodles. Rich noodles definitely need some of that. Oh, okay. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Get some chilies in my noodles as well. Nice. There we go. A little heat. This thing tastes even better. I like the vinegar actually a lot. You can add more of that. This thing really adds so much to the texture of the noodles. When you put all these ingredients together, all sorts of different porky flavor, different textures. So, I see people, they're dunking the meat into the sauce here. Let's do this. Dunk it in. Now we're talking. Oo, kind of tastes like a hoyen sauce. Very light porky soup. Touch my won into the sauce, too. The sauce is great. I love noodles from Cambodia. I really do feel like Cambodian food don't get enough love. But this cuisine has a history of thousands of years. Look at this pork. [Music] Oh, that is a tender, fatty pork. I'm trying to eat quickly because they're filling up right now. A lot of people are coming here for their noodles. Can't waste this blood. Irony. If anybody ever wants to know how irony tastes like, let them try that sauce with those noodles. I think that was about a dollar. Like a little over a dollar. Walk around and see what I should eat next. I'm walking by. I see this gentleman. I think he's selling barbecue meats over rice. It smells really, really good. And he's chopping a meat with such gusto. Makes me think I should eat here. This is a thing of beauty. This looks like soy sauce chicken here. Roast pork here. Some cucumbers over rice. Now I have a feeling. Mhm. Chicken rice. Bomb chicken rice, too. Oh, that's delicious. Oh, mom. I haven't had the meat yet. Our chicken rice is legit. That thing is just full of umami. Look at this roast pork. This guy is just busy like nonstop orders. Wow. This is some crazy flavor. Roast pork. First of all, look at the fat in this. You know that's going to be tender and juicy. It's a little sweet. It's smoky. Oh, the flavor combined, especially combined with the chicken rice is so incredibly intense. [Music] I mean, if you ever wondered your way into this market in this little town in Cambodia, I mean, this is delicious. Look at the chicken. I don't know if this chicken is going to be dry or not, but it looks beautiful on the outside. It's not really dry. It's not juicy either, but it's got a really nice flavor. I think this is what they give me the sauce for. With the sauce, by the way, this scallion sauce he gave me is so good. The rice is a must try on its own. I think the roast pork that's number one item here besides the rice. Chicken's good. Really nice flavor on the chicken. I'm saving that pork for last though. And this thing needs no dipping sauce. Yeah. Oh, perfect. These last bits might be the best. Look at this. Is all fat right here. All fat and skin. Oh my gosh. Oh, I love that so much. Incredible. The rain has stopped for a bit. I can wonder outside the market. The only good thing about being rainy and cloudy, it's not that hot. Feels pretty good. Yeah, the market definitely expands to the outer perimeters. Tons of fruits, vegetables, meats. There's a noodle place that seemed really interesting I want to hit to. It's about a 10-minute walk from here. I just hope the sky doesn't open up on me. This is it. This is noodles I've never seen before. Oh man, I got the wrong one. So they're known for their vermicelli, but they're really known for their black vermicelli. I mean, this still looks good. So I asked one with all the meat in here. So there looks like some chicken, pork, beef. Pretty much the whole animal kingdoms in here. Yeah, that guy over there has the black vermicelli. I don't know if there's actually a difference in taste. I just never had black vermicelli before. Hey, I found a few strands. This is what the black Well, just imagine a bowl full of this. Let's see if I can taste this and see if it tastes different. Does taste really unique. It tastes like I should have communicated better. This is definitely a loaded bowl of noodles. On the bottom of the noodles, there's lemongrass. There's sprouts. The broth is definitely very light at the same time. Very porky. Very, very porky. A little sweet. very fragrant. Yeah, there's a lot of pork fat in this. Definitely feel like I need some vinegar with chilies. Cut down the richness a bit. Hot oil. So, uh it's very funny. The grandmother of the family came by and she asked if I could speak mandrel, which I could. And she speaks Mandarin. She says her kids don't speak any Mandarin, but grandma does. She referred to herself as grandma, which is very nice to hear. And she told me to add a bunch of stuff into my noodles, including these uh slices of garlic and chilies, and also to add it into the dipping sauce. I think the dipping sauce is going to be for the meat. Also, I was going to just go ahead and order another bowl of black vermicelli cuz I wanted to taste it. She says it tastes exactly the same. It just looks different. [Music] Oh, this is even better with everything added. These rice noodles really soaked up the broth very quickly. I mean, these are so flavorful right now. A little vinegary now. Way more spicy. Way more garlicky. Just dip the meat in here. Chicken's good. Fishcake's good. You got a couple chunks of blood in here as well to give it some extra flavor. This is the raw beef they added. Tender and delicious. You kind of got to eat this quick because the rice noodles will get soggy pretty quickly. [Music] As I get to the bottom of this bowl, look at this. All the ingredients are down here. The meats, the veg, the blood. This is the good stuff right here. Every chopstick full I grab now, it's just full of different textures and flavors. My tongue is on fire. Those garlic chilies are no joke. It's such a cool day, you know, relatively cool day. It actually feels pretty good eating this with a nice breeze blowing to the restaurant. That is borderline cool. I've never experienced that. I don't think in Southeast Asia definitely need a coffee or something after this. I think in Cambodia it never feels complete until a bowl of dry noodles and a bowl of soup noodles. There's some shepherd's pers in here as well. That's always has a nice crunch. Oh man, I feel like I'm in Cambodia. Grandma was so happy to see a Chinese person telling me that she came from China many years ago. Oh, she's so nice. Luckily, right next door. Oh, yeah. There's a couple coffee shops. This one looks nice. Let's go ducking here for a little bit. This is their signature coffee. That tastes really, really good. It's nice to cool down for a little bit. Plan my next move. Still hungry, so find another place to eat. All right, let's see what this is. Wow, rice cakes. Looks good. Let's get some. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll take that, too. Thank you. It's the third time I saw this lady selling the food. It was at the restaurant where I was eating the vermma jelly. So, you know, just figured I'd get a bunch and uh take it to the boat and eat it as a snack the next few days. Looks good. Just walking past this place. So this is a souall like a it's got like a crispy meat bun. So a su ball like it means a crispy bun. Looks interesting. So this is called a crispy bun. It just looks like a regular steamed bun. Oh, I think they mainly mean like like flaky. I mean layered. I think that's what they mean. It is layered. So it kind of tastes like a combination between a quadrant which is like a flour bun and a pork bun. So you can see the different layers in this bun. It's pretty good. The pork is nice. It's definitely a very layered texture. Look at that. The texture is definitely different than a typical pork bun. I like the texture actually. Yeah, somebody combined a Chinese flour bun with a Chinese pork bun. I think one more place. Found this local eery. I just want to sit down with some uh stir fried dishes and rice while I'm waiting for the food. Let's try out some of these these little rice cakes that I got. I don't even know what half the stuff is. This looks good, though. This looks like a coconut rice cake. [Music] It's like a coconut roll. It's actually not bad. Pretty rich inside, but nice coconuty flavor. Kind of took me by surprise a little bit with the egg yolk, but not too bad. Definitely like the texture of the rice roll. These are the little sweet rice cakes right here. Oh, these look good. M. That tastes good. Coconuty. A lot of sesame in this one, too. Sweet. Texture is good. This will make a great snack. But this is something I feel like you got to eat day one. Like you got to finish it off today cuz rice cakes don't keep well at all. I eat this for dinner. This one I ended up giving a lot of it away. People that look really hungry. So, I had like 10 of these. I just shared it with people. But this looks like banana leaf. Oh, it smells so good. It smells like a like a Chinese junz. Wow. So fragrant. This is definitely all handmade stuff. Yeah, it's a steamed rice. It's actually might be a lotus leaf. M a little savory steamed rice and it's so fragrant. It's got beans inside. I feel like this one you could go either way. You can kind of pour some honey onto this. It'll just be sweet and really fragrant. This is really good. Oh, I wish you guys could smell this. It's such a wonderful fragrance. Yeah. Oh, this is phenomenal. Save this one for later when I get myself some syrup. Then I got some of these. This smells like lotus leaves. This one smells really good, too. Doesn't smell as good as the other one, but it smells good. It smells more savory. It's another steamed rice cake. Just like rice cake with beans inside. Not bad. I think similar to the other one. The other one smells better. This one's definitely more savory. I think still some syrup on this going be awesome. I got to eat all these for dinner. None of these are going to keep well in the fridge too long. Perfect. I get some locally made delicious food and uh hopefully that grandma can go home earlier today. All right, my food is here. This is some traditional Kamar food here. So, this first dish is the preserved fish omelette with some cabbage, green beans, cucumbers. Looks like beautiful bouncy omelette. Oh, you can see the fish right on the inside there. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, this is so freaking good. This is an omelette. Forget cheese and mushrooms. Give me an omelette with preserved fish. This is delicious. I guess you're supposed to eat it with the raw vegetables. M. It does go really well with the raw vegetables. This omelette is so savory and rich. Got such delicious salty flavor from the fish. Like just so much umami. It's really good with the vegetables. Like it doesn't even actually go with rice. It just goes with vegetables very well. I mean, there's nothing fishy about it, but I can definitely taste that umami. I bet it's going to go really well with my soup. So, this is like a veggie fish soup that I got. Inside is kungai. It looks like. So, it's shepherd's purse inside. A lot of shepherd's purse, chilies, ginger, garlic, and these little fish, little anchovies right here. Oh, yeah. Sour, spicy, garlicky. Just goes really well with the omelette, too. And they give you so much veg. This is one of the best vegetables you can find anywhere. So crunchy, nice. We got these little fishies here. Watch out for the tiny bones. This was a phenomenal pairing with the omelette. Here's my stir fry dish to go with the rice. This is uh beef with camir spices. This be looks like it's cooked in a in a lot of different things. Looks like basil, peppers. Okay, let's eat it with the rice. That is some tender, tender, tender beef. [Music] The beef is tender. It's fragrant. There's crunchy veg. There's peanuts. It all goes so good with the soup. My favorite dish is 100% that omelette. That omelette is out of this world good. I saw this dish while I was walking around too. Oh man, that's such a good dish. This is the type of omelette I want to be eating every single morning. It's such a well-made omelette, too. Really, really soft inside. Outside is just perfectly cooked. Even the edges of it contains a nice savory preserved fish. I love my noodle dishes. And when you're in Cambodia, you got to eat a lot of noodles. But I think my favorite thing is just rice with saucy dishes that goes good with rice. I think it was my last meal here. I still got so much rice cake um for dinner. So, I'm pretty sad. But it was so much fun walking around the market. That market was so cool. Again, wow, am I lucky that it was a covered market. Oh, that would have been a such a tragedy. Some more tips about um like at least for me about traveling to Southeast Asia. First of all, you got to get your internet covered. This is not a sponsored video, but download this app called SY. That's what I did this morning. got myself about a gig of local data for about $45 $5 super fast. I've been using it to get around. You don't have to deal with a physical SIM card, which is so nice. Also, usually in Southeast Asia, I I tried to wear um gem shirts. I kind of ran out cuz I I worked out a lot and so I have to go do laundry today when I get back in the boat. And plus, it wasn't as hot today, but those shirts dry very quickly. And for pants too, like I I usually buy these hiking pants, like really thin hiking pants that also dry out very very quickly cuz you're going to sweat a lot when you walk around and sometimes you will get rained on. But today I would have been really bad cuz this is a cotton shirt like this would have been very bad. But that market was awesome. The food there was incredible. Got to walk around, try some local coffee which is delicious and end my day with a savory comforting meal. As always, I'll place that winter list down below for you guys. Thank you all so much for watching. until we eat again.