Student’s Name: Pich Rithy
Lecturer’s Name: Penh Sokharath
Afternoon Class
Written Assignment
Topic: Compare and contrast the food in two regions of your country.
Food Customs in Cambodia Most of country in the world always have traditional food such as, France has cheese, Italy has pizza, and Cambodia has prohok. We can see in my country, Cambodia was influenced by our neighboring country’s food, so it gives us the advantage of having a large variety of food to eat. However, we still influenced by our tradition and geography, as we can see in the similarities and differences between the west and east of Cambodia. Many of the food custom are similar everywhere in the country. For instance, in both western and eastern, the staple food for Cambodian is rice. Rice is consumed by most Cambodians daily and with meal for both of western and eastern. Another similarity, they both area always use sticky rice as a dessert, often with slices of tropical fruit like mango or durian and coconut milk. Even though, both of area have many similarities, but they also have several differences in eating habit and cuisine of cooking. For example, people are in the eastern area, are always have their dinner early in the evening, but for people are in the west of the country always late for dinner. On the other hand, cuisine of western shared many commonalities with the food of our neighboring Thailand-although less chili, sugar, and coconut cream are used for flavor, but some people in the eastern do not follow this cuisine. They still use the traditional cuisine for their food. In conclusion, Cambodia is a small country, but there are a lot of kind of food. Food customs in particular are influenced by location, neighboring country, and habit. All this things that making Cambodia a very interesting country in which to live and eat.