Market Griddle Snack · Fried Chive Cakes
Num Kachai
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The best-known stalls only fire up their pans for a few hours a day — locals know to show up at Phsar Leu market in the late afternoon or the cakes are gone.
A batter of rice flour is studded with chopped garlic chives, pressed into small discs, and deep-fried until the edges turn blistered and crisp. Vendors sell them hot in paper at the front of Siem Reap's Phsar Leu market, dunked in a sweet-tangy chili-vinegar sauce.
Why it's made this way: The snack traces to Cambodia's Chinese-influenced street food tradition, and Siem Reap's Phsar Leu market has long been the spot locals point to for the best version, sold at a fixed daily window rather than all day long.
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