July 19th, 2014
So I really should be working on our travel plans….but instead I’m doing this. I spent a good chunk of the day on it already and will go back once I’m done this, but I am so inspired by my supper….I felt I should blog.
The weather here has been really crummy for two days and while we believe the next two are going to be much better, it is supposed to go south again by Tuesday. So we are crying uncle and moving on to drier pastures (we hope) more on that later.
So to start things off, let me tell you how awful supper was yesterday. We were super lazy and didn’t even want to walk back to town for supper once we finally got hungry again (close to 8pm). Thanks late lunch 😉😉. We went down to the hotel restaurant and ordered spring rolls and amok. Chicken for me and Troy ordered fish. It took a LONG time to come, but this can be very normal….so no cause for concern. The spring rolls came and they were quite good. So, happy enough with that. A few moments later out the amok came. Troy’s first….red alert red alert, something was off, they were right behind with mine. Equally confusing. It was in a large curry style bowl and it looked weird, runny, and the wrong colour, and it had a LOT of green stringy stuff in it. And it was too much….but we are trying to roll with it. The steamed rice looked the same as it always does, so we could have just eaten that (if we hadn’t both dumped the entire amount in the bowl of “stuff”. Anyway, it was awful, absolutely awful and I don’t know what the meat in mine was, but it wasn’t chicken. What a huge disappointment! So either they don’t know how to make it right, or there are regional differences in this dish that I can’t explain, because I had it twice in Phnom Penh and it was delicious, nothing like this. It was the very first time I have not finished my meal in all the years we have been coming to SE Asia, in any country. I really tried, but I just had to push it away.
We sadly walked back to our room, not happy or satisfied, but accepting our fate.
Super lazy day today again as the wind and rain were just not something we felt ready to face. Worked on the “travel plan”! Highly motivated to find a place with better weather forecast. And Cambodia is not it. We are bailing on the Sihanoukville plan and going back to Thailand.
There was no doubt in my mind that we are going back to the Rusty Keyhole 2 for pizza tonight. We deserve it after that debacle last night. Plus we skipped lunch…so we are due for an awesome meal. We walked straight there at 5pm and ordered a pepperoni pizza. We chatted a little bit with the owner, Kristian, and asked him about his crust and his ribs, trying to understand the differences between the two places. As we noticed the ribs were different. Apparently they only do ribs at the RK2 location on Saturdays. And they do a spareribs style of rib, he called them Chinese ribs, vs the style at the original location that still have the loin attached. He makes all his own pizza crusts and his pizza oven was purchased, used, for $700 vs $1,100 new. All very interesting things (I think anyway).
I totally forgot the photo! I would like to show you the pizza, maybe I’ll remember one of these times 😉 so another fabulous meal for $13. Same same as last time…..we did get the water and cheeses fries.
I did however get the camera out when we got to the dessert shop!
The sign looks as old as the hills….but I’m not deterred, based on how yummy the brownie was yesterday.
So this was the best $3.75 we’ve spent here in Cambodia! Where else can you get two generous pieces of homemade pie and three scoops of ice cream for $3.75?????
And then look what I noticed on the menu? Is this a sign? Too bad I’m too full for this tonight! But there is always tomorrow…..and I promise to take a photo of the real thing!!
We are planning on renting motorbikes tomorrow and driving ourselves to Kep for the day. I’ll slip this in at the very end, maybe some folks won’t notice I said it and will be surprised when the pictures pop up 😃😃
