Num Bonh-Chok

Num Bonh-Chok’s dish is the mixture of noodles, the vegetables and Khmer green soup (fish soup) which called Samlor Proha or curry (red and a little bit spicy soup which can be made out of meat or chicken) called Samlor Namya. 

Num Bonh-Chok is available almost everywhere in Cambodia; especially you can find it at a good place in Phnom Penh is Wat Botum that you can see a lot of shops along the sidewalk around that pagoda. Or you can see people sale it in different images, such as:  in markets, restaurants, or they carry and sale on the roads. Some Khmer foods, we use spoons and forks to eat but for Num Bonh-Chok, we use chopsticks instead. 

Num Bonh-Chok is cheap and taste good that you can spend only about 1500-3000riels to get one of a delicious dish of it like in the picture. Please come and try it and enjoy your new meal.

  

‘Num Bonh-Chok’ refers to ‘Khmer noodles’ which is one of the most popular foods in Cambodia that regarded as one of the Cambodian national foods. We don’t know the exactly time it was made but Num Bonh-Chok is only to be found in Cambodia.

  Num Bonh-Chok is made out of rice and to be eaten with so many kinds of vegetable. Those are: water mimosa, water lily, plove kangkep, string beans, cucumber, cabbage, basil…etc.