13 Cambodian Dishes You Should Know

There's a delicious smell of burning wood that permeates the air in Cambodia. It reminds me of the best barbecue or the coziest bonfire, and it comes from the hardwood charcoal that flames and smolders all day in small clay stoves, wire-topped braziers, and beneath woks and rice and soup pots. That smell is just a hint at what's to come. When I arrived as an NGO volunteer in this Southeast Asian country two months ago, I had no idea what to expect on my plate. What I found was this: Cambodia's food is often all about the contrasts—sweet and bitter, salty and sour, fresh and cooked. It shares many dishes with its neighbors, and you'll find noodle soup similar to Vietnamese phở and sandwiches like bánh mì, Thailand's refreshing salads and sour soups, Indian-inspired curries, and noodles and stir fries handed down from years of Chinese migration. From Cambodia's days as a French Indochina colony, there's a national love of coffee, pate, and good bread. Baguettes are served with soup, made into sandwiches, and sold by men riding bicycles carrying baskets of long loaves.

Cambodia is filled with lively markets and spirited street vendors. Eating can be a breathless sport: many street vendors are on the move all day, pushing rolling woks and grills on wheels, riding motorbikes with cooktops attached to the side, and cruising on bicycles with mango-filled baskets attached to the back. Markets open at sunrise with soups and porridge, stir-fried dishes roll out mid-morning, and by afternoon grills are filled with the day's catches. Open-front restaurants set up sidewalk tables to entice people passing by on foot, in tuk-tuks or on motos. Condiments and accessories are important. The side plates of greens, herbs, peppers, limes or sauces that appear before you are always the thing that snaps your dish together. Sometimes this is a heap of fresh herbs and sliced vegetables; other times it's combination of fish sauce, chopped chilies, shallots, garlic, and palm sugar, or a make-it-yourself mix of black pepper, salt, and lime juice. Your dining table will have a dispenser of tiny, floral-scented napkins and a mug with filled with hot water and utensils: the water is for sterilizing the spoons, forks, and, if noodles are involved, chopsticks. Pick out your utensils, wipe them down with a tiny napkin, and dig in.

Meet Manny – The Cat with a Selfie Instinct

You must have taken various selfies along with your family, friends and even pets, but have you ever heard of a cat taking its own selfie? Manny is a male cat, which can not only use a camera on its own, but can click selfies better than you.
With several dogs in its background, he is the real boss and the one to okay the take. Its master revealed that, the cat all of a sudden learnt how to use the camera, when it was on a shoot. This simply shows that, the animals have a better sense of understanding than humans.More info: Instagram (h/t: lovemeow)

Constructing New Projects without Impairment of Nature

For all those builders and constructors, who harm the nature to complete their project, here is an example to learn from. There are various projects that are made amid the trees and look so wonderful that it cannot be explained in words. Be it a residential complex, kindergarten, coffee shop or any other building, the trees have only added an attraction to the place.
It is all about the imagination and mind of an architect, who can offer such wonderful solutions to complete the project without harming the trees and nature. In a way, it also spreads a strong message to the world about preserving the nature.

Highlighting Single Color in Street Photography is a Unique Art

Talking about photography, normally people target a specific object, with which they play on the editing software after the clicks. However, this one is something different. When you try to click photos on a busy street of London or Paris, you will definitely get enormous colors into it. - See more at:http://www.breathtakingspots.com

Hotel Montana Magica of Chile – Strange yet Beautiful

Though there are many strange and adventurous hotels across the world, but hotel Montana Magica is the one, which will amaze you with its appearance. The entire hotel is given the shape of a volcano mountain, which also erupts from time to time. - See more at: http://www.breathtakingspots.com