I loved strolling around the local markets in Asia. After spending a month in the Philippines we were super happy to see so many different vegetables and fruits. Unlike supermarkets I support the farmers directly or at least smaller groups. Plus not all vegetables and fruits are wrapped into plastic. I still don’t understand why one would wrap a banana which naturally has its own protection would need plastic around. The big local markets even have huge bags with nuts, seed, oats, beans and rice where you can bring you own bag to refill.
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The Vietnamese cuisine uses a lot of vegetables, fresh herbs and spices (e.g. Vietnamese mint, coriander, lemongrass, ginger, Saigon cinnamon, chilli, lime, basil leaves), soy sauce and of course rice. So it is actually a great country to find delicious vegetarian and vegan food. The use of meat was relatively limited in the past. Nowadays they usually only put a few pieces of meat in the soup or the noodles. If you are vegetarian or vegan be aware of added fish sauce and shrimp paste in non-vegetarian restaurants. In September 2018, the Hanoi People's Committee urged the citizens to stop eating dog and cat meat as it can cause diseases like rabies and leptospirosis. Unfortunately, they still eat them and if you are the owner of a dog you have to watch out for guys on a motorcycle who kidnap them.
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New blog post is online now. Link in bio.
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A few months ago we watched together the movie "First They Killed My Father". A very touching movie that follows the story of a 5 year old Cambodian girl and her family under the Khmer Rouge regime. She is trained as a child soldier while her six siblings are sent to labor camps.
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A week ago we did a Visa run to Phnom Penh where we visited the Genocide Museum. Not an enjoyable activity, but an important one to gain a better understanding of Cambodia’s dark recent history (1975 – 1979). Nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population got killed.
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The site of the museum is a former school which was used as Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge regime. This prison was just one of at least 150 torture and execution centers. The goal of the Khmer Rouge regime was to remove class distinctions. Money and education was abolished and religion was prohibited. 1.5 to 2 million people got killed during that time in Cambodia. Most of them were intellectuals, foreigners, Buddhists, and Catholics. The children were snatched from the mothers and killed. Some of the people got tortured three times a day over a period of weeks. After they admitted the alleged crimes, they were painfully killed. The fabricated confessions sufficed as evidence. They did not want to use weapons to save bullets and avoid noise. After all, these centres were secret. Since the Khmer Rouge didn’t want them to die before they signed the confession, they used syringes with flour, sugar, vinegar as vitamin C. I really liked how they preserved and presented it to the world. History is a great teacher, only if we learn.
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Blog entry about Cambodia is online now :)
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