J and I went to Cooking School today with a group of 9 other foreigners - folks from Canada, Australia, Sweden, Norway and us. We started by a tour of the food market - we went in 4 tuk-tuks. Our teacher, Jenny, a lovely Cambodian woman, took us to different stalls to show us vegetables, herbs, meat, fish, and fruits. We returned to the school, a rooftop garden with 10 cooking stations and we prepared spring rolls and fish amok (you will remember as our favorite Cambodian dish). The fish amok required an enormous amount of pounding with a mortar and pestle. I dont know if it was the pounding or something else but I got really sick in the middle of the class - a wicked headache and I felt like I was gonna pass out. Our driver, Toro, to the rescue of course. He brought me home and J completed the amok course. I've spent the afternoon sleeping and feel pretty ok now but declined the opportunity to see the Phnom Wat and so J is venturing out solo.
It did sounds like a lot of pounding! I hope you're feeling better now.
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