$100 Cambodian Street Food Challenge!! I got scammed...

In this video I will try to spend $100 on

street

food

here in the country of Cambodia, as you can see it has many different ingredients. First of all, have you ever seen an egg dessert in a pumpkin? But first let's back up. Cambodia is a country. in Southeast Asia it is right next to Vietnam, how do I know? Because I drove here from Vietnam, although Cambodia is growing and modernizing rapidly, it is still a very affordable country, especially for visitors from the US. Nowadays, our main focus is PanAm, this is the capital. of this country and by far the most populated city with more than 2 million people that means a lot of

food

today we have come here to the Central Market look at it from the sky this place is huge and they have a little bit of everything for everyone especially

street

food Street food Cambodian has its own personality and we are about to reach anyone.

We found our first location right here. This looks amazing. These are fried wheat noodles. Let's see how it works. It all starts with a ton. of oil from here she takes out an egg oh egg she turns over we have onion green onion bean sprout chats for a while with her friend she puts some oyster sauce on it and invites some of these noodles in more oil there are already 500 calories of oil right here it has some very lean pieces of beef joining the party, then you combine it with some fish sauce look at this pile of goodness, grab a plate on top of the plate, set up this beautiful symphony of flavors and that's complete and we are smiling oh okay friends this is a great way to start the day this is a Cambodian dish known as Loa right we have beef we have wheat noodles vegetables shimmering oil let's try it oh it's hot , it's greasy.

It's satisfying, it's not that salty, I think it needs a little bit of this gam chili, okay, it's probably too much, but then we have this fish sauce, this is like garlic chili, it's enough, I think we'll try it again . I ruined it. no, these noodles are so dense and so fun to chew and now we have all the flavor to go with it, it's so spicy, it's sweet, you get a crazy deep Umami flavor from that fish sauce, here we have to break this down. egg aside this is like a next level noodle let's talk about the price our goal today is to spend $100 on street food this costs $2.50 here so we are 2 and 1/2% closer to our goal we have a long way to go let's keep moving Sten a little bit off your back Yeah, like that, okay guys, we're trying to hit $100.

I found the place to make it happen, this is cool, I nailed it and here she's selling all the different types of seafood, giant squid. River prawns with long arms now let's talk about this section this is already prepared Seafood here we have snails we have other snails without shells these are blood cockles these are the smallest lobsters you have ever seen I hope, it must be a translation issue, these are not lobsters and then here we have some blue crabs that have turned orange and finally something called squid teeth. I'll tell you what they are soon.

Could I have one of these and one of these? Oh, come out, he said, go away, okay, I'm sorry. now let's see how he prepares this right here, he picks up a bunch of snails along the way, he puts his proprietary blend of oil and seasonings on the snails, then he cuts the sweet basil and then he says wait, I need a little more of my magic. The snails in sauce are almost finished and boy, the smells they give off here are an incredible time to eat. Okay folks, on to round two and we're really increasing our budget here, this is expensive, this is seafood in a moment.

I'll show you what squid. the tooth is but first snails you have to be, you have, you know what F this, get a spoon, you need the right tool for the job. I have a beautiful bite right here, try it, it's nice and chewy, but then the taste is like. a deep aromatic amount of lemongrass herbs it's spicy it's super sweet it's super tasty it's everything at the same time my American brothers and sisters already know how they say happiness is on the other side of fear delight is on the other side of a snail # inspired by Sunny we're going to be trending folks let's move on to the next dish the squid teeth which is a big order omg that goes on the walk she hits it with a load of this secret seasoning blend then she puts it on some vegetables and cilantro, the balls get a little shaken, she is satisfied with that amount of cooking and places them directly on our nice green base recently.

I was in Chile and I was showing you a squid that had a big beak, this is the muscle that drives the beak. It looks like a mushroom, cheers, it's so good, it's very dense, almost like an avalon, and the sauce she put in here is an oily combination of probably oil, seasonings, spices, lemongrass, everything comes together to create an incredible mixture of seafood, so that's our seafood dish. oh ohic, so that's our seafood course, we're on our way to $100. I think today will finally be the day we achieve that goal. Let's keep moving, great friends, you have so many delicious offers, first of all, everyone can.

You know durian, but you've never seen durian this size. Take a look at the plant here and then look above at these Duan pods. They are tremendously huge. If you don't know, durian is a fruit with such a pungent smell that there will be signs. in hotels they say, "Hey, no uninvited guests and no durian, both are very problematic. Check this out. I don't know. This is a unique offering in this market that you really won't find at Whole Foods. We have crickets." . We have water bugs, we have silkworms and we have giant tarantulas, it has been fried and seasoned, it looks twisted.

I touched this. I think I should buy it. We can stick to our budget, but Sunny, you have to eat it amazingly. It's okay friends. I've come to our next place to eat. This place is unique because they serve mystery meats on a stick. When you want to eat one, just take it out. This is my commitment. I don't know what they are, but whatever I get. I'm definitely going to eat it, it's going to be good, that's not the point, we're having fun, okay? Aha, I brought this out just now, it's pancreas, here we have a soy sauce with a little chili jam flavor, it's good, oh. and then at the end it's weird, it's like there's a membrane on the outside that makes it keep its shape, but inside it's very sticky, meanwhile, this sauce is amazing, let's find another one, here we go, oh pig, trying wow, It has a very good chewy flavor. the taste of this Chinese cake spice and a little taste of this next pork skewer oh yes, this is a meat ball, let's give it some sauce and I personally like to make two balls at a time , but yes to you. whatever suits you is a good ball of meat okay, I'm going for one more I just want to cheat I want the ear ah okay okay I'm going to grab one more at random closing my eyes moving my hand I can't see anything oh great, it's the ear pork, the cartilage is very crunchy but the protein in the skin is very gelatinous, that's very good for four of these mystery meats.

I only spent $2 right now, but I have to say that for that $2 I got a lot of entertainment wow, look at this here's like half a pig this gentleman just offered me some oh, he meant Oh, I thought like a free taste test, He meant, do you want to buy some? He takes the knife and is cutting it into cubes, throw it away. everything in this styrofoam box I don't know what's going on I feel like I've been

scammed

except I didn't spend any money he said do you want to try some and I was thinking about a bite and then he cut all this up and then I said how much and then he said just try it.

I have to say it looks delicious, well marinated, salty and sweet, look at that crunchy crispy skin, it's good but better with small bites, thanks for trying your pork, yes how much does this cost? Probably like $5, but okay, free, no, what kind of scam is this where I don't pay money but I buy meat, sir? I have changed my mind. I want to buy it right there, it's okay, thank you. So as you saw they had to be careful in Cambodia, that guy tried to scam me by giving me free pork, so I

scammed

him by buying him $35 worth of pork products, let's give it away, okay, there are a lot of drivers here that look like maybe they want to eat some pork, here you go, it's pork, okay, enjoy it.

Hello everyone. Welcome to our next food place, this is me, sun, it's a noodle maker and did you know that Cambodia is the shortest country in the world? A good example. Here today we are going to eat something called bang, the pronunciation is terrible, don't spell it phonetically, I don't know what I'm saying, it all starts with a bowl, you put some bean sprouts and some herbs, then we have. these white noodles this looks like a rice noodle she takes a spring roll she chops it in the bowl here she takes some pork sausage she is pouring fried pork in a little fish sauce and then she spreads it with a little cream coconut and then to the right Here we have crushed peanuts.

Wow, it's a little bit of dinner and breakfast at the same time and happy, we are happy. Our Vietnamese coconut cream is usually very sweet, but I'm told it's not a sweet coconut cream, it's just very rich. I said I should put some chili in there, give it a little spice, okay let's try it, it's a nice springy rice noodle, most of the flavor comes from the fish sauce and the fish sauce is quite diluted, not too much. sweet or savory right here we have some of that spring roll M it has a little bit of crunch a little bit of minced meat inside I think the trick here is to try to get it all in one bite oh there we go no uh yeah the herbs offer a little freshness overall, it's a nice noodle, but I think I prefer Cambodian noodles that have a little bit of broth for this whole bowl.

It's only $2 here, it's cheap. I came here today with a mission to spend $100 on street food right now we are over half of that goal. I'm going to go ahead and see if I can get the full 100, let's move on, you've heard of shrimp crackers right? These are taking shrimp crackers to the next level, right here she is. a bunch of shrimp batter and then here you can see she's frying it in this little walk and then when they're done she puts them here and they're super affordable. Turns out it's not my favorite cupcake in the world, but The Price You Can't Beat Only. 75 cents and it looks like you're paying about 1 cent per shrimp because there's a ton of shrimp on top of those.

Wow! I stumbled upon something incredible. This is a classic Cambodian dessert, let's see how it's made, so she starts with this it looks like an omelet but it's made of flattened sticky rice, then she puts some yellow sticky rice on it, then some black sticky rice, some seeds of crushed sesame seeds, then a little sugar, then she puts a lot of grated coconut on top and she rolls it up, okay, Aquin, I love this, they are like old school ancient traditional desserts, regards, M, it's a dessert Cambodian, even the ramper on the outside is a little chewy and then as you walk in, two different types of chewy sticky rice.

You got a different texture coming from the coconut and then almost all of the flavor comes from the sweetness of the sugar and crushed sesame seeds. Only my cameraman laughs when I do this. If you don't crush the sesame seeds, then no By the way, I don't have anything to put in your dessert, the big winner, one of these 0.70 cents is a great deal, but it doesn't really help us get to $100. Well, we'll take a break from meat and try some of these traditional Cambodian desserts. They look good on the outside, but I'm told they're full of squeezed cucumber and carrot.

Oh, I don't know if that's even a dessert, it's just fried bread and there's some vegetables in there, what the hell do they have? some kind of tuber with starch inside, this is a wild combination, also, they have waffles inside, they are filled with coconut strands, but let me tell you what I like most that they have here, it is a traditional dessert, it looks like a little hat but much more delicious, so they have a rice flour dough, they put it in the oil and then the middle is pillowy and then the outer edges are nice and fried and crispy, this is a little bit of sweet, sugary syrup on top, but that, my friend.

It's dangerous because they are small and look innocent, but I could eat about 20 of these, how much does just one cost? That's why I get 12. Let's add $3 to the total. Well, here we come across something very interesting. honey distributor, now you know that honey is good if it is not shaped like a bear, but is in a water bottle like this one, which is real orange colored honey, beyond that, the color between the honeys is not exactly the same. that's how you know it's not from a factory here she has real honeycomb some of this like this piece has honey but most of it is not real honeycomb in fact you can see they are honey larvae that They are developing and the wax is not really. any honey, this is not going to be sweet, you could eat it like this or boil it.

It's an interesting way to get protein for the day. Right now we are in the seafood section of the market and any time you are in Asia and you go to a seafood market,You look deep into what they have there and you might find something like this, this is a horseshoe crab, it's got like 10 of these nasty legs and each leg is like a claw, bro, what do you need all these claws for? You might be looking at this and wondering what you eat well. You don't eat the peel. You don't eat your legs. What you eat is hidden inside.

Here below. There is a very thick leathery layer underneath here. Once you cut it and remove it, finding a bunch of eggs, the inside of the eggs tastes a lot like burnt rubber, it's something unique, but they also tell you not to eat them because people use them for some kind of research, a difficult research. or a strange dinner, only you can decide, okay guys, I started. today I say that Cambodia has a completely unique and own culinary identity and they also have bmes but these are Cambodian bones they don't even call them bonm they have their own word that word is what is this the fun thing is a lot more words and a little It's harder to say , this is what I will do next.

I would never compare two different foods from two different countries. I will do that. This is a small grill that she is using to cook all this delicious meat. I'm going to make balls. She takes. He cuts the bread into slices and then puts a little bit of Cambodian mayonnaise on it oh yeah and then he toasts the bread back here he's buying pickled papaya with a little chili on top he hands this to a certain random person on my team what's going on giving him the thumbs up food to the people on my team she doesn't make the sandwich no, I mean when you go to Subway they don't just give you some cold meat and a container of mayonnaise and tell you good luck, it's like Choose your own adventure with this sandwich first we have the bread here, open it now, that's a lot of papaya salad.

I'm going to take about a third of that and drop it. The next step is to insert my meat, put everything in, close it. Get up and take out the toothpick. There we have it, a magnificent Bon Me creation. M. This Mayo is full of sugar, but I like it. I find the bread a little too toasted. I think you know if you're doing that there. Probably over-toasting the meat just spills oily goodness out of it and is a great combination between heavy meat and this nice crunchy, tangy papaya salad. Now the big question is whether she is better than a Vietnamese.

Bon me. I won't do it. I won't do it. um you know what is very different to compare, let's talk about the price, if I'm going to go to $100, I expect this Bon Me to cost between $30 and $35, the price is $125, I don't know if we're going to go . to get to 100 but I have one more meal left in mind, let's go there and see what happens, well friends, we have reached our final location because after this I can't fit one more thing inside me anywhere in any orifice, I sorry, here we have. a little piece of History Hello, it's good to see you again this woman was in my video when I came to this Central Market 7 years ago when I was just a baby Sunny with a crappy show that no one saw that's her from the video the last time I was here , she was introducing me to this.

This is a homemade fruit. She now she has. I'm so sorry as you can see it has many different ingredients and all of them can be turned into a dessert. First of all, have you ever seen an egg dessert in a pumpkin? I'm fine, it tastes a little like custard. I want to talk about this right here, although they all have different shapes, they are all made from a combination of chicken and duck egg mixed with sugar, so I just want to try them too because they look so delicious and shiny from here she puts the cream coconut, then a bunch of ice and a little syrup on top, oh, condensed milk and a little jackf fruit on top, wow guys, this is a dessert for Over the years, she has created an impenetrable layer of ice, so I'm going to try eating ice with condensed milk and see if I enjoy it.

Oh, the ice isn't the best part, but when you mix condensed milk with palm sugar, it tastes like you. You finished a bowl of cereal and drank the sweet milk. I like it, but let's dig a little deeper. I want to get to this egg thing, it's super sweet, very creamy. We also have these that look like noodle balls. The ice has a kind of hardening it has become a denser texture, it's really good and it's the perfect way to end the day, so from here I finished eating, but we're not done with this video because I need to add up everything I ate today and see.

If we could spend more than $100 here in Cambodia, ladies and gentlemen, we would spend the whole day here at the Central Market today. I thought we would have to go around the city to find more street food, but they have everything here, but the main question. You're wondering whether or not we spent $100 because, after all, that was our goal. Well, after adding it all up, even after cheating a little and buying a big piece of pork shoulder to give to a cich driver and his friends, did we spend more? of $100 the answer may surprise you. I do not feel bad.

I've struck out a few times and I don't want people to think the $100

challenge

is a trick I'm doing to get people to watch the video because that's what it is. I don't want you to think that so I promise that at some point in the next 2 or $100

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s I will spend over $100 just so there will be some real mystery when I take on these challenges anyway guys that's it for this. video thank you so much for watching I will see you next time if you love Indian food then you will love our new channel best Indian food.

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