Sean & Buddha Somlor

Meet Sean & Buddha Cook Somlor machou kroeung (sour soup) “ We started learning in school about “ Cambodian fish sauce tends to be a bit more multiculturalism. We now know it is a good thing, stinky. It's like rotten fish with bones still in it we are embracing new things. “ - Buddha and mashed up. “

Cultural heritage Cambodian

Passion Martial arts Ingredients Background fact 1 litre hot water My mother never taught 250g beef me how to cook. Like many Asian mums, she 2 lemongrass stalks expected me to know! 15g galangal Sean 10g tumeric Australian ties 3 cloves of garlic I live in Cabramatta, 1 small chilli NSW and would like to 1 tbsp tamarind see the city grow with a Buddha Instructions (serves 4) paste bigger arts scene. 4 red capsicums 1. Finely slice lemongrass, 8. Add 1 litre of hot water and ½ cup tamarind galangal, turmeric, garlic and reduce the flame to a low heat, paste kaffir lime leaves. simmer for 20-30 minutes or 12 Thai eggplants until beef is tender. 20g (a handful) 2. Place the ingredients into a Cultural heritage Thai holy basil food processor or a mortar and 9. During this time, cook the rice Vietnamese 14 kaffir lime leaves pestle, add salt (and chilli if in a rice cooker or saucepan. you like). Crush or blend until it 2 tbsp canola oil turns into a fine powder. 10. Remove stalks and cut the

Passion 1 cup rice eggplants into quarters. Once Food Pinch of salt 3. Slice the beef into small the soup starts to boil, add the chunks. eggplants. Background fact I was born in Vietnam 4. Pluck Thai Holy Basil leaves 11. Cut the red capsicum into and moved to Australia off the stalks. small slices. When the at a young age. I’m now eggplants are cooked, add the studying at TAFE to be Tools 5. Heat oil in a saucepan and add diced capsicum and take the a chef. a small portion of the mixture saucepan off the heat. 2 saucepans into the oil until you can smell Australian ties Food processor or the aroma. 12. Add Thai Holy Basil into the I volunteer for my mortar and pestle soup and stir it in. state’s emergency Chopping board 6. Add beef to the saucepan. services team and have Chopping knife 13. Serve with rice. With parents from neighbouring countries, Sean and Buddha made many friends from 7. Stir in the tamarind paste to Rice cooker cook up a storm discovering each other’s family recipes. different backgrounds. cover the beef. Meet Sean & Buddha Cook Somlor machou kroeung (sour soup) “ We started learning in school about “ Cambodian fish sauce tends to be a bit more multiculturalism. We now know it is a good thing, stinky. It's like rotten fish with bones still in it we are embracing new things. “ - Buddha and mashed up. “

Cultural heritage Cambodian

Passion 1 cup rice eggplants into quarters. Once Food Pinch of salt 3. Slice the beef into small the soup starts to boil, add the chunks. eggplants. Background fact I was born in Vietnam 4. Pluck Thai Holy Basil leaves 11. Cut the red capsicum into and moved to Australia off the stalks. small slices. When the at a young age. I’m now eggplants are cooked, add the studying at TAFE to be Tools 5. Heat oil in a saucepan and add diced capsicum and take the a chef. a small portion of the mixture saucepan off the heat. 2 saucepans into the oil until you can smell Australian ties Food processor or the aroma. 12. Add Thai Holy Basil into the I volunteer for my mortar and pestle soup and stir it in. state’s emergency Chopping board 6. Add beef to the saucepan. services team and have Chopping knife 13. Serve with rice. With parents from neighbouring countries, Sean and Buddha made many friends from 7. Stir in the tamarind paste to Rice cooker cook up a storm discovering each other’s family recipes. different backgrounds. cover the beef. Explore Cambodian culture Cambodia is home to the largest religious temple in the world, Angkor Wat, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Cambodia, once known as the Population Laos Laos Khmer Empire, 15,458,332 Thailand lies on the Indo Vietnam Cambodia Chinese Peninsular. About 95% of Land area the population is 176,515 sq km Thailand Khmer ethnic. The other groups of Climate

Vietnam Australia people in Cambodia Tropical, monsoonal Cambodia are the Cham, Chinese, Laotians, Capital city Vietnamese and Phnom Penh Indigenous peoples living in the highlands. It has Language been influenced by Khmer China and India. Apsara dancers © Michael Gunther (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Environment Customs Arts & traditions Interesting facts Cambodia’s terrain is The official religion Cambodian arts and Cambodia has changed mostly low, with flat in Cambodia is crafts include textiles, its name four times in plains and large bodies Thearavada Buddhism, textile weaving, the last century due to of water including the but Christianity and silversmithing, stone changes in government. Mekong River and a Cham Muslim are also carving and ceramics. lake named Tonle Sap popular. Giving money Traditional instruments It is considered rude (or Great Lake) in the and goods to temples include the sralai, a to point your feet at centre which is one of is an important part of wind instrument, and somebody in Cambodia, so people point their Khmer phrases the biggest sources of Buddhist life. the khloy, an ancient freshwater fish in the traditional bamboo flute. toes inward to be polite. Hello Goodbye Please Thank you Yum world. The sampot is the national garment. It A form of martial arts ជំ殶បសួរ សូមជំ殶ប澶 សូម សូមអរគុណអ䮓ក ឆ䮄ាញ់ SOM-JUM-REAP-SU SOM-JUM-REAP-LEAH SOM SOM-AHR-COON-EH CH-NG-ARN dates back to the Funan called Khmer Boran is era from 68-550 AD. unique to Cambodia.

Wat Kor pagoda, Battambang © Milei Vencel (CC BY-SA 3.0) Explore Cambodian culture Cambodia is home to the largest religious temple in the world, Angkor Wat, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Wat Kor pagoda, Battambang © Milei Vencel (CC BY-SA 3.0) 16 – 22 MARCH 2015

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