We went for a walk to the Night Market in the early evening. It is a lot darker at this time of year here than back in Scotland, so because of that, dodging the infamous traffic was that little bit harder!

The market was about a mile or so from or hotel, so walking there was an experience in itself. The amount of traffic on these roads is crazy. This traffic included us because there are basically no pavements where we had to walk and were right in about it. The car drivers just assume that you can see with eyes on the back of your head, and the motorbikes don’t care what side of the road they are driving on! It looks like nobody knows and everybody knows what is going on at the same time. Organised chaos, to say the least.

After getting through ‘Level 1’ of our mission to get to the market, we walked round most of the shops and stalls. The usual: T-shirts, belts, Rilex watches, and various other knock-off things. The food was the bit I was worried about, though! 

There was a lot of unidentifiable “edible”things to choose from on the various stalls we passed, but after a few minutes we seen one that looked like it was good for a quick first dinner.

Living up to what we know best, we settled for the Scottish favorite of… deep fried everything, of course. We wouldn’t be doing our heritage proud otherwise!

I asked if she could batter and fry a Double Decker I had but she was having none of it!

I accidentally picked out some tofu to get deep-fried with our other choices. I know what your thinking. ” Night ruined!”, “Let’s bail!”, “Roland’s beef!” But all was not lost and we managed to get the holiday back on track… just goes to show you that “deep-frying stuff always makes it better” – Adrian Roworth. Quoting quoting yourself is a thing!

The spring rolls that we got were fantastic. I could happily take a few nights off fried foods (not to many, mind) and have these again as a dinner in themselves!

So far, we are loving it. Day 1: success!

Let’s see how my Scottish skin copes with the Cambodian weather tomorrow!

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