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On a related note.
The worst meal I had on that trip was in a village in Cambodia. On the road between the Angkor temples and Beng Melea (about 2 hour Tuk Tuk ride away) we stopped for lunch.
There was one option. Super noodle style packet of noodles complete with spice mix sachet, cooked in water that was simmering away in beer keg sized saucepan on an open fire. The water had some sort of mystery surprise floating around in it, possibly granules of meat, possibly just sand/dirt. Added to this was limp, damp, bean sprouts of unknown age sat in a bowl next to the keg sized saucepan and coriander stalks. Clearly the leaves had already been used and just stalks were left. To jazz this up we were offered pork. I was keen, thinking this meal sounds pretty basic, I could do with a little extra substance. Responding to my interest, the "chef" showed me an open bag of pig offal on the table. Now I'm not normally one to shy away from the more interesting meats, but this was an open bag of pork, sitting on a wooden table, in 30+ degree heat. I declined her kind offer, the smell alone was enough to put me off my lunch.
10 mins down the road after this car crash of a lunch we came across steamed buns filled with hard boiled quails eggs, and had been dyed with dragon fruit so they were pink (I think I posted photos of those in here before), they were amazing and I'm so glad we got them as lunch was such a let down.