Tucked away on the nondescript street 256, behind Preah Kossamak Hospital, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh is a small unsuspecting food outlet.
Its
unusual sign – a picture of a woman closely resembling the late English
singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse – smiles next to the outlet’s
signature dish – ‘LGBTQ Hotpot’.
Owned by
actress and model Som Sreyneat, the small outlet located inside a
street-side gazebo has enticed people to this lesser trodden section of
the capital with its unusual and colourfully named soup made from a
family recipe.
She opened
the business with her two brothers last month, with the name a
celebration of the hotpot’s uniqueness from many other Cambodian
hotpots.
“It’s a
bit sour and a bit sweet. Its taste is unique, and that is why we wanted
to give it a name that stood out,” Sreyneat said.
The hotpot
set comes with a plate of free-range duck meat, beef meatballs, egg,
shrimp, pig blood and white sesame. In addition, it has a basket of
vegetables, including needle mushrooms, Chinese white cabbage, okra,
water spinach, thyme, coriander and Khmer basil.
A full
LGBTQ hotpot set is 25,000 riel ($6.28) and can feed 2 to 3 people.
Because of its affordable price point, many of her customers are
students.
Source - TheNation
