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| The Rice is chiefly grown on small family plots by
households in Takeo, Cambodia, a province dominated by rice fields and sugar
palm trees. People are using a set of growing methods, called the System of
Rice Intensification, which enable smallholder farmers to harvest more rice
from their traditional varieties using less water, seed, land and no
chemicals. At its height a thousand years ago, the Khmer Kingdom
sprawled across what are today Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Vietnam and
the Malay Peninsula, ruled from the imperial city of Angkor Wat. Then, as
today, people depended on the annual monsoon to flood the Mekong River and
its tributaries and water their rice crops. Today, some 60 million people
living in the lower Mekong, referred to as the "Rice Basket of the Universe"
-- still rely on this annual natural event for their lives and livelihoods.
In Cambodia, where 8 million people out of a population of 14 million make
their living from rice farming and most people spend as much as 70% their
income on food, rice is life. |
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There are various Khmer food restaurants near the
waterfront. Travelers may also find plenty of cookeries in the area around
the Independence Monument. By night this is the place to snack on Cambodian
desserts or enjoy a “tukalok” (fruit shake). And as for the night scene,
there just isn’t much going on in Takeo town –your best bet is to take it
easy and remember that Phnom Penh is only an hour away. Tourists can
see a lot of food. There are many foods to eat. The trips will
take to many markets and stores.
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Restaurant Foods:
This is an alternative spot for a good Cambodian meal during the dry season,
when this part of the town is less stinky than the area near the water. It
has an English menu and some tasty soups are a worth a recommendation. Some
restaurants are built on stilts, as the whole area becomes a giant lake
during the wet season. The restaurant overlooks the canal to Angkor Borei,
and it’s one of the most popular lunch stops in town. Some restaurants have
good place to tuck into some Khmer food before making a trip to Angkor Borei
and Phnom Da. There are restaurants when travelers enter Takeo from Phnom
Penh. It’s a friendly simple place, which feature rather decent Khmer and
Chinese food. |
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| Takeo province is also “the cradle of Cambodian
civilization” Takeo province has several important pre-Angkorian sites built
between the 5th and the 8th century. The provincial capital, Takeo town is a
relaxing place that possesses a fair amount of natural and manmade beauty.
The natural beauty is in the Scenic River and lake areas that faces a
pleasant town parkway. The low-lying area seems to include much of the
surrounding province area, which is probably why a kingdom that once had its
heart here was referred to as Water Chenla. There seems to be water
everywhere in the surrounding countryside during the rainy season. |
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