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Circle of Dried, Salted Fish called Trei Ngeat at Outdoor Market in Kampong Cham, Cambodia - Encircle Photos

Circle of Dried, Salted Fish called Trei Ngeat at Outdoor Market in Kampong Cham, Cambodia

Kampong Cham, which is about 75 miles north of Phnom Penh, is Cambodia’s third largest city with about 60,000 people. The residents primarily farm using agricultural practices that have been followed for hundreds of years or they fish along the Mekong River. Some of their catch is heavily salted and then dried in the sun where the average, year-round high is in the upper 80s Fahrenheit. The result is called trei ngeat. It is eaten by the fisherman’s family, along with their steady diet of rice, or sold in the local, roadside markets.

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