Penny and Fred

Next step… setting up our kitchen

Although the food here is great and we have already found some nice restaurants both cheap and expensive we can’t eat out all the time… that would kill us.  Well, I hope we can eat at Chinese noodle once a week - that duck noodle soup is just awesome there.  So while picking up some breakfast for my hard working girlfriend, I organised a tuk-tuk for the day, someone that was recommended by the guys at the guesthouse and that could speak english as Penny and I still haven’t had a lesson in Khmer.

After a spot of breakie together I was back at the Russian market to buy cooking utensils, here was my list:

• 4x plates
• 4x bowls
• 4x rice bowls
• 4x chopsticks
• 4x spoons
• 4x knives
• 4x forks
• 1x egg flip
• 1x serving spoon
• 1x tongs
• 1x big fry pan
• 1x small fry pan
• 1x medium pot
• 1x meat cleaver
• 1x large knife
• 1x chopping board
• 2x mugs
• some plastic containers

Feel free to use the list if you ever need to start up a kitchen again.  Although it was all quite cheap the quality isn’t the best, the plates and bowls are plastic but look nice enough.  My favourite purchase was the meat cleaver, hopefully I can get pretty handy with it and buy one when I get home.

Next stop was modern gas to look at rice cookers, toasters and kettle.  They seemed quite busy so I checked out the prices but thought it would be better to purchase them with Pen.  So last thing I planned for our day was a trip to the supermarket so that we could stock the fridge and pantry and yes that did include beer.   Asahi $13 a slab of 330ml cans! whoo hoo!   Hua my tuk-tuk driver did a great job so I rewarded him a bonus with a couple of beers, too bad they weren’t cold… I’ll be calling him again tomorrow for cushion and furniture shopping.

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