Why can't Cambodians fry eggs properly? Is it cultural?
Why can't Cambodians fry eggs properly? Is it cultural?
Burned to a crisp on the bottom, yet the top is still clear and snotty.
I like eggs sunny side up, I like the yolk runny, but I just cannot abide the clear snot. In the other 200 countries in the world, this is avoided by 1) flicking/pouring the hot oil from the pan on top of the egg during the frying process, 2) use of a lid on the pan to build up ambient heat, or 3) applying some other heat source to the top.
I don't want to be one of those guys in a far-flung country, moaning about the authenticity of the quesadillas, but fried eggs are absolutely ubiquitous. Why do Cambodians produce the worst fried eggs in the entire world?
I like eggs sunny side up, I like the yolk runny, but I just cannot abide the clear snot. In the other 200 countries in the world, this is avoided by 1) flicking/pouring the hot oil from the pan on top of the egg during the frying process, 2) use of a lid on the pan to build up ambient heat, or 3) applying some other heat source to the top.
I don't want to be one of those guys in a far-flung country, moaning about the authenticity of the quesadillas, but fried eggs are absolutely ubiquitous. Why do Cambodians produce the worst fried eggs in the entire world?
Have you been to those 200 countries and had fried eggs to put Cambodia at the bottom?
I’ve never had issues with fried eggs. Maybe you look impatient and then are scared you will shout or walk out.
I’ve never had issues with fried eggs. Maybe you look impatient and then are scared you will shout or walk out.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
They look plastic. Yuk.
(Not the eggs)
(Not the eggs)
pew, pew, pew, pew!
The latest offering of Cambodian eggs. Yuck.
This is from a popular Western type place too. They gave me a right bollocking for suggesting these eggs are shit.
"You should have said you wanted over-easy"
I don't want over easy, I just don't want my eggs burned on the bottom and raw snot on top.
This is from a popular Western type place too. They gave me a right bollocking for suggesting these eggs are shit.
"You should have said you wanted over-easy"
I don't want over easy, I just don't want my eggs burned on the bottom and raw snot on top.
I just cook most of my own food here instead. Saves me a lot too, eating out is expensive here.
For eggs, all down to preference (as mentioned below). My wife likes gooey eggs with a little crispness to them (way too raw for my liking), and she's a foreigner too so...
For eggs, all down to preference (as mentioned below). My wife likes gooey eggs with a little crispness to them (way too raw for my liking), and she's a foreigner too so...
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So many different ways of frying an egg, chances of getting them how you want in an average restaurant are slim. So I never have them.
Much greater chance of satisfaction with scrambled. I came across this little place recently, they have excellent scrambled and poached eggs.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category ... 905002400/
Much greater chance of satisfaction with scrambled. I came across this little place recently, they have excellent scrambled and poached eggs.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category ... 905002400/
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
Gooey yolks are awesome, but surely nobody likes the white bit to be gooey? Which is my issue here.
Cheers slavedog, will give them a try some time.
That's what she likes... Gooey on top (whites and all), crisp on the bottom (or not, it doesn't matter).
I don't know either, I'm with you on this one.
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Something I learned long ago. If you're going to eat fried eggs outside your own kitchen and, like me and the OP, don't like snot white, you are running good odds of being disgusted.slavedog wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:10 pmSo many different ways of frying an egg, chances of getting them how you want in an average restaurant are slim. So I never have them.
Much greater chance of satisfaction with scrambled. I came across this little place recently, they have excellent scrambled and poached eggs.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category ... 905002400/
Unless, of course, you tell them to over-easy. The first breakfast I had dished up to me in Asia over twenty years ago had snot egg. As did my second. My third had omelette. And that's what I do now, one of those three ways and it solves the problem usually.
Steak is another thing many restaurants fuck up so I've learned to take a swerve on them in most places.
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I recruited a girl who cooked at my favorite restaurant in Cambodia and gave her job as a cook and housekeeper at my house.It worked out well for me.She and I have been together for 24 years.She can cook better Southern American food then any American that I know here and better then any of the restaurants where I have eaten in this part of Florida.I guess that the solution to the problem of finding someone who can cook eggs well is to find a cook that cooks the food that you like in a restaurant and recruit her to cook for you.It worked for me.We are trying to sell our house here in Florida.After we sell our house we plan to return to Cambodia and will spend some time there to determine if it is feasable to spend money in Cambodia to make a restaurant/pub/guesthouse with Chinese buying up every bit of property everywhere they decide to plant themselves there.If not we will head to Thailand,or Bali.
This is a huge pet peeve. I think it’s because they don’t know moderation so there’s one temperature of oil to fry, and they’ve just been used to this forever now.
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