Cambodia - Food VI - palm fruit, palm beer, palm wine

Palm trees are everywhere in Cambodia.  It's an important crop - much of the food we ate while there was cooked in palm oil.  Here you can see some ladies by the roadside shaping palm sugar into candy.  Shown also are the palm fruits, which are stripped and melted down into sugar.  Next to the pot doing the sugar melting you can see some bamboo tubes to cool the sugar - if you leave the sugar there for a while you get palm beer or the precursor for palm wine.