Cambodian pumpkin was brought to Japan by Portuguese sailors in 1500’s which leading to the name kabocha. The Japanese named kabocha after Kambuja or Kampuchea(Cambodia). In Khmer language, we call it Lpoeu. Portuguese call it “Cambodia abóbora.”

Lpoeu is prepared in many ways in Khmer cooking.
-Cha lpoeu sach jrouk/monn( pork or chicken stir fry pumpkin)
-somlor kohkor (vegetarian type of soup)
-somlor proher(another type of vegetarian soup with smoke fish)

For dessert:
-lpoeu songkja (stuffed coconut milk and egg custard)very popular dessert in Cambodia.
-lpoeu kthih (pumkin with coconut milk in syrup style)

These are just a few menu to name them.

*When shopping, look for dark green skin and heavy Lpoeu. Darker and heavier means the pumkin is mature and rich in vitamin (E). The texture is a little sticky when eating, that is the best pumkin. Good and mature pumkin should look like the picture above or even darker is better. Pka lpoeu (pumpkin flower) is edible.

Walking is not mean working, right?…. but sometime not sure! i grab my slr to working on it,  it was a sunny day of my weekend ummm it was Spring?? may be! sorry that i can’t tell the name of these flower.

Location:: East of 3Hogy, Camera: Digital SLR Nikon D80, Exposure: f/5.6 @1/15

Q: I know it’s always best to get focus when taking a portraid shot, but i always strunggle to do this when shooting handheld. Is thre anything i can change about my camera setup to improve my changces of getting it right? Philip Hume, Dorking

A: ANDREA THOMPSON SAY: To give yourselft a fighting chance of fucusing on the eyes, try closing down by two or three stops instad of shotting at your lens’s widest aperture to widen the depth of field, If lifht levels are low you may need to increase youre ISO slightly to compensate. Now swetch the focus mode from Automatic AF point selction to Manual AS point selection. Line up the active focus point on one of your subject’s eyes and use a light press of the shutter release button to activate the autofucus. swivel the camera to frame the shot as you want it, but try not to move the camera forward or backward while you’re repositioning it or the eye focus will be lost. Finally, press the shutter release home to take your shot, Review your image on the LCD and zoom in on the eye you focused on to check it’s nice and sharp.