A notable demographic shift, particularly among young upwardly mobile women, is driving the recent travel rebound in China. These travelers are researching and booking trips online, often spontaneously.
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This week, Lale chats with author Chantha Nguon—along with her daughter Clara and co-author Kim Green—about her new memoir Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes. Listen to hear the trio share stories of their travels across Cambodia and collaborations in the kitchen, while Chantha reflects on life as a Cambodian refugee, life in 1960s Battambang, and the dishes that have always kept her connected to home.
Lale Arikoglu: Hi there. I'm Lale Arikoglu, and this is Women Who Travel. I'm so excited today to be sharing a story about food, memory, and storytelling from Cambodia. We'll be diving into making noodles rolled by hand, the way our guest mother and sister used to make them.
Chantha Nguon: This is how my mother rolled the noodles. You can look at your watch and you see each noodle take about half minute. It's a piece of dough, like a little finger. And when you roll it like this, you make the noodle tougher.
LA: Chantha Nguon has written Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes. She tells the story of her escape from Cambodia in 1970 as a nine-year-old, fleeing the dictatorship of Pol Pot, and moving to Saigon, and then a refugee camp in Thailand. After two decades of exile, she returns to a very different Cambodia.
CN: You can ask me, and I go out with you, and whatever you eat, I can explain to you what it is. We can go to the Khmer restaurant, and eat Khmer food. Yeah. That's what we like from Cambodia. The world doesn't know about Cambodian food. I don't know what is the reason. We are too small abroad, or we don't have anybody to help us to bring it out.
Kim Green: These are busy street markets like the kind you would see all over Cambodia, all over Southeast Asia, with really crowded scooters and bicycles, going through people cheek by jowl, and fresh ingredients and bounty everywhere, like fish jumping out of buckets, and sometimes live chickens, and lots and lots of vendors.
LA: That's audio of Chantha, recorded by reporter Kim Green, as Chantha takes her on trips to different markets all over Cambodia and Chantha walks her through dishes that trigger her own memories. Kim Green is co-author of the book. She and Chantha are pretty much like family now. Right now, I'm talking to Chantha, with her daughter Clara. They've traveled a long way to meet at Kim's home in Nashville before going on the book tour. First, Clara.
Clara Kim: I flew in from London on Saturday. I think it took me about 11 hours, so I'm slightly jet-lagged. My mom flew in from Cambodia. Quite a 13-hour difference, so I think she's having some
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