|
Skuon
Skuon ( km, ស្គន់) is the district capital of Cheung Prey District, in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia. This busy market town has grown up around the intersection of National Highway 6 (Cambodia), National Highway 6 and National Highway 7 (Cambodia), National Highway 7. Skuon is around west of the provincial capital at Kampong Cham (city), Kampong Cham city and north of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Skuon is sometimes known in the local language as "Spiderville", it is famous with international visitors to Cambodia for its fried spiders. References * Freeman, Michael (2004), ''Cambodia'', Reaktion Books, . p. 31. * Ray, Nick (2002), ''Lonely Planet Cambodia'', Lonely Planet Publications, . p. 308. {{KampongChamProvince Towns in Cambodia Populated places in Kampong Cham province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fried Spider
Fried spider is a regional snack in Cambodia. In the Cambodian town of Skuon ( Cheung Prey, Kampong Cham Province), the vending of fried spiders as a specialty snack is a popular attraction for tourists passing through this town. Spiders are also available elsewhere in Cambodia — in Phnom Penh for instance — but Skuon, a market town on the highway from the capital, is the centre of their popularity. The spiders are bred in holes in the ground in villages north of Skuon, or foraged for in nearby forestland, and fried in oil. It is not clear how this practice started, but some have suggested that the population might have started eating spiders out of desperation during the years of Khmer Rouge rule, when food was in short supply. The spiders are a species of tarantula called "a-ping" in Khmer, and are about the size of a human palm. The snacks cost about 300 riel each in 2002, or about US$ 0.08. One travel book identifies them as '' Haplopelma albostriatum'', k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Highway 6 (Cambodia)
National Highway 6 or National Road No.6 (10006) is one of the national highways of Cambodia. It is long (including 6A), it connects the capital of Phnom Penh with Banteay Meanchey through Siem Reap on the north shore of the Tonlé Sap. It terminates merging into the National Highway 5. National Highway 6A From Phnom Penh to the town of Skuon (), where it connects with National Highway 7, the highway has been upgraded to dual carriageway A dual carriageway ( BE) or divided highway ( AE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE). Roads with two or more carriageways which are ... and it bears the name of National Highway 6A. References Roads in Cambodia {{Cambodia-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Highway 7 (Cambodia)
National Highway 7 or National Road No.7 (10007) () is one of the national highways of Cambodia. With a length of 509.17 km it connects Skuon with Trapeang Kreal, international border checkpoint with Laos. It is part of Asian Highway Network and of the connection by road between Phnom Penh and Vientiane, joining Route 13 in Laos leading north along the Mekong to Luang Prabang. In November 2004 it was announced that the reconstruction of the road, assisted by the Chinese government, would be partly rebuilt by China's Shanghai Construction Group Shanghai Construction (Group) Corporation (SCG) is a Chinese construction and engineering company, ranked as the 16th largest construction company in the world based on 2011 revenues. The group's listed arm Shanghai Construction Group Co., Ltd. ( .... The public work, costing totally about US$80 million, was officially inaugurated on 29 April 2008. References Roads in Cambodia {{Cambodia-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fried Spiders Skuon Cambodia
Fried may refer to: Music * ''Fried'' (album), a 1984 album by Julian Cope *Fried (band) Fried are a musical duo made up of US soul singer Jonte Short, and ex- The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals guitarist David Steele. David Steele looked for a singer for his new project away from The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals for five years. ..., a band made up of U.S. soul singer Jonte Short and ex-The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals guitarist David Steele *"Fried", a song by E-40 from his 2011 album, '' Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift'' Other uses *Frying *Fried (surname) *Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, a law firm *Fried (2002 TV series), ''Fried'' (2002 TV series), a British TV series *Fried (2015 TV series), ''Fried'' (2015 TV series), a TV series aired on BBC Three *Fried's rule {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |