More Reasons to Visit Battambang, Cambodia

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Battambang, Cambodia is known for it's agriculture - it's often called the rice bowl of Cambodia - but there's so much more to it. The most popular attractions are the bat cave and the bamboo train, however in this video we're going to show you some additional things to see and do in Battambang. From bizarre Buddhist statues, to the stinkiest market where "Cambodian cheese", prahok is made. We are jumping on a scooter and spending the day exploring some of the off the beaten path sights in Cambodia's 2nd largest city.
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"Blitz" by Eric Reprid / ericreprid and Clueless Kit / cluelesskit
0:00 It's a beautiful day in Battambang
0:55 Wat Samrong Knong
1:22 Wild Battambang
2:19 What's in this tree?
3:15 The Killing Fields in Battambang
4:09 Welcome to Buddhist Hell
5:00 Chinese dam
5:37 Prahok Market
8:08 Rice Paper Factory and Spring Rolls
10:11 Ek Phnom and Giant Buddha
10:56 The back roads of Battambang
11:30 Reservoir and canal system
12:38 Sweet coffees and bad schools

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@TRUTHx247 Жыл бұрын

My favorite expat couple in Cambodia. 🙏

@michaeldavis4483 Жыл бұрын

The lesser travelled fishing villages are well worth a visit.

@stormstereo Жыл бұрын

I really liked this one. I always do but this one, too. No, it’s not the wine.

@itchyfeetonthecheap Жыл бұрын

I always recommend a few glasses of wine before watching.

@fasteddy60 Жыл бұрын

Great show! Thanks for sharing. Time for me to revisit Battambang, 2009 was my last encounter. :)

@laifuuuu1 Жыл бұрын

4:20 , if I'm not mistaking, those are the people that do bad things when they was living, so when they die they go to hell "នរក". There are more to this but I don't know how to write in english 😅

@srgba244 Жыл бұрын

Cool video, thanks!

@Hea9lt9hy9 Жыл бұрын

Nice tour of BTB…

@user-broccolishishi Жыл бұрын

How could you be still talking next to prahok 😭 I dun wanna open my mouth next to prahok

@tommyflorida9204 Жыл бұрын

Prahok needs to be cooked in small quantities with your dish. Same function as chicken or beef stock here. Just for the flavor. Most of the bad smells are gone after cooking. Similar to anchovies' use.

@w.m.p-w8989 Жыл бұрын

Correct- Many cool things about Cambodia 🇰🇭 thanks for sharing BTB..

@sleepwell2011 Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍

@tayshow5642 Жыл бұрын

Watching on my break to support you Mr itchy. Very good observation on not focusing on the genocide part, it’s a part of the country history but shouldn’t be the defining image of it! Your videos bring light and joy to Cambodia imo What does your wife think of Cambodia by the way? Don’t recall her opinion

@itchyfeetonthecheap Жыл бұрын

She loves it.

@stephenworthington-white8294 Жыл бұрын

Battambang reminded me very much of what I remember Phnom Penh looking like when I was there in 2000!! There was more traffic for sure in Phnom Penh. Happy Travels!!!

@Yovo555 Жыл бұрын

Battambang is a good place to visit indeed. Most Cambodian eat prohok and for those who do not know how to make it, they will buy from the market. For those who know how to make it like my mum, they don’t buy prohok from from the market because they know that it is dirty. The sellers should not put our food on the ground like that. Most Cambodians know it but some of them have no choice. It is the government’s job to enforce the sellers to have hygiene but they don’t do much work. Who can if the government can’t?

@KornDereck Жыл бұрын

Loved it! ❤

@michaelirish1445 Жыл бұрын

Your wife's reaction to the market "horror move" was classic. No smell-evsion required!

@deosharanrai4266 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations ❤I love battambang

@perpetualmoto Жыл бұрын

ohhhhh...i remember the barrels of rotting fish...that is a unique smell.

@snp0011 Жыл бұрын

Love your video! My dad was from Battambang and he had loved his beloved hometown so much. Battambang is beautiful and quite special in so many ways, too many to mention, but just to name a few prahok, the songs about Battambang, the food, the stories/legends, the temples which are even older than Angkor.

@13gears Жыл бұрын

I command you for your efforts at your age. I'm just over 40 and scooters are out, bicycles are out, I don't like planes anymore. I need to be teleported places.

@heythave 5 ай бұрын

You need to move to Cambodia so that you can walk again. You will eat more freshly cooked food and in less quantity.

@sparkygirl9083 Жыл бұрын

Always the best

@assistanttrailerparksuperv6839 Жыл бұрын

Will you make a video about the foreign correspondents club?

@MEOWnderlust Жыл бұрын

So the secret ingredient of the fermented fish paste is the ground? Got it!

@steveaustin1984 Жыл бұрын

It was described as "ground" fish paste. Until today, I thought it was an adjective describing the refinement process, as in reduced into smaller particles, not where it was kept or where it was processed.

@itchyfeetonthecheap Жыл бұрын

😂

@therabbitnews9362 Жыл бұрын

Remember, most victims at S21 were Khmer Rouge cadres themselves. They killed each others in the thousands. So don't give that S21 and Cheung Ek any attention. The real victims are in the rural area. Battambang province produce the most rice in Cambodia. Do you know the story of Kaming Pouy reservoir?

@EddieManning Жыл бұрын

What I do know of the reservoir is that my mother-in-law (now age 74) was forced labour by Khmer Rouge into building/digging that reservoir. Working 7 days per week and only 1 shower per week. Amazingly strong lady and still alive. My partner lost brothers and an uncle to KR. My partner told me this when in Battambang and going to see her family beyond Kaming Pouy Reservoir in February this year (2023).

@itchyfeetonthecheap Жыл бұрын

Yes, I actually talked about it in the video, but I had to cut it because the audio wasn't good. It was started by Pol Pot and many people died while making it.

@samedikoch3371 Жыл бұрын

🇰🇭❤️👍 Good Luck and God bless you all !

@tommyflorida9204 Жыл бұрын

You can find prahok in Canada. It's like $20 for a jar. Lol.

@BBme Жыл бұрын

Wow, unexpected. The streets are so much far cleaner than USA!

@Kimbuja777 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for not focusing your video on The Killing Fields. As a Khmer-Canadian, I really appreciate my fellow Canadians showing some consideration for Cambodia. The Killing Fields is something I really want to erase from Cambodian history.

@tayshow5642 Жыл бұрын

Embrace all history , not the best time in history but it’s part of it nonetheless. But it’s nice to focus on something other than that for sure though

@itchyfeetonthecheap Жыл бұрын

It's important not to forget, but not to dwell either.

@jadej51 7 ай бұрын

It's important to know what your ppl went through & the struggle they face just to try to help their kids escape the khmer rouge regime. To no allow history to repeat itself! Genocide is a Genocide! We see it now unfortunately happening in Gaza.

@chengraksmey-tf1lg 11 ай бұрын

Brahok is the same as salt because it extremely salty and can keep for years but today they may put some substance to scare the fly that'why people affraid of.

@chengraksmey-tf1lg 9 ай бұрын

this place has been there since1980s they rotten the fish with salt then they boild to make fish sauce . my grandmother did this in the 1970s but she put some popcorn in it to have good smell.

@adensenpai8547 Жыл бұрын

As a Cambodian, gotta say that’s a really disgusting way to make food. Even if that’s their way to make a living but mannnn they need a cleaner place. They literally put the food that people suppose to eat on the ground and some even step on it with barefoot. 😂

@danderson8463 Жыл бұрын

"What's for tea?" "Not sure, let me check the pavement." Jesus.

@virginiabrewster8444 Жыл бұрын

YUM rotting fish

@marc6344 Жыл бұрын

Is Sihanoukville still a shit hole? Used to be so beatifull there and in Otres but when the chinese came it was destroyed....

@itchyfeetonthecheap Жыл бұрын

I just went there and it is so different now. Lots of construction. Lots of unfinished buildings. I prefer Kep.

@marc6344 Жыл бұрын

@@itchyfeetonthecheap Kep gives me hope. i wonder if all these chinese companys went backrupt, have no other idea why they dont finish all these buildings.

@itchyfeetonthecheap Жыл бұрын

There's something about Cambodia changing the laws regarding online gambling... I'm not sure. That, and covid put a pause on a lot of construction, so maybe they'll come back now and finish them.

@choiton2907 8 ай бұрын

Gross me out, not going to eat that again.

@engtechno Жыл бұрын

That creepy thing is the hell. The one was pushing from the rear end to climb a needle tree were adultery sin. The one tall with long tongue, can you guess, what is sin they did? Guess what tell a lie punishment would be? That is creepy. LOL, just felt jealous is also sin. Not respect elder is sin. Neglect parent is a serious sin.