The nostalgic comfort porridge being served at Battambang restaurant
Publication date 19 September 2019 | 18:53 | ICT

Called Bobor Pek by Battambang residents, or Bobor Prong in other provinces, this vegetable rice porridge is better-known among Cambodia’s older generation than the young, as they lived through the Kingdom’s simplified cuisine during the

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