Dish guide
Samlor machu kroeung
Samlor machu kroeung is a Cambodian sour soup whose tartness, vegetables, protein and aromatic paste vary by cook and season. Sourness and kroeung give the dish its direction without making one tamarind, vegetable or meat combination universal.
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CambodiaThis dish is associated with Cambodia in the cited editorial reference; this is not an exclusive origin claim.
Regional context
- Central Cambodia
- DocumentedIn: A discovery relationship for the initial Cambodia collection, not an exclusive regional origin claim.
Food traditions
- Khmer cuisine
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Understand the ingredients
- Banana blossom
- Bean sprouts
- Beef
- Bird's eye chilli
- Cambodian rice noodles
- Cane sugar
- Carrot
- Coconut cream
- Coconut milk
- Coriander
- Cucumber
- Dried red pepper paste
- Egg
- Fingerroot
- Fish sauce
- Galangal
- Garlic
- Garlic powder
- Ginger
- Holy basil
- Kroeung
- Lemongrass
- Lime
- Long red chilli
- Makrut lime leaves
- Monosodium glutamate
- Noni leaves
- Onion
- Oyster sauce
- Palm sugar
- Peanuts
- Pork
- Prahok
- Rice
- Rice flour
- Rice vinegar
- Salt
- Savoury seasoning
- Shallot
- Soy sauce
- Star anise
- Sunflower oil
- Sweet basil
- Tamarind
- Tomato ketchup
- Turmeric
- Water spinach
- White fish
- White pepper
Sources
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Cambodian Samlor Machu Kroeung
, YouTube
— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEfyti2CZi0 (accessed 2026-10-08)— Dish identity and qualified variation note. -
New beginnings: a gourmet guide to Cambodia
, Cambodia Ministry of Tourism official portal
— https://tourismcambodia.org/public/index.php/official-activities/new-beginnings-a-gourmet-guide-to-cambodia (accessed 2026-08-28)— Dish identity, Cambodia association and qualified variation note. -
Samlor machu
, Wikipedia
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samlor_machu (accessed 2026-10-08)— Dish identity and qualified variation note.