A note about Iced Coffee

The three best iced coffees with milk I've had since I've been in Cambodia:

1 – In Sihanoukville, after spending my morning walking down beaches and through a fishing villages I wandered back into town to look for some lunch. I found some food stalls similar to those here in Siem Reap, but not quite as big and ordered some noodles and an iced coffee with milk. It came in a pint glass! I was had worked up quite e thirst walking around in the sun all morning and the iced coffee hit the spot. Half way through my meal the clouds came out and it started to down pour, full on monsoon rain! It was a fantastic end to my beautiful morning. :)

2 - The next day we were trekking across a small, mostly uninhabited island: destination? A small fishing village on the other side of the island. We were told it was only going to be an hour or so, a nice walk through the forest. An hour turned into 2 and still we weren't there. We'd battled biting ants and prickly bushes and all the while the hot sun is bearing down on us. FINALLY, the end is in sight, we just have to wade out into the shallow water, cross a highly suspicious looking bridge and we're there.....no problem. Thankfully we all made it across without mishap and were rewarded for our troubles with an iced coffee with milk. It was the most delicious thing at that moment.

3 – Yesterday I went on a 5 hour bike/trek. I rode my bike to where the boats leave for the floating villages on the Tonle Sap (~1hr). I left my bike there and walked through a small fishing village, along the river and to the very edge of the lake (~1.25hr). Given that the village was floating on the lake, i could only look at it from the waters edge, but the walk down was enjoyable. More to come on that in a later post. After I'd had my fill of watching the boats come and go I walked back to my bike and rode my bike back to town. I passed Grace House on the way home and across from the school is a little coffee shop that we frequent during lunch time. I stopped in there yesterday, after biking and walking and more biking, almost completely knackered and ordered an iced coffee with milk. I swear that if I hadn't stopped for that coffee, I wouldn't have made it back to my guesthouse. It gave me enough caffeine to endure the last 20 mins. of the bike ride.

I wasn't a big coffee drinker before I came to Cambodia. But iced coffee with milk.....tasty, tasty. I should point out that it's not regular milk that the use, it's sweetened condensed milk. :)