Taboo to Cambodian guests

Cambodians love to entertain guests with traditional meals. The main food is rice, and the main food is fish, lettuce and salad. The hospitality dishes include smoked fish, sizzling shrimp, vegetable shrimp balls, vegetarian dishes, and cold salads. The salad dish is served with green onions, ginger, garlic, pepper, coconut milk, etc. in the vegetables. It is sour and salty, spicy, and delicious.

The Cambodians sit on the floor while eating, and use their pilafs by hand to wrap the food in prepared lettuce leaves and serve them in their mouths. Many families now use cutlery such as knives, forks and chopsticks. After dinner, guests should praise the rich and delicious food, thank the owner for hospitality.

There are many taboos in Cambodia, and guests must pay attention. Cambodians believe that their right hand is clean, their left hand is dirty, they have to eat in their right hands, and handing them to their right-handed or both hands, especially the things they eat, can make it difficult for the other person to refuse to accept it; they cannot touch the top of the child's head by hand, and believe in Buddhism in Cambodia. People think that this will bring catastrophes to children; girls cannot kick cats with their feet, otherwise people will think that this girl will not find her husband's family; several people share the same bedroom, and young people cannot sleep at places higher than the elderly. The bed, the shoes that took off, could not be hung above the head of others; visiting the monks, taking the shoes outdoors, and then entering the house; the hot weather in Cambodia, the locals have the habit of showering, before receiving guests, or visiting other people It is necessary to shower first and change into clean clothes; Men and women must not bathe in a pond or lake at the same time. Elders and juniors must also be separated. Bathing in the river, men are upstream, women are downstream, and must be a certain distance apart.