Cambodian garment workers eat noodle as their breakfast at a Buddhist pagoda at outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, June 9, 2019. On Sunday, they said, all Cambodians should gather with their neighbors and sit down for a meal of num banh chok, a popular Cambodian rice noodle soup usually consumed at breakfast. Forced out of politics, she opened a shop selling Cambodian noodles. These are the Khmer noodles of unity and solidarity, not destructive noodles.” Hun Sen also suggested that the activity could kick off a campaign to promote Cambodian food and culture. “I’m talking purely about Khmer noodles and solidarity, about national unity through the eating of Khmer noodles on June 9.”___Associated Press writer Grant Peck in Bangkok and video journalist Nadine Achoui-Lesage in Paris contributed to this report.

Source: Washington Post June 09, 2019 01:22 UTC