Svay Keo Lamiet – Delicious Mango in Cambodia

Svay Keo Lamiet, called in Khmer, is a sort of mango which exceptionally common eating unripe with its great slight sour and sweet. Its fruit and leaves preferable used in cuisine, the unripe mango utilized as sour flavor of Samlor Machu (Khmer sour soup), the young or green mango leaves serve as awesome vegetable for Teuk Kroeung and Prohok (fish paste) - the special daily Khmer food. We additionally can make mango salad utilizing unripe or green mango blending with shrimp, pork, chicken flesh, or dried fish. Cambodian people like unripe or green mango, commonly they utilized as a part of pickles, side dishes. Particularly, youngsters prefer eating green mango with salt, chili or soy sauce. However the ripe mango is additionally incredible with sweeter and fragrant.    

Mango trees have been planted in Cambodia for thousands of years ago but Svay Keo Lamiet is the new assortment mango tree which was brought from other country. Mango tree is well-suited with Cambodia soil and the climate condition which is cool and dry. There are numerous huge farms of mango tree where planted mostly Svay Keo Lamiet. Named Keo Lamiet is begun from the special color yellowness of flesh that is the same to turmeric. Lamiet is Khmer word for turmeric. Svay Keo Lamiet is an attracted fruit in the country because it has a lot of demand in the local and foreign markets, and makes Cambodia people life great owning money by their plantation farm. Commonly, one kilogram of Keo Lamiet mango (it is around three mangos) cost from 0,75 to 1 dollars at the local market.    

However Svay Keo Lameat which is a Cambodian name for a sort of mangos economically planted for the export markets like: China, Japan Korea, Thailand and Vietnam while saved some for domestic consumption. These mango trees are prominently grown mainly in Kampong Speu province renowned for its sandy soil or at fertile land along the might Mekong River. Mangos that are planted on sandy farm tend to have solid meat and better taste hence get more cash per kilogram than the ones planted along the lake.