{"id":1507,"date":"2019-12-27T22:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T03:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2019-12-28T05:31:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T10:31:29","slug":"christmas-duck-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/christmas-duck-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Duck Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had the YAMEN participants over for Christmas day dinner. We have two volunteers from Kenya and one from Indonesia. I had planned to roast duck (my first) for dinner&#8230;but it did not go so well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191224_091938-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191224_091938-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191224_091938-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191224_091938-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191224_091938-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191224_091938-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191224_091938-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191224_091938-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I roasted two ducks for dinner one of them began to emit a putrid stench. This became worse the longer the duck roasted. I don&#8217;t know why the smell wasn&#8217;t evident before roasting but it was clear two hours in that the duck was a bad duck. Unfortunately, the raw ducks had been cleaned together and put in the same bag at the market. So I didn&#8217;t feel like I could serve the non-putrid duck due to cross contamination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174438-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1510\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174438-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?attachment_id=1510\" class=\"wp-image-1510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174438-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174438-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174438-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174438-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174438-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174438-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174454-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1511\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174454-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?attachment_id=1511\" class=\"wp-image-1511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174454-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174454-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174454-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174454-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174454-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174454-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_174454-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crystal to the rescue. She looked at the food I was preparing. Braised Red Cabbage and Onions, Long Beans, her family&#8217;s traditional Pineapple Stuffing, and a small can of Cranberry sauce. Then she told me to run out and buy two kilograms of pork. She swiftly saved dinner by making a delicious pork dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a wonderful time with the YAMEN participants. After dinner, we sat around the fireplace (okay &#8211; just a fire on a screen) drinking warm milk (I had soy milk) with Christmas cookies and candy canes. The discussion was just wonderful. We talked about Cambodian, Kenyan, and Indonesian cultural\/politics. For example&#8230; What are the indigenous fruit of Kenya? Is there really such a thing as Indonesian food? What do contemporary generational divides look like inCambodia\/Kenya\/Indonesia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_190421-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_190421-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_190421-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_190421-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_190421-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_190421-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_190421-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_190421-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think that I&#8217;ll try duck again&#8230; But I&#8217;ll get it very fresh. There&#8217;s a market in northern Phnom Penh where you can select poultry and they&#8217;ll butcher for you on the spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the YAMEN participants over for Christmas day dinner. We have two volunteers from Kenya and one from Indonesia. I had planned to roast duck (my first) for dinner&#8230;but it did not go so well. As I roasted two ducks for dinner one of them began to emit a putrid stench. This became worse&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/christmas-duck-disaster\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[141,108,133,104],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life-in-cambodia","tag-christmas","tag-food","tag-holiday","tag-yamen","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191225_132943-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVixa-oj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}