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The page treats sngao moan, a Khmer soup, as a dish that Martin (1975) recorded flavoured with roasted cannabis leaves. Other Cambodian uses of the leaf in food are on Cannabis in Khmer cuisine.
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Sources
- Martin (1975), Ethnobotanical Aspects of Cannabis in Southeast Asia, in Rubin (ed.), Cannabis and Culture, pp. 63–76: p. 73 for the soup, the roasted leaves of male or female plants, and the remark on flavour.
- SEAlang Library Khmer Dictionary, entries ស្ងោរ (sŋao: to boil in water; soup) and មាន់ (moan: chicken), for the meaning of the two words.
- Gilboa (1998), Cannabis Culture: the words of Mr Rith, a Khmer journalist, on chicken soup in the morning. They name no dish, and the page does not treat them as a description of sngao moan.
- Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles (Algonquin, 2024), the recipe for s'gnao chruok sach mouan as reprinted by the Bittman Project on 8 May 2024, with her note that s'gnao covers a range of simple brothy soups.
Is it cannabis?
- Martin names the plant as kânhcha:, which she identifies as Cannabis throughout the chapter, and the part as the leaves, roasted. No test of the soup is reported.
Title and spelling
- Martin prints sngao mɔən. The title gives it without the phonetic letters, in the form already used for this dish on Cambodia and Southern Cambodia. No cited source gives the name in Khmer script, so the infobox has no local name and there are no redirects.
Infobox
- first_recorded is 1975, the year Martin's chapter was published. It is not a date for the dish.
- still_made is Not known: no cited source after 1975 names sngao moan with cannabis.
- The photograph shows the soup as served at a restaurant in 2010. It does not show cannabis, and the caption says so.
Recipe
- Nguon's name for her soup adds chruok sach to s'gnao and mouan; she calls it a sour chicken-lime soup. It is a sngao of chicken, the soup Martin names, and her note that s'gnao covers a range of simple soups is why the recipe is given as one version of the dish, under her name, not as the only one.
- The recipe contains no cannabis. Martin's roasted leaves are given in the article as hers.