Sngao moan
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| Kind | Dish |
|---|---|
| Part of the plant | Leaf |
| Language | Khmer |
| Country | Cambodia |
|---|---|
| Recorded in | Ethnobotanical Aspects of Cannabis in Southeast Asia (1975) |
| First recorded | 1975[1] |
| Still made | Not known |
Sngao moan is a Khmer soup that the ethnobotanist Marie Alexandrine Martin recorded in Cambodia as flavoured with roasted leaves of cannabis, taken from either male or female plants.[1]: 73 In Khmer, sngao is a soup, or food cooked by boiling, and moan is chicken.[2][3]
In her chapter Ethnobotanical Aspects of Cannabis in Southeast Asia, Martin writes that "Hemp soup is common throughout Southeast Asia". In Cambodia that soup was sngao, and she names sngao mɔən as its main example. The same roasted leaves went into other soups, among them samla kako.[1]: 73 Hemp, she wrote, was good to cook with for the pleasant flavour it gave food as well as for its intoxicating power.[1]: 73
A later account mentions chicken soup without naming a dish. In 1998 a Khmer journalist, Mr Rith, told the writer Amit Gilboa that "some people have the custom of eating it in chicken soup in the morning", adding that "this is a very small amount".[4]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Martin, Marie Alexandrine (1975). "Ethnobotanical Aspects of Cannabis in Southeast Asia". In Rubin, Vera (ed.). Cannabis and Culture. The Hague: Mouton. pp. 63–76. doi:10.1515/9783110812060.63.
- ↑ "ស្ងោរ". SEAlang Library Khmer Dictionary. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- ↑ "មាន់". SEAlang Library Khmer Dictionary. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- ↑ Gilboa, Amit (1 November 1998). "Cannabis Cambodia: Smoker's Paradise". Cannabis Culture.