Angkor Chef restaurant along with Angkor sauces and spices featured in the San Jose Mercury News Eat Drink Play section as one of a dozen recommended great gift ideas for the holiday season!
Angkor Chef’s Cambodian sauces, spices
As Fremont chef Channy Laux’s career evolves from condiment developer to cloud kitchen chef to brick-and-mortar owner, she stays true to her mission: She wants to share her mother’s legacy by introducing people to the flavors of their birthplace, Cambodia.
She and her husband, Kent, recently expanded their business to include a downtown San Jose restaurant, Angkor Chef, now in its soft opening phase. There, diners can taste the sauces and spices she uses in her dishes and buy jars and bottles for the home cooks on their gift list.
The array includes her award-winning Lemongrass Paste (regular or vegan, used in stir-fries); Chrouk Metae (a traditional hot sauce); Tamarind Sauce (a natural tenderizer; think braised short ribs); Makrut Lime Powder (sourced from refugee farmers near Fresno); Kroeung Prawlak (a Cambodian barbecue marinade); Organic Thnot Sugar (with caramel undertones); Kampot Peppercorns and more.
DETAILS >> Condiments are priced at $8 to $12 at the restaurant, 86 S. First St., San Jose, and $10 to $20 online at www.angkorfood.com (those prices cover shipping). Market Hall Foods in Oakland and Berkeley and the Ferry Building’s Village Market in San Francisco also carry many of the products.
Zavoral, Linda. “Present Tense?: RELAX. WE’VE GOT A DOZEN GREAT GIFT IDEAS” The Mercury News, Sunday, November 26, 2023, p. F1.
