Var Hong Ashe

Var Hong Ashe was born in Cambodia where she worked as an English teacher. She escaped Cambodia at the end of the Khmer Rouge period (1975-79), and has lived in England since 1979. She is the author of From Phnom Penh to Paradise (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988), and runs a website on Khmer food culture, Amok Cuisine

Cambodia: surviving the Khmer Rouge

(This article was first published on 15 April 2005) I was born and raised in the small south-east Asian country of Cambodia, and brought up in the town of Takeo,

By Var Hong Ashe

/ 16 Apr 2010