page_title: Bon Om Touk
section_title: Culinary traditions
hierarchical_section_title: Bon Om Touk / Buddhist Moon Festival / Culinary traditions
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of the traditional rice dish served with banana, coconut, and sometimes grapes on the feast of the Water Festival (Bon Om Touk) in Cambodia.
context_page_description: Bon Om Touk, or the Cambodian Water & Moon Festival, is a Cambodian festival celebrated in November, sometimes ending in late October. It marks the reversal of the flow of the Tonle Sap River. It corresponds both to the lunar Mid-Autumn Festival and to the Loi Krathong water festival in Thailand. The festival is marked by dragon boat races, similar to the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.
  Visitors from every town and province travel to Phnom Penh to watch boat races along the Sisowath Quay and visited illuminated floating royal boats with firework and attend free concerts in the evenings over night. The festival lasts three days, and commemorates the end of the country's rainy season, as well as the change in flow of the Tonle Sap River. It includes boat races and concerts, and attracts several million people each year.
context_section_description: Ak Ambok (Khmer: អកអំបុក, IPA: [ʔɑk ɑmboːk]) is the traditional rice dish which forms part of the Bon Om Tuk ceremony. During the festival, it is traditional to eat Ambok with coconut juice and banana.
  Ak Ambok is made by first frying the rice in its natural husks, then beating it in a pestle till soft, and finally, the husks are then removed and mixed in with banana and coconut juice for flavor. This mixture is eaten when the clock strikes midnight, or when the incense offered at the beginning of the gathering, is consumed. Ak Ambok is still to this day a very popular traditional dish and it is for sale everywhere during the Bon Om Touk festival.
caption: Traditional rice dish of the Cambodian Bon Om Touk Festival, served with coconut and grapes in an ordinary Khmer household.
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