Num banhchok
Num banhchok is made by soaking rice for 2–4 hours and grinding it into a liquidy paste.Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City-based eatery Pizza 4P's makes a fusion num banhchok pizza with a yellow kroeung, coconut milk and prahok sauce, freshwater fish, cheese, peanuts, water celery, basil, water mimosa, banana blossoms, water hyacinths and sesbania flowers.[6] Num banhchok is featured in a popular Khmer folk legend about an influential revolutionary and scholar Thon Chey who was exiled to China by the Khmer king, where Thon Chey began making num banhchok to make a living."[9] His calls were soon followed by the Prime Minister Hun Sen who appealed to the members of his Cambodian People's Party to also gather the same day and eat "Khmer noodles of unity and solidarity",[10] but denied it being a step towards negotiations with the opposition.[11] It was estimated by Sen that from 7 to 8 million people would take part in the eating of num banhchok on 9 June.