Legends+-+Cambodia

=Cambodia: Why There are so Many Spicy Chilies in Cambodia=

Long, long, long time ago in the land of the ice age, wait not that long ago. I’m sorry, I meant in the olden times when cars were cows and computers were books and scrolls.

Anyway, there lived a young chilie farmer boy named John who lived with his mom and his younger sister Jom. John loved sour green chilies; in fact everybody in his whole village liked green chilies. That's are why the whole village was a sour green chilie village. One day, John went to pick green chilies like he always did. His mom always told him to pick the chilies before summer but he never knew why his mom told him that, so he decided to find out. So John left the field but made it look like he picked the chilies.

In the middle of summer John's family was very short on chilies because John did not pick the chilies before summer. So he went back to field so get the chilies but he didn’t notice that someone was following him. When John got to the family field, he looked for the part of the field he didn’t pick, but when he finally found it he was in shock because his beautiful green chilies turned into red chilies. He couldn’t believe it. He was in shock. He felt dizzy and before he knew it he fainted.

After a few minutes he woke up because his little sister Jom was poking him with a stick. The second John saw Jom he scowled at her for following him. After a few seconds John found out he was talking to a brick wall because instead of Jom listening to her brother she was walking straight to the ruby red chilies. Before John could tell her to stop she already ate the red chili. In seconds her face was red and she started rolling on the ground saying" //HOT! VERY HOT!//"

John saw her running straight to the nearby river to stop the pain. In fact, after John saw what happened to Jom he couldn’t stop laughing. But while he was rolling he hit a chilies branch and chilies fell straight in his mouth. The strange thing was that he didn’t scream or shout. He just stood there for a second, then he said, “This would go great with chicken."

So every chicken dinner, John would sneak in the kitchen and put the red spicy chili in the chicken and that’s how red chilies and spicy curry came to be.