NUM KOM and NUM BORT
Num Kom (នំគម) and Num Bort (នំបថ) are traditional Khmer cake just like num Ansom. People will make them on special occasions in the family or festivals of the years. It’s treated as a Khmer dignitary cake for serving guesses who participate any ceremony at home such as house warming ceremony, Buddhist ceremony at home, engagement ceremony, especially they are among the dowry together with many other cakes and fruits that the groom family must deliver to the bride family on their wedding day. And then the cakes might be served as dessert for the guesses at the wedding (usually for the morning ceremony).
Num Kom has a rectangular-pyramid shape wrapped in banana leaf. It’s made of sticky rice flour and the filling is made of coconut meat, peanut or sesame, and sugar. Num Kom is delicious because of its sweet filling fixes well with its sticky flour.
Num Bort has a flat-rectangular shape wrapped in banana leaf too. It’s also made of sticky rice flour, but the filling is different. The filling is made of green bean mixed with tiny coconut meat and a little salty in taste, not sweet. The sweet is at the flour part, because it was added some sugar. So num Borth is sweet flour and salty filling.
Num Kom and Num Bort just like twin, they are always be together, it is a great khmer traditional cake in Cambodia, too.
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