Slow Noodles

29/07/2026

We had a blast during a cooking demonstration event hosted by The Fringe in Battambang earlier this year. We talked about how memories of food can shape who we are, and how it can carry the history of our people.
And of course, we also talked about Slow Noodles and Chantha’s love for cooking, especially for the people she loves.
We can’t wait to do more events like this!! ♥️

27/07/2026

On the menu today: Green Curry Tofu, fried fish lemongrass, and stir fried morning glory. We substituted oyster sauce with fermented bean paste and we will definitely be doing that again!

08/07/2026

Big fans of Tamar Adler here, so we were thrilled to see this gorgeous post mentioning SLOW NOODLES on her Substack! (Also, we remain supremely grateful for the beautiful blurb she so generously wrote for SN three summers ago.)

Thank you, Tamar! And to everyone else: subscribe to her fantastic Substack newsletter, The Kitchen Shrink Is In!

Dear Tamar:

07/07/2026

Merci, Cambodge Mag!

Battambang, fin des années 1960. Chantha Nguon est une enfant choyée dans une famille aisée. Son père est khmer, sa mère à moitié vietnamienne — un détail qui n'a alors aucune importance. Il en aura bientôt une, et considérable.
Les Khmers rouges tueront près de deux millions de personnes, dont sa mère et plusieurs de ses frères et sœurs. Chantha, elle, passera les vingt années suivantes à errer de Saigon en débâcle jusqu'aux camps de réfugiés thaïlandais — survivre, jour après jour, en faisant de tout un peu.
Des décennies plus t**d, de retour au Cambodge, elle cofonde le Stung Treng Women's Development Center et crée Mekong Blue, une filière de soie exportée dans le monde entier. Et elle met tout cela en mots dans Slow Noodles, un mémoire salué par la critique américaine, où les recettes de sa mère deviennent le fil conducteur d'une vie brisée puis reconstruite.
Un portrait bouleversant, à lire sur Cambodge Mag 👇
https://www.cambodgemag.com/post/chantha-nguon-survivre-aux-khmers-rouges-puis-%C3%A0-vingt-ans-d-exil
🇬🇧 An English version of this article is also available on our website.

អត្ថបទមួយទៀតនៅក្នុង Cambodge Mag

18/06/2026

Such an honor to be included on this list of excellent memoirs!

Each refugee experience is unique and ever important to learn about. These 10 true stories bring harrowing, brave perspectives to the forefront.

10/05/2026

Cambodian BBQ pork ribs ✨

07/04/2026

Another feast at Chantha’s home 💥

10/03/2026

Big thanks to Riverside Public Library for choosing SLOW NOODLES for their Riverside Reads book in 2026 and for producing this lovely interview with Chantha (with an excellent intro from Clara)!

Each year Riverside Public Library hosts Riverside Reads, a city-wide book club where copies of a chosen title are gifted to patrons and as a community we ex...

08/03/2026

Happy International Women’s Day to & ! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

02/03/2026

We are so excited to have “The Gradual Extinction of Softness” featured in Hippocampus Magazine’s newest anthology, Selected Memories Volume 2!

is very dear to us, and they played a huge role in the success of Slow Noodles. By 2021, we’d been trying for more than 3 years to find a publisher. The inbox was full of rejections. And then Hippocampus published an essay-excerpt of the MS. Longreads and other “best of” sites picked it up. And an editor at came calling. So we will for all time sing the praises of this lovely litmag. It punches well above its weight class and makes dreams come true.

See for yourself. Get the anthology. Pre-orders are open right now, so make sure to snag your copy! We are in there along with 30+ other incredible writers. Visit the profile to get that pro-order link.

PLUS - if you’re coming to this year, you can snag your pre-ordered copy at Hippocampus’ 15th Anniversary Party on Saturday 3/7! Happy birthday to them!!