For many diners, Khmai’s gateway to Cambodian food is the egg roll, something they’re eaten at Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants. Egg rolls aren’t on Khmai’s tasting menu.

Plear sach koh is thinly sliced sirloin steak tossed with prahok or tuk trei, lime juice, palm sugar, green peppers, fresno, mushrooms, cucumbers, bean sprout, radish and cabbage and topped with ...

There's nothing behind it. The only thing that gets behind it is pure love of food," said Chef T, an organizer for Cambodian restaurant week.

Max Jaranilla, 21, left, and Luciana Mercado, 18, take pictures with pumpkins for their social media at Johansen Farms Children’s Zoo and Pumpkin Farm on Sept. 28, 2022, in Bolingbrook.

Many of them were raised in families who fled the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror, which began 50 years ago and killed about 1.7 million people. Since then, the Cambodian community in the U.S. has ...