the market is popular with tourists in the city and sells souvenirs, including t-shirts, silverware, silk, wood and stone carvings, buddhas, and other items. it is also known for its variety of cambodian cuisine, and has a number of food stalls which sell a variety of rices, dried fish and pork sausages, vegetables and fruits, and a cambodian specialty prahok, a type of fermented fish paste. some stalls sell baguettes and spiced frogs, which is believed to be a relic of french colonialism in the area. other stalls cook up various khmer soups and red chili slices and peanuts.