Sra peang

[1] It is made of fermented glutinous rice mixed with several kinds of local herbs (including leaves and roots).

[3] Khmer wine jars of the 13th century have also been observed among other ceramic artefacts of the Angkorian era,[4] though many such artifacts are of Chinese origin.

[7] This ritual character is observed in other ethnical groups of Cambodia such as the Phnong tribe where drinking from a wine jar is a sign of alliance closely linked with animal sacrifices.

[11] In the 1960s, when the first evangelical missionaries, Thompson and Smith, arrived to Mondulkiri, they refused to drink from what they considered to be a major animist practice.

[13] In recent years, sra peang has become an element of indigenous identity kept in the Bunong houses, and it is served in ethnic restaurants in Phnom Penh as an alcoholic beverage.

It is also a sign of hospitality for both environmentalists, ethnologists and tourists traveling to remote areas populated with ethnic minorities of Cambodia.

The jar of clay serves a recipient from which the rice wine is sipped from through long bamboo straws, as timber gongs are rung.
A Catholic missionary , dressed in a white cassock , taking his turn and drinking from the wine jar, on the occasion of the ordination to the diaconate of a member of the Bunong people , wearing traditional tribal clothes.