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Videos about cooking the Cambodian specialty fish amok, boating on the Tonle Sap Lake, shopping at markets in Siam Reap, as well as tasting durian, pineapple, jackfruit and other local fruit. These are the kind of things Di Zi, her username, posts on Douyin, the Chinese TikTok. After marrying her Cambodian husband, Di moved to Siam Reap, the second largest city in the Southeast Asian country and the home of Angkor Wat.

Di has nearly 2 million followers on Douyin. Her videos mostly share the daily life of her family. To some extent, they have opened a

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