No joke. This exists:
The Cambodian Ministry of Cults and Religions
Category: Travel
Fried Tarantula
I had this for lunch today: It actually wasn’t all that bad. The usual chicken analogies apply.
Obama High Power
Cambodian car batteries. High power. Like President Obama.
Murphy’s Law Kind of a Morning
Yesterday morning my commute was humorously disastrous. I had three meetings scheduled for the day, the first of which was set to begin at at 8:30am. I found the meeting location on my map, determined it was about 25 minutes away, and left the apartment at 7:40am, leaving a little room for error. I flagged down a tuk tuk driver, showed him where we were going, negotiated a price, and then was on my way. By 8:00am, we appeared to be within a half mile of the office, so I was feeling pretty good. I even started looking around to see if there was a nearby cafe so I could relax and read for the spare 20 minutes. And then things
Slightly Disturbing Picture
The darker side of rural farming: They’re alive, and the driver fully intends to ride them between villages.
Exploring Kampong Chhnang
We took the day off from work and drove from Phnom Penh up North to Kampong Chhnang, a small town on the Tonle Sap river. The town is known for its floating villages – small groupings of houses that float on the banks of the river, and rise and fall with the unpredictable river movements during the monsoon season. The best part of the trip was spending a couple hours with a bunch of kids we met along the riverside. We all played with origami animals and paper airplanes, and it was a blast. I had read that many kids in Cambodia love to see themselves in photographs and movies. So we shot a few pictures and short videos on
The Best Iced Coffee in Phnom Penh
There were rumors about a local legend who’s been selling some of the best tasting iced coffee in Phnom Penh’s Russian market for more than 20 years. He’s even got his own facebook page. A few of us went to check it out: Once we ordered, he began an elaborate brewing process where he filled a fine mesh net with ground coffee, poured hot water through it, and then collected the coffee in a pot. He then repeated the process by taking the resulting coffee and pouring it through a second mesh net containing more freshly ground coffee beans. And then he did it a third time! The entire process took more than 10 minutes. This guy’s not messing around: