by Playboy » Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:17 am
Almost every Khmer pharmacy in Phnom Penh carries Metformin, cheap and easy to find.
The larger ones carry insulin - but always check the exploration date on it.
The test strips can be an issue. I must have bought a dozen different test machines over the past few years. The pharmacy get a new make/model of machine in, with strips. Has a promotion on them, they then run out of the strips and you can never find the strips that fit that machine again. Then you buy a different machine and the strips, use that for another 6 months, then repeat the whole process. Then repeat. Then repeat ... you getting the picture here ??
Food can be tricky, it is almost impossible to avoid on Khmer restaurants. Learning to ask for them to cook something without sugar in it in the Khmer language is easy enough, but them listening or understanding the concept is a totally different thing ...
I eat out a lot, I am currently living in the middle of nowhere on the Vietnamese border for a project I am managing down here. I am living in a casino hotel, and have a fair amount of authority over the kitchen and F&B Staff - and it is still almost impossible to get them to cook me any Khmer food without them putting some sugar in it. So most of the time I end up eating western food in Cambodia - unless I am back home in Phnom Penh (another month to go on this project) where I can get sugar free cooked for me at home, or in a couple of Khmer restaurants that deal with a lot of foreigners and are owned by friends of mine.
It helps a lot that most Khmers food is fairly boring and bland, unfortunately. So after the initial phase of being excited to try something new and exciting, the urge to eat it drops off rapidly
17 years of diabetic living in Cambodia
LPB
Almost every Khmer pharmacy in Phnom Penh carries Metformin, cheap and easy to find.
The larger ones carry insulin - but always check the exploration date on it.
The test strips can be an issue. I must have bought a dozen different test machines over the past few years. The pharmacy get a new make/model of machine in, with strips. Has a promotion on them, they then run out of the strips and you can never find the strips that fit that machine again. Then you buy a different machine and the strips, use that for another 6 months, then repeat the whole process. Then repeat. Then repeat ... you getting the picture here ??
Food can be tricky, it is almost impossible to avoid on Khmer restaurants. Learning to ask for them to cook something without sugar in it in the Khmer language is easy enough, but them listening or understanding the concept is a totally different thing ...
I eat out a lot, I am currently living in the middle of nowhere on the Vietnamese border for a project I am managing down here. I am living in a casino hotel, and have a fair amount of authority over the kitchen and F&B Staff - and it is still almost impossible to get them to cook me any Khmer food without them putting some sugar in it. So most of the time I end up eating western food in Cambodia - unless I am back home in Phnom Penh (another month to go on this project) where I can get sugar free cooked for me at home, or in a couple of Khmer restaurants that deal with a lot of foreigners and are owned by friends of mine.
It helps a lot that most Khmers food is fairly boring and bland, unfortunately. So after the initial phase of being excited to try something new and exciting, the urge to eat it drops off rapidly ;)
17 years of diabetic living in Cambodia
LPB