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They slung that up quickly! I went past a few weeks ago and it looked as though there was no activity.
Considering that end of Pasteur is still packed full of hookers and drunk 'foreigners' each night, what sort of clientele are they expecting at this Korean noodle joint? There's literally nowhere to park a car unless they are allowed park behind Pontoon, which basically means no Cambodian clientele who could afford to eat there......so that leaves sexpats and meth ho's? That's a tough sell to either demographic imho.
Considering that end of Pasteur is still packed full of hookers and drunk 'foreigners' each night, what sort of clientele are they expecting at this Korean noodle joint? There's literally nowhere to park a car unless they are allowed park behind Pontoon, which basically means no Cambodian clientele who could afford to eat there......so that leaves sexpats and meth ho's? That's a tough sell to either demographic imho.
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Been wondering about this too. The old story was the rent got doubled to Glen pulled the plug. So knock it down build a noodle shop and get more rent than a two storey hotel business! Something not quite adding up here.Cam-pooh-cheer wrote:
Considering that end of Pasteur is still packed full of hookers and drunk 'foreigners' each night, what sort of clientele are they expecting at this Korean noodle joint? There's literally nowhere to park a car unless they are allowed park behind Pontoon, which basically means no Cambodian clientele who could afford to eat there......so that leaves sexpats and meth ho's? That's a tough sell to either demographic imho.
Please explain.
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I gather you're talking about the rustic provincial capital of Kampong Speu rather than the glamorous and cosmopolitan metropolis of Phnom Penh where there are more coffee shops than you could shake a stick at?pedros wrote:
These are the new coffee shops. I swear 1 year ago there were exactly 0 coffee shops in this town. Now there are over 20, including 2 Amazons.
A few months ago one of these spicy Korean noodle shops opened, 2 more are under construction and nearly finished. By the end of the year there should be a dozen or so.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Also leaves the gay street clientele, if that is still open now the benefactor is otherwise engaged.Cam-pooh-cheer wrote:They slung that up quickly! I went past a few weeks ago and it looked as though there was no activity.
Considering that end of Pasteur is still packed full of hookers and drunk 'foreigners' each night, what sort of clientele are they expecting at this Korean noodle joint? There's literally nowhere to park a car unless they are allowed park behind Pontoon, which basically means no Cambodian clientele who could afford to eat there......so that leaves sexpats and meth ho's? That's a tough sell to either demographic imho.
Street 174 is usually quiet for cars, the bouchon end anyway. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have to go all the way to pontoon.
They are supposedly gentrifying GSM so maybe they are ahead of the curve.
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No, the gay version of Ballsack Lane (if that wasn't gay enough already) is firmly in the wastebasket or getting dragged through the courts. Not that I have anything against that kind of thing, live and let live and all but it didn't exactly pique my interest.ReasonstobefearfulP3 wrote: Also leaves the gay street clientele, if that is still open now the benefactor is otherwise engaged.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Weren't Gav and Playboy going and reporting back?
They've been very secretive about this.
They've been very secretive about this.
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Openings along (not so) Happy Happy Street have been sporadic, most seem to be open, but occasionally some do not open.
Will be interesting to see how many survive the next couple of rent payments, I doubt many of them are financially viable on their own.
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Will be interesting to see how many survive the next couple of rent payments, I doubt many of them are financially viable on their own.
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Did they infiltrate Skirts Bar? I asked Mol, but he wouldn't tell me
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Not Wednesday night, house was packed and parking a bitch.ReasonstobefearfulP3 wrote:
Street 174 is usually quiet for cars, the bouchon end anyway. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have to go all the way to pontoon.
Then take a Tuk Tuk like the rest of us peasants and you won't have to worry about parking issues.Miguelito wrote:Not Wednesday night, house was packed and parking a bitch.ReasonstobefearfulP3 wrote:
Street 174 is usually quiet for cars, the bouchon end anyway. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have to go all the way to pontoon.
There are advantages to being an underfunded expat living on the skin of his arse and teaching English, rather than being on the pay roll of the CIA.
I refuse to go out with nothing more than a whimper followed by a small farting sound and a shit stain on my bed sheets..
Just thought I'd share that with you.
Just thought I'd share that with you.
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I'll just take my driver next timescoffer wrote:Then take a Tuk Tuk like the rest of us peasants and you won't have to worry about parking issues.Miguelito wrote:Not Wednesday night, house was packed and parking a bitch.ReasonstobefearfulP3 wrote:
Street 174 is usually quiet for cars, the bouchon end anyway. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have to go all the way to pontoon.
There are advantages to being an underfunded expat living on the skin of his arse and teaching English, rather than being on the pay roll of the CIA.
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I bet they sat side by side in the tuk-tuk.Nasty Canasta wrote:Weren't Gav and Playboy going and reporting back?
They've been very secretive about this.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
A lot of bad press on the bamboo telegraph kept me out of the Walkabout, despite me enjoying a few beers over the years just up Pasteur St. at GSM regularly since 2012. After living here a few years, I got to the stage where I needed to have documents translated from Khmer to English, and the shortest route from Sen Sok to Pyramid translation service was cutting down Street 51on my moto.
To cut a long story short, I found I could drop into Walkabout at 8 am, have a refreshing ale, drop off the documents at Pyramid at 9 am, and be back at the Walkabout by 9.30 am. I intended to sit there quietly enjoying a beer and reading the newspapers ( remember those hung on the rack near the upstairs entrance, anyone? ).
My intentions were always good and clean. However, two of the greatest attractions of the Walkabout soon made me a target of their attention. Older girls for sure, but I also am an older man. One was Yuon, one was Khmer. The funny thing about meeting them was they were not allowed to ply their trade unless invited inside to sit and drink with you ( wives and girlfriends excepted here - I am talking about freelancers).
Over the period of time it took to translate all those documents at Pyramid, I have to admit I did not mind waiting while I was in the Walkabout with those girls. Of course, you could throw a leg over anytime, and I appreciated that honesty in the girls too!
I have nothing but very fond memories of the Walkabout, but then again, I was a daytime drinker there. I am sorry to see it gone.
To cut a long story short, I found I could drop into Walkabout at 8 am, have a refreshing ale, drop off the documents at Pyramid at 9 am, and be back at the Walkabout by 9.30 am. I intended to sit there quietly enjoying a beer and reading the newspapers ( remember those hung on the rack near the upstairs entrance, anyone? ).
My intentions were always good and clean. However, two of the greatest attractions of the Walkabout soon made me a target of their attention. Older girls for sure, but I also am an older man. One was Yuon, one was Khmer. The funny thing about meeting them was they were not allowed to ply their trade unless invited inside to sit and drink with you ( wives and girlfriends excepted here - I am talking about freelancers).
Over the period of time it took to translate all those documents at Pyramid, I have to admit I did not mind waiting while I was in the Walkabout with those girls. Of course, you could throw a leg over anytime, and I appreciated that honesty in the girls too!
I have nothing but very fond memories of the Walkabout, but then again, I was a daytime drinker there. I am sorry to see it gone.
Not a favorite of any poor sod who must witness it, let alone the victim, but there is the occasion when the hideous, would be socialist odobenus, most well-known for his serial posting pathology here, failure at life and inability to keep a Tefal job, spread his sausage fingers round a 42 kilo girl's throat and used the 4 fold advantage of his dreadful bulk to slam her against a wall.
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