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Grow your own sandwiches
BLT seeds available
HCT seeds available
snackwich seeds coming soon
send $5000 to nigerianprince@spaghetti_tree.com for a full franchise option
BLT seeds available
HCT seeds available
snackwich seeds coming soon
send $5000 to nigerianprince@spaghetti_tree.com for a full franchise option
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Go to the Old Market for the fresh produce. They won't charge you local price because you will be a barang wearing a shirt with "Lost newbie, please gouge me" on it. However, if you have priced what you want up at the supermarket first, you can determine an acceptable price to you for a market price, which will be way less.
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I'd actually bought the Cambodian grown tomatoes from "Yummy Farms", which are supposedly organic.kansaicanuck wrote:Apparently you both are paying way too much for a couple tomatoes.Miguelito wrote:Four small organic tomatoes from Aeon, $1.20 — or six slightly larger regular tomatoes for the same.
Half of the food they sell in Aeon from Japan is less than dollar store shit packaged foods I've hardly ever even seen in Japan, mostly off brand products I've found myself disappointed the last few times shopping there. The quality of some of their fish, especially the garbage farmed salmon was appalling. Like diseased appalling....
If you think you're getting ripped off for vegetables go to Kandal market. Vegetables are incredibly cheap in the market.
Kandal is pretty good. I buy passion fruit there, $1/kg, delicious with soda water.
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Psah Deum Kor is the central market for fruit and vegetables.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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I think most other markets buy their produce from Psah Deum Kor, so in theory should be able to get best prices there. Cant imagine that there is too much English spoken there though.Lucky Lucan wrote:Psah Deum Kor is the central market for fruit and vegetables.
I was told that market supplies the others as well, the in-laws shop there as they live rather close.ផោមក្លិនស្អុយ wrote: I think most other markets buy their produce from Psah Deum Kor, so in theory should be able to get best prices there. Cant imagine that there is too much English spoken there though.
Considerably cheaper for my missus compared to Psah TTP but not worth the drive over and dealing with the traffic.
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Why try addressing the OPs question? You lot sound like you're on acid.
Oldnews wrote:Why try addressing the OPs question? You lot sound like you're on acid.
yes i am running on HCl, and you?
you must be one of those methane breathers huh?
no replying to those who misinterpret/misread what i write. this aint kindergarten
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What was th OP's question?Oldnews wrote:Why try addressing the OPs question? You lot sound like you're on acid.
Sounded more.like a general observation.that 5.years later it.is more.expensive
And looking.for.tips.as.to.where to.buy a time machine.
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The OP didn't really have a question. He was a young man lost in a foreign land facing a huge conundrum. How can a sandwich actually cost less than the sum of its parts? Answering this quandary is an important step on the way to adulthood for many a young adventurer. While some have tried to propose answers to his basic issue in dealing with overpriced food outlets, none of the posters have tried to address the basic existentialist problem at hand.Just Robbed wrote:What was th OP's question?Oldnews wrote:Why try addressing the OPs question? You lot sound like you're on acid.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Let's take this a step further, or backwards?Lucky Lucan wrote: The OP didn't really have a question. He was a young man lost in a foreign land facing a huge conundrum. How can a sandwich actually cost less than the sum of its parts? Answering this quandary is an important step on the way to adulthood for many a young adventurer. While some have tried to propose answers to his basic issue in dealing with overpriced food outlets, none of the posters have tried to address the basic existentialist problem at hand.
http://www.lowenkopf.com/2015/05/the-ex ... t.html?m=1
The Existentialism of a Tuna Sandwich at Duke's
Earlier this afternoon, at about 1:30, you were standing at the order counter of a longtime favorite restaurant in Ventura, Duke's, hungry for what had become in your mind the iconic tuna salad sandwich, which for you is the Duke's tuna sandwich,always served with a pickle slice of the proper degree of being brined, neither too much pickle nor too little cucumber.
A bright, cheerful waitperson took your order, her brow furling. "You mean," she said, "the tuna melt special?"
You assured her of your intent, which was not a tuna melt.
For a moment, she seemed relieved. "The tuna melt does not come with a pickle."
Once more unto the breech, dear friends. You started fresh. You did not want a tuna melt, You wanted a tuna salad sandwich with a pickle.
"Our tuna sandwich comes with cheese, and no pickle."
"Could you hold the cheese and include an order of pickle, which I would willingly pay for."
"I'm so sorry. I can't do that. Our new kitchen supports a modularized menu."
"But the man in front of me ordered a tuna salad, which I imagine is a scoop of tuna on some lettuce, but no cheese, an probably a pickle."
"I'm sorry. My hands are tied."
For at least the past five years, when you are dealing with a new group of wannabe fiction writers who are early in their progress, you spend considerable time walking them through architecture of the basic unit of drama, the scene.
When it comes time to provide a link to a stand-alone example illustrative of the shape and rising dramatic intensity of a scene, so much the better if one or more of the students have a laptop or iPad. You send them to YouTube, where you direct them to look up the first of two instances you want them to remember well into the future. The first of these comes from a film early in the career of the actor Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces, in which Nicholson plays a troubled and edgy character, Bobby DuPre, who had reached the status of concert-level ability as a pianist.
The scene you have in mind opens with DuPre in a truck stop coffee shop, trying to order a relatively commonplace breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast, and coffee. What could go wrong? Check the scene on YouTube to find out. (Type in Jack Nicholson Five Easy Pieces, diner scene). Not quite a spoiler, Bobby DuPre can't get an order of toast with his breakfast, raises the ante by offering to buy a chicken sandwich on toast, for which he offers to pay. When the waitress repeats the order, DuPre delivers his apparent solution to the entire problem, at which point the scene explodes with interior dramatic intensity.
On later reflection, after watching and rewatching the scene, you're of the opinion that, extraordinary as it is and as surprising as it is in the overall concept of the story, it was not an absolute requirement in the story. And yet, on further reflection, the scene could well outlast the entire story because of its shape, its mounting tension, and the manner in which it is resolved. The Diner Scene is a role model of what a scene should accomplish, and of how every scene in a story should leave the viewer/reader with an emotional impact.
You've never ordered anything other than the tuna sandwich at Duke's, sparing yourself some of the more existential, Five Easy Pieces-type dialogue of today's exchange. Yet such times appear in Reality, causing a moment where you feel somehow stranded between worlds of your own invention and dialogue and moments of actuality. Such moments give a sense that the two arenas have colluded against you, leaving you somewhere outside, peering in a window in search of someone who will come to the door, open it for you.
Little surprise then that it's one or more of your characters who open the door, then whistle you in, Over here, bro. In that sense, you see some small possibility of balance, the quirkiness of the inner world you create being an equivalent of graduate school, a few more adventures before you move out into the world of Reality to profess your researches and theories on an unsuspecting public.
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That reminds me, where can I get a decent reuben? Joma does and ok one, any other suggestions?
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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