Category Archives: Phnom Penh
Walkabout Joker Draw Odds for Friday, April 13, 2012
The Walkabout Joker Draw is now in Week 47. Friday night’s jackpot will be a gargantuan $12,000. There are now just seven face down cards remaining. One of those seven cards is the jackpot-winning Joker. Let’s talk about this $12,000…
Killing Time in the Killing Fields
Fifteen kilometers from Phnom Penh a Buddhist stupa sits in the middle of manicured lawns surrounded by heavily-trafficked dirt paths. Throngs of Western tourists, dressed in beachwear and earphones, walk around, treading lightly over the bones of Cambodian people that…
Walkabout Joker Draw Odds for Friday, April 6, 2012
The Walkabout Joker Draw is now in Week 46. Friday night’s jackpot will be an enormous $11,297. There are now just eight face down cards remaining. One of those eight cards is the jackpot-winning Joker. Last week, nobody won the…
Stephen Jetes His Way to Cambodia: New Ballet School Poised to Open This Month
Stephen Bimson curls his bare feet under him in the white leather chair in a local coffee shop. He gestures with a graceful sweep of his hand as though he’s brushing away crumbs from an imaginary table and his grey-green…
Walkabout Joker Draw (and Infective Endocarditis) Odds for Friday, March 30, 2012
The Walkabout Joker Draw is now in Week 45. Friday night’s jackpot will be a rather substantial $10,638. The $638 increase in the jackpot means that the Walkabout sold 1,276 tickets last week, the same number of tickets that it…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Fish and Company
Something Fishy? Spending an evening at Fish and Company is a bit like walking into a David Lynch movie. Imagine “Finding Nemo” meets “Fawlty Towers”. Toss in the scene from “Poseidon Adventure” where a band plays in the corner of…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Beirut
Beware the Ides of March. That’s all I have for a snappy intro. The day had started at 5am, poorly, and went downhill from there. So I was not in the best of moods when we turned up at Beirut,…
Walkabout Joker Draw Odds for Friday, March 23, 2012
The Walkabout Joker Draw is now in Week 44. Friday night’s jackpot will be an even $10,000. Exactly. On the nose. Let’s think about that for a minute. How has the jackpot jumped $638 from $9,362 last week to exactly…
In Cambodia, a Lonely Man Finds a Bride
An American guy and his British wife are playing slot machines at a casino in Phnom Penh on a Saturday night. A maintenance worker from Rhode Island named Don sits down at the machine next to them, asks for help…
Cambodia’s Booming – So Why Is It The ‘Least Thriving Country In The World’?
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I read a column in the Bangkok Post this week, entitled Poor Cambodia Not Looking So ‘Poor’ Anymore, which began as a thank you letter congratulating Cambodian PM Hun Sen for his hospitality during the ASEAN summit. The letter took…