Category Archives: Reviews
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Duck
Just like the etched design on the plate glass windows, this excellent new restaurant has all its ducks in a row. Less than a month after opening its doors in Phnom Penh, Duck is delivering an experience that’s hard to…
Sequins, Spangles and Sweaters: The Return of Glamazon
Sequins, spangles and sweaters: The Return of Glamazon (or, Not Your Usual Thursday Night Out in Phnom Penh) It was a night of stilettos, glitter and feathers. There were men who looked like girls and girls who looked like men….
‘The Definitive Guide to Moving to South East Asia: Cambodia’
The writer Gabi Yetter is a long standing contributor to Cambodia’s best-known and best-read expatriate website (this one) who’s had her finger on the expat pulse here for some years now. As her editor at K440, it’s been a total…
Comedy Cambodia at Pontoon: March Review
It’s all too easy to blame outside influences when things are not quite going to plan, even though those outside influences may actually be to blame. Sometimes, outside influences can be so glaringly apparent that they can’t be ignored. What…
Khmer 440 Reviews USA Donut
If you’ve ever enjoyed a serving of American Buffalo Wings, I can tell you where the wings sauce base came from – the curiously named USA Donut. For many years this small shop, run by a Khmer-American and now located…
Phnom Penh Coffee Wars 2013
‘War’ might not be the right term. More like ‘rock festival’, or ‘termite invasion’, or something that implies hoards descending upon a location. Over the last few months in the capital there’s been a rapid expansion of the existing big…
From Bagels to Bibimbap – Rattana and Sophea Branch Out In Phnom Penh
When Rattana Gordon and Sophea Prim talked about opening a brick and mortar business, their first idea was to open a bagel shop in Phnom Penh. That was in 2009. Four years later, the two enterprising women not only make…
January Comedy Club Cambodia Review
Who said comedy was dead? Well, nobody actually. And certainly not the hordes that converged at Comedy Club Cambodia on Wednesday evening, literally queuing up for laughs. The tasty triple line-up of Jonathan Randall, Fakkah Fuzz, and Brendhan Lovegrove enticed…
Here Be Dragons: Navigating Battambang
An old term used to denote areas of the sea that hadn’t been navigated, ‘here be dragons’ is an apt metaphor for exploring the sleepy backwater that is also Cambodia’s second largest city. Quaint. Charming. Old colonial architecture. Those are…
My Comedy Cambodia Crash Course
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I’m a comedy fan. I am drawn to it. When choosing something to watch or read, I immediately browse through the comedy sections first. What emotion can top happiness, especially when outwardly expressed with laughter? It’s positive; it’s food for…