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K440 Reviews ‘Mike’s Burger House’
K440 dispatched Jeff Mudrick, creator of Phnom Penh’s best known gourmet burger, to ‘Mike’s’ to review Phnom Penh’s best known generic burger. Dedication The conversation with the editor of this fine journal went something like this: K440: “You know hamburgers….
Historical Revisionism and the Contrarian Left: Counterpunch and the Case of Cambodia
“The noble title of dissident must be earned rather than claimed.” “Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence” – Christopher Hitchens Alexander Cockburn and Christopher Hitchens are gone. Contrarianism is alive, but whether it is well is an entirely different matter. The…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Magnolia
For the best of seven years, I had the extreme pleasure of eating extraordinary Vietnamese food most everyday, prepared by a cook (who happened to be my wife) whose knowledge of her homeland’s gastronomy was encyclopedic and her culinary skills…
Being a Good Expat Son: A Technical Guide
If your mother in the U.S. is more Lifetime Channel and QVC than CNN and NatGeo, the way she views your living in Cambodia is that you may have just as well joined the French Foreign Legion. It goes without…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Sophy’s Restaurant
Sophy has for the last nine years run Sophy’s Café in Long Beach California, where the largest Khmer community outside the Kingdom can be found. A California friend who has long frequented her Long Beach place enthusiastically recommended I try…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: La Cita
Phnom Penh’s expat community is sufficiently large that the opening of a place that serves a fine English breakfast or good value for the money pizza is hardly noteworthy, certainly not cause for excitement. On the other hand, the emergence…
Counterpunch: A Journalistic Horror Show?
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Counterpunch, the left web journal founded by the late Alexander Cockburn and edited now by Jeffrey St. Clair, is on a roll when it comes to coverage of Cambodia. Following the positively ludicrous article written by Israel Shamir some months…