Tag Archives: Sam Campbell
The Best Barbers in Phnom Penh
Getting a haircut in Cambodia can be a massively unpleasant experience as, to be quite candid, the average barbers shop in Phnom Penh is unbearably hot and humid flyblown backstreet sweat box where 3,000 riel will get you a trim…
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Nine Phnom Penh Bars You Can No Longer Drink In
If beer came naturally from wells in Kampot or Kratie or Kandal Province , Dick Chaney would have been sufficiently entranced to move to Phnom Penh long ago. In fact, he wouldn’t have even needed to export the stuff to…
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Tagged bars, Phnom Penh, Sam Campbell
Rampant Phnom Penh Food Inflation
I went for my weekly supermarket sweep today and while standing in line behind four very fat and ugly American missionaries I imagined that I’d somehow blundered into a queue for the auditions of the Phnom Penh stage version of…
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Tagged Phnom Penh, Sam Campbell
Synchronized Swindling and the Disappearing Rice
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Here’s something to consider. If you had tones and tones of rice to distribute amongst the Khmer needy and poor in the first phase of an astronomical $38 million emergency food aid project, would you sign the lot over to…