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Not me but a Khmer tuk-tuk guy that I know. He was driving 3 tourists on a 3 days Angkor tour in Siem Reap Cambodia. They promised to pay on the 4th day after the tour is finished. He turned up at their hotel on the 4th day only to be told by the receptionist that they checked out. He freaked out and rode to the airport straight away in hope he could catch them before they depart a flight—he waited and waited up until the airport closed at midnight.
Still did not give up, he circled around the tourist areas afterwards known as Pub Street, and voila! He spotted them at an expat watering hole getting wasted. He called up a few of his tuk-tuk gangs then walked inside and told them they don’t want to see what underneath the tuk-tuk seat if they did not pay—the tuk tuk guys outside were not impressed either. I can’t imagine how it would feel like being a newbie tourist facing a bunch of angry tuk-tuk mobs. Needless to say, the owed $60USD was paid on the spot.
$60 maybe not seem a lot in the West it is here, you can comfortably feed your entire family for a whole week with it. The poor guy did not get to keep the entire $60 as he had to spend around $20 on booze on his tuk-tuk friends for the back up.
Still did not give up, he circled around the tourist areas afterwards known as Pub Street, and voila! He spotted them at an expat watering hole getting wasted. He called up a few of his tuk-tuk gangs then walked inside and told them they don’t want to see what underneath the tuk-tuk seat if they did not pay—the tuk tuk guys outside were not impressed either. I can’t imagine how it would feel like being a newbie tourist facing a bunch of angry tuk-tuk mobs. Needless to say, the owed $60USD was paid on the spot.
$60 maybe not seem a lot in the West it is here, you can comfortably feed your entire family for a whole week with it. The poor guy did not get to keep the entire $60 as he had to spend around $20 on booze on his tuk-tuk friends for the back up.
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There are plenty of native cashew nut trees where I am residing, in the Angkor temples vicinity of Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia. The Angkorian kids are such good pickers and tree climbers where they can pick a full 50kg rice bag between 3–4 kids. The local middlemen would come around would buy 10s of kilos off those kids for a crazy prize of $2 per kilo. Agriculture isn’t my background but I bet you could fetch at least $10 per kilo from these native grown organic cashew nuts. So if anyone knows of a good market be it in Cambodia or abroad please point me to that direction.
Cashew nuts grow on trees and there’s only many nuts you can get off each trees. Whereas peanuts grow on the ground and you can grow thousands of them. Unlike peanuts, to get the cashew nuts properly roasted it is time consuming if you do it the traditional over the fire way. I am on a laptop so hard to attach images to show demo.
Anyways, I preferred its fruits over the nuts. When freshly picked off the trees, the fruit is very delicious — it soft, juicy and taste between sour and sweet.
Cashew nuts grow on trees and there’s only many nuts you can get off each trees. Whereas peanuts grow on the ground and you can grow thousands of them. Unlike peanuts, to get the cashew nuts properly roasted it is time consuming if you do it the traditional over the fire way. I am on a laptop so hard to attach images to show demo.
Anyways, I preferred its fruits over the nuts. When freshly picked off the trees, the fruit is very delicious — it soft, juicy and taste between sour and sweet.
How's the wife and kids, by the way?.
Unprocessed cashew nut is worth a pittance. Roughly 5500KHR this season, so $2/kg sounds like a great deal right now.the chicken wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:53 pmThere are plenty of native cashew nut trees where I am residing, in the Angkor temples vicinity of Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia. The Angkorian kids are such good pickers and tree climbers where they can pick a full 50kg rice bag between 3–4 kids. The local middlemen would come around would buy 10s of kilos off those kids for a crazy prize of $2 per kilo. Agriculture isn’t my background but I bet you could fetch at least $10 per kilo from these native grown organic cashew nuts. So if anyone knows of a good market be it in Cambodia or abroad please point me to that direction.
Cashew nuts grow on trees and there’s only many nuts you can get off each trees. Whereas peanuts grow on the ground and you can grow thousands of them. Unlike peanuts, to get the cashew nuts properly roasted it is time consuming if you do it the traditional over the fire way. I am on a laptop so hard to attach images to show demo.
Anyways, I preferred its fruits over the nuts. When freshly picked off the trees, the fruit is very delicious — it soft, juicy and taste between sour and sweet.
Processed, they're at least $15/kg
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The best price lately for roasted, lightly salted/sweetened cashews -- perfectly fresh and delicious -- which I got yesterday at the Samudera is $4.99 for like 400 or 500 gms... I remember in 2015, you could buy a kilo at the main market in Kampot for 5 dollars if you bargained... Prices have gone up quite a lot...
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That's a bit rapey.the chicken wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:47 pmShe at first absolutely refused but with a lot of chanting and egging her on with the combination of booze she agreed.
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It fluctuates pretty widely year by year. Last year processed price was ~$7Orichá wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:02 amThe best price lately for roasted, lightly salted/sweetened cashews -- perfectly fresh and delicious -- which I got yesterday at the Samudera is $4.99 for like 400 or 500 gms... I remember in 2015, you could buy a kilo at the main market in Kampot for 5 dollars if you bargained... Prices have gone up quite a lot...
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Never bite off more than you cashew, chicken.
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I think the title goes well with the content of the thread.
No worries, you can still amaze people with this shit, but you will have to go in very remote places without internet access for that.
Go home safely.
Or don't ? That would step up the level of your stories i guess, but at which cost ?
No worries, you can still amaze people with this shit, but you will have to go in very remote places without internet access for that.
Go home safely.
Or don't ? That would step up the level of your stories i guess, but at which cost ?
You guys are choppy on the chicken
I liked his tuktuk story
I liked his tuktuk story
You must be new here.Affable wrote: ↑Sat Jun 19, 2021 4:13 amYou guys are choppy on the chicken
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