Yeah, 30 minutes is about right - to drive to what? A port? It's rough as fuck around there, and the beaches are polluted to death. Nobody goes there out of choice.Phuket2006 wrote:It is NOT Cambodia LOLLucky Lucan wrote:LA is big, JM lives about 50 km from Long Beach.Phuket2006 wrote:why not send a message to JM, ( try FB)
hes around there
on the freeways, thats 30 minutes and i am sure he has been
Has Anyone Been to the Cambodia-town Part of Long Beach, California?
- Lucky Lucan
- K440 Knight Captain
- Reactions: 761
- Posts: 22525
- Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:24 pm
- Location: The Pearl of the Orient
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Cambodia Town is a dump and is fairly dangerous - virtually nothing to see aside from poverty. It is mildly interesting to see Khmer script written on storefronts for a few blocks, but mainly, you just want to keep driving and hope that you don't get stuck at a red light where you'll likely get accosted by a crackhead.
The Cambodian fare restaurants are poor quality - and typically feature Thai or Viet cuisine over Cambodian. Cyclo Noodles, which is in Long Beach, but not in Cambodia Town (the ghetto) isn't bad. Their lok lak is quite good, but missing the key ingredient, tuk mrech (at least when I visited there a few years ago). It is worth a stop if you need to get some stationary, because the only thing nearby is the office supply store, Staples. Other than that, it probably isn't worth the drive from LA.*
Long Beach as a whole is a bit of a mixed bag - you have the part by the water and the aquarium, which is nice, but if you go a few blocks inland, you're in a war-zone. Continuing along Ocean Blvd towards Seal Beach, you enter some nicer neighborhoods in Belmont Heights, Belmont Shore and Naples. And 2nd St from Livingston down to Bay Shore is great - heaps of bars and restaurants.
If your missus is in need of a blessing, there is a decent Cambodian temple just outside of the ghetto on E 3rd St. If she needs some Cambodian groceries, try K H Market on Anaheim. If your goal is to show her how good she has it in Cambodia, I would highly recommend bringing her to Cambodia Town. Other than that, you can experience all the highs by just tapping/clicking your way down Anaheim St in Google Maps Street View.
* The comment above about how long it would take to drive 50km is pretty optimistic. LA traffic can be an absolute nightmare.
The Cambodian fare restaurants are poor quality - and typically feature Thai or Viet cuisine over Cambodian. Cyclo Noodles, which is in Long Beach, but not in Cambodia Town (the ghetto) isn't bad. Their lok lak is quite good, but missing the key ingredient, tuk mrech (at least when I visited there a few years ago). It is worth a stop if you need to get some stationary, because the only thing nearby is the office supply store, Staples. Other than that, it probably isn't worth the drive from LA.*
Long Beach as a whole is a bit of a mixed bag - you have the part by the water and the aquarium, which is nice, but if you go a few blocks inland, you're in a war-zone. Continuing along Ocean Blvd towards Seal Beach, you enter some nicer neighborhoods in Belmont Heights, Belmont Shore and Naples. And 2nd St from Livingston down to Bay Shore is great - heaps of bars and restaurants.
If your missus is in need of a blessing, there is a decent Cambodian temple just outside of the ghetto on E 3rd St. If she needs some Cambodian groceries, try K H Market on Anaheim. If your goal is to show her how good she has it in Cambodia, I would highly recommend bringing her to Cambodia Town. Other than that, you can experience all the highs by just tapping/clicking your way down Anaheim St in Google Maps Street View.
* The comment above about how long it would take to drive 50km is pretty optimistic. LA traffic can be an absolute nightmare.
-
- I Fap to 440
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 4952
- Joined: Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:39 am
Thanks for the info. Interesting today bit, I do believe Polytechnic Highschool was where Snoop Dogg met Dr. Dre.Master Donut Baker wrote:crystal's has the best khmer foods in town.
anyway long beach has more hispanic populations than cambos, and cambos are not the second largest population either, those would be white folks. properties in long beach are expensive too. no decent house can be bought for less than 400k. I love long beach i live here. it even has the best beach in socal, imo, of course.
...poly high school in long beach rated one of the best in the country. my older son goes there.
Anyone who doesn't like Capitalism is a pathetic loser. God bless the USA and no place else.
-
- I Fap to 440
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 4952
- Joined: Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:39 am
Thanks for the response. What I thought was true.heng.heng wrote:Cambodia Town is a dump and is fairly dangerous - virtually nothing to see aside from poverty. It is mildly interesting to see Khmer script written on storefronts for a few blocks, but mainly, you just want to keep driving and hope that you don't get stuck at a red light where you'll likely get accosted by a crackhead.
The Cambodian fare restaurants are poor quality - and typically feature Thai or Viet cuisine over Cambodian. Cyclo Noodles, which is in Long Beach, but not in Cambodia Town (the ghetto) isn't bad. Their lok lak is quite good, but missing the key ingredient, tuk mrech (at least when I visited there a few years ago). It is worth a stop if you need to get some stationary, because the only thing nearby is the office supply store, Staples. Other than that, it probably isn't worth the drive from LA.*
Long Beach as a whole is a bit of a mixed bag - you have the part by the water and the aquarium, which is nice, but if you go a few blocks inland, you're in a war-zone. Continuing along Ocean Blvd towards Seal Beach, you enter some nicer neighborhoods in Belmont Heights, Belmont Shore and Naples. And 2nd St from Livingston down to Bay Shore is great - heaps of bars and restaurants.
If your missus is in need of a blessing, there is a decent Cambodian temple just outside of the ghetto on E 3rd St. If she needs some Cambodian groceries, try K H Market on Anaheim. If your goal is to show her how good she has it in Cambodia, I would highly recommend bringing her to Cambodia Town. Other than that, you can experience all the highs by just tapping/clicking your way down Anaheim St in Google Maps Street View.
* The comment above about how long it would take to drive 50km is pretty optimistic. LA traffic can be an absolute nightmare.
I told her " I think it's a dangerous part of Long Beach, not worth it just to see Khmer script on some businesses"
We have a Khmer Buddhist temple here in Phoenix, surprisingly. Like 3 or 4 Thai pagodas and a handful of non-denominational Buddhist pagoda.
Anyone who doesn't like Capitalism is a pathetic loser. God bless the USA and no place else.
-
- 2000+ Posts! Aghh I Have No Mates
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 2071
- Joined: Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:04 pm
yep, snoopy went to poly high.
when i said it has best beach i refered it per walking and biking, not swimming.it also has a cinema almost as cool as one in aeon mall in pp.
when i said it has best beach i refered it per walking and biking, not swimming.it also has a cinema almost as cool as one in aeon mall in pp.
the chosen land.
- Phuket2006
- The Internet is my Friend
- Reactions: 99
- Posts: 6980
- Joined: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:00 am
"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer." HST
- chkwoot
- 2000+ Posts! Aghh I Have No Mates
- Reactions: 8
- Posts: 2007
- Joined: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:07 pm
- Location: is everything
Go to "Little Saigon" instead. It's in Orange County where the cities of Garden Grove, Westminster, and Santa Ana meet. It is predominately Vietnamese, but there are many shops and markets catering to Khmers, Koreans, and Chinese. They even have coffee shops with darkened windows where you can smoke, but they are kept secret.
I am sooooo very sorry if you can't understand or appreciate my sarcastic facetiousness.
- Barang_doa_slae
- cannonballer
- Reactions: 37
- Posts: 2434
- Joined: Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:44 am
I hear my brother in law and some buddies of his are currently trying to have their LB neighborhood officially recognized as little Cambodia or little PP.
-
- I Fap to 440
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 4952
- Joined: Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:39 am
Right on. The local city designated a part of LB as CambodiaTown already.Barang_doa_slae wrote:I hear my brother in law and some buddies of his are currently trying to have their LB neighborhood officially recognized as little Cambodia or little PP.
Anyone who doesn't like Capitalism is a pathetic loser. God bless the USA and no place else.
- KampongThomas
- 5 minutes to kill
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 42
- Joined: Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:00 pm
And this is what the sign looks like
- Barang_doa_slae
- cannonballer
- Reactions: 37
- Posts: 2434
- Joined: Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:44 am
Any idea when that happened?DetroitMuscle wrote:Right on. The local city designated a part of LB as CambodiaTown already.Barang_doa_slae wrote:I hear my brother in law and some buddies of his are currently trying to have their LB neighborhood officially recognized as little Cambodia or little PP.
-
- I Fap to 440
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 4952
- Joined: Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:39 am
Barang_doa_slae wrote:Any idea when that happened?DetroitMuscle wrote:Right on. The local city designated a part of LB as CambodiaTown already.Barang_doa_slae wrote:I hear my brother in law and some buddies of his are currently trying to have their LB neighborhood officially recognized as little Cambodia or little PP.
I think I actually read it in PuckettRichards link above but also elsewhere before, thus the title of my post here.
Anyone who doesn't like Capitalism is a pathetic loser. God bless the USA and no place else.
Why would anyone leave Cambodia, go all the way to the US and then spend their time in Cambodian ghettos-ville in Long Beach, CA (unless visiting relatives - probably in prison). What am I missing?
-
- I Fap to 440
- Reactions: 0
- Posts: 4952
- Joined: Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:39 am
Don't be an asshole.RBD wrote:Why would anyone leave Cambodia, go all the way to the US and then spend their time in Cambodian ghettos-ville in Long Beach, CA (unless visiting relatives - probably in prison). What am I missing?
Anyone who doesn't like Capitalism is a pathetic loser. God bless the USA and no place else.
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
-
Long-experiment Cambodia Visa Question
by Savittre » Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:28 pm » in Cambodia Speakeasy - 4 Replies
- 1424 Views
-
Last post by Nougat
Sat Aug 15, 2020 8:55 am
-
-
-
Laos producing honey in California
by Guest » Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:37 am » in Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Lao forums - 0 Replies
- 1192 Views
-
Last post by Guest
Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:37 am
-
-
-
Kobe Bryant dies in California helicopter crash
by Alexandra » Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:22 am » in 'Not' Cambodia - 5 Replies
- 1898 Views
-
Last post by Spigzy
Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:14 pm
-
-
-
Karl Von Boenninghausen, American fugitive from California child sex crime charges, arrested in Phnom Penh
by gavinmac » Mon Aug 26, 2019 3:59 pm » in Cambodia Speakeasy - 21 Replies
- 16841 Views
-
Last post by Jep
Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:59 am
-
-
- 38 Replies
- 14729 Views
-
Last post by FishHead Phil
Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:29 pm