Category Archives: cambodia

Angkor Arms Hotel – Sihanoukville – 2007

April 12, 2025 – 8:37 am

“Fun.” “I know fun.” “Where you want go tonight?” “Sophie’s, Martini’s, and Sharkey’s,” answered Nik. “Pheap sabbayrikreay.” I was broken-hearted and not after any girls. “Drink was my fun.” “Now many girls go home for new year.” He veered onto 51 street. The public sanitation squad were still recovering from the Khmer Rouge purges and […]

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VDO Imbiss Cambodia 2007

April 14, 2024 – 10:46 am

During Songkran 2009 Nik Reiter and I overlanded across Cambodia from Pattaya to Sihanoukville. Someplace betwixt point A and point B we had to stop for a river ferry in the middle of nowhere. Upstream the Preak Piphot disappeared into the jungle. A small stall on the muddy bank sold frikadeller, a German delight. a […]

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Duch Choi Cha’ kai Anh

April 11, 2024 – 6:29 am

Written on Jun 11, 2017 In 1975 the Khmer Rouge converted the Tuol Svay Prey High School on the outskirts of Phnom Penh into the murderous Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison. An estimated 17,000 prisoners had been subjected to the following code of behavior enforced by its administrator Comrade Duch or Kang Kek Iew and […]

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Sophie’s Bar Phnom Penh – Songkran 2007

April 11, 2024 – 12:58 am

Entry by Ty Spaulding In 1999 Cambodia was at peace. No weapons were seen on the streets, but once off the main avenues the streets were unlit Phnom Penh landmark was located on an unlit side street. Nik and I were looking for Sophia’s a notorious short-time bar. It is not easy to find even […]

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With My Bare Hands – Anthony Bourdain

December 3, 2023 – 11:13 am

I have always admired Anthony Bourdain, but never more than when he wrote in A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that […]

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