My second Christmas in Cambodia is coming up in a few days. I thought I’d be going home for the holidays this year, but other responsibilities intervened, and now I’m spending another December 25th in Phnom Penh. Christmas is just a day, and furthermore, a religous holiday celebrating a religious belief I don’t adhere to – […]
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Happa: Japanese Teppanyaki Cuisine in Phnom Penh
Happa #17, Street 278 Phnom Penh Tel: 077749266 I realized recently that the restaurants I eat at the most here in Phnom Penh are rarely the ones I review. Something about incredible familiarity makes me less likely to go ahead and haul the camera with me and do the review – so I’m glad I […]
Suzume: Homey Japanese Food in Dark Heart of Phnom Penh
Suzume 14A Street 51 092 748 393 Phnom Penh Phnom Penh has more Japanese restaurants than I ever expected it to have, mostly due to the city’s healthy (and apparently chronically starving) population of Japanese NGO workers. Most Japanese restaurants here are of the rustic variety, specializing more in curries, soups, ramen and gyoza, rather […]
Mekong Korean: Food for Pretending It Is Cold Outside
Mekong Korean Restaurant Sothearos Drive Phnom Penh, Cambodia Korean restaurants are rife in Phnom Penh, and family restaurant Mekong Korean occupies a convenient location in the very center of the city. Dishing up rustic versions of Korean standards such as bi-bim-bap, tofu stew, stir-fried pork with red pepper and chicken stews, the restaurant has an […]
Live Tweeting from Khmer Rouge Tribunal
I’ll be tweeting live from the Khmer Rouge War Tribunal today. Check it.
Hey Newt Gingrich, Come Visit Cambodia to See How Awesome Child Labor Can Be
Newt’s War on Poor Children – NY Times Newt Gingrich, American Republican candidate and professional blowhard, has recently decided that poor children’s primary problem isn’t economic inequality and a lack of access to quality education: it’s laziness. After calling out US child labor laws as “truly stupid” and suggesting that schools employ poor kids as […]
Cambodia Makes Surprising Progess in Fighting HIV/AIDS: Some *Good* News
Cambodia has made surprisingly decent progress in fighting HIV/AIDS, and it’s worth noting a piece of good news out of a country that tends to attract the most dire sort of press coverage. (Present company pleads guilty). In a UNDP report released for World Aids Day that appeared in my inbox this morning detailing the […]
Noam Chomsky: The Khmer Rouge Were Actually Pretty OK, Guys
Chomsky: Khmer Rouge? Shmer rouge! Khmer Rouge Apologist Noam Chomsky: Unrepentant Journalist Nate Thayer conducts a rousing take-down of linguist Noam Chomsky’s astoundingly long-standing denial of Khmer Rouge atrocities. Chomsky, as of 2011, still refuses to join the leftist Khmer Rouge apologists of the 1970’s in taking back his earlier works. No, he still believe […]
Reality Tour of Human Trafficking in Cambodia: Yes, This Actually Exists
Reality Tour of Human Trafficking in Cambodia Yes, you too can shell out a cool $2000 to go on a “reality tour” of Cambodia’s grasping poor. Since you’re really enlightened and stuff, your money will allow you to join a “delegation” instead of a tour group, which sounds much better on those tricky grad school […]
Romdeng Again: Great Food, I Still Don’t Order a Spider
Romdeng #74 Street 174 Telephone: +855 092-219-565 Phnom Penh, Cambodia Romdeng is the Mith Samlanh street kid’s charity Khmer training restaurant, affiliated with the more Western accented Friends, near Riverside. Set in an old colonial building, it’s a salubrious place to try authentic Khmer dishes for a pretty good cause. The waitstaff, cooks, and I […]