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In a culture where many, many people are selling food on the street, anything that makes your product stand out is an advantage. One of the newest marketing gimmicks to hit the Phnom Penh streets is this chicken carousel. Powered by an electrical cable snaking across the pavement, the machine has a rotating display and warming lamps for pre-roasted chickens and geese.
The rotating displays are an eye-catching novelty now but they must be a real headache to clean.
“I wonder if I forgot anything….”
This week in Phnom Penh I passed a man selling this fruit from his bicycle. I really don’t know what fruit it is. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it served so I don’t know how it’s eaten, whether in the hand or with a fork or spoon or what.
“It’s OK…. I don’t need to look down–and they don’t smell!”
In an earlier post, I noted the advent of graffiti in Phnom Penh, but on a small scale and in isolated places. Now it is becoming mainstream and a real eyesore. It’s not on the scale of large American cities, but we’re catching up.
Notice on this sign for a shop selling motor-scooters the words “Free Wi-fi.” Do you think they are selling a scooter that has wi-fi? I rather doubt it!
One street that I travel in the early morning has a series of appliance shops and every morning they set up walls of appliance boxes out on the sidewalk. Click here to see more.
The career prospects don’t look too good but maybe he will get enough to pay for supper.
It’s encouraging to see a street repair crew using machinery in their work instead of just doing everything with hand tools. There’s some progress being made. OTOH, while the woman with the power tamper is wearing a high-visibility safety vest, she’s also wearing flip-flops.
Money changers are a fact of life in Cambodia where the U.S. dollar is legal currency along with the Cambodian riel. Many workers, e.g., the Deaf Development Programme staff, are paid in dollars and then will change some or all of that to riel for small transactions. The rates change daily and one must be observant to choose a money changer that gives a good rate. Click here to look at the process.