Daily Life in Cambodia – Page 58 – Welcome to Cambodia, and…..

Bird’s Nest Soup

Bird’s nest soup is a Cambodian export and because it is so valuable, special buildings are erected here as nesting places for the swiftlets that produce the nests used in the soup making. Click here to see some of the buildings.

Straight from the Mekong

I don’t know what the season for shellfish is, but they seem to be on the streets rather consistently. These carts go everywhere and people buy a tin can full of them. The large jar has a hot sauce to spice things up.

Clean Kitchen?

Here are two young women cooking lunch and washing dishes on the floor of a generator shop. Maybe they swept first….

Changes, for the good

Some changes taking place in Cambodia are subtle and wouldn’t be noticeable to people arrived in the last five years. The picture above would not have been possible when I arrived twenty years ago: workers wearing helmets and safety vest, metal scaffolding. It’s still not the norm here but more and more construction sites are following international safety standards as outside funders and developers take a stake in the development of the kingdom.

Enough for an omelette

Sixty-nine dozen eggs… That should be enough to last till Saturday.

Inclusion

This is the toilet at St. Joseph Church in Phnom Penh. Women on the left, men on the right, and urinals in full view. Such an arrangement might seem lacking in privacy in a country like the United States but is perfectly acceptable here in this culture.

Motorcycle Loads #273

“Maybe I should leave a place for me to sit….”

Have a good day!

Here’s a happy wave from a seller of sugar cane juice!

Bread Ladies

These three ladies are all within shouting distance on the same block of a Phnom Penh street. Their baguettes, one of the last traces of Cambodia’ French history, are much in demand.

Enough already!

COVID-19 has affected people all over the world and in many different ways. Last week I had a funeral in Phnom Penh and afterwards met a young couple, the man from the United States and the woman from Malaysia. They were married in March and came to Cambodia for a honeymoon–and are still here. Because of travel restrictions due to the pandemic, he cannot go to Malaysia and she cannot go to the United States. Seven months now….how long is too long?