Category: Daily Life in Cambodia

What is it?

Here’s another Cambodian fruit for which I don’t know the name. They are rock-hard and about the size of a tennis ball or maybe even a baseball. They must be seasonal because I don’t see them very often–or maybe they’re just not that popular.

Location, Location, Location

In the US supermarkets put impulse purchases on display near the lines where people wait to check out. Because they see the items and they’re convenient, a purchase is more likely. Here in Cambodia there are all sorts of products available on the streets in the hope that people passing by will see the product–the vegetables in this photo–and decide to take some home for dinner. This little “market” is even more strategically placed because the gate on the right is for a garment factory and lots of young women workers will pour in and out of the gate during the day and will be reminded they need to get something for the evening meal.

This is getting corny….

Here is another load of corn on the cob to be sold on the street, but this is the first time I’ve seen it on a motorcycle. He’s probably taking it to a distribution point where he will transfer it to some poor woman’s bicycle and she will walk it around the city. This man’s wife was probably up at 3:00 AM boiling corn. I can imagine it takes a long time to cook this much corn on the cob!