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The silver gate is the front of the house where I live and this is the first time the flood waters have reached our gate. The intersection where the children are playing floods frequently but the water usually stops by the boy in the red shirt. I wasn’t home for the rainfall yesterday but it must have been really heavy.
This ought to be enough for supper….
Just about anything you want to eat is available on the street–without even getting off your moto–and people are queued up to get it.
The night time street stalls for food offer a variety of selections. This one sells roast duck.
A large percentage of the Cambodian population gets supper from the street, partly because it’s cheap and convenient, and partly because it avoids lighting a charcoal fire in a clay pot which is the way most people cook at home. Here this food stall offers grilled fish.
When you’re hankering for steamed snails in the U.S., you probably have to look around a bit before you find a shop that sells them. Not so in Phnom Penh! And at this shop, you don’t even have to get off your motorcycle to buy them!
Look at the size of these storm drain sewer pipe sections being laid on the street by the Deaf Development Programme! The channel is more than 7 feet tall! It takes a lot of these sections to drain a block of street but they can really remove the water!
A much-publicized initiative of the Cambodian government a couple years ago was to start what they call “one window service,” that is, being able to accomplish one of the many bureaucratic tasks the citizens endure in one trip to one window rather than being shunted from office to office for one or many days.
This woman embraces the same principle in getting her coffee in front of the one window office: she doesn’t even need to get off her motorcycle