Category: Daily Life in Cambodia

All kinds of food are sold on the street in Cambodia.  Some of it is seasonal, but one offering that is available almost any time is the roasted bananas.  Three or four on a skewer stick, they are grilled on a cart going around the city and eaten warm, a real favorite.  Here this man is also roasting some kind of round cake but I don’t know what that is.  Maybe it’s some kind of mashed-banana cake?

Here is a busy street corner in Chbah Ampov, across the Vietnam Bridge, along Highway 1 (of Vietnam War fame).   These women dispense bread and gossip, probably a goodly amount of both.

You’ve got your pink plastic flamingos and you’ve got your garden gnomes–and then here you’ve got the real thing!  I don’t think you can find these on Amazon, but if you’re interested, let me know which one you like and I’ll negotiate a deal for you, F.O.B. Cambodia.

This past weekend the pineapple vendors were out on the streets again, another change in the seasons.  IMHO, fresh pineapple bought on the street like this, is one of the best tasting fruits there is.

Some products–bananas among them–are just not easily transportable.  They don’t fit neatly into boxes or freight cars or cargo holds.

Cambodians are versatile, creative people, partly because they don’t have a lot of technical and other resources to fall back on.  They just do it themselves.  This shop could be an illustration of that.  Notice the sign says that it is a phone shop and the silver counter on the right is for phones.  But the silver counter on the left is a money changer’s counter.  And then if you’ll notice inside (the big teeth are the giveaway), the owner has a little dentist shop set up, too.  How can you go wrong here?

No Egg McMuffins….just a plain baguette to go!