Sunray: On the Philippines, you know my home is there and I agree with you 100 percent. A nation with a 20% Chinese minority, and up to 60% having Chinese blood and not a decent Chinese resturant in the entire nation! Even Manila!
I remember one day in Davao, Dad found a Pakistani place and came home and told me. I was amaed, and excited, and the enxt time into the city we hit it up. It was one of the worst places I have ever been to. Sad as it is, the best eating, for me, is the Space Burger join in Davao in the Victoria Mall, and the other one that is free standing down the road.
At least Cambodia has all manner of foreign food, and not too expensive either. The Central Market, the one near Russian and Monivong, has 2 kilos of Bing cherries for 15 US a kilo which when you think about it is comprable to a Western supermarket. Of course they are frozen as they ship them in but still, alot better than Philippines banans (which taste like sour apples), and importated Mandarins from Taiwan. That is another thing Cambodia has hands down, the Mandarins for 2500 riel a bag, 20 to 25 per bag. So sweet like honey. I guess I really should not complain.
When talking of cusine though, I am afraid I stick with the earlier condemnation.
Llanwit: It is true but there is a way to get more for the dollar. After 5 PM Angkor is free. They will not tell you that because then the smart folks will just wait. Sunset is spectacular and the best time of day. You will not get busloads of Koreans and gaggles of Euro -hippies elbow to elbow. It is almost empty, it is beautiful, and it is free.
There is preservation because it is basically the only tourist attraction in the entire nation so they are not THAT greedy as to kill their only cash cow. The problem as you said is the foreign concessionaires which are all Japanese and Korean.
A sign of things to come, in my mind, is the water park on Russian halfway out to the Airport. I had to go to Immigration a couple of times towards the end to pay my visa fine (I always have a buisness but my wife is ASEAN and they have different regs, she insists on using her Philippine passport for Asia and I always try to get her to use her Israeli). Passing by I got a nice peek and it is atrocious. Same crap they have in Brighton or in New Jersey in the States. Not too many places off the beaten track anymore.
I should have returned to Laos because that will be the enxt casualty in Western encroachment.
I remember one day in Davao, Dad found a Pakistani place and came home and told me. I was amaed, and excited, and the enxt time into the city we hit it up. It was one of the worst places I have ever been to. Sad as it is, the best eating, for me, is the Space Burger join in Davao in the Victoria Mall, and the other one that is free standing down the road.
At least Cambodia has all manner of foreign food, and not too expensive either. The Central Market, the one near Russian and Monivong, has 2 kilos of Bing cherries for 15 US a kilo which when you think about it is comprable to a Western supermarket. Of course they are frozen as they ship them in but still, alot better than Philippines banans (which taste like sour apples), and importated Mandarins from Taiwan. That is another thing Cambodia has hands down, the Mandarins for 2500 riel a bag, 20 to 25 per bag. So sweet like honey. I guess I really should not complain.
When talking of cusine though, I am afraid I stick with the earlier condemnation.
Llanwit: It is true but there is a way to get more for the dollar. After 5 PM Angkor is free. They will not tell you that because then the smart folks will just wait. Sunset is spectacular and the best time of day. You will not get busloads of Koreans and gaggles of Euro -hippies elbow to elbow. It is almost empty, it is beautiful, and it is free.
There is preservation because it is basically the only tourist attraction in the entire nation so they are not THAT greedy as to kill their only cash cow. The problem as you said is the foreign concessionaires which are all Japanese and Korean.
A sign of things to come, in my mind, is the water park on Russian halfway out to the Airport. I had to go to Immigration a couple of times towards the end to pay my visa fine (I always have a buisness but my wife is ASEAN and they have different regs, she insists on using her Philippine passport for Asia and I always try to get her to use her Israeli). Passing by I got a nice peek and it is atrocious. Same crap they have in Brighton or in New Jersey in the States. Not too many places off the beaten track anymore.
I should have returned to Laos because that will be the enxt casualty in Western encroachment.
