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Sep 13, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 12 Comments

How to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day

After doing the most scant research on the Internet, it seems that although many people mention that the new border crossing between Prek Chak in Cambodia and Xa Xia/Ha Tien in Vietnam is open to foreigners, nobody tells you how to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day

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Sep 12, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Hite Exfeel-S: Alcoholic Colonic

Brewer: The Hite, South Korea Beer is not good for you. In large enough quantities, it has the invariable tendency to kill you and thus gussying it up as a health food defies explanation. Labeled as the “Stylish beer with fiber”, Korea’s Hite Exfeel-S attempts to market a beer that

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Sep 11, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 138 Comments

Korea: French fry-coated hot dog

If Coney Island witnessed the birth of the hot dog, Seoul in South Korea saw subsequent generations mutate into a an entirely new genus of animal. An animal coated in a skin of batter and french fries then presented deep-fried on a stick. After first witnessing this monstrosity on Newley

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Sep 10, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Cambodian food

If you’re looking for a more detailed look at Cambodian food, it’s worth checking out my Cambodian food blog, Phnomenon.com, which I wrote between 2005 and 2007 while living in Phnom Penh.

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Jul 25, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments

Great eating from the white trash of Asia

A blog’s first post starts with a manifesto, bluster, and the raw energy that comes from somebody’s conviction that they have words in them that are relevant to the rest of the world. Then the blog usually dies, so I’ll get straight to the point. In the 70s, around the

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