Cambodia

Sep 30, 2011 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

The hand painted signs of Cambodia

A Flickr group for Cambodia’s hand-painted sign folk art that I started a few years ago just had its 200th sign added to it. Here they are. If you’ve got any packed away in your archives and you’re a Flickr user, feel free to add them to the pool.

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Aug 17, 2011 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Leaving Cambodia

I wrote this four years ago and have had it sitting in my draft pile ever since. I never released it immediately because it seemed like an episode from a past life once I was back in Australia, off the road and back on the corporate ladder. I’ve returned and

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Apr 22, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

And they ask me why I go back.

It is because I can see this. Sunset over the museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Although I still haven’t finished writing about Hong Kong, I’m actually back in Cambodia and have taken Phnomenon out of retirement. It’s just like wearing an old, fermented fish-smelling sneaker of which I could never dispose.

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Mar 13, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 1 Comments

Update: How to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day

Sunset at Kep Reader Paul mentions that the ferry from Ha Tien to Phu Quoc is now running, with confirmation from Phearak. Getting between two of Indochina’s laziest beach destinations has just become all the more lazier. The route can now be organised through Sok Lim Tours and is cheaper

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Sep 20, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Cambodian food reviewing: You’re doing it right.

It turns out that with only three months left in 2008, Cambodian is not the new Thai. But what has changed over the year is the tone of reviewing. Reviewers are starting to understand how to eat Cambodian food. This week the NY Times revisits two Cambodian restaurants in New

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Aug 07, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 15 Comments

Maintaining the spider rage

Ten miles out of town, my guide pulls up at a little shack on a winding roadside. This is real boondocks Cambodia. Little kids are staring at me like they’ve never seen a white man before, which they probably haven’t. From “Man bites frog” I miss the days when I

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Apr 05, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Support local (Khmer) hip hop

Stuart Isett has followed up his superlative photographic work on Khmer street gangs with shots of Cambodian b-boy collective Tiny Toones, and this time there’s some fundraising going on. The parallel with the plot to Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo is too uncanny for me to not make a mention of

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Mar 28, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Honda Chaly with Lemongrass

Cambodia’s 50cc workhorse doing about as much work as it can. Spotted in downtown Kampot, Cambodia

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