The old truism here is that if you cannot get it on the street, it ain't worth having. You've seen earlier that you can get a haircut and shave for $1 USD on the street.(No, I haven't done it because I hate the pull of squeeze (non electric) hair cutting.) But here in front of DDP (where I work ) on the utility bench a family uses as their front room a man is having his fortune read by a Sikh man from India. (The DDP security guard is watching over the Khmer man's shoulder.)
Food is especially available on the street here. It's cooked in these concrete stoves or smaller versions that are carried in pole baskets. Customers simply sit on the plastic chairs vendors carry with them. The fuel for the stove is brought to you by charcoal vendors on their carts complete with scales to weigh each piece of charcoal (which by comes not in briquets but in 12-18 inch long logs.)
This vendor carries all his food and wares in plastic bags attached to his cart which bicycle operated. If you look closely the blue bag has meat in it, while the clear bag has veggies. His drinking water and cups are in the plastic bucket and the white styrofoam is for carry out. I patronize this vendor mostly because he has ramen noodles which he fries up with an egg (and if you want bacon..yeachhh.) for 65 cents USD. It's a great breakfast, though I wouldn't trust either the water or the cups that he dips into the bucket. For that I simply walk in to the US style supermarket behind him called "Pencil" and pronounced in English. For dessert I can simply walk into the supermarket and find Utah's favorite ice cream store, "Swensen's." But the best part of the day really is breakfast at "Bicycle Vendor."
In Siem Reap, people are up and out of the house by 5 a.m. to get to work ahead of the tourists. They dine at this set of card tables and plastic chairs. The glass showcase on the table has the food cooked and ready to eat. When the vendor is ready to close up shop, she simply packs up the chairs, folds the table cloth and takes down the tables and will amazingly enough probably load them onto a motorcycle for the evening. People use motorcycles here like utility trucks. I will make sure to take a picture of some of the loads motorycles carry here.
Now, of course, if you are a poor vendor and can't afford a motorcycle, chairs and card tables, not to worry. A simple coolie pole and two baskets are enough to carry your wares, food, stove (note ont he left hand basket) and enough condiments to satisfy the average customer. Chairs aren't necessary in this country where squatting on the street is the custom. Note this vendor even carries her dishes and a little bit of noodle salad cooled by ice int he bowls in the right basket. A co-worker of mine is eating lunch in front of the shack to the right of the front door of Deaf Development program.
The old truism here is that if you cannot get it on the street, it ain't worth having. You've seen earlier that you can get a haircut and shave for $1 USD on the street.(No, I haven't done it because I hate the pull of squeeze (non electric) hair cutting.) But here in front of DDP (where I work ) on the utility bench a family uses as their front room a man is having his fortune read by a Sikh man from India. (The DDP security guard is watching over the Khmer man's shoulder.)
Food is especially available on the street here. It's cooked in these concrete stoves or smaller versions that are carried in pole baskets. Customers simply sit on the plastic chairs vendors carry with them. The fuel for the stove is brought to you by charcoal vendors on their carts complete with scales to weigh each piece of charcoal (which by comes not in briquets but in 12-18 inch long logs.)
This vendor carries all his food and wares in plastic bags attached to his cart which bicycle operated. If you look closely the blue bag has meat in it, while the clear bag has veggies. His drinking water and cups are in the plastic bucket and the white styrofoam is for carry out. I patronize this vendor mostly because he has ramen noodles which he fries up with an egg (and if you want bacon..yeachhh.) for 65 cents USD. It's a great breakfast, though I wouldn't trust either the water or the cups that he dips into the bucket. For that I simply walk in to the US style supermarket behind him called "Pencil" and pronounced in English. For dessert I can simply walk into the supermarket and find Utah's favorite ice cream store, "Swensen's." But the best part of the day really is breakfast at "Bicycle Vendor."
In Siem Reap, people are up and out of the house by 5 a.m. to get to work ahead of the tourists. They dine at this set of card tables and plastic chairs. The glass showcase on the table has the food cooked and ready to eat. When the vendor is ready to close up shop, she simply packs up the chairs, folds the table cloth and takes down the tables and will amazingly enough probably load them onto a motorcycle for the evening. People use motorcycles here like utility trucks. I will make sure to take a picture of some of the loads motorycles carry here.
Now, of course, if you are a poor vendor and can't afford a motorcycle, chairs and card tables, not to worry. A simple coolie pole and two baskets are enough to carry your wares, food, stove (note ont he left hand basket) and enough condiments to satisfy the average customer. Chairs aren't necessary in this country where squatting on the street is the custom. Note this vendor even carries her dishes and a little bit of noodle salad cooled by ice int he bowls in the right basket. A co-worker of mine is eating lunch in front of the shack to the right of the front door of Deaf Development program.
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