Sunday, November 23, 2014

Best new idea I have seen in November

People here are very innovative and are coming up with new business ideas all the time. Sometime it may be a mobile kebab restaurant attached to a moto, or it may be a bread delivery business. The best one we have seen this month is the tuk tuk pizza restaurant.

A Cambodian entrepreneur has made a brick oven pizza delivery restaurant. How it works is you call him with your order. He makes the pizza and puts it into his wood oven, then drives it to your house/hotel while it cooks.

The only minor problen is there is no such thing as an address in Cambodia. Everything is described as in being near such and such landmark. This makes the delivery very difficult to arrange.




Wednesday, November 12, 2014

More daily life in Cambodia

It is actually cheaper to go out and eat local foods than to go to the supermarket and cook at home. We have been struggling with the plummeting Aussie dollar lately and we have been hunting for even cheaper places to eat. We're now on in the same restaurants as the locals on the main highway through the city. The dogs lie around hoping for any leftovers.


Friday, November 7, 2014

Flat tyre

With the roads being so bad and rubbish, nails and glass thrown everywhere, it is quite common for us to get a flat tyer. We have had three or four already. A couple nights ago we had one at 7pm so Stan pushed the bike several hundred meters down the road until we came to a moto repair shop. The owner was in a wheel chair. He had been born with two small misshapen  legs which he could not use. His nine year old son immediately started to work on the flat tyer when we pulled up.

The work was done under one very dim light. Stan had to use his flashlight app on his phone so people could see. After replacing the tube and for an hours work, they charged $5. We gave them a little bit extra as a tip and they were exceedingly pleased.