1st Arrival In Phnom Penh, Cambodia
I have just arrived in Phnom Penh the capital of Cambodia and in this video I am going to show you exactly what it's like to arrive here and then we are going to get first impressions of this city that almost 3 million people call home my goal for today is to make it to my hotel and then explore three different parts of the city the touristy but beautiful riverfront, a local neighborhood and a new modern area and of course I also would like to try local Cambodian food but navigating around in new and big city sometimes isn't easy so I am not sure if this day will be a smooth and stress-free experience so what's penom pen Cambodia like and will the city surprise us let's find out feel free to join all right I just arrived here coming with the bus from Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia it was about a 3 and 1/ half hour journey and now I'm quite Central in the middle of the city so let's see how I can get to my hotel you have a Tok Tok yes how much uh to get to my hotel hotel name my hotel is uh Fairfield by Marriot Fairfield Fairfield Marriot yes right let's see I think my hotel should be about 10 to 12 minutes away from here you know my hotel yeah yeah yeah Fairfield yeah how much how much you would like to pay I say yes never mind how much I would like to pay what do you like four I like uh that's always a tough question four I think $2 okay three what that's the price on grab I think less than two actually $3 okay okay yes okay let's go what's your name Sun Sun soon nice to meet you nice to meet you yes I am a Ken from Germany good good soon you know some German Fairfield by marot oh you can sing a song as well yes uh beginning to learn English yeah or beginning to learn foreign language foreign languages any language must select two song to sing and then pronunciation good Ah that's a good idea yeah yeah what about German you can sing a German song Friends me or me you speak friends yes ah yeah codia used to be a French colon yeah yeah yeah right how many years ago is that oh uh Cambodia and the coloni of French 100 years 100 years ago right 100 years 100 years okay but some people still speak French here uh for old generation yeah me yeah old Generation all so you speak French yeah a little bit no a lot matal yeah Primary School yeah University oh everywhere of French yeah yeah yeah oh interesting okay yeah but for old generation old generation yeah yes yes today not anymore uh today yes you see is right not anymore not anymore yeah oh you have a Barbie doll here yeah yeah oh my my La my LA but why the legs are missing it's uh I don't buy her someone stolen her oh okay and bring her to R oh really oh oh okay let's go let's get some very first impressions of the city pomen Cambodia are you born here in the city yes I'm born here I'm here and will die here oh [Music] okay yeah penom pen has about 2 million people which makes it actually a very small Capital compared to the nearby other countries like like the capital of Thailand Bangkok or the capital of Vietnam Malaysia Indonesia the Philippines they are all way bigger and here it's only about 2 million people so rather small City but nevertheless I think a very interesting City lots of different sites different places to explore here there's also a lot of history here and the first impression here is you see lots of uh these Tuk TOS on the road I'm not sure if they call it Tuk Tok here or maybe wicka or maybe these vehicles have lots of different names in different countries and also very typical for Southeast Asia you see plenty of motorbikes around how do you call this Tuk Tuk okay we we call H tukk you say tukk yeah okay uh and this gu we call Tuk Tok India Tuk Tok India from India because it's from India okay yeah and they are Tok Tok Cambodian these are the Cambodian Tuk TOS yeah yeah yeah they look a bit different it's basically a motorbike attached with a Carriage oh what what is this building here that looks interesting prime prime office prime minister office oh that looks like a very big fancy building that looks cool he just said that the traffic is always like this not only in the evening no all day all the time all the time okay it's up night time exact night okay there's no Metro here right you don't have no Metro right are they planning to build a Metro uh yes yes I have okay and we have traffic police here regulating the traffic oh yeah I think the lobby is here yeah here's okay yeah you can drop me here all right that was here about 10 minutes 15,000 it's okay yeah yeah yeah okay nice to meet you have a good day bye-bye but now let's see what $100 a night gets you here in nen Cambodia I'm staying in the Fairfield by Marriot Hotel which is a hotel I stayed before in other countries and usually I'm very happy with this hotel so let's see if that's also the case here in Cambodia let's see if the lobby is here that doesn't look like the official entrance to be honest looks more like the back door hello is this the lobby 27 floor a 27th floor yes 27 Flor okay thank you I think the official entrance is right here so I came through the back door and then we have the lobby on I forgot the floor already Lobby on the 27th floor hello good afternoon you good afternoon I would like to check in absolutely can we get your yeah sure that's cool that you have the reception on the 27th floor absolutely I was a bit confused I let me check out the view yeah let's get a glimpse of the view here overlooking uh the whole city so this is uh I think overlooking the southern side of pom pen but it looks quite large right despite the relatively small size of only 2 million people here and I think in the background there we can see the river which might be the Mong River there are two rivers here in the city Ah that's cool that's a nice view all right I checked in that was easy going and smooth I have a room on the 36th floor I don't know here we go first of all let me make some light oh I don't need maybe it just works like this let's check out the view first oh oh yeah that's a pretty cool View and I think if it wouldn't be that cloudy I would see the sunset from here so maybe in one of the next days but uh let's start with a room tour that's the room here and it looks exactly almost exactly like the rooms in any other Fairfield B Mar hotel I stayed in maybe you saw my video from from Korea or from Shanghai China where I also stayed in a Fairfield hotel then you maybe recognize uh the layout of the room but actually the shower here seems to be a bit bigger which is nice so a proper shower head here then you can even sit down here we have the toilet and then an open space area like this and this is the main sleeping area with a big king bed you have a couch area over there and a TV and you may be noticed that there's not really a door here to close the bathroom but you can close this sliding door here so then you do have a bit of privacy in the bathroom but not a lot oh yeah comfortable nice pillows feels amazing and I'm very happy to be in pomen Cambodia now but yeah it's actually getting dark in like 20 minutes so I think uh we're going to explore the city tomorrow so see you tomorrow okay have a good day bye-bye bye all right and here we are basically in the city center of penom pen and yeah I would like to show you three different parts of the city now first of all the touristy City Center here with the beautiful River Front but then I also heard that there's a modern and witch area around here which I would also like to check out and then also I would like to see a very typical local neighborhood so that we can see three different sides of penom pen today and first we are starting at yeah basically the city center the touristy site we have the river front here which we will check out in a minute and here we have a little park and then the Royal Palace over there which to my understanding is still The Residency of the king and his family because yeah Cambodia is a monarchy it's a constitutional monarchy and what's special about the monarchy here in Cambodia is that it's an elective monarchy there are only very few monarchies in the world that are elective and Cambodia is one of them and wow there are so many pigeons here that is incredible and actually there are also people here that offer to take pictures of you with all the pigeons so you can like feed the pigeons and then walk through them and then people are taking pictures of you with hundreds of pigeons around you are you offer tours here yes really I thought you make a pictures with the pigeons um do you want to made a picture here no no but uh I thought that people offer that here right they still live here right um Yes actually this uh the the the back in the in the back in in the front here for the tourist to visit but it can leave the back side must be annoying when you live here and every day tourist come to visit your house yes really must be annoying right for the he's a popular for the area for the to visit this so we have a big road here which is maybe also a road that is uh yeah is actually blocked for the main traffic I see uh some blocks over there so there's no traffic no regular traffic here on the road but can you imagine that maybe sometimes the king or the royal family does like a parade or something then it's going to happen on this road right here I wonder if they or I can imagine that they probably feed the pigeons here so that the pigeons always come back or stay around here because then they can make money with with the pigeons here by selling uh photos with the pigeons to the tourists but let's actually go over there and check out the the beautiful River Front actually let's get us little snack as well so many options here hello what are you selling here you're making some cake here oh like a waffle ah what is inside something inside it looks almost like a little pancake a fish pancake okay how much one p how much for One Piece let's just buy one and see what's inside uh 1,500 okay one piece please yes one yes please okay let's see I would imagine that there's maybe a sweet filling inside and then I think this is probably the dough here and then she just heated up here in these uh forms that she has over some uh some charcoal here so this is the the fish form here and then she puts the dough inside and then uh it gets hot heated up from the charcoal down there oh little interesting operation here okay oh it smells delicious here I think the dough is going to be sweet and then just closing it and then a few minutes later you have a little pancake like this oh what is she adding now is this a butter maybe or maybe this is a sweet condensed milk what is this here is this a butter it's like milk right I think it's a sweet condensed milk and then adding a bit more ah I think that is going to be the filling then so I guess there's this sweet condensed milk filled inside and then closing it waiting a few minutes and then you have a little delicious pancake you have changed I only have 5,000 okay thank you so much have a good day let's give it a try sit down here for a while I'm a bit worried though if I open up the pancake now that maybe hundreds of these pigeons are going to attack me trying to steal my pancake so maybe I have to eat quick let's give it a try oh I think this one has a chocolate inside oh and it's still warm almost too warm to eat so this one is a fresh one very nice great little snake here it's very good I like it very good okay thank you we have a small Temple or Pagoda here and then we can Overlook one of the biggest rivers in the world which is the Mong river which is over there and this River here I forgot the name it's like a small more local River and then we have the the Mong which uh oh be careful little guy oh also so many pigeons here oh wow oh oh oh how did she do that oh she was doing something and then all the pigeons flew away what did you do are you fed them ah look at the amount of pigeons here that is crazy oh wow and yeah what I wanted to say is we have a a smaller river right here and that is flowing into the Mong river which is over there coming from there and yeah Mong River one of the biggest rivers in the world starting in China and then passing by Myanmar Thailand Laos Cambodia and then through Vietnam into the ocean oh this is actually a pretty Lively River Front here I can imagine that also in the evening it's very Lively some people selling food and drinks somewhere around here what a nice place if you live live nearby here I can totally see this being an area to uh come after work maybe have a walk around the river nice area oh and people selling Birds here I think I think you can buy a bird and then release it for good luck I saw something similar before in Vietnam and how do I walk here that is insane oh oh oh okay at least they making way so you can pass what I really like here so far is that there are many vendors here like Street vendors tour guides people offering something but you're not getting hassled here as a tourist at least so far nobody like really came to me tried to sell me something or offering his tours except the one tour guide over there in front of the temple but he did it in a very I would say polite way and not being pushy or aggressively trying to sell something that is very different in other countries or in some other countries at least and I like it that that's not the case yet you can just have a walk around as a tourist and not being uh hassled by Street vendors or people trying to offer their tours or their Tuk Tok rides so that is actually something very nice here but yeah the river front here goes on and on I think you can probably walk for like 20 30 minutes just along the river here and also the next row behind the rad there are plenty of trendy cafes restaurants International Food bars like the the bar with the big tiger sign over over there and I see not a lot but a few westerners around here so this is obviously a touristy area here you have international cafes there's a Starbucks over there as well me I actually don't want to spend too much time in this area because if you know me and my channel I prefer the non-touristy areas getting a ra from places like this but still I wanted to give you an impression of this area of the town but let's see if we can get a ride and then go over to a more local area of the town which I think will be even more interesting to explore okay so I'm in a local neighborhood now in the city I'm actually trying to find the barber shop because I would like to get a haircut and I always like to get haircuts in different countries so actually it also smells delicious here lots of meat is being sold here by the side of the road but let's see if I can actually find the barber shop around here what are they playing here it's a game oh they're playing a local game here I think oh maybe this is like a Cambodian version of chess or be G is this Cambodian game L but this is from Cambodia Cambodia Cambodia Cambodia again obviously I don't understand this game but uh maybe it's similar to a be gam or chess okay thank you have a good day bye-bye yeah I'm about to enter a market so we have a a street here which is a full with vendors so let's explore this Market here markets are always great to explore especially when you are in a new city in a new country because this is where the life is happening the local life people come here to buy their their Foods their vegetables their ingredients to cook at home or in their restaurants so this is I think a fresh market and the vegetable market oh we also have fish here hello hello ah yeah you can buy some fish here these guys are half alive still and we can buy chicken over there and lots of vegetables here yeah I would say this is a very typical market for Southeast Asia you can find markets same like this in Thailand as well in Vietnam basically all around southeast Asia oh some snakes here and lots of meat oh even life chickens here they are tied together I think that's why they can't move yeah you can't be sensitive on a market in Southeast Asia you don't like to see things like that then I don't visit markets in Southeast Asia overall I'm getting a very typical Southeast Asian Vibe Seer I would compare it a bit to Vietnam and Thailand if you walk around the streets of Bangkok or the streets of haimon City or Hanoi it's similar lots of business is going on right on the streets you can basically buy everything just by the side of the road including food okay I actually noticed already that there are plenty of barber shops around here uh I walked by four or five already in just the past 10 15 minutes so let's see the next one that I will see I will just uh take it oh there's one right here I think let's see if I can get a haircut here hello can I get a haircut here yeah yeah okay ah we have a little haircut place just by the side of the road here so not really a proper shop just a little stall here unfortunately there was loud copyrighted music playing in the background of the shop so I can't include the scene here in the video but I ended up paying $5 for the haircut and then I also went to get a shave which turned out to be quite a good experience yeah and I have the feeling that not many tourists make it to this part of the Town based on the looks that getting here hello no can I get a shave here yeah you want sale the shave just shave yeah yeah shave everything yeah yeah yeah I you can sell okay okay how much uh $2 $2 yeah okay I can make a video that's okay yeah yeah no problem video about the shave okay okay okay let's go all right I found a little shop here oh hello good afternoon hello sit here okay oh air conditioned shop that's good proper air conditioning here it's not as hot as outside hello good afternoon seems to be a family shop hereo all right so oh I even got water here oh that's very nice oh lovely fre water included in the Shaving price a bottle of water that's great oh thank you so much what's your name my name Buon Buon yeah okay I am Ken from Germany Germany yeah you're from Cambodia yeah from okay okay all right yeah there's not a lot to shave I usually don't grow a very thick beard but yeah just everything just uh make me look 10 years younger again please yeah that's usually the case when I'm getting a clean shave usually I look a few years younger in the end oh little pillow here as well ah I can almost lie down here oh that is very comfortable oh I like it oh I think this can turn out to be a good experience here okay okay let's see what he will actually use oh that's actually the same that I use as well okay this is the razor blade here okay yeah it immediately feel so much smoother compared to when I'm doing it on my own here you can really feel a difference between these professional blades and the the blades that are for one time use for example it's a big difference okay the first side is done oh feels so smooth already very good very good I should do that more often so much better than doing it on my own some water you also do haircuts here right how much is a haircut here haircut $3 $3 cut and and sell $5 $5 okay I think he's charging very fair prices here here in an air conditioned shop and he's charging $5 for haircut and shave so I think you have a good prices here you want air clean air clean yes air clean no just a shave just a shave okay just the shave is okay okay that was a quick and easy job and I have to say very smooth I didn't feel any pain at all that was really really good and I think I do look a few years younger now and a little massage as well that's often the case and basically every country in Asia when you go get a haircut or a shave usually a little massage is always included even uh setting my hair now oh very good is this your shop Are You The Boss here yes you're the boss the B oh oh step yeah your wife yeah your family yeah family family family I think I got an honest price here and you guys know I usually like to reward that and I'm getting fair and honest prices and I think $2 for a shave in an air conditioned shop like this is very good here we go it's okay no change it's okay tip for you thank you so much that was really great okay have a good day thank you very much thank okay byebye you come back I I come back next time I come back to pen pen yeah I come also back for haircut yeah yeah yeah okay okay okay thank you so much thank you so much okay bye-bye bye-bye oh that was a great experience you're selling sandwiches here yeah ah and what they put inside pork pork how much is one sandwich half half 5,500 5,500 okay can I get one sandwich I can sit here yeah oh oh we have this uh very small uh plastic chairs here and then you can get a little uh sandwich here by the side of the road ah so this is a pork meatball oh okay and then she puts on some more things and a little bit of sauce oh this uh no no no not not this one h no no chili right thank you for saving me from this chili yeah I'm not good with eating chili It's a too spicy [Music] okay thank you very much all right and just like that we have a sandwich here reminds me about bar me sandwiches in Vietnam is this a Cambodian food Vietnamese ah but also popular here ah so in Vietnam you can get a sandwiches like this everywhere as a street food and that's because of the French Colonial history from Vietnam and I guess it's the same here because also here Cambodia you have French Colonial history so this is probably also left over from the French here so we have lots of meat in here she put on the meat bolts here as well as the pork meat from over there and then you can also add the vegetables here which I think it's cabbage and then chili sauce okay let's give it a try okay the first bite was basically just a baguette but the baguette is already very nice very crispy soft and crispy oh there's a very fresh taste to it which is really nice I think it's coming from from the the sauce right here oh we also have the the big fatty pieces in here they are very juicy I like it it's very good very good so that's how it works here so she puts the baguettes onto the grill here for just like a minute or so to make them a bit more crispy and then she fills it up here with all the delicious items yeah so she adds the big meatballs here they were actually really good and then more meat over there the sauce then you can also add the chili here thank you okay you too thank you all right you can sit here just by the side of a market on these little plastic chairs and then enjoy some some baguettes with meat sitting here with the with the locals these are always EXP that I really like the bagett is actually really nice I really like it family mom mommy mommy mommy daughter ah okay so I think she's the mom and that's her daughter your name is Mommy okay the bagette was really delicious this was my first time trying this in Cambodia yeah yeah very delicious thank you c c good okay thank you so much oh that was a great experience here no I don't want to go to sville yeah okay oh you can get a Shar taxi here going to to siuk where I have been to already in the past days hello sir hello hello I have the impression that Cambodian people are actually quite welcoming and friendly not everyone here speaks English which is totally fine but uh sometimes despite the language barrier they're trying to communicate with me they're being happy smiling welcoming so I have a nice well I'm getting nice Vibes here from the people which is awesome really like that by the way in case you're wondering why I'm using US dollar here the US dollar is actually an accepted currency here in Cambodia you can basically pay everywhere with US dollar just sometimes uh it can happen that people don't have change in US dollar then you often get the change back in the local currency which is real and also for any amount that is less than $1 us you have to pay with the local currency because they don't have US dollar coins here so the smallest available note is the $1 note so if you buy something that is lower than that then it's going to uh be paid in the local currency but anything else you can pay with US dollar here in aus so the ATMs they can give you US dollar if you go to ATM here the ATM asks you if you want the local currency or if you want US dollar okay to be honest I do want to try a very typical local meal as well today and I just saw it here on the menu uh it's called amok hello I see you have fish amok here yeah I would like to try that uh this one right here it's very popular here in Cambodia right cambod yeah is it spicy no no [ __ ] I see okay then one fish aror please oh yeah I can sit here all right so we are back uh at the river front area so we have the river right over there then over here is also a market and in case you're wondering what is this red back that I suddenly have I actually just filmed a market video where I bought lots of items on three different markets but that video is going to be on my second Channel I will link it in the description lovely view here and let's see how the Cambodian fish armor will taste like I've never tried it before here we have fish armor one of the most popular dishes in Cambodia thank you very much all right that looks delicious thank you okay so this is fish aror so it is a traditional Cambodian dish typically with fish but you can also get it with tofu or chicken as far as I know and it is basically a curry with a creamy coconut cream and traditionally it is steamed inside a Bamboo Leaf I think the word amok in the dish refer to something being steamed inside a Banana Leaf it smells delicious already let me take a picture for Instagram first if you're not following me on Instagram yet feel free to do so canab brought on Instagram I'm posting live updates behind the scenes usually if you know my channel I'm more into chicken or meat I don't eat fish often but since this dish is typically um served with fish I wanted to try the authentic and original version actually let me try the fish first just the plain fish I can immediately taste the coconut flavor as well as lemongrass reminds me about some dishes in Thailand CU yeah the Thai Cuisine also uses a lot of lemongrass and I can immediately taste the lemongrass here it's a very creamy texture and so rich in flavors and I definitely also taste Ginger inside here so if you're not a big fan of this lemongrass Ginger type of flavor then you might want to skip this dish and the fish is so soft and tender I think also the pork is quite good there's a lot of fish in here actually look at these huge fish pieces and in case you're wondering this is not spicy at all there's no chili inside and no Peppa very good I like it thank you very much that was very delicious thank you okay 24,000 can I pay with cut hello you can take me yes I want to go to a cool Peak PE diamond okay yeah how much uh you want check around 1 hour no no no not 1 hour just Co Peak uh how want the coconut park yeah I know I know you know how much uh $4 $4 yeah how about two three okay three okay okay let's go all right so this is actually a Cambodian Tuk Tok as we learned earlier already so we have these uh the typical ones that you can also see in countries like India or Indonesia uh and the Tuk Tok guy from earlier called them the Indian Tuk TOs and these are Cambodian Tuk TOS here which to be honest are actually more comfortable the seating here is more comfortable I like it that all the sides are open here so you get more wind blown into your face and that is of course a bit more convenient because it is still very warm here and yeah let's go to the modern and Rich area of the city which should be only like a 10-minute ride from here and yeah something that you can also see here in penom pen are massage Paras very similar to a Bangkok for example so the girls are sitting outside and then you can get a massage let me see if I can uh see some prices in case you're interested so there for example is a sign oil massage for $5 and then a casual massage for $3 and an air conditioned massage for $5 and these are probably prices that are a bit higher than usual because we are in the touristy area here right by the river some people told me before that Cambodian now is like Thailand 20 years ago personally I don't know because I've never been to Thailand 20 years ago but if you have been to Thailand 20 years ago and you have also been to Cambodia recently let me know if that's actually true and here we are driving by the Royal Palace which Belongs To The King and his family and have a look at this here this looks beautiful I like the contrast here we have the Modern Skyscrapers in the background and then here we have a beautiful golden temple wow I yeah this is the area where we want to go we have for example the shanga hotel has a tower here and then the peak and then this is I think Naga World which is a complex hotel and casino and we have a lot of honking here oh and the pink Porsche I think it is a Porsche yes it is Porsche kman s but look at this this Temple is so beautiful yeah Cambodia is a mainly buddh country same as in Thailand and yet the temples here if you have been to Thailand before you will see the similarities could also be a temple in Thailand and what I notice here in this area now is many of the shops here almost all of the shops have Chinese characters written on it maybe you saw my previous video where we have been to cuk in southern Cambodia which is a city basically turning into a Chinese City Chinese hotels casinos and shops everywhere and I haven't seen that being the case in the rest of penom pen but here in this area every shop here has Chinese characters on it that is interesting maybe this is also a little Chinese area here all right and we have arrived there's a park here called the coconut park you can change $10 always difficult here with the two different currencies uh to find the right amount of change maybe I can ask the shop yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah maybe uh let's see if I can I can break down a $10 bill can you make it smaller I need a dollar for the TK Tok cannot usually only have a $10 bill you have a $5 yeah I right okay give me give me $5 then you get a $2 extra okay thank you very much have a good day if you want to be really prepared in pom pen make sure that you have a small dollar builds because the small ones like one $1 is is it actually a $2 bill I'm not sure but the small the $1 bill it's actually very rare here but uh look at the beautiful Skyline here I like modern skylines like this that looks nice so I'm curious to see the rest of the area but yeah I think you can clearly see a difference uh this area compared to the areas we have been earlier the roads are rder here it looks overall cleaner more modern less chaotic but also to be honest I haven't had the feeling that the rest of penom pen is super dirty or chaotic not at all to be honest just that you can see a difference compared to the rest of the area here and what are we having here some snakes h ah this is I think a Korean food not local food then we have some meat on the sticks here as well okay I definitely see more foreigners here in this area than local many of the foreigners here are Chinese but I also see quite a few westerners around here and yeah this is literally just a 10-minute ride away from penom Pen City Center the riverfront where we have been earlier and that is a bit of a different world here I can see that immediately so yeah I think I could compare this a bit to the BGC area in Metro Manila if you're familiar with that area it's also a very modern city right next to Manila and it feels like a different country also almost and I do have a bit of the same feeling here not as much as in BGC you can still see a bit of Cambodian vipes here for example we have these Tuk TOS cruising around here and some places selling food like the little street food stores that we saw earlier but yeah these are very new modern buildings here and yeah every restaurant yeah every shop has the Chinese characters on it that's also very interesting so my guess would be that this area is is maybe funded by the Chinese Chinese investors are building many of the buildings here and they want to attract the Chinese tourists to come to this area so a bit similar to what we have seen already in Sean nukal in my previous video but of course in cleet was way more extreme than it is here oh what's going on here something is being burned here hello why are you having fire here what is the fire For What what is the fire for no no English no English no problem okay I'm just curious what are they doing here I could imagine this is like an opening ceremony for the building to um get good luck for the building something like that this might be like a Buddhist ceremony if you know what's going on here let me know in the comments but yeah we also have a lot of Boutique shops here next to all these restaurants here I see a lot of Chinese restaurants and also some international cuisine like Japanese or Korean oh that was nice oh there's air condition coming out oh that is great yeah you never see that in the video uh how hot it actually is to walk around here hello what are you selling here ice cream ice cream how much is one ice cream ah he has different uh pieces like this how much is one let's see maybe let's get a little ice cream here support the vendor here by the Road uh ah even with a QR code here oh oh you can pay with QR code here uh ice cream by the side of the road uh what flavor is this vanilla want coconut okay actually I don't really mind how much I don't really care what flavor this is how much money does this cost I think he wants to show me the money uh 1,500 ah okay uh can you hold us for one second again okay thank you so much okay oh he's just walking around with a little ice cream card selling ice cream and you can even uh pay we QR code here very nice thank you very much sir actually this ice cream reminds me of an ice cream I used to eat as a child in Germany I forgot what it was called but it looked exactly like this I think it's just a milk flavor and everyone around me seems to be Chinese am I back in China this feels a bit like I'm in China you can pay an ice cream on the road even via QR code everything here in Chinese this uh maybe is a clinic or medical center Singapore Medical Center lifestyle Mall interesting such a big contrast to the area we have seen earlier wow did you know that there's an area like this in penom pen I didn't know to be honest and here we have Naga World which is a complex Casino and Hotel and there's one Naga World building here and then a second one right over there and what's actually interesting is that as far as I know locals are not allowed to go into casinos and gamble so the casinos that you see here as well as the ones that we saw in the previous video in Sanuk they are all only for the tourists and actually I just Googled it and I thought Naga world is Chinese owned but according to Google it was founded in 1995 in penom pen with the name derived from Naga a seven-headed serpent from Hindu and Buddhist mythology and yeah this was a very interesting area here in penom pen a big contrast to the area around the city center that we have seen earlier so I think we got a lot of first impressions today I'm curious to hear your thoughts about this city in the comments would you like to visit here as well have you been here before as well let me know your thoughts in the comments and if you haven't seen the previous video from c nuk will and kurong Island in southern Cambodia then feel free to check out the video right here stay healthy stay positive and then see you on the next episode ciao guys and I think there's a storm coming so I will uh get a taxi now and go back to my hotel before the rain arrives
2024-09-22 05:40
