Anyone "gone local"?

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SlowJoe wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:26 pm I don't care what we "do" about it, I'm just saying that a little crater with some straw hut souvenir shacks and a diving board doesn't really compare to one of the seven wonders of the world.

Yeah it's "less local" than say Puom Kam, Ta Veing or Ou Pong Moan for example (forgive the romanization), but I'm not here to boast about being more local or not, in fact my point originally is that it's kind of hard to say who's "more local" vs. not because even in Cambodia there is a spectrum in itself of various Cambodians who live and act differently from each other.
That's a bit harsh, it's actually a pretty cool place (literally too) which attracts a lot of tourists, local tourists but also a load of foreigners. Since there's a lot of foreigners visiting, and they had an influence for sure, I guess the place isn't the first one which comes to my mind when talking about 'going local' as defined in the OP.
SlowJoe wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:26 pm And the "cheese girl" happened to actually be from Ratanakiri, so...I guess according to someone she's not a "true local". But hell, I don't like alcohol that much, does that mean my mother can't be "true Irish"?
Yes, I think the girl won't be considered a local, as least by the majority of the 'locals', because most probably she's from the ethnic minority called 'Tampoon' and most Cambodians will refer to her as a សញ្ជាតិ which best translates as 'other nationality'.
For me, I'm sure she's more local than me, but her behavior isn't the typical behavior I see outside the main centers.
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hdgh29 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 7:37 am I eat $2.50 fried rice at a restaurant called Khmer Taste occasionally - does that count?
Only if the egg on top is a duck egg. If it's a chicken egg you didn't pass.
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I wonder if we'll ever see any "locals" going western?
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IraHayes wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:58 am I wonder if we'll ever see any "locals" going western?
I guess you'd have to look abroad to see that. Never seen any Westerner going 'local Khmer style' in their home country....
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IraHayes wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:58 am I wonder if we'll ever see any "locals" going western?
What’s western? Vegan, vegetarian, spliffs and beer only?

I’m sure if you speak to someone in a Poipet about the locals in Kep, they might have some comments, rather like anyone used to coastal sea level living might think folk inland and up in the mountains might be a bit odd. So what’s local?

There was a news item on a khmer network a couple of years ago, of a young American doctor who appeared to be native fluent (to my ears) in khmer.
I’m sure a khmer would detect an accent if they were looking at her. Whether they’d still detect an accent with their eyes closed is another thing.

The other half doesn’t even like some of the Khmer food that I like, such as Amok, and there’s stuff that she eats that I don’t- I eat some Prahok, while there’s a type that she adores which still leaves me heading for the exit.
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IraHayes wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:58 am I wonder if we'll ever see any "locals" going western?
walk around any of the Aeon malls and you can see
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Kammekor wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:39 am
SlowJoe wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:26 pm I don't care what we "do" about it, I'm just saying that a little crater with some straw hut souvenir shacks and a diving board doesn't really compare to one of the seven wonders of the world.

Yeah it's "less local" than say Puom Kam, Ta Veing or Ou Pong Moan for example (forgive the romanization), but I'm not here to boast about being more local or not, in fact my point originally is that it's kind of hard to say who's "more local" vs. not because even in Cambodia there is a spectrum in itself of various Cambodians who live and act differently from each other.
That's a bit harsh, it's actually a pretty cool place (literally too) which attracts a lot of tourists, local tourists but also a load of foreigners. Since there's a lot of foreigners visiting, and they had an influence for sure, I guess the place isn't the first one which comes to my mind when talking about 'going local' as defined in the OP.
Maybe my tone comes across as snide or negative because I wasn't meaning it in a harsh way at all. I just say things the way I see them in that almost no one is going to know where Banlung is or that it even exists, but Angkor Wat is world famous.

The crater is a cool place though truthfully, I agree. I have a fascination with crater lakes and "God made" features in land (I actually grew up around lakes most of my life so I enjoy that sort of thing) and so I mean it when I say I do quite like it too.

Sorry if I came across otherwise.
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