Goodbye to Phnom Penh’s ‘sleaziest bar’

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Fri May 06, 2016 6:01 pm

phuketrichard wrote:
frank lee bent wrote:now i get it- franz nailed it.
fucking hipsters rooned everything.
are they mostly millenials too?

Ask Jamie

cptrelentless · Post by **cptrelentless** » Fri May 06, 2016 6:21 pm

frank lee bent wrote:as it happens i am having dinner with him in a few hours so will ask.
what is a hipster anyway? just a doofus with a greasy beard and a lumberjack shirt from what i can tell,
maybe some buddy holly glasses and an aversion to manual labor.

Mr. Van Driessen: I think I'm going to introduce you boys to the rewards of manual labor.
Butt-head: There's a manual?
Beavis: Reading sucks.

juansweetpotato · Post by **juansweetpotato** » Sat May 07, 2016 12:00 am

Samouth wrote:
Username Taken wrote:My first visit to Walkabout was in March 1999. It was a hot afternoon, and I just wanted a coke to dampen my throat. I picked up the menu and saw that a small bottle of coke was $1.
I left without ordering, and bought a small bottle of coke from a street vendor for 700 riel.
Sorry, I don't remember the price of pineapples at the time.
seriously it was 700 riel that time? I guess if mr potato was in Cambodia that time, he wouldn't complain about the pineapple price as it might cost only 100 or 200 riel if the coke costs 700 riel.

You greedy little bugger! :stir:

See how much you have put prices up!!!

In HCMC a small plastic bottle of coke straight from the fridges is still 700 Reil. Nothing has changed here but the greedy attitude.

Does anybody remember the Temple Bar?

Samouth · Post by **Samouth** » Sat May 07, 2016 5:11 pm

juansweetpotato wrote:
Samouth wrote:
Username Taken wrote:My first visit to Walkabout was in March 1999. It was a hot afternoon, and I just wanted a coke to dampen my throat. I picked up the menu and saw that a small bottle of coke was $1.
I left without ordering, and bought a small bottle of coke from a street vendor for 700 riel.
Sorry, I don't remember the price of pineapples at the time.
seriously it was 700 riel that time? I guess if mr potato was in Cambodia that time, he wouldn't complain about the pineapple price as it might cost only 100 or 200 riel if the coke costs 700 riel.
You greedy little bugger! See how much you have put prices up!!!

In HCMC a small plastic bottle of coke straight from the fridges is still 700 Reil. Nothing has changed here but the greedy attitude.

Does anybody remember the Temple Bar?

I would believe you if i have never been to HCMC. You absolutely can't get a coke for 700 riel in Vietnam. In general, Vietnam is cheap compare to Cambodia, but not that cheap. Also, if you are a fan of Thailand products, Vietnam is not a choice for you to live.

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Sat May 07, 2016 7:48 pm

this has gone badly OT.
it is about Walkabou.
I visited GSM last night.
It is just the same as always.
Was going to see if Bluetongue had taken over from Walkabou but couldnt be arsed.

bolueeleh · Post by **bolueeleh** » Sat May 07, 2016 9:26 pm

coke in vietnam cost 16000vnd to 29000vnd (1usd = 23300vnd) depends on where u r ofc, coke is not very popular in vn they pride themselfs that they beat coke with their ice tea (cha da) .

LTO · Post by **LTO** » Sat May 07, 2016 10:20 pm

juansweetpotato wrote:In HCMC a small plastic bottle of coke straight from the fridges is still 700 Reil.

A "small plastic bottle" of Coca-Cola...for 17 cents...in Vietnam.

No doubt next to the shop where they sell discount Chinese baby food and plastic bags of Chanel No.5 two-for-a-dollar.

How have you survived this long?

juansweetpotato · Post by **juansweetpotato** » Sat May 07, 2016 10:57 pm

Samouth wrote:
juansweetpotato wrote:
Samouth wrote:
Username Taken wrote:My first visit to Walkabout was in March 1999. It was a hot afternoon, and I just wanted a coke to dampen my throat. I picked up the menu and saw that a small bottle of coke was $1.
I left without ordering, and bought a small bottle of coke from a street vendor for 700 riel.
Sorry, I don't remember the price of pineapples at the time.
seriously it was 700 riel that time? I guess if mr potato was in Cambodia that time, he wouldn't complain about the pineapple price as it might cost only 100 or 200 riel if the coke costs 700 riel.
You greedy little bugger! See how much you have put prices up!!!

In HCMC a small plastic bottle of coke straight from the fridges is still 700 Reil. Nothing has changed here but the greedy attitude.

Does anybody remember the Temple Bar?
I would believe you if i have never been to HCMC. You absolutely can't get a coke for 700 riel in Vietnam. In general, Vietnam is cheap compare to Cambodia, but not that cheap. Also, if you are a fan of Thailand products, Vietnam is not a choice for you to live.

Well spotted, I made a mistake.
Go to most of the Family Mart type stores and they have them in the fridges for 6,500 VND, that's a bit more than 700R. More like 1,100R If you go to the mom and pop stores they will try to get 12-18000 VND for the same thing. I have even bought it from the honest Viet shops for 5,500.

It's strange, as the sort of greediness you get in and around HCMC is nowhere near as bad in the rest of Vietnam. Must be something to do with the fact it used to be Kampuchea Krom.

juansweetpotato · Post by **juansweetpotato** » Sat May 07, 2016 11:03 pm

LTO wrote:
juansweetpotato wrote:In HCMC a small plastic bottle of coke straight from the fridges is still 700 Reil.
A "small plastic bottle" of Coca-Cola...for 17 cents...in Vietnam.

No doubt next to the shop where they sell discount Chinese baby food and plastic bags of Chanel No.5 two-for-a-dollar.

How have you survived this long?

Small glass bottle of Coca Cola in India used to be 5c a bottle in a Mumbai hotel I used to stay at in 2006. Room service included.

Post by **Username Taken** » Sat May 07, 2016 11:03 pm

Damn. What just happened to LTO's post. This is in reply to that post.

^^ Definitely not.

Surely, it would have to be Sophies.

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