Yeah, it gets sleazy when you have to pay a barfine and ladydrinks imo.

juansweetpotato wrote: So you like the idea getting of sucked off by ugly whores in front of other Australian men that look like Les Paterson?

I heard the rule in Sophie's was always cover your drink with your hand - just in case.

It would be an interesting story to tell, and who doesn't like stories to tell?

thePeck wrote:

juansweetpotato wrote: So you like the idea getting of sucked off by ugly whores in front of other Australian men that look like Les Paterson?

I heard the rule in Sophie's was always cover your drink with your hand - just in case.

It would be an interesting story to tell, and who doesn't like stories to tell?

Well, you didn't miss much. That picture is a fairly accurate description of the bar and the clientèle.

The only time I went in the place it was a quiet night apparently. I still had ladies trying to unzip my jeans and suck me off right there on the sofa in front of all the other clients. Not my scene and that sofa was filthy. I quickly drank up and left.

Pre-Sophie's there was another bar over in what is now the City Mall area, part of the Sophie's family I think, maybe even called Sophie's for a while, and a couple of other names too (Saigon House? St Tropez?). I have forgotten the names and sequence of events. Anyway, it was 'infamous' in a similar way to the later Sophie's near Phsar Thmey, but less aggressive and just slightly slicker. The owner/mama (Sophie?) would occasionally do a strip tease on the bar, which was something of a lark. At one point they had an enclosed glass shower booth in the middle of the dance floor, for...whatever. There are some stories there in itself. Anyway...this was in the late 90s when Matt Dillon was here a lot, doing the Phnom Penh nightlife in what would become research of sorts for his script 'Under the Banyan Tree' which would be made into the movie 'City of Ghosts.' His heart was clearly in it, and he explored the whole scene, thoroughly. One might run across him just about anywhere. And if he was in a bar and was asked, he was usually accommodating about having his photo taken with the proprietor. Several bars in town got a 'Matt and the bar owner smiling together' photo, which would then be hung proudly on the wall of the bar. At one point I noticed just such a photo on the wall of that bar out near City Mall. Not just a framed photo, but poster sized, on prominent display at the end of the bar - Sophie and Matt, arms around one another's shoulders buddy-style, girls smiling in the background, Sophie looking proud and absolutely beaming into the camera, and Matt looking like he had just come off of a two week drunk - mouth hanging open, pale, drooling, disheveled, deep black eye sockets, that about-to-pass-out expression. It was brilliant. He couldn't have looked more the part if a Hollywood makeup artist had done it for him. I told Sophie (?) that if she ever left or moved, I'd buy it from her, and she agreed, but in the end, I never got it.

Good story. Thanks.

90's Cambodia must have been something else.

LTO wrote:Pre-Sophie's there was another bar over in what is now the City Mall area, part of the Sophie's family I think, maybe even called Sophie's for a while, and a couple of other names too (Saigon House? St Tropez?). I have forgotten the names and sequence of events. Anyway, it was 'infamous' in a similar way to the later Sophie's near Phsar Thmey, but less aggressive and just slightly slicker. The owner/mama (Sophie?) would occasionally do a strip tease on the bar, which was something of a lark. At one point they had an enclosed glass shower booth in the middle of the dance floor, for...whatever. There are some stories there in itself. Anyway...this was in the late 90s when Matt Dillon was here a lot, doing the Phnom Penh nightlife in what would become research of sorts for his script 'Under the Banyan Tree' which would be made into the movie 'City of Ghosts.' His heart was clearly in it, and he explored the whole scene, thoroughly. One might run across him just about anywhere. And if he was in a bar and was asked, he was usually accommodating about having his photo taken with the proprietor. Several bars in town got a 'Matt and the bar owner smiling together' photo, which would then be hung proudly on the wall of the bar. At one point I noticed just such a photo on the wall of that bar out near City Mall. Not just a framed photo, but poster sized, on prominent display at the end of the bar - Sophie and Matt, arms around one another's shoulders buddy-style, girls smiling in the background, Sophie looking proud and absolutely beaming into the camera, and Matt looking like he had just come off of a two week drunk - mouth hanging open, pale, drooling, disheveled, deep black eye sockets, that about-to-pass-out expression. It was brilliant. He couldn't have looked more the part if a Hollywood makeup artist had done it for him. I told Sophie (?) that if she ever left or moved, I'd buy it from her, and she agreed, but in the end, I never got it.

Chez Simone ?
In any case I doubt the two bars were related. Shophies and her sister were khmer while simone was vietnamese.

Yes, Simone's. That's right. Thanks. So it was Simone in the photo.

The Walkabout is Cambodia's Sleaziest Bar by Lina Goldberg 2012.
For those who have never been there, since I suppose that those who have, have their own stories to tell:

I'm in one of the most disgusting freelancer bars in Cambodia. "It's like low tide," my Eton-educated companion snidely observes. Gazing out at the flotsam and jetsam of Phnom Penh's expat scene, I'm forced to agree...

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-wal ... aziest-bar

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