Is nightlife dying in Cambodia?

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Pretty sure Love Club is several years old.
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King Keil wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2018 12:27 pm This containerbar south of sihanouk is packed with asians even on weekdays and there are way more nice places now to just have a drink.
Bassac lane, Oskar, Mings.
Lots of rooftopbars for a drink with a view.
When sorya mall is finished it will also be like this containerbar and any change there can only be for the better.
Sorya had a few golden years until the rnets went sky high in 2014 and most of the bars moved out. then the landlord put in gambling machines and the meths addicts and lowlifes moved in. Noone wants to rent from him. Lunatic prices and erratic terms. Golden Sorya is dead unless someone with a bit of common sense and business skill takes it over
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Jamie_Lambo wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2018 12:46 pm The nightlife in Phnom Penh is thriving new clubs opening all the time, new container bar complexes, as mentioned a lot more locals are now going out and the nightlife is aimed at them, this is Cambodia,
i prefer to go to the KTVs n local clubs when i go out, if i want to go out and listen to western music id stay in England
I have just started going to KTV's again after a lapse of about 15 years or so. The reason being that my girlfriend is a really keen singer, and actually she is very good, and I like listening to her. A couple of weeks ago we went to Marvelous Town which is close to my apartment. They have a restaurant with live band on the top deck where you can get up and sing. We had steak followed by crab and she ended up singing about 20 songs. :D
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They also have rooms you can book which are pretty swish.

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https://www.facebook.com/marvelloustown/

A couple of nights ago we went to Boeung Meas Restaurant which is also fairly close and also has live music and KTV rooms. We booked a room for ourselves and had BBQ beef served in the room. Really, I think that booking a room is better with a group, but actually it worked out really well. We had one girl running the sound system and another serving drinks and food for us.

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boeung-M ... 5268035966
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superferret wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:32 pm
hanno wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2018 4:24 am Decline in night life or old age catching up?
I'm not old hanno, that's a dumb assumption to make of a random poster you don't know.
Jesus, lighten up. Where is the tongue-in-emoticon?
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Marvelous Town..across the Chruoy Changvar bridge, turn left, maybe 5km, right?

I was there today, why u no say hello?
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that genius wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2018 7:03 pm Marvelous Town..across the Chruoy Changvar bridge, turn left, maybe 5km, right?

I was there today, why u no say hello?
It's actually on the right, going out of town about 2km from the bridge next to Canadia bank. When I checked your table you had already gone and looks like you left half your dinner! :D

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Kuroneko wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2018 6:09 pm
Jamie_Lambo wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2018 12:46 pm The nightlife in Phnom Penh is thriving new clubs opening all the time, new container bar complexes, as mentioned a lot more locals are now going out and the nightlife is aimed at them, this is Cambodia,
i prefer to go to the KTVs n local clubs when i go out, if i want to go out and listen to western music id stay in England
I have just started going to KTV's again after a lapse of about 15 years or so. The reason being that my girlfriend is a really keen singer, and actually she is very good, and I like listening to her. A couple of weeks ago we went to Marvelous Town which is close to my apartment. They have a restaurant with live band on the top deck where you can get up and sing. We had steak followed by crab and she ended up singing about 20 songs. :D
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They also have rooms you can book which are pretty swish.

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https://www.facebook.com/marvelloustown/

A couple of nights ago we went to Boeung Meas Restaurant which is also fairly close and also has live music and KTV rooms. We booked a room for ourselves and had BBQ beef served in the room. Really, I think that booking a room is better with a group, but actually it worked out really well. We had one girl running the sound system and another serving drinks and food for us.

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boeung-M ... 5268035966
i find KTVs a great night out, was drinking in a few in SHV last night,
ill even sing a few khmer songs myself if im drunk enough (by sing i mean destroy) lol
the only thing i still love about SHV are the open shopfront rural style KTVs down KTV street/the farm, always a good crack, fun friendly girls, far better than the ladydrink hungry bargirls
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When I moved to Phnom Penh a few years back I could speak Mandarin a lot better than Khmer. One young Chinese man with a business in Cambodia told me "keep practicing your Chinese and don't bother to learn Khmer as this country will be Chinese soon."

If we look at the history, in the 1970s Saloth Sar and his lieutenants like Ieng Sary (Chinese Khmers who had in some cases travelled to China for advice and blessings) were clearing Khmer people from their own cities and removing them from their assets. And it was a bad time to be in Cambodia as a Barang of any kind. Then the expulsion and starvation of the Vietnamese under the Khmer Rouge coincided with China's invasion of Vietnam, extending China's war with Vietnam to a second front via what was at that point China's Cambodian proxy, and Vietnam responded. The "Chinese takeover" that people talk about on this forum isn't new, it is decades-old but was interrupted by Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia and stalled for a time.

The question is: If Westerners were not welcome during the last takeover, what makes us think we will be welcome during this one? The writing has been on the wall for some time. How do you feel lately if you live there? (I moved). Western ideas, language, investment, and relationships with the Khmer people are seen as impediments to China's goals, obviously. After all, their strategists are smart enough to realize that it was the removal of French protection that paved the way for Cambodia's total loss of sovereignty to regional powers in the last century. If you think Cambodia seems less enjoyable, I say don't blame your age; instead, blame the political winds.
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Sweeter wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:04 am When I moved to Phnom Penh a few years back I could speak Mandarin a lot better than Khmer. One young Chinese man with a business in Cambodia told me "keep practicing your Chinese and don't bother to learn Khmer as this country will be Chinese soon."

If we look at the history, in the 1970s Saloth Sar and his lieutenants like Ieng Sary (Chinese Khmers who had in some cases travelled to China for advice and blessings) were clearing Khmer people from their own cities and removing them from their assets. And it was a bad time to be in Cambodia as a Barang of any kind. Then the expulsion and starvation of the Vietnamese under the Khmer Rouge coincided with China's invasion of Vietnam, extending China's war with Vietnam to a second front via what was at that point China's Cambodian proxy, and Vietnam responded. The "Chinese takeover" that people talk about on this forum isn't new, it is decades-old but was interrupted by Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia and stalled for a time.

The question is: If Westerners were not welcome during the last takeover, what makes us think we will be welcome during this one? The writing has been on the wall for some time. How do you feel lately if you live there? (I moved). Western ideas, language, investment, and relationships with the Khmer people are seen as impediments to China's goals, obviously. After all, their strategists are smart enough to realize that it was the removal of French protection that paved the way for Cambodia's total loss of sovereignty to regional powers in the last century. If you think Cambodia seems less enjoyable, I say don't blame your age; instead, blame the political winds.
Its a bit off topic but I feel fine. One of the things I like best in Cambodia is the people. I have not noticed any change amongst Mr and Mrs average Khmer towards barang, I don't think the Chinese will change that at street level. however the influx of too many rich barang twats who seem to want to recreate a colonial past and use Cambodia as a glorified brothel will change attitudes. These cretins treat Khmer like some sort of subspecies, assume they are ignorant and show no respect. Its as if the Chinese offer industrialization and the barang offer more girly bars
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