Should Chinese New Year be a 'recognized' holiday in Cambodia?

juansweetpotato · Post by **juansweetpotato** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:06 pm

hanno wrote:A small exaggeration me thinks....

Apparently not, unless you include all the people who own/rent a house and turn it into a beer, ice, noodle and shampoo shop.

hanno · Post by **hanno** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:31 pm

I walk down my street and all the businesses are Khmer-owned. A lot of the hotels here in Temple Town belong to Khmer Okhna. But maybe things are different in Phnom Penh....

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:47 pm

hanno wrote:I walk down my street and all the businesses are Khmer-owned. A lot of the hotels here in Temple Town belong to Khmer Okhna. But maybe things are different in Phnom Penh....

theres a lot of chinese influence here in SHV i think, also a lot of Vietnam, and russian haha

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 5:42 pm

Don't forget that most employees here work 6/7 day weeks outside of national holidays.

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 5:47 pm

by default it is.
my staff member was complaining he had to eat chicken on the way to work this morning because only Chams were open.
everyone else had hangovers.

Raybull · Post by **Raybull** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:18 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote:
hanno wrote:I walk down my street and all the businesses are Khmer-owned. A lot of the hotels here in Temple Town belong to Khmer Okhna. But maybe things are different in Phnom Penh....
theres a lot of chinese influence here in SHV i think, also a lot of Vietnam, and russian haha

But there's more regular khmers claiming to be chinese khmer than there are actual chinese khmer it seems...sheeps and fads.

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:23 pm

Raybull wrote:
Jamie_Lambo wrote:
hanno wrote:I walk down my street and all the businesses are Khmer-owned. A lot of the hotels here in Temple Town belong to Khmer Okhna. But maybe things are different in Phnom Penh....
theres a lot of chinese influence here in SHV i think, also a lot of Vietnam, and russian haha
But there's more regular khmers claiming to be chinese khmer than there are actual chinese khmer it seems...sheeps and fads.

Same with all the plastic paddys in England during St. Patricks Day haha

juansweetpotato · Post by **juansweetpotato** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:19 pm

hanno wrote:I walk down my street and all the businesses are Khmer-owned. A lot of the hotels here in Temple Town belong to Khmer Okhna. But maybe things are different in Phnom Penh....

Do they have 100% Khmer faces? it would surprise me if a vast majority weren't sino-Khmer. I work for an Okhna at the moment. He speaks Chinese and, although the subject hasn't come up, I would say he looks like he has a lot of Chinese in him.
And let's not forget that HE himself is sino-Khmer.

Post by **Username Taken** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:48 pm

juansweetpotato wrote:
hanno wrote:I walk down my street and all the businesses are Khmer-owned. A lot of the hotels here in Temple Town belong to Khmer Okhna. But maybe things are different in Phnom Penh....

Do they have 100% Khmer faces? it would surprise me if a vast majority weren't sino-Khmer. I work for an Okhna at the moment. He speaks Chinese and, although the subject hasn't come up, I would say he looks like he has a lot of Chinese in him.
And let's not forget that HE himself is sino-Khmer.

Yes. I think hanno is deluding himself if he thinks all the businesses in that street that are Khmer-owned are actually 100% Khmer-Khmer. I think not.

hanno · Post by **hanno** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:02 pm

juansweetpotato wrote:
hanno wrote:I walk down my street and all the businesses are Khmer-owned. A lot of the hotels here in Temple Town belong to Khmer Okhna. But maybe things are different in Phnom Penh....

Do they have 100% Khmer faces? it would surprise me if a vast majority weren't sino-Khmer. I work for an Okhna at the moment. He speaks Chinese and, although the subject hasn't come up, I would say he looks like he has a lot of Chinese in him.
And let's not forget that HE himself is sino-Khmer.

According to official counts, 1% are ethnic Chinese.....

But hey, I am sure you guys know a lot better..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograph ... nic_groups