BBC article about expat life in Phnom Penh
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I remember these (at the time) fancy "Tea & Coffee" places opening up around 2005 and thinking what a terrible idea they were. Nobody would want to pay that much money for a drink. I was very wrong. They aren't about the drink, they are about the experience. You go there and hang out and meet up and use the WiFi and it can seem nicer than at your desk at home or some dreary office with a 2000 riel iced coffee. Not really my kind of thing, but I can understand why a lot of people like these places.timmydownawell wrote:All the coffee and fast food chains down the BKK1 end of St 51 and St 57 make it so generic and boring. There were already three Brown Coffees, a White Coffee, a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, a Caffe Bene, a Gloria Jeans and a Costa Coffee down here and now there's a bloody Starbucks as well. Enough!sigmoid wrote: I'm all for progress and development but it's the commercialization of everything that ruins it and this Western obsession of trying to replace authenticity with artifcial "cool" and trendiness.
Can't I just get a tall black with a huge glob of condensed milk in the bottom, please? At a tiny fraction of the price?
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Yes they seem to do a bewildering amount of business. But then again there's obviously a bit of money around BKK1. And you're right about people working there using the wifi... one of my expat neighbours does exactly that.John Bingham wrote:I remember these (at the time) fancy "Tea & Coffee" places opening up around 2005 and thinking what a terrible idea they were. Nobody would want to pay that much money for a drink. I was very wrong. They aren't about the drink, they are about the experience. You go there and hang out and meet up and use the WiFi and it can seem nicer than at your desk at home or some dreary office with a 2000 riel iced coffee. Not really my kind of thing, but I can understand why a lot of people like these places.timmydownawell wrote:All the coffee and fast food chains down the BKK1 end of St 51 and St 57 make it so generic and boring. There were already three Brown Coffees, a White Coffee, a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, a Caffe Bene, a Gloria Jeans and a Costa Coffee down here and now there's a bloody Starbucks as well. Enough!sigmoid wrote: I'm all for progress and development but it's the commercialization of everything that ruins it and this Western obsession of trying to replace authenticity with artifcial "cool" and trendiness.
Can't I just get a tall black with a huge glob of condensed milk in the bottom, please? At a tiny fraction of the price?
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I'm not sure why you are singling out BKK1, these places are spread all around the city.timmydownawell wrote:
Yes they seem to do a bewildering amount of business. But then again there's obviously a bit of money around BKK1.
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go the doggies!Jamie_Lambo wrote:haha footscray is a beautiful place lolKuroneko wrote:But Footscray in Melbourne has Olympic Doughnutstimmydownawell wrote:Ahh it's pathetic. In Australia the TV news repeatedly gets all excited because some stupid international brand (e.g. Zara, Top Shop, Microsoft, M&S etc) announced they would open a store in Sydney. It's like, "oh wow, look how important we are that they want to open a store here". Just sad.bolueeleh wrote:welcome to globalisation
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Re: BBC article about expat life in Phnom Penh
Just as beautiful as its namesake in London..........SinnSisamouth wrote:go the doggies!Jamie_Lambo wrote:haha footscray is a beautiful place lolKuroneko wrote:But Footscray in Melbourne has Olympic Doughnutstimmydownawell wrote:Ahh it's pathetic. In Australia the TV news repeatedly gets all excited because some stupid international brand (e.g. Zara, Top Shop, Microsoft, M&S etc) announced they would open a store in Sydney. It's like, "oh wow, look how important we are that they want to open a store here". Just sad.bolueeleh wrote:welcome to globalisation
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The reason I mentioned it is because there are now NINE of them within 400 metres of my house. That's a pretty high concentration.John Bingham wrote:I'm not sure why you are singling out BKK1, these places are spread all around the city.timmydownawell wrote:
Yes they seem to do a bewildering amount of business. But then again there's obviously a bit of money around BKK1.
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