Cambodia is the Cheapest place to retire...
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Multipox wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:20 amGo to Golden Home on st 172 and have their hot coffee with milk. It's vietnam style where it drips from the little metal filter (there is a lot of Vietnam influence in cambo). It's so good, you will not go ANYWHERE ELSE if you can help it. It's not right for every type of coffee drink like ice coffee, but for hot coffee it's the best.
For fairly good Euro style espresso go to the that relatively new place north a few blocks on the street where all the pharmacies are (136?). It's name is something like Lavandra....
Or go south one block to the bookstore coffeeshop.
A lot of them are using Mondulkiri coffee from cambo, or Dao from Lao, or maybe some even Doy Chaang from Thailand.
The stuff you see in the real cambo places along the street is what you see roasted on the street in coverted (industrial?) cans. Tastes like shit unless you load it up with sugar. Cambo style is after you finish it, you fill up your glass with that weak Chinese tea they always give you free on every table.
AND you can get good espresso from a little place on st 19 at the corner of 172 called the "Espresso Cart" or something like that. Owned by a very nice lady (at least to me).
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Re: Cambodia is the Cheapest place to retire...
Vietnam coffee can be very good and is underrated, but i do miss a good latte caramel. The best place i have found is a donut shop on mao just west of the junction with 119, which is a bit of a way to goMultipox wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:20 amGo to Golden Home on st 172 and have their hot coffee with milk. It's vietnam style where it drips from the little metal filter (there is a lot of Vietnam influence in cambo). It's so good, you will not go ANYWHERE ELSE if you can help it. It's not right for every type of coffee drink like ice coffee, but for hot coffee it's the best.
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I lack patience when using that Vietnamese filter rig. Good results, but it always seems like. I'm going to celebrate my next birthday before the cup is full.
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how did we get from Cambodia is cheap to retire to talking abut coffee??
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Strongly disagree - Best coffee I've had in PP at Eric Keyser, flat white, hard to stop at one.
Brown also make an acceptable flat white too.
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Yes, there are lots of places purveying crap coffee, like Metro.
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How long are you in the region and stayed outside EK? Ubon is an old town in Isaan with nice parks, walks along the river and a urban population that compares very well with PP. Supermarkets one can only dream of in PP and hospitals that deserve the name.
Since you dont care nor know anything about it, why post in the first place? The contribution on SIsaket and Ubon was informative, detailed and factual. Nothing you have to offer. Next time, keep your d... inside your pants. Nobody cares.
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Take a strong tranquilizer or 2 and you'll be more patient.
When I need advice about life, I just check in here.
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Qualifier - I do not expect to pay $3.50 for a coffee in cambodia. In europs a decent coffee is usually under $3 unless you go to a posh restaurant in capital cities or tourist clip joints, and wages there are 3 times higher than in cambodiaJoker Poker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:51 amStrongly disagree - Best coffee I've had in PP at Eric Keyser, flat white, hard to stop at one.
Brown also make an acceptable flat white too.
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Yes, there are lots of places purveying crap coffee, like Metro.
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Last time I was in PP, March last year, it was $2.50 for a flat white at Eric Keyser. Brown used to be $2.10 last I went there.pczz wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:01 pmQualifier - I do not expect to pay $3.50 for a coffee in cambodia. In europs a decent coffee is usually under $3 unless you go to a posh restaurant in capital cities or tourist clip joints, and wages there are 3 times higher than in cambodiaJoker Poker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:51 amStrongly disagree - Best coffee I've had in PP at Eric Keyser, flat white, hard to stop at one.
Brown also make an acceptable flat white too.
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Yes, there are lots of places purveying crap coffee, like Metro.
If prices are dearer than that then inflation is out of control. To be fair, you could pay the same amount for that bloody awful Boncafe stuff all over town. I found EK to be the best by a country mile, and have no problem paying $2.50.
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But rents in Phnom Penh are above London level in some parts, and that's before Brexit level.pczz wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:01 pmQualifier - I do not expect to pay $3.50 for a coffee in cambodia. In europs a decent coffee is usually under $3 unless you go to a posh restaurant in capital cities or tourist clip joints, and wages there are 3 times higher than in cambodiaJoker Poker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:51 amStrongly disagree - Best coffee I've had in PP at Eric Keyser, flat white, hard to stop at one.
Brown also make an acceptable flat white too.
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Yes, there are lots of places purveying crap coffee, like Metro.
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