About eight years ago I got in the habit is using buckwheat hull pillows. They were popular in the West for a while. The last time I saw them available was in a Chinese shop in Bangkok.

I find them to be the perfect pillow for tropical climes. They are a cool temperature. They also custom adjust to one's head and sleeping position. They come in a pillow case or in reed matting which smells like tatami. I really like them.

But I never see them in Phnom Penh shops. All I find are a range of pillows more suited to air-con and those seeking pillows as indulgent luxury itemss. I find the guesthouse pillows stuffed with rags to be hard monstrosities. Department stores sell foam and other innards but bothing that suits my admitedly ascetc cum sensualist sleep gear tastes.

If I could just buy buckwheat hulls from China it would be a simple matter of making fabric cases.
But for now my compromise is latex rubber produced in Malaysia, processed in Vietnam and turned into pillows there. Expensive and although an improvement, not ideal for health and comfort.

Also, when I lived in Chiang Mai I purchased numerous traditional and adapted (with foam) tatami products. All I can find now here are folding travel mats from Thailand. Very good at $8, but I miss a good selection of Japanese style goods made in the lower cost local market.

BTW, what *has* happened to the Japanese presence? I understand why the sex tourists disappeared, but I miss all the slumming eccentrics, the 80 year old expat in his jimbei and fan with his pregnant Khmer wife, and even the Japanese NGOs. Everything seems nomw to be Korean. What happened in the the last 15 years for Koreans replacing Japanese?

Korean churches, Korean businesses, Korean tourists hogging all the best girls at Martini and all they do is ignore them, tip them for drinking with them (forgetting the purpose of that venue). It's Angeles repated here.

try rice hull pillow

You should just go to Bangkok on a shopping trip to buy all the stuff you can't find here.

can you heat them up in the microwave like whole buckwheat?
if you ever get aches and pains this is fantastic!