Pattaya’s Walking Street mirrored in Siem Reap’s Pub Street

Tired of staring at the bleak pics of what used to be Pattaya’s Walking Street? Spare a thought for the fate of its Cambodian relative: Pub Street in Siem Reap. Both are still padlocked and undergo an overnight curfew as well as a ban on booze. In their heyday, both catered for entertainment-seeking European and Australian tourists, although Pub Street somehow attracted a younger backpacker crowd compared with the middle-aged and elderly Pattaya devotees.

The main difference was that Pub Street had a sense of giggly fun which was missing from Walking Street in its latter years. Only in Pub Street could you sample fried tarantula appetizers, cold draft beer at 50 US cents and nibbling fish which could cure painful gout in your big toe. Not to mention cocktails served from a chamber pot bucket at the Red Piano, made famous by Angelina Jolie’s blockbuster movie Tomb Raider. Pattaya’s Walking Street by contrast was always dominated by the serious (and often dour) business of selling sex. No go-go bars in Siem Reap.

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