🍛 Dosa Eating & Krama Shopping In Phnom Penh 🧣
During my last few days in Cambodia the family and I have been eating lots of delicious food and also doing a bit of shopping.
First, Idli Sambar 🍛
One of our favorite breakfast destinations in Phnom Penh is the Dosa Corner, one of only a handful of Indian restaurants offering southern Indian breakfast dishes like dosa, idli, vada and uttapam. Monkey-B and I like the place a little more than Srey-Yuu and Pov, who would prefer noodles or rice porridge for breakfast. The idlis are pre-made, so if you're really hungry and want something to eat while waiting the tempting dosa you saw in the thumbnail, it's best to order idli sambar and pass it back and forth until the other dishes arrive.
Free Wi-Fi & A/C 🛏️
On my last few days in Phnom Penh I've been hugging the girls as much as possible and allowing them to be a little lazier than normal, mostly due to the free air conditioning and wifi. Cambodia has been under a heat wave for many weeks, and even 15 minutes on the streets completely soaks clothing in sweat. For this reason we've just been eating and being lazy in the hotel room, watching lots of movies and I've been downloading several to prepare for my long flight to the USA.
🧣 Krama & Shirt Shopping👕
When I visit the USA I usually try to fill my luggage with things from Cambodia that I can sell, hopefully offsetting my travel costs. For this trip I'm taking two pieces of luggage filled with kramas, the traditional Khmer multipurpose sarong/scarf/shop rag/tow strap. I am able to get large sarong-sized kramas for $1.25 on wholesale and often can sell them for $15 to $25 in the USA. I also purchased 50 random tourist t-shirts for $1.50 to $2, and hope to sell them for at least $15 in the USA.
In the above photo you can see the stacks and stacks of kramas the seller piled up for us to sort through and choose. Occasionally there are small imperfections, so it's quite time-consuming to unfold and inspect each one, but a necessary job I've learned to do very quickly through the years. This is my fourth time to fill suitcases with wholesale kramas bound for the USA, so I'm basically a pro at this point, even able to eyeball my 23kg luggage allowance to within 2kgs of accuracy. Alright, that's all for now, time to finish packing, off to the airport in 4 hours, stay tuned.......
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Alright! Dosa corner as usual, and the dosa looks hot and fluffy. The idli not so, looks cold.
Good luck with the sale and hopefully you can recover a huge portion of the flight ticket, if not more than the flight.
By the time I took the picture the idly had lost its charm, you are right 😅. I am finally caught up on sleep, now time to call the airline and fight for a partial refund on my baggage.
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Such a nice restaurant, they offer a delicious food
It is my favorite place in PP, and very cheap too.
I only focus on the first photo. It looks so delicious. I have never tried these foods
South Indian food is so delicious, I highly recommend it. In Cambodian there are only a few restaurants this cuisine, and because it's mostly the kind of food I cook at home, it is nice to have someone else do the work for me so I can simply eat and enjoy.
Take care and I hope you will have a safe flight. It's a good thing that you spend time with the girls before you travel to the USA. I like your strategy in having something back from your travel, by selling pieces of clothing made in Cambodia. :) Aren't you planning to bring the girls in the USA? Just curious. They will surely miss you!
Thank you my friend. I hope I have luck selling the kramas here, it will reimburse my flight costs. Eventually I would like the family to come the USA, for a visit or to live, that is up to them. For me, I would like my two families to meet and make it a short holiday because I was never happy living in the USA and always struggling with poverty. However, having a strong passport is a life-changer, so if the girls want to stay several years to become American citizens, I would go along with that even though I don't want to live here that long.
I see you spoil your family very much and it's good for you to release the fatigue during traveling and I salute you for having a family loving nature👍👍
We tried to have as much fun as possible on my last days, good memories.
long time no see, Sir. Dosa Corner looks so delicious. Myanmar also has a snack similar to Dosa Corner. This snack mainly consists of boiled beans and vegetables.
So tasty, and usually foreign food is expensive in Cambodia, but this restaurant has similar prices to a local restaurant. There are now a few new Burmese restaurants in Phnom Penh, but we didn't have time to visit them on this trip.
That's smart!
Hope you had a safe flight!
Oh and what's idlis?
I do hope I have luck with selling the kramas, I could use the money. Idlis are a steamed savory spongy "cake," made from fermented rice/lentil batter, so they are a bit sour and good for soaking up spicy soups.
Ah... Your description makes me want to try those Idlis. Sounds like something I would like.