RE: Phnom Penh's First & Only Ethiopian Restaurant 🍲 My Wife & Kids' First Time, Thoughts 🤔
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I have to admit that I have walked away, once or twice ( let's make that twice ), without paying, after having asked for the bill and having had to wait for ages, without any effect. Not from a restaurant though but a terrace ;<)
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Here in Cambodia the waiters and waitresses don't rely on tips like they do in the USA to complete their salary, so the old saying "the customer is always right" doesn't work here. Just the other day we spent 15 minutes explaining to a cook that we wanted veg fried rice without egg, a groundbreaking concept.
After we were positive he understood not to touch the eggs, he repeated muscle memory and sent us home with egg fried rice. After getting back to the hotel, a heavy rain began and we opened our food boxes to see the egg. I was pissed, drove back, and demanded new dishes me made. But of course this is Cambodia, and we know the owner of the restaurant has no active role, and instead the poor employees gamble each day with how much stuff to buy at the market. They would've lost the day's profits on our mistake, so we offered to pay all over again for dishes made correctly.
We received some abnormally light take-away boxes, and upon opening them at the hotel, we realized the new portions were 1/4th the size of the previous order, and literally cold diced carrots with cold leftover rice, only in Cambodia.