Best Kept Secret

Crazy Pool

Thursday, 07 January 2010 21:59

Traditionally places promote their services as being the best in town, not so at the Tree, which claims to have the worst pool table in the Penh. Words by Mark Bibby Jackson.

A vital cash crop for developing countries and one of the most traded commodities in the world, coffee was first grown in Southeast Asia thanks to Fifteenth Century Dutch Java and Ceylon plantations in Indonesia.

A Korean Sunflower

Friday, 31 July 2009 18:43

The “permanent” closure of Pyongyang Restaurant has given vent to many cries of foul play. Gone has Phnom Penh’s only North Korean Restaurant, so people say – they couldn’t be more wrong, says Mark Bibby Jackson.

Thrift Japan

Monday, 29 June 2009 20:27

Thrift Japan is a true secret. Located in a warehouse on France Street a few blocks north of Wat Phnom, the shop used to have a big sign indicating its name and whereabouts. That disappeared a good while ago so it is difficult to say whether the shop is even called Thrift Japan at all anymore. It al...

Alf Taylor: The Publican

Monday, 09 March 2009 18:00

Owner of the popular riverfront bar the Monarch, and winner of the Phnom Penh Inside Out award for best pub 2007, Alf Taylor shares a few home truths with AsiaLIFE.