Archive for the 'Sihanoukville' Category

I love crap squid

Monday, December 4th, 2006

The squid on the beach in Sihanoukville is crap but I love it. The beachside barbecued squid (mohk aing) may be rubbery, overcooked, and subject to the ignominy of suspect storage and the discomfiture of dodgy handling but the context matters more than the food itself. Sitting in a deckchair, bare feet in the sand, […]

Sihanoukville is the Next Goa III: Beyond Thunderdome

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Glowstick-wielding candy ravers rejoice:
THE “largest and wildest” full-moon party, promised the yellow flier taped to a phone booth on Khaosan Road in Bangkok. Another installment of Thailand’s girls-gone-wild bacchanal on the island of Ko Phangan? Or its bigger brother, Ko Samui? Or maybe it was the newcomer Ko Phi Phi, a remote island that is […]

Sihanoukville is the next Goa 2: Electric Boogaloo

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Now that most travel writers have discovered that their audience are sick of reading soporific accounts of their day tour of Angkor Wat, they have set their sights on sunny Sihanoukville. Unlike most writers, John Henderson of Inside Bay Area loves the beachside food:

…I eat delicious, authentic Cambodian food at prices I haven’t seen since […]

Sihanoukville is “the next Goa”

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

So says Alexander Lobrano from International Herald Tribune after his week at Sokha Resort’s private beach, as reprinted in today’s Cambodia Daily. What the Daily edited out of the original article was what I’m here for: the food. Before Alex’s review was trimmed for the Daily’s A4 format, he said:
Among the best bites in Sihanoukville, […]