{"id":266,"date":"2009-05-04T18:43:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T11:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2011-05-27T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T11:43:30","slug":"just-a-pile-of-catfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/cambodian-food\/phnom-penh\/just-a-pile-of-catfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a pile of catfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lastappetite\/3461348973\/\" title=\"catfish20090420_2833 by phil.lees, on Flickr\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.flickr.com');\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3527\/3461348973_680b19a53c_o.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"717\" alt=\"catfish20090420_2833\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small, semi-dried catfish at Psar Toul Tom Poung (Russian Market), Phnom Penh.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more minor changes that I&#8217;ve noticed in Phnom Penh is that the markets are starting to seem even more local. The focus seems to be less on servicing foreigners with &#8220;Danger &#8211; Mines&#8221; t-shirts and more on placating the growing Khmer middle class with grey market Abercrombie and Fitch. The new Night Market on the riverfront, while a poor substitute for wandering along the currently billboarded-in riverfront, is mostly about keeping locals happy; oblivious to tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small, semi-dried catfish at Psar Toul Tom Poung (Russian Market), Phnom Penh. One of the more minor changes that I&#8217;ve noticed in Phnom Penh is that the markets are starting to seem even more local. The focus seems to be less on servicing foreigners with &#8220;Danger &#8211; Mines&#8221; t-shirts and more on placating the growing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/cambodian-food\/phnom-penh\/just-a-pile-of-catfish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just a pile of catfish<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","category-phnom-penh"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}