Cambodia

ThailandTom

I am planning on heading over to Cambodia next month for a little holiday/review as I intend to move their as they do not have laws restricting work to foreign people such as Thailand. I have never properly seen Cambodia, has any newbuddhist member ever been to Cambodia before? If so would you care to share you experience,

Tom.

ThailandTom

I assume that I probably am most likely awaiting for @vinlyn to reply has he has traveled around SE Asia a lot. It is sometimes annoying/difficult when most of the NB members are USA based and I am pretty much the other side of the world, but owel, what will be will be.

Lady_Alison

Lol....it's still dark over here in the us.

Lady_Alison

You're moving? And girlfriend?

ThailandTom

You're moving? And girlfriend?

is that aimed at me?

Lady_Alison

Yes...who else is here? I didn't know you were moving.

ThailandTom

lol, well we both will take the trip and serview the place. If work is easy to find I think she will opt to live with me. However, the whole point of the trip is to gain inisght into Cambodia and the structure of the society there.

I_AM_THAT

I have traveled to Cambodia and feel it is very much like the old Thailand. Cambodia is still in recovery and will be for some time. The economy is not as strong as in Thailand, but there is a growing tourist industry around the Angkor Wat temple complex that you might be able to use to your advantage. Unfortunately I do not care to much for the changes that are being made since large hotel chains are moving in and changing the look and feel of the place...

Dakini

You can probably find out more about their work restrictions online. The Cambodian Embassy probably has that info. Maybe you already knew that. Isn't there a war going on in the north, against a Tibetan-speaking minority? Or is that Burma? Good luck. Sounds like you're fed up with Thailand.

ThailandTom

You can probably find out more about their work restrictions online. The Cambodian Embassy probably has that info. Maybe you already knew that. Isn't there a war going on in the north, against a Tibetan-speaking minority? Or is that Burma? Good luck. Sounds like you're fed up with Thailand.

Not really fed up, I love it here, but I need to work or become a monk.. That is the reality. But the link in another thread provided some job ideas

Telly03

I don't know anything about Cambodia except that I was watching the Bizarre Foods show last night and Andrew Zimmern had more difficulty with the road food than I believe he has had with any other show.

First he tasted, but did not swallow, clams that were sitting out in the heat... the locals warned him not to eat it because most westerners couldn't handle the bacteria and would probably send them to the hospital. Then he tried the fertilized duck egg, which is suppose to be eaten at 14 days, but he guessed his egg was very close to hatching and couldn't finish it. Then there was the dried frogs that had a leather texture, but was making his tongue numb as he chewed.

DaltheJigsaw

I don't know anything about Cambodia except that I was watching the Bizarre Foods show last night and Andrew Zimmern had more difficulty with the road food than I believe he has had with any other show.

First he tasted, but did not swallow, clams that were sitting out in the heat... the locals warned him not to eat it because most westerners couldn't handle the bacteria and would probably send them to the hospital. Then he tried the fertilized duck egg, which is suppose to be eaten at 14 days, but he guessed his egg was very close to hatching and couldn't finish it. Then there was the dried frogs that had a leather texture, but was making his tongue numb as he chewed.

That was a great show!:0 That dude is amazing. Eats anything!

ThailandTom

That sounds as if he has taken the most extreme of the types of food from that country, I have heard that the food over there is meant to be tastier than the food here in Thailand. I ate some raw oysters here in Thailand with my partners family, I ended up in hospital with the worse food poisoning I have ever had, people have died from that bacteria.

Dakini

Don't eat raw food meat or fish, whether at home or abroad. But especially abroad.
Raw fish can carry cholera, and nowadays there's drug-resistant cholera. Charming.

ThailandTom

Don't eat raw food meat or fish, whether at home or abroad. But especially abroad.

lol, I know that now. Learnt that one the hard way. Well at the time everyone was sitting around in a circle on the floor as they do in Thailand with a huge amount of food in the middle. Me liking pretty much anything I delved in and ate well, everything lol. I consumed 7 of those raw buggers, never again.

DaltheJigsaw

Don't eat raw food meat or fish, whether at home or abroad. But especially abroad.
Raw fish can carry cholera, and nowadays there's drug-resistant cholera. Charming.

Why is that I think in Taoism they speak on eating half raw/half cooked meat? And when I talked to my girlfriend about it, she mentioned that her Boss eats stuff like that. My lady works at Google...but it's weird, it seems like the "rich," know something about it that we don't. Lol

Dakini

Half-cooked meat, they say, can carry some kind of unhealthy microbes. I think a lot of that stuff is just tradition, and tradition often doesn't take into account medical reality, ha. And you can get away with it unscathed enough times that you come to believe it's safe, when in fact, it's pretty risky. Best to play it safe.

ThailandTom

There was a guy who I see on youtube who now eats EVERYTHING raw as he had cancer and heard that when we cook food, we destroy a lot of the goodness. He was on a TV show to prove it and he open a pack of I think chicken cuttlets and ate them as they were..

Dakini

Long ago man ate raw meat, but long ago, meat wasn't processed in slaughterhouses, and prepared en masse in huge butcher shops, where food gets contaminated.

ThailandTom

Long ago man ate raw meat, but long ago, meat wasn't processed in slaughterhouses, and prepared en masse in huge butcher shops, where food gets contaminated.

This is true, I forgot about how much chemicals are put into our food products these days. It may be safer to eat a grain of rice a day like the buddha once tried to do.

Dakini

The Buddha nearly starved himself to death, and he ended up suffering for those austerities in his older age. Remember: the Middle Way.

ThailandTom

The Buddha nearly starved himself to death, and he ended up suffering for those austerities in his older age. Remember: the Middle Way.

Yes lol, it was an attempt at humour. I am quite familiar with the Buddha's story, he was meant to be really quite good at punishing himself in that periof of his life. They still practice that form of 'spirituality' in parts of India.