Liquid Gold

There are few spirits that stir the emotions like Rum: light or dark it is the drink of patriots and revolutionaries alike. Here in Phnom Penh, in the warren like lanes of the Bassac...

Burgundy Rising in South East Asia

  Cambodians love their Bordeaux reds; wines that are big, bold and full bodied are just fine, as long as they come from the Left or the Right banks of the Gironde River in the...

Chill

  April 2016 is already being reported as the hottest month ever recorded in the Kingdom of Wonder, few in the capital will be surprised by the news. Phnom Penh has withered under a combination...

Top of the Pops

  The Italian restaurant Pop Café da Giorgio sits in an unobtrusive shop house on the Riverfront, just a few doors down from the Foreign Correspondents Club; it is an institution in the Penh, much...

An Elegant Aside

The Penfolds wine company is one of the oldest and most prestigious names in Australian winemaking, famous throughout the world for their big, bold Barossa Valley red wines made from varieties such as Shiraz,...

Spice Temple

Indonesian food is something I absolutely adore and recognize as one of the world’s great cuisines, fresh, vibrant, spicy, intense, colourful and delicious; they one of the great masters cuisines of spices. The Javanese have...

Cambodia Sevenseas

‘In ancient mythology, Cambodian people are said to have been born of the sea, created by a marriage amongst the gods."   A new book by Darren Gall author of Urban Flavours and Cambodia's most celebrated...

Death in the Afternoon

"What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and...