11th of January at the Chameleon

Adek did not want to celebrate his birthday, so we planned to enjoy some drinks on our own. Meanwhile, on Friday, January 11, there happened to be a Polish day at The Chameleon. Earlier, we had already had two groups of Poles, brought by Paweł, but this time they were individual tourists on vacati...

Don Tait in Kampot

Don Tait - the author of "The Last Drover" and "Tommy" showed us his home - a farm for hydroponics experiments. Without going into detail, the experiment consists of farming fish in special pools in water taken from the river. And water with fish droppings serves as "soil" for plants (vegetables an...

A new book

From tomorrow on, I will be publishing episodes of a short story by Don Tait "Tommy" Don would like to read your comments about "The Last Drover ..." and "Tommy". "Tommy" had got only 5 episodes. Don had not expected that his writings would get "under the Polish roofs". He realizes that the reali...

Out of boredom

Maybe out of a bit of boredom, and maybe out of spite whether I can do it or not, and maybe for the desire to eat a different dish ourselves, I decided to experiment with the local marinated products. We have been eating the marinated cucumbers from the local market since the beginning - they taste...

Some guests

The four flags waving in the wind in front of the Chameleon attract attention of customers, not necessarily those whom we would like to have. Well, but our customer is our master. A few days ago, in the evening a Canadian came to us, who ordered a beer and after some time asked for a free room. He...

A creative impotence

The days similar to each other (with a slight change of weather after the typhoon Pabuku) cause that, apart from the lack of themes to the blog, there is a creative impotence which blocks my senses. In our menu there are vintage wines that are not selling, because probably the price is not encourag...

Delicious things

"Revenons a nos moutons" - Let's get back to our muttons (affairs) - say the French. Well, we are going to get back to our chops. What is a risotto? Definition by Wikipedia:  "Risotto - a popular dish of northern Italian cuisine, boiled with broth and tomatoes to obtain a creamy consistency. Man...

The days after

Christmas, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, birthday - this is history. We are returning to our Khmer everyday life, which is sometimes funny and sometimes annoying.Proverbs tell the truth; If you do not like what you like, then ...orIf you can not change others, change yourself!It's a bit difficult...