Gas

It was my birthday last week (thank you to all those who sent good wishes), and to celebrate I invited some friends round to my house for a meal. The guests had arrived and the dinner was cooking when suddenly the cooking gas ran out – the first time that’s happened since I’ve been here. As the food was not yet edible, I considered taking us all out to a restaurant, but in the end I phoned a local shop keeper (in my best Khmer) and arranged to meet him at his house to escort him back to mine to install a new gas bottle. All went to plan, and dinner was finally served a mere 45 minutes late.

I love Cambodia.... where else would you get a shopkeeper to open up 3 hours after closing time and then deliver and install gas for you with no call out charge or complaint and just because you’re in the middle of cooking ?