Cambodia Expat

After reading Anthony Otomo’s article on Gambling in Cebu I started to get “the itch” for a bit of table action. So when Nick Gatsby and the Expat Player decided to take a quick trip to Phnom Penh I decided to tag along and hit a Cambodia’s main gamming center Naga World.

I hit a casino that was in an old rusting ship the last time I was in Phnom Penh (about 5 years ago) and it was a bit of a dump so I really wasn’t expecting much out of Naga World especially considering its silly Japanese theme park name. So when my moto taxi pulled in I was a bit shocked, it was actually a nice looking building complete with the standard casino flashing lights. So far so good I thought as I walked through the metal detector and ever present “no guns or explosives” sign you see all over Cambodia.

Ding, ding, ding, ding – Ahhhhh… the sweet song of a casino.

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I went to the Shanghai Bar in Phnom Penh yesterday with ERS correspondents the Expat Player and Nick Gatsby. I haven’t actually been to Cambodia in about 5 years so I was interested in seeing how the bars and clubs have changed since then.

The Shanghai Bar opened in 2000 and has been a pretty popular hangout with locals and tourists alike. Not a big bar but it has a few booths in the back and a square shaped bar in the middle, also note the AC is on full blast. The menu has a mix of western and bar chow with some Mediterranean specials. The bar is well stocked with reasonable prices for drinks (they also have western beer, something you can’t get in Jakarta).

But the real reason people go isn’t for the food or drinks – its because they employ a full staff of cute Cambodian girls in sexy uniforms.

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