I always enjoyed Peacemans french spirit animal at la Coumarge, a very unpredictable frenchman who had great taste in music and the original (non girl bar) french owned The Office on the street up to Larrys, Garage, Cadillac always had a good vibe under both Kenny and Chantz. Back in 2014 I suggested people wanting to have a bar, branch out to TTP as that where expats seemed to be congregating, now you can't move for them. Ellies was great when it existed. When Backstreet bar first opened I was first in almost as opposite where I worked (became a bit hipster in the end but successful so good for thida), blue dog circa 2014.2015 was a good hangout on 51 before they blocked it all in. Kandal House as mentioned, I recall after it shut we found Pkha Slah ( it think that was the name by KWest) that offered the same view of riverside madness with an ice cold anchor on a Saturday or sunday afternoon.. Oscars also great Oskars less so IMHO. There were a couple of other dive bars off 51 whos name escapes me, bamboo surroundings by the patio hotel the original was great for a relaxed beer. I also used to like bar 21 nice beer garden. If we are talking bassac lane, Red bar was the best on the stripGuest wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 5:25 amI honestly am disappointed I never went there.kinard wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 5:02 amExcellent
"Broken Bricks
He decorated his bar like a haunted house,” 66-year-old neighbour Sok Huong told the Phnom Penh Post as the bar owner was being taken away by the police. And now that the dust has settled on the various disasters he presided over, it’s perhaps time to take stock of Peaceman’s final debacle – the Broken Bricks, where, to coin an oxymoron, you could always expect the probability of the unexpected.
Fresh from the experience at the Peace Pub where the bar went on for practically a furlong, Broken Bricks had possibly the smallest bar in town, together with the smallest Western barkeep – Peaceman himself, the original mental midget and pint-sized pugilist– a bantam sized yet surprisingly vocal meth amphetamine addict from Birmingham, England. With a clammy pallor indicative of sleepless nights and one limb usually inexpertly bandaged and seeping blood after another domestic argument, he looked about as healthy as Jimmy Savile, and yet was always ready to unleash a volley of threats and invective at any hapless bystander. Indeed, the bar’s ‘500 riel a cuss’ swear-box usually had a nightly pot of around $75 by closing time.
Usually smashed out of his head on a practically lethal combination of vodka, red bull and crystal meth, it didn’t take much to set him off and tourists fresh from doing their atrocity field trips who’d stop and point their cameras at the French colonial building that housed his bar would famously get him going. Rage would swell his sunken chest like a turkey cock and within seconds, he’d be out there hurling half bricks and indulging in a spot of recreational stabbing.
Towards the end, his bar resembled a stricken battlefield and his own fury and loserdom reached a crescendo of vulgar farce, hitting the cringe button with gusto again and again. Things came to a head when he attacked a local waitress, prompting the entire neighbourhood to form into a lynch mob and trash his bar. After rescuing him from the melee, local police found his visa to be years out of date and he was jailed and eventually deported back to the UK.
Now in his mid 40s, weak kneed and mortality conscious, Peaceman was last seen trudging around Birmingham, England wearing an old cardigan, shoes with plastic bags tied around them and bearing a large placard advertising a discount store. His internet site has denied publicly that his life is in any way ‘’on the wane’’ or a vista of endless grey desolation and states that his autobiography ‘’A Box of Frogs’’ is currently looking for a publisher."
Favourite bars of all time in Phnom Penh
Original Elsewhere on 278 was great, really chilled. Then taken over by some Slavics' who frankly didn't have a clue. Now a building site.Cam-pooh-cheer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:52 pmWhile I was never a fan of the crowd, the aesthetic of the original Elsewhere Bar was astounding - housed in an untouched colonial mansion and with the garden area seemingly carved out of undergrowth that hadn't been touched since 1975, it did make an impression. Also had a small pool, which at the time was cool.
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I thought the original Elsewhere was on 51 near Sihanouk Boulevard?
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Agree with this. The story was that they had to keep the balcony doors closed because neighbours were complaining about the noise, iirc.
Yes. I remember Elsewhere back on street 51. Those were it's hay days.
Damn, all that talk about the good old days makes me wanna jump on a time machine. Yes, agreed, Sharky had a nice porch to drink whiskey and smoke joints and get lost in a conversation with offbeat entities galore. Decent blues music sometimes too.
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There are too many...and depends on the era.
I was a Cathouse guy waaay back, with ChiChi and her sister who eventually opened Nay Nay Star Bar years later. There was another bar down the street, fuck if I can remember the name...but I would go there late night after Cathouse and find a friend.
Manhattan club with Victor for a while.
Jungle Bar.
Black Cat.
Maxine's.
Sharky for most of its run until the last iteration.
Elsewhere, Zeppelin.
Laaaate night, White Cobra for the street freak show on 51.
Freebird for food and my military comrades.
Later period, Che Rina.
Hostess bars...DV8, Night Owl, 104, Up Down Bar, Alien Bar, et alia...
I was a Cathouse guy waaay back, with ChiChi and her sister who eventually opened Nay Nay Star Bar years later. There was another bar down the street, fuck if I can remember the name...but I would go there late night after Cathouse and find a friend.
Manhattan club with Victor for a while.
Jungle Bar.
Black Cat.
Maxine's.
Sharky for most of its run until the last iteration.
Elsewhere, Zeppelin.
Laaaate night, White Cobra for the street freak show on 51.
Freebird for food and my military comrades.
Later period, Che Rina.
Hostess bars...DV8, Night Owl, 104, Up Down Bar, Alien Bar, et alia...
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Why are the gods such vicious cunts?
Where is the god of tits and wine?
Why are the gods such vicious cunts?
Where is the god of tits and wine?
Nay Nay Star...Almost forgot about that one...I liked the huge bar (pick a side)...The pool table which had a tree or something right next to it....And the huge rats that would continually scamper through the place...And the red staff uniforms if I remember right....102 Street
.Only went 5 or 6 times...I think some Russians took it over and converted it into a plush place...
.Only went 5 or 6 times...I think some Russians took it over and converted it into a plush place...
Felgerkarb I'm glad that you didn't forget Chez Rina Bar (St.98) what a cozy,classy bar with a sapphic touch. I am missing that Bar a lot, she reopened on St.178 but not on the same basis, for me the magic of Chez Rina Bar is gone.Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:35 amThere are too many...and depends on the era.
I was a Cathouse guy waaay back, with ChiChi and her sister who eventually opened Nay Nay Star Bar years later. There was another bar down the street, fuck if I can remember the name...but I would go there late night after Cathouse and find a friend.
Manhattan club with Victor for a while.
Jungle Bar.
Black Cat.
Maxine's.
Sharky for most of its run until the last iteration.
Elsewhere, Zeppelin.
Laaaate night, White Cobra for the street freak show on 51.
Freebird for food and my military comrades.
Later period, Che Rina.
Hostess bars...DV8, Night Owl, 104, Up Down Bar, Alien Bar, et alia...
Let's face it.
Cambodia was the greatest bar fly scene ever until everyone got responsible and left and all the good ones closed and the funk just...changed. Oe maybe it's still great.
It was..
Cheap as fuck to drink
Dirt bike to the bars
Beautiful girls
Your mates were already there or on the way or would come at a moments notice
Wifes welcome
Kids welcome
Great music
Awesome food
Parties galore
My time as a drinker and life in general there was all time memorable. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat.
Cambodia was the greatest bar fly scene ever until everyone got responsible and left and all the good ones closed and the funk just...changed. Oe maybe it's still great.
It was..
Cheap as fuck to drink
Dirt bike to the bars
Beautiful girls
Your mates were already there or on the way or would come at a moments notice
Wifes welcome
Kids welcome
Great music
Awesome food
Parties galore
My time as a drinker and life in general there was all time memorable. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat.
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This thread amply reflects the maxim that a place adapts to its people. My memory of most of the bars cited were that they were shitholes, but of course well frequented by the first two waves of expats who liked shitholes. And they were run by shits.
Now we are in waves three and four of the expat cycle. Waves one and two are either dead or gone home or licking their wounds living penurious lifestyles in some shack in the suburbs. Waves three and four want the type of places Miggles wants and is giving them.
Now we are in waves three and four of the expat cycle. Waves one and two are either dead or gone home or licking their wounds living penurious lifestyles in some shack in the suburbs. Waves three and four want the type of places Miggles wants and is giving them.
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You bored with the rat race already then dude?ricecakes wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 2:30 pmLet's face it.
Cambodia was the greatest bar fly scene ever until everyone got responsible and left and all the good ones closed and the funk just...changed. Oe maybe it's still great.
It was..
Cheap as fuck to drink
Dirt bike to the bars
Beautiful girls
Your mates were already there or on the way or would come at a moments notice
Wifes welcome
Kids welcome
Great music
Awesome food
Parties galore
My time as a drinker and life in general there was all time memorable. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat.
I don't regret my years of travelling one bit either.
Do it while yer still young kids!
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
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