Angkor recycle

Right. This stuff is amazing!
I have my friend Georgia to thank for introducing me to it via her very cool elephant purse! I have been lusting over getting one for at least a week and it was first port of call after dinner!
Except it didn’t stop at the purse! I’ve ended up with a shopper, a beach bag, a purse and an I phone holder! In going back tomorrow for a kindle and ipad case and a wash bag! I love it so much! It’s such a great idea recycling old cement bags etc to make really cool quirky accessories or is crazy tourists!
The quality on all of them is good too (so says engineer husband!) – although I wouldn’t over load the bags, but lets face it for $6 a beach bag I think it’s worth it!

The company was started by Ms. Yung in 2007. Basically local use the pesticides that come in most of the materials used and then chuck away the packaging causing lots of waste and pollution. What Ms. Yung decide to do was to buy the waste packaging from them to make bags etc from. This supported the locals by providing money and jobs, but has also cut down on pollution!

Now that is cool!

http://www.angkorrecycled.org/About%20Us.html

This is their website for some reason I can’t link it ATM but will try again later!

QRR AHA, Siem Reap

AHA was recommended to us by our hotel! It was a very goo recommendation!

Location: two streets up from Pub street, I will find out the exact address and post later!

Staff: very attentive! You get worse service in most 4 star restaurants on London! They weren’t over bearig but kept our glasses topped up and showed us what todo with certain dishes where necessary!

Food: a brilliant mixture of Khmer and posh western food! Te menu starts with taster dishes where you get 3 tiny dishes. The categories include Khmer, cheese and fish!
Now, any one who knows me knows in a cheese addict and funnily enough over the past ten days I haven’t had much of the delicious dairy stuff so yes I went for cheese! I have Camembert and onion spring rolls, goats cheese and truffle on toast dizzled with honey and tiny puff party discs with Gorgonzola and tomato! Delish!!!!
James opted for the Khmer option which included beef kebabs, spring rolls, and noodles with dried snake! Now before you pull a face don’t know it Til you’ve tried it! The snake was really good! Very beef jerky esq! It was James’ favourite out of the 3.

For mains we both had chicken with curry paste and pineapple with sticky rice cakes……YUM! Enough said!

The wine we blindly chose (as neither of us has much of a clue!) was a Norton Sauvignon blanc, we were lucky as this was also a very good choice!! Not to fruity as some Sauvignon can be! My mummy would have loved it!

By this point we were too full for desert but a couple next to us had the cheesecake with honey comb and steamed chocolate pudding with raspberry sorbet (that would have been my choice!!!). They both left 19,20 plates! (That’s empty for those of you that don’t know the nursery rhyme!)

Price: for two courses, a bottle of water and a bottle of wine we paid $60 and we both thought it was well worth it!
Obviously you can eat on Cambodia for much less, but if you’re going to splash out then do it here!

Good afternoon Vietnam, good evening Cambodia!

Just a quickie to say it is definitely worth flying to Cambodia from Ho Chi Minh! 45mins airport to airport and if you fly in the evening the sunset that’ll greet you over the runway is beautiful!