From Yahoo! News:
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A new Cambodian cafe is offering diners a slice of life under the
Khmer Rouge, with a menu featuring rice-water and leaves, and waitresses dressed in the black fatigues worn by Pol Pot’s ultra-Maoist guerrillas.
Khmer Rouge, with a menu featuring rice-water and leaves, and waitresses dressed in the black fatigues worn by Pol Pot’s ultra-Maoist guerrillas.
Newly opened across the road from Phnom Penh’s notorious Tuol Sleng “S-21″ Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture center, the cafe is meant to remind Cambodians of the 1975-1979 genocide in which an estimated 1.7 million people died.
But the set “theme menu” of salted rice-water, followed by corn mixed with water and leaves, and dove eggs and tea at $6 a time is proving too much to swallow for many visitors.
How long until someone tries an Auschwitz Bed & Breakfast?
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One Comment so far. Leave a comment below.I just read an article about how the Khmer Rouge has affected the entire culture of Cambodia.
It’s sad.
How, so many are living in the past..and how devestated people are.
I know it sounds trite, but when you know what horrors humans are capable of, moreso when it’s touched your family… it’s hard to move forward.
It’s as though Cambodia is stuck in grieving mode over 20 years later.
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