There are places where the merchant stalls crowd out into the road. Usually, if you find a fruit seller, you find half a dozen fruit sellers. If you see a wicker furniture shop, there will be 6 to 8 in a row. There are normal stores, the kind that sell to expatriates, but you seldom see Cambodians inside. The same is true of the restaurants as well, most of the ones I would go to do not attract Cambodians.

So far we have shopped at Lucky’s, Pencil’s, Thai Haot and Sydney purchasing kitchen items, staple foods which we recognize and meats. These are markets that look like a small supermarket in the States, catering mostly to the expatriates. We haven’t purchased any foods other than fruits from the stands along the streets, yet.

You have to watch the fruit stands. The last time we bought fruit was at the end of the day and they slipped in some fruit we didn’t buy. I am not sure if we paid for it or not but we were surprised when we got to our apartment.

We also shopped in the Central Market and the Russian Market. These places are congregations of stalls offering everything from food to clothes to flowers to pots and pans – whatever. Russian Market sort-of specializes in tourist knickknacks. Both markets have a wet market, which is a meat market where they actually butcher the meat on premises, perhaps even killing the pig or chicken after you choose which one you want. Julia nearly puked.