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Hello, my fellow tight, solid crushers. My name's Marcus and while I rarely play poker anymore, I spent a little over a year around South East Asia (though I myself am from here) playing poker. Here's the first part of a little story I wrote about Poker and Psychology, and I'm interested to know if Poker Players would find it an enjoyable read. It's fiction, though.
"Peranciskah." I uttered beneath my breath.
That word meant "French" in Bahasa Indonesia, a language I had been trying to pick up. Little did I know that very word would kick start my career as an oracle.
It was a Friday night. I was seated at a poker table, on the second floor of Nagaworld, Phnom Penh's glamorous casino. It had been a pleasant, grossly profitable evening and before me was the chip version of Mount Everest.
All night long, the cards came my way. If I needed one more heart for a flush to complete, it came; if I held a pair of fives, a five would come on the flop giving me three of a kind; and even if my bluff had been caught, an ace would rescue me on the river.
"How did you know?" The Frenchman on my right spoke.
There was an urgency in his tone as if I had just remarked that brie tasted like puke. I leaned towards my left, ready to dodge any blows, a paranoid thought conspired by the sheepishness of having raked at least four stacks of chips from him.
"I just do." I said, eyeing on the Submariner Date strapped around his wrist.
How many times do I have to stack him to buy myself one of those?
In the previous hand we had clashed. He barrelled on the flop and the turn, and shoved all-in on the river. Normally I would fold - he represented a monster while I had only a medium strength pair - but two orbits ago, I remembered him taking this exact line and showing a bluff smugly when the other player folded.
"Action on you, sir." The dealer spoke, looking at me.
I peeled the cards to see eight-nine of clubs.
"Raise to ten." I announced.
The French man turned around and spoke to the lady standing by his chair. The lady had tanned skin, like that of a local, but her facial features, and her style of dressing, made it obvious (at least to another Asian) that she was not Khmer.
"Not see him before." I heard the woman say as a bald, moustached, gold-watch wearing Vietnamese in his sixties.
"Franciska, are you sure? That man, he knows your name." The French man replied.
Putting two and two together, I realised what had transpired. While I was innocuously reading off "French" from my phone's Google Translate, the French man assumed I had mentioned his partner's name.
I laughed.
"What's so funny? How did you know?" The French man probed, his eyebrows furrowed, as if he was holding the King high flush and had been raised him on the river.
"I was just -," I said, when the dealer cut me off.
"Action, sir." She shook her head.
The flop (the first three community cards dealt) read Ace of hearts, five of clubs, six of hearts. The Vietnamese grabbed a handful of chips, as if about to bet, then checked. A classic sign of weakness. I put in a bet of $15, hoping to rake in the pot, or find a seven that would make me a straight.
Seven. Seven. Seven.
"How did you know? Do you know my wife?" The French man probed.
"No -. Let me get this hand over with first."
The turn was the Jack of diamonds. The Vietnamese once checked again. Though I still had air, I cut out a bet of $40 and slid it forward $50 pot. He swiftly called.
Must be on a draw.
The board of Ace of hearts, four of clubs, five of hearts, jack of diamonds was completed by a benign two of diamonds.
In the middle of the table, the pot had now loomed to $130. I missed my straight, and held not even a pair. Thinking that the only way I could win was to bet at it, I cut out chips, preparing to fire a final bullet when the Vietnamese spoke.
"One hundred." He pushed a stack of red chips.
I examined him, surprised. Why would he take the initiative all of the sudden, after taking a passive line to this hand, check-calling me earlier on the flop and the turn. The two of diamonds which fell on the river was also considered a 'brick', a card which was unlikely to change the strength of either the Vietnamese's or my holding.
Unless he somehow had a hand like a pair of twos (and now three of a kind, or more correctly, a set), or an unlikely hand like three-four (which now made a straight - A2345), there was no reason for such a peculiar play.
I thought it was likely he was bluffing. Still, all I had was nine-high, not even a pair. Calling was not an option. And given the Vietnamese's antics, which I had been subject to many a times, folding was worse.
You see, though that man was a recreational player, he was a professional needling, and had a way to bruise another's ego with his seemingly jovial comments. I knew exactly what would follow if he was bluffing and I folded my hand.
He would tell me it was a 'good fold', as if it were a sign of respect, then proceed to say 'for me'. And that would not be the end of it. For the remainder of the session, when his attempts to make eye contact succeeded, he would chirp - 'I love Singapore! Singapore so good!' in my case (I was from Singapore), or 'Make America great again!' if his opponent was from the States.
"Two hundred and eighty." I announced.
Fold, you twat, I obviously have a bloody good hand.
Dread seeped in exponentially as the Vietnamese senior remained still. My heart pounded as if my chest was a tree's bark and it was a woodpecker with a titanium beak.
Don't call. Don't call. Don't call.
"All in."
Damn. Forgot about that.
I was about to fold my hand - all I had was nine high - when from the corner of my eye, I caught the French man staring at me, his eyes exuding the vibes of a detective. That pocket of lapse - somewhere in between the dealer's impatient look, the cigarette smoke that whiffed by, and the French man's glare - a realisation hit me.
The way the entire hand played out made no sense. Firstly, as loose as the Vietnamese played, I had never seen him play a hand like three four before. If he had a pair or two's, he would have mucked it on the flop. The only possibility was a set, or three of a kind, with which he most definitely would have raised on the flop, or at least on the turn.
Could he be bluffing?
I stared hard at him. There was a twitch in his eyes, and his lip - I thought I saw it trembled. I then recalled the infamous Stu Ungar vs. Mansour Matloubi hand in 1990. In that hand, Stu Ungar called Matloubi's hand out - 'you either have four-five or five-six', followed his instincts, and was right. It was a phenomenal hand that continues to awe poker enthusiasts till today.
Could this be my Stu Ungar moment?
While money was an important caveat in poker, there existed something far greater than the texture of Benjamin Franklins. The experience of having crushed another player's soul. Having them feel as if you were able to see right through their skin, into the depths of their minds. As if they were a children's book, titled 'EASY', and you were an English major.
It's an absolute beast of a moment when it works. The tossing of the call chip. It landing on the felt. The head shake of the opponent. The beaten sigh that follows. The feeling that you're a genius, as if you were using a cheat in Counter Strike.
And that's just the Caesar's salad.
The rich, fattening, absolutely delicious, double chocolate Gelato comes when you turn over your equally weak hand. His face contorts into total disgust. He's dumbfounded, part-distraught, part-amazed. A column of cigarette smoke rises behind him, and you can't help but wonder if that is actually his soul leaving its shell.
You feel as if you're the best poker player who ever lived - no, you are. It's a feeling that surpasses an orgasm, or even the euphoria heroin jets you to. It's like feeling as if you're having an orgasm, while on heroin (was that even possible?). It's a feeling that makes every dollar of a hundred bad calls worth it.
I squinted my eyes, took a deep breath, and spoke.
"I think you have six-seven or seven-eight. I call."
As the chip I tossed in was mid-flight, my eyes remained fixed on him. I begged for his shoulders to drop, for him to heave an exasperated sigh, for some sign of defeat.
But if his trademark smirk emerged, I had a plan to save myself some face - I would lie to the table about my hand.
"Very good call." He spoke.
"What you have?"
"You first." I said.
My worries that his bluff would beat my hand were dismissed when he reluctantly flipped over his cards to reveal over six-seven of clubs, a missed open ended straight draw.
"Me Alibaba." He also had the weird habit of using 'Alibaba' to mean 'bluff'.
I paused, savouring the moment, peppering it with a little showmanship, as if we were on the final table of the World Series of Poker. In a suave, I-do-this-all-day fashion, I turned my cards over. The entire table, even the dealer, who thought that you should go all-in before the flop with kings, and especially the French man, exclaimed.
The Vietnamese reverted to his native tongue as his eyes protruded from his sockets, almost at the tip of pulling off a kamikaze onto the felt.
If only this were a televised game, I thought, as the dealer pushed the Vietnamese's entire stack of chips towards me.
"I love Vietnam." I grinned.
"Oun, this is for you." I tossed the dealer a green $25 chip.
Little did I know that the night was far from being sealed.
"You are an oracle." A voice from my right spoke.
"Maybe." I grinned.
"No maybe. You are an oracle, and I know it. That was the sickest call I have ever seen."
His eyes were incredulous, fanatic, as if he had just seen God. His words were not banter. He was dead serious.
"Most of the times such antics leave me kicking myself."
Nonsense. Just look at the stack you've amassed. I've never seen you lose a hand. And don't tell anyone else, but I've been in the mythic scene for ages now. I know an oracle when I see one."
It would be a lie if I said I did not enjoy this flattery. But the French man's eyes exuded a crazy which began to unsettle me.
"Look, I'm just on a massive heater. Haven't you had one of those days where lady luck smiles at you all night, and you scoop pot after pot feeling like a champ?"
"Never." The French man replied.
"Oh, you're so bad at excuses. Oracles have that weakness. And what about you knowing my wife's name then? I never told you, and she said she doesn't know you."
"That's because -."
"I know you Oracles value your privacy. I can keep a secret."
"Hear me out. Peranciskah means French man in Indonesian."
"Nom de Dieu! You even know my wife is Indonesian! Dieu merci! Make no more excuses. I know who you are. Don't worry - this will be our little secret. I won't even tell Franciska."
I took this screw-loosed French man as a sign from lady luck to quit while I was ahead.
Exiting the casino, I made sure to look as if I was a degenerate who blew everything. Robbery was a real concern. Putting on a mask of sorrow, I stood at the taxi stand as the breezes from the Tonle Sap river cooled my skin.
Feeling my thick, three-thousand dollar thicker wallet through my jeans, I thought how tonight was a much needed relief from the two straight losing weeks I was caught in. I thought of calling a few friends to meet me at the sky bar of Phnom Penh tower but realised it was near to its closing time.
Maybe it was another sign from lady luck a visit to a hostess bar was imminent (it's all your fault, sky bar). It was then a Mercedes pulled up, its window rolled down, and a familiar, heavily-accented voice startled me.
"Oracle!"
It was the French man.
"I'm sorry!" He hushed his loud voice. "Don't think anyone else heard me though. Nom de Dieu! I thought I lost you forever."
"Monsieur, how should I address you?"
"Antonine. And you, Oracle?"
"You can call me Jason. Well, Antonine, I hate to break the news to you, but as much as I'm grateful for you thinking me in such a flattering manner, I'm not an oracle. That call I made was sick, but that's because you haven't seen the countless failed calls where I muck my hand silently in shame."
"Ah, I forgot. No self-respecting Oracle does work for free."
The French man released the strap of his Submariner Date and placed it in my hands.
"You're serious?"
The French man's eyes gleamed with hope, as if he were a devout Christian, and I, God.
It was that moment, with his weighty, exquisite timepiece in my hand, when I looked at the French man in his irises, and decided that what I saw in them was not Jason Tan, but Jazoson the Oracle.
This is part of a larger story. Wanting to get a feel of whether the styles worth continuing so here I am. Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it. Would love any feedback and hope this post doesn't get removed!

Mammoth post incoming..... I read a lot of posts in this thread and others to help me prepare for my first time backpacking in South East Asia, used mostly reddit and youtube to collect information and in return to all the helpful people who advised me, I want to add a bit to the info out there. This was our first time backpacking in Asia but we have both travelled a decent amount, apologies to those seasoned backpackers who might eye roll at the obvious things I point out! And how long this post is! few linked included where possible.
I travelled with my boyfriend (both in our mid 20s) for 7 weeks from Nov 2019 to Jan 2020 covering 4 countries; Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. We travelled as a couple, not really looking for the typical hostel/partying experience. I had spots/cities we wanted to stop in picked out more so I could check that our return flight back gave us enough time (bf had job to come back for). For those interest I travelled with 40l backpack (Osprey ladies size I recommend for small gals). and 15l day back and boyfriend had 65l backpack. I really reccommend getting up to date on vaccines and/or visiting somewhere like Nomad travel (UK major cities only) for additional shots. We also bought a medical kit from them which came in very handy and I would buy THIS one (works out cheaper than making your own).
Our original plan was to buy a motorbike in Ho Chi Minh and then use that as our main mode of transport to bike across Cambodia and then finally go to Bangkok, so there's a section about bikes at the end.
I am plant based / have a pretty strong dairy intolerance, so I'll add a section about travelling as a 'vegan' as I found it more difficult to get concrete advice on that before I left.
We are from UK so our budget/prices we evaluated against £ GBP
Hong Kong - this was the most built up and relatively similar experience to our lives at home and eased us pretty gently into travel. I would compare Hong Kong to a metropolitan place like London. We stayed in the Wan Chai district and would recommend the are for first timers. Not as expensive as the Central District and gives more local flavour with the street markets which you are likely to explore or pass through on the way to the MTR. Stay on Hong Kong Island over the peninsula as a lot of activities are there and though it is more compact you get a good sense of what HK is really like.
Prices - cost of restaurants was about the same as home - £8-10+ for a meal. Transport - incredibly cheap, routes often less than £1 or 50p Lots of 7/11 and Circle K with reasonable prices for snacks or eating in
Things we did: - Victoria Peak - there are some views more 'within' the city if you take the giant escalator up and walk a bit further as opposed to going straight to the top - Mong Kok area and surrounding markets - Hong Kong museum - quite dated and nothing on history of recent years but it is free - Hong Kong Peninsula night time view of HK island (symphony of lights show) - Temple Street night market - Dragon's Back - this was easy to get to via bus and a nice welcome break from the city. An easy hike. - Ching Chung Koon, Tao temple - really beautiful temple with turtles, easy trip by bus to visit
Shenzhen - We went to Shenzhen as we wanted to see what China was like and had some intrigue about it being a Special Economic Zone. My advice to absolutely everyone, unless you know of something on the other side you want to see, is do not go.
We read that it was free to enter but you would have to get a short stay visa stamp. We ended up stuck in immigration after getting off the MTR for about 2 hours, first you must go and get a photo and a visa put in your passport which includes filling our a form and being asked a few questions about your stay, then you go downstairs and fill our a landing card, get fingerprinted and then pass through to Shenzhen. There isn't a clear explanation as to where these different rooms are to get the whole process done and you're at the mercy of how busy the waiting rooms are for how quick you get out, no visas would be ready and then they would surge in 10 being ready for collection at once.
Shenzhen was a very homogenous city, we couldn't find any historical sites or areas designed for non Chinese to engage with the local fare, though bare in mind Shenzhen is absolutely huge and we were short on time after arriving later. Tube system is cheap and in English and we used cash to pay. When we tried to use bank cards to take out more money I had no luck with Mastercard, Visa and Visa credit card at more than one ATM. The best part of the trip was a small antique shop in the train terminal with genuine trinkets, pottery etc. The guy was quite fair with our haggling too.
Macau - Again we visited this as another special zone outside of HK. Again unfortunately I don't recommend going. To us, Macau was missing all the parts of the Vegas strip that would make a high concentration of casinos together worthwhile; no smoking indoors, no open carry on alcohol on the streets, no street vendors or anything to create an interesting people-watching street, not helped by how spread out all the casinos were from one another. We visited the Venetian which brought us away from the casinos on the ferry side of Macau, so that might have made a difference. The Venetian at Macau had the same feeling as The Trafford Centre if UK readers are familiar with it. If you have been there you'll have your own opinion about it and use that to inform going to Macau.
Hong Kong Protests - Before leaving for HK I'd been keeping up with the protest news. Though by November the 'peak' of protests seemed to have passed a lot in UK news there were still plenty of reports of violent clashes daily. From digging around online I felt that it was still safe to go but just to be mindful of large groups of people collecting or the university area. Whilst we were in HK we didn't see anything that alarmed us or made us feel unsafe. While I don't think the media outlets were incorrectly reporting protest clashes, the actual volume of them appears to be exaggerated (but that's how news makes money, right..). We saw graffiti at most MTR stations and some bus stations that had english text posters and print outs explaining the situation that were even updated overnight to new developments like Trump's treaty. One mall we tried to go to adjacent to some university buildings was closed and the MTR next to it was all smashed up but other than graffiti we felt very safe when wandering round the city both day and night. I would say the university area probably needs the most caution, but if the MTR is stopping there again then there has probably been improvement.
Vietnam - We flew into Ho Chi Minh city, stayed for about 3 days. I'm curious to return to Vietnam in the North of the country, while the South was very interesting to see I was more than ready to move on after about 8 days. Didn't really get a good feeling out of HCMC; extremely loud, sticky, busy place. The best thing we did was go to the War Remnants Museum, things like the old post office were interesting but they don't really take up much of your day. A phone sim for 2 weeks with unlimited data was easy to get and cost less than £10 I think.
HCMC is a good place to take advantage of cheap taxis and cheap food. We could get a good meal and a soft drink/smoothie for £2.50/£3, grab taxi was about £1 anywhere and £1.50 in a grab car, Circle K essentials like a sewing kit were about £2.
Would recommend the Grab app for getting around - though it wasn't my favourite place we visited, I was really able to appreciate the pace and culture of the city zipping through little side streets on the back of the bike from District 1 down to other places in Chinatown area.
There are plenty of markets to visit, but when you've seen the stuff at one the others aren't really much different and people didn't really want to haggle with us.
We did a Mekong Delta day trip, though I'm not always a big fan of a guided tour this was fun and worth going on. Have a look on a site like Klook and pick something that sounds interesting and in budget - we visited temples, honey farm, coconut farm, held some snakes, traditional boat on Mekong and lunch for about £18 each for everything.
Nha Trang - we visited here as somewhere in South Vietnam by the sea before heading westways for the rest of the trip. It was a much calmer and quieter city than HCMC but I'm not sure I would visit again, very windy in November. An unbelievable amount of Russians here, more built up and developed than I was anticipating too. Long Son Pagoda and Ba Ho waterfalls were good to visit, though Ba Ho seemed to be having a very big touristy development built on it which was a weird contrast to the very difficult to climb and almost untouched waterfalls. We biked to Bai Dai beach - just make sure to take the first turn down to the beach before you hit the strip of resorts being built because it goes on forever and they won't let you through for access to the sand. Beautiful views on the way down but can see the whole area and Vietnam in general being swallowed up by package resort tourism which is a shame.
Cambodia - This ended up being my favourite country of the visit. Though there's not really pavements or waste management or sewage and you can't drink the water etc, but there was little rampant tourism, people were kind, the weather was great and we saw some beautiful places. Phone sim will cost you about $5 and you can only top up limited data about $5 for 8GB.
Prices - Cambodia has 2 currency system with USD and riel though most of the time you're using USD (4,000 r = $1). I felt like because of USD prices were rounded up a bit more so it was still cheap, but more expensive than Vietnam. Eating out probably about $5-7 or more if you're not holding back. There aren't many chain stores in Cambodia so you're at the mercy of individual places for a good selection of snacks and then hopefully not grossly inflated prices especially on Western imports ($2.50+ for pringles?). I did find that pharmacies were cheap. Make sure you haggle with tuk tuks or use PassApp, but that app needs some work so it's often easier to take one that's in the street. In PP/SKampot getting around we paid no more than $3. In SR to go to the airport $7.
We took a bus to Phnom Penh from HCMC which made the border crossing quite easy. We had e-visa already printed out etc but it didn't seem to make our waiting time any shorter but saved us having to fill out any forms at border control.
Phnom Penh - felt a lot nicer than HCMC as soon as we got there really. Still hot and dirty and hassled like hell for tuk tuks but I felt more kindness from Cambodians. Compared to HCMC this was a whole lot quieter and more relaxed. Not every building has a formal address so if you're not staying at a hotel (airbnb) bear in mind you might need more visual instructions to find your stay.
We stayed near the Royal Palace and the area round there, though more for expats was chilled out and there were local markets, not far to walk to temples and sites etc. There are a few hotels in this area with pools if you need to cool off. The one we tried we just took the lift up to the roof no problem, but I had messaged another nearby that said it was for residents only.
Siem Reap - though this city is pretty much here for Angkor Wat tourism I enjoyed being here not just to see the temples. We stayed at THIS airbnb which was very reasonable and probably one of our favourite stays. No pool but there were a few places nearby that were happy to let us use theirs, we just bought drinks and food. There are a few temples in the city near the city where you can see fruit bats all in the trees. The river here is nice, big market, lots of cats.
Angkor Wat: we bought a 3 day pass and went on a sunrise tour one morning and then did our own thing on the other days. Doing the tour means you get up and in for sunrise at the right time and it's good to get some history about the places you're seeing. Angkor Wat temple itself wasn't the most interesting to me and there are hundreds if not thousands of people there in the morning that makes it a lot less enjoyable. We also visited:
Ta Phrom - temple from Tomb Raider Angkor Thom city gates Bayon Temple - this was a cool 2 storey temple that is merged with depictions of Hinduism and Buddhism Preah Khan
You can hire a tuk tuk driver for a day around $15 mark or you can hire electric bikes in SR centre and take those around (tourists not allowed to ride motorbikes in temple complex) $5 for 24hrs. Just make sure to give your electric bike a good charge beforehand as the battery doesn't always read right. There is a restaurant in the complex you can swap your battery at - the whole temple area is an extremely large place, you can be 15mins drive in between spots so plan carefully.
Koh Rong Island - we took a flight from SR down to Sihanoukville to then get the ferry across to Koh Rong. Our flight ended up being delayed by 12 hours (welcome to Cambodia) so we had to stay a night in Sihanoukville and go across the following day. Travelling from Sihanouk airport to Sihanouk we had to wear bandanas over our faces to stop breathing in the dust, even though only one window in the car was cracked, it's hella dirty. If you are travelling from the airport to town I highly discourage taking a tuk tuk or rickshaw; the roads are not well surfaced in a more extreme manner than what I saw in PP and SR, there are a lot of freight trucks which will need to be over or undertaken in order for the journey to not take hours. Taxis are unfortunately the most expensive here and the journey cost $20.
Sihanoukville - I'm told recent infiltration and development of Sihanouk by the Chinese has completely transformed the city in the last 2/3 years at an incredible rate with no care for the local Khmer population. It was possibly the worst place I've ever visited. Dusty and dirty on another level, open building sites and construction absolutely everywhere. Very young looking boy in a digger pulling up the pavement less than 5ft from a busy restaurant. I had to climb up a 3ft pile of loose rubble to get to an ATM because the whole side of the road had been obliterated.
If you are waiting for the ferry on Beach Road and you need an ATM but they're all broken like they were when I was there in December, there is an ATM on the actual pier. I was stressing about taking money out for Koh Rong as I heard there was no way to get cash on the island but when I was there I saw a few places that offered cash out (but I didn't try them).
I reccommend reading THIS reddit thread and the LINKED article by a Chinese blogger about Sihanouk.
I read THIS travelfish article about Koh Rong which was very helpful too. I had an impression from the article that the island is quite under developed, which in some ways was definitely true, however it was easy to do what we wanted and we didn't struggle for places to eat etc. We stayed on the main pier (though really this is still a small strip of restaurants and shops, no resorts) and spent most of our time on White Sand Beach. Koh Rong could not be any more different than Sihanouk and it was a great place to spend Christmas and unwind. We didn't do much other than swim and lie on the beach and it was great! There were boat tours to take but a lot seemed to end with 'free drink and party' and we weren't interested in that. Prices on the island were the same as PP/SR. The only things that were a lot more expensive were activities - someone had a jetski you could rent for $100.. and there was some tree top zip line you could do for about $20.
We visited 4k beach next door which was a lot more remote, beautiful as well but only one option to eat. We came past Coconut Beach when we left on the speedboat and that looked to a bit less than the main pier but still stocked with a good few options. Overall the food we had on Koh Rong was some of the best!
Kampot - A small town/city on the river. Very chilled with a nice central part of town with good places to eat. There are hardly any big hotels or buildings over 3 stories - it felt like a more real Khmer place than somewhere like Siem Reap. From Kampot you can visit Bokor Mountain, Kep, salt fields, a lot of natural escapes. Unfortunately we both got very sudden aggressive gastro-bug or food poisoning so we spent 5 days pretty much inside doing nothing (was going to happen at some point). Kampot was a quiet place and we were able to recover well here though.
Kampot to Koh Chang - From Kampot we travelled to Koh Chang, Thailand. I'd seen some speculation online that it wasn't possible to do this trip in one day, but having done it I can say yes it is but it is a long day. Almost every bus trip we took on our adventure meant that we lost all of the day (no motorways in Viet/Cambodia) however the quality of transport means it can take even longer. Vietnam was good with sleeper or semi sleeper buses, however in Cambodia our 6.5 hour trip from Kampot to the Thai border at Trat was 16 people in a 12 seater minibus plus a baby.. so bear in mind long distance trips in Cambodia can be testing! From Trat border we got a minibus to the bus station, then a songalew/thai taxi to the ferry and then a minibus took us to our hotel on the other side [12 hour trip].
Thailand - Much more infastructure and felt more modern than Cambodia and Vietnam, but I couldn't really get a vibe for the place and felt like a lot had been lost to the prevalent tourism. I would maybe visit again but staying away from coastal areas - if felt like the Spain of South East Asia.
Prices could be a little more on top of Cambodian prices but you could find cheap places to eat. About £5 for a meal. Taxis cost about £3 through Grab. 7/11 and Family Mart very cheap snacks for pennies.
Bangkok - as this was our last stop we didn't travel to many temples or big spots outside the city because money haha... we stayed away from the expat areas, the Museum of Art & Culture had a cool free exhibition, the malls Siam Discovery, Siam Paragon are worth visiting for the food halls and just to see. Where we stayed had a pool so we took it pretty easy. Went to Chatachuk but too much tourist and sweat..
Bikes:
We bought a bike in HCMC via facebook marketplace - I would suggest if you know anyone Viet to get them to help you get the true price because as a tourist you're probably seeing an inflated price tag. If not that it might be possible to get one from another backpacker, but then you may be at the mercy of any damages or issues with the bike they're not aware of as they aren't familiar with bikes.
We took our bike (Honda Cub c 50) to Nha Trang with us stowed in our sleeper bus - we visited a few bus trip/tourist places and one was happy to do it for us. I think for 2 people and the bike was about £23 one way, so not bad at all. You'll have to empty the fuel before it goes in the bus so just remember that at the other end you might have to give your bike a min to run the fuel through it again. We sold it in Nha Trang because it wasn't quite powerful enough to get us around with any bags (i was not in charge of buying bike haha...). Bikes are more than easy to rent in every country we went to for probably £5 a day max. We had a bike in Koh Chang but I know in Thailand there are more rules about tourist rental so I would swerve riding on the mainland. The most hectic place we rode was HCMC so I would just suggest avoiding that if you can, even if you ride in your home country.
We sold our bike in Nha Trang via facebook marketplace. We took a loss but it was more about cutting our dead weight before the rest of our trip so to speak. If you really want to ride a lot in SEAsia, Cambodia has no restrictions on tourists having bikes up to 125cc if you want to play the legal legal route (not that I saw any police in Cambodia over 3 weeks!). A bike is also a responsibility and if you're wanting to feel completely free while travelling it might not be right to buy one. Do thorough research! I travelled with a full face helmet and I was grateful for it on windy rides and hectic places likes HCMC. If you're not planning on riding a lot then this is definitely not essential but finding a full face helmet, that fits, that isn't too bootleg to break on you might be some things to consider (bare in mind I was planning on doing long rides when planning this trip initially).
Veganism / plant based / special diets: As mentioned I have strong intolerance to all dairy products and am generally vegan; I still eat eggs maybe once a week and might have fish and chips a few times a year.
With the exception to intolerances and allergies I think the best approach to eating in South East Asia or travelling in general is be willing to be flexible. I only like to eat plant based, but I'm happy to eat eggs and at a push will eat fish or chicken. This is obviously not what I want to do for every meal but consider that you might be getting places late at night, options that are clearly described in English as not containing your allergens may only have meat in them etc.
When I travelled to Japan and also for all these countries, I wrote 'I cannot eat dairy etc' in English on Google translate and then screenshotted the response in the desired language if I needed to show someone to confirm ingredients. For Japan I looked up pre made examples as I know the kanji can sometimes not translate directly, but here I just had the google translate page as a back up.
Hong Kong - a lot of English spoken here and a lot of specifically vegan places however they are more expensive. At 7/11 they sell the 'Kind' granola bars which are vegan and yummy! and I also ate the ready made egg and rice sushi balls. Some ingredients were listed in English but I don't remember finding any other easy go-to's. At bakeries, of which there are a lot, almost everything appears to be cream filled, buttered, flaky pastry. I found I could eat walnut and raisin breads without any noticeable issues, but I didn't have an ingredients list to check.
Vietnam - in HCMC I was very lucky to be staying down the road from a fully vegan restaurant that had ice cream, vegan banh mi, smoothies etc (Healthy World in District 1, there is another somewhere else in the city). Tofu was on menus and on an English menu in a Viet place I could safely pick something veggie. Asking for a dish to be 'chay' means veggie and that works too. Because everything is so cheap, it seemed to be easy enough to eat here. Desserts were limited with the exception of a vegan shop.
They do have Oreos, in general for all these countries, I hope you like Oreos because they're the only dessert option most place !
Cambodia - Sometimes easy and sometimes not. Tofu did appear on menus, I would recommend trying Tofu Lok Lak as a veggie Khmer dish (it will probably come with a fried egg) and I was able to ask for curries just veggie or with tofu. I ate mostly eggs and toast of some kind for breakfast because that was a filling option. Every city I was in there was at least one vegan cafe or restaurant that was not too much more ££ than a normal meal so I knew at least I could get myself something nice and safely vegan every other day while keeping a budget. I was concerned about Koh Rong being a remote island that I would struggle to eat but this was one of the best places! There is a purely veggie/vegan restaurant on the main pier, as well as other restaurants offering vegan pizza, veggie pad thai, tofu curries etc. I also found a second kind of chocolate biscuit that wasn't an Oreo here!
Koh Chang/Thailand - though we were back to having access to 7/11 the options seemed more limited and Thailand was my least favourite place to eat. In 7/11 I did find a few different kinds of Almond milk (& oreos!) but ingredients were rarely in English. Some options at the food halls were inari sushi, Subway (hash browns) and a few other (but more pricey) dedicated vegan restaurants in the central district.
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Authorities in southwestern Cambodia's Sihanoukville province have shut down a Chinese-owned casino accused of polluting an adjacent beach following the casino's defiance of orders to cease operations, sources said on Friday.
The Jin Ding Hotel and Casino located on Koh Rong Samloem Island, a popular tourist destination, was ordered to close in March because it was operating without a license and releasing untreated sewage water directly into the sea.
Also speaking to RFA, Cambodian environmental activist Thun Ratha welcomed Friday's move by the authorities, saying it had come a little late and voicing hope that the casino will now be closed for good.
"We don't believe that it will be permanently closed," Thun Ratha said, adding, "We are afraid that today's action is just intended to calm people down, and that the casino will be opened again within a few months."
In a letter seen in March by RFA's Khmer Service, provincial authorities ordered Jin Ding closed, citing multiple violations by the casino of the law, the playing of loud music on the beach, and the promotion of illegal online betting games.
A report by the AFP news agency in January on how Sihanoukville had become a "Sizeable gambling playground" for Chinese tourists said there were at least 50 Chinese owned casinos in the province.

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