Rice is a staple food item in Cambodia which puts Sokun* in the pulse of any crisis. For example, when the country went through a tense border dispute with Thailand in 2008, all her rice got snapped up. In 2013, torrential floods burst across the land and ravaged the streets. Again, she was left without…
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Dry Season
Ah Xin started working in the provision shop to help her parents as a sprightly 10-year-old. Fifty years down the road today, she still bubbles with the good-natured charm of her childhood, supplying a colourful diversity of dried goods in her humble little space: dried red chilli, dried fish, dried mushrooms, dried chrysanthemum flowers, dried tofu… you…
Housework
“This shop was started by my father-in-law. When I got married, I started working here with my husband. 38 years already. But now, no new customers, all from before.”
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