NEWS: Cafe Leaves Bad Taste In Cambodia's Mouth

CULTURE: Cafe Leaves Bad Taste In Cambodia's Mouth

For those of you who are unaware of the genocide the Khmer Rouge caused from 1975 - 1979, or for those who feel they need a reminder, you can now dine at a Khmer Rouge-themed restaurant in Phnom Penh, the capitol of Cambodia. Apparently, "with a menu featuring rice-water and leaves, and waitresses dressed in the black fatigues worn by Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist guerrillas."

I'm not sure if I should feel sorry for these people, or be furious at such an ill-formed idea.

Wow.

I'm STILL not sure, though. However, one thing I AM sure of- I don't think I'd be able to eat in a place like that.

Hmmm - I guess I'll shelve my Gitmo Bay Grinders Sandwich Shoppe idea.

How about Googuse's House of Butt Pyramids?

Auschwitz Sandchwitzes, anyone?

GODWIN!

*golf clap*

Oh dear; it's no surprise to me that people won't eat there, I just can't believe that it's a surprise to the owner!

Some things are hilarious when they're in the worst possible taste, e.g. Naming your Chicken, 'Tikka.' However, (apart from laughing at the cognitively-challenged proprietors) this isn't one of them.

They should have made their idea into oh..I dunno...lets just bat areas around here...a MUSEUM??! How about that? A building where people can go and remember a terrible passing of time. Genius I tell you.

Poor things. I guess we all have ideas that are just insane, but its sad when someone gets to actually launch an idea and end up smacking themselves in the ass...over and over again.

hehe, chicken 'Tikka'...I'm vegetarian and I smiled. hehe.

i was actually at the S-21 genocide museum this past august. unnerving stuff. all of the visitors were very reserved and the place just had a bad feel to it.

i can't imagine anyone coming out of there after seeing the rooms and rooms full of pictures of victims and saying "jee, i wish i could experience what it was like to BE one of those people."

bad form.

Sorry, you can't Godwin yourself...

Lunch at the Abu Ghirab deli, anyone?

ps. I think the story ends with them having to shut down because of unrelated debt or something along those lines.

[Edited on Oct 04, 2005 9:59AM]

Preemptive Godwinning is now part of the Bush Doctrine.

Oh yes.

I'm glad I'm not the only one really annoyed at those things. They have one every year at one of the local harvest festivals, and I think it's pretty damn ghoulish.

And really, cafe owners, what the fuck were you thinking?

The holocaust museum in DC is the same way. It's a great museum, but when you leave you don't really want to live anymore.

Rofflecakes.

Yeah, the Holocaust museum in DC is the one thing I recommend everyone to go see. Really hits the whole thing home (particularly the room of pictures and the one of the shoes.... God that fucked me up for a while).

I would have SERIOUS questions about sanitation in a place like that. *shudder*

Chocolate covered pretzel anyone?

The Japanese (I think it was the Japanese) used to have a restaurant that was modeled after Auschwitz. Don't know if it is still open. So this is not really a new idea.