Street food blues in the Kingdom’s capital
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While street food vending is among Phnom Penh’s most visible cottage industries, proprietors are left in the legal dust as authorities demand unexplained “fines”.
Dy Poch, the operator of a mobile grilled meat stall in front of the White Building tenements on Sothearos Boulevard, would rather be farming rice.
While Poch can earn revenue of up to $75 per day, expenses eat up all but around $15, leaving his family with less than $2 dollars each to live on. Poch also said he must pay bribes to avoid being evicted, which he considered an inevitability.