The Cambodia You Never Knew Existed 🇰🇭

Cambodia! A country with fascinating history, culture, food, and a wonderful sense of chaotic calmness to it. Maybe the temples, the wonder of adventure, or mysterious scenes of Hollywood spring to mind when you think of this place. But what we found was a little different. While what we experienced in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh was incredible, we wanted to see Cambodia beyond its mystical temples and religious traditions. So, to do so, we chose a random district on the map and ended up in Battambang. But we weren't there to see the Bat Caves or Bamboo train. No, no! We wanted to seek out locals to see how people truly live in the depths of Northern Cambodia - to share culture and create an experience not possible with a Google search or a "Top 10 places" article. What we found fascinated us, and we hope it fascinates you too.
Please find Anut and John if you're in the area and rent from them! Best experience I've ever had - they go above and beyond to help.
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[@CamboVlogs]

Great to see travelers just filming genuine local interactions rather then the picture perfect spots visited 1,000,000×.

[@wehatethecold]

Thanks! We love to go into the local spots and talk + learn from people. You can google the perfect picture spots but you can’t recreate the connection with people.

[@wehatethecold]

You were recently with @backpackerben and @baldandbankrupt right?

[@enaena4599]

🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭

[@sean13]

I wonder if there’s wholesale beef too at that market

[@no_soy_rubio]

Just watched this dude, this was awesome! Great wholesome content!

[@wehatethecold]

Thank you mate!

[@dogfoodtogo]

Chilling like a local 😎 👌

[@panhanoun1882]

Stay safe 🙏💜and sending love from Cambodian 🇰🇭

[@wehatethecold]

Much love thanks for watching

[@Hussle126]

My moms from Battambong I need to visit there one day

[@wehatethecold]

Get yourself a ticket and on the way, it's great!

[@khemchanto401]

Thanks you for visit cambodia 🙏🙏Stay safe

[@wehatethecold]

Thank you!

[@bullyear1973]

Love your interactions with the people!

[@wehatethecold]

Thanks!

[@hengteng]

thanks for showing

[@CHORNRATANAK]

Great Vlog love it!!!!

[@ryphon912]

Love Battambang! I missed Battambang Airport, my Dad used to work there in the 70’s ( Missed you Dad )

[@wehatethecold]

Battambang is awesome! My condolences about you father. I hope it bought back fond memories

[@mrseeya6136]

I Like your Content 😁 I was in Cambodia for 5 weeks in May and am now 4 weeks in April. I'm looking forward to it and I will definitely visit the airport this time haha.😁

[@wehatethecold]

It’s an awesome site and not very well known. Was cool to hang out with Cambodian people there. I wanna go back and play some football there one day!

[@p.kem4018]

I hope to visit the motherland one day. Safe travels

[@theanyuch7917]

Love your video 🤩🤩🤩

[@veasna5244]

The woman at the scooter rental is such a nice lady.

[@wehatethecold]

She was fantastic I really hope she gets more business from this video

[@AlexSee03]

My parents are khmer and indeed at the end of the video, that alcohol is made of rice :) Thanks for this genuine video

[@wehatethecold]

It was great! Thanks for watching and sharing your information

[@Nalinn9968]

Thank you so much for visiting in my country🇰🇭💖🙏🙏

[@wehatethecold]

Was a pleasure!

[@mohasaldiary]

That's genuinely good contents 💖

[@wehatethecold]

Thank you sir! We are trying 🫡 it gets better from here on out because I’m getting more confident with the camera

[@daveuygur]

Love Your Video & Content. New Subscriber Here Thank You & I’ll Keep Watching. Congrats On Your Channel. Dave 😊🌴

[@wehatethecold]

Thanks Dave! Much love

[@kosalkhunthearrith9256]

bro I think you need a stabilizer. I getting a little dizzy😂, and papaya salad originated from Laos.

[@wehatethecold]

Yeah lol I’m realising I need to hold the camera a little steadier. Heading to Laos soon 🇱🇦

[@callumwalker4461]

What a character the Canadian guy is! Lovely people through out your video here mate - Cambodia has bumped up a few spaces on the vist list for sure!

[@wehatethecold]

He was great along with Anut. Never experienced that kind of service renting bikes. Usually just - here's your bike and off you go, the tyres might be bald and the brakes don't really work but fuck it off you trot mate

[@craigjacobs8199]

Guys great content, you do what I do when I travel, go to the real country. I am going to Cambodia in March. Do you use goggle translate? I found that worked for me in Thialand. Keep safe and enjoy your travels cheers Craig.

[@wehatethecold]

Hey Craig thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Yeah mostly used google translate and tried to speak the words while ordering or talking. Learned a little bit of Khmer that way which was cool!

[@AlohaPanda]

They don’t tip in Cambodia, that’s why they didn’t understand what you were saying lol. If you said donation, they will understand.

[@wehatethecold]

Ahhh makes sense! Thanks for watching and commenting

[@saaem4045]

Welcome to Cambodia 🇰🇭🙏🙏🙏❤️🎄

[@wehatethecold]

Thanks! It's was great there

[@Charlie-phlezk]

@1:36 lmfao the kid owns the place, haha nah, just helping her parents! 😊✌🏼 Hello, the algorithm sent me.

[@Charlie-phlezk]

@5:19 wow that dude grew pot in Canada, that's awesome 😅

[@wehatethecold]

Haha I was a bit shocked at first wondering where they were!

[@Ramiristempest]

Eric, I love your hair so much. I’m so jealous 😭

[@wehatethecold]

Hahaha! She says thank you. Her name is Iris btw :)

[@Ramiristempest]

@@wehatethecold oh my bad

[@wehatethecold]

@@Ramiristempest No problem at all!

[@Nathanyork361]

Yes ongkor mean rice, what you had is rice wine. Which is common there. We also have palm wine too

[@wehatethecold]

Was delicious! Thanks for translating

[@vtuberddd5663]

Battambang (Bat dom bong) it meant Losing stick (Magical stick) as you can see in statue hand.

[@wehatethecold]

Ohhh amazing thanks for sharing!

[@kcpopoo]

30:47 the wine is rice wine. The name is called "White Wine" in Khmer. It's distilled using cooked rice.

[@wehatethecold]

Ahh man it’s awesome it was so sweet and delicious! Thanks for sharing

[@kcpopoo]

@@wehatethecold Was it sweet? It might have been a different variety or it might have been flavored with something. Because the rice "white wine" I'm used to was like gasoline 🥹 Mind you I only ever had a few sips now and then.

[@wehatethecold]

@@kcpopoo It was really sweet which is why I was wondering if it was banana

[@kcpopoo]

@@wehatethecold Ah... They did call it Sra Sor (white wine) and specified that it was made of rice.

[@Oh_ItsClips_ItsClips]

From Canada to Cambodia. Oh nooo!

[@andrewthach1989]

Thing about most Asian countries is they don't ever expect tip so they never know how to react.

[@wehatethecold]

I loved to see how happy people were it was nice especially when you give a big tip. I would love to be able to do it more. Hopefully some day I have the money to help people in need

[@sovannkh7107]

Wish I was there?

[@gmoto2380]

I’m Khmer living in America,When you ask about the beer I was translating for you as if I was with you . 😂😂😂😂

[@wehatethecold]

Hahaha love it. Well you're coming on the next trip then!

[@rothtakeo6276]

The Battambang Airport will be rebuild in the near future.

[@wehatethecold]

Amazing stuff!

[@kolapyellow7631]

They r drinking rice whiskey!!

[@wehatethecold]

Ahhh! But it was sweet? Other rice whisky was really harsh

[@vtuberddd5663]

21:41 I think he said Pii rak nong.

[@wehatethecold]

What does it mean?

[@vtuberddd5663]

I think I love you in thai

[@panhanoun1882]

-You know Ronaldo? -No i don't know! But after seeing the pictures Oh my idol🤣

[@wehatethecold]

Cracked me up that guy absolute legend

[@Oh_ItsClips_ItsClips]

I'd be no good in a foreign country because I am so fussy when it comes to food. I would literally starve to death 😅 I mean, here in UK, I cannot eat sausages without the ends being chopped off as reminds me of bum h0les. I can't eat eggs because I can see the chicken as I eat it and makes me physically sick 😂 I love bacon, but as soon as I eat it I feel sick thinking of the pigs! It's lots of food I struggle with. But it's only been a couple of years ive experienced this. And I don't know why. It's so frustrating.

[@sivanthok6662]

it's rice wine those guys drinking

[@salensy5266]

Dear! you have tested Khmer rice wine, made of RICE it test strong 40* similarity to SAKEE Japanese wine!

[@wehatethecold]

Like iichiko? That stuff is lethal

[@glennpamplona1398]

Visit Philippines 🇵🇭 soon.

[@wehatethecold]

It’s in our plans sometime soon

[@taylores9342]

Languages are more complicated out there, but it’s fun to toured around the Cambodian people 👍❤️💕😊😆🙏🙏🙏

[@kolapyellow7631]

Trashy the market. Why did they liter the mark floor? Where r the trash cans?

[@wehatethecold]

The floor is the trash can hhaha

[@tuantrantaynguyenvlog2371]

Việt Nam của tôi.sao không thấy bạn ơi

[@wehatethecold]

Tôi có rất nhiều nội dung để chỉnh sửa! vài video tiếp theo và nó sẽ được tải lên!

[@fazbell]

Video is too dark to see much, but the content is good, otherwise.

[@gustixasusomg9179]

The girl think you are too handsome so she pay for you 🗿

[@Ramiristempest]

Umm?? No??? Believe me, Cambodian people welcome foreigners so much no matter where you are from, especially when u go to the countryside, the kids gonna say “hi” to u along the way.

[@kolapyellow7631]

Beer vendors don't understand u.

[@maisumaines]

Portugal caralhoooooo

[@wehatethecold]

Portugal é maravilhoso

[@H3ArTM3LT]

The white one u’re drinking at the end was rice wine. And u got trolled the whole vid tho 😂 my advice is dont use full sentence, just use adjective to ask 😂

[@wehatethecold]

Hahaha could you translate the trolling?

[@H3ArTM3LT]

😂 the lady selling u Cambodia beer and calling it angkor beer, 😂 (diff brand btw) and when his husband said 2200riel she said (just told him 2500r) 😂😂 and the vendor at airport probably telling u to say “srey oun”(if i heard correctly) which mean “girl or hey girl” is a way to address girl in a flirty way. 😂

[@H3ArTM3LT]

And the way they tell u to address dogs is weird to me too, normally me call it “ki ki” or “ah ki” or do a sort of mouse/tongue popping sound 😂

[@H3ArTM3LT]

And im red sting gang 🫡

[@wehatethecold]

@@H3ArTM3LT red sting is great too, but I love the gold too much. I learned a few numbers on the trip and I did think watching it back she asked him to charge more hahaha

[@KingNewJersey]

I thought Europeans do not tip, only Americans tip money? LOL Kidding

[@wehatethecold]

Lmao I don’t tip in Britain unless the service is beyond. But it’s much cheaper here so it’s nice to help people out

[@wehatethecold]

Also because I don’t have the money to tip in Britain

[@KingNewJersey]

@@wehatethecold True Story: I live in North Palm Beach, FL, Anyway there was a Day Gambling ship out of Palm Beach Inlet with some people from the UK. I asked one of the Britain guys “why he was working in Florida and not back in the home country" He said there were no jobs in Britain! I was shocked!

[@wehatethecold]

@@KingNewJersey wow really? I would’ve guessed just because everything is too expensive there now it’s pretty ridiculous. Haven’t worked a job for a long time though so I wouldn’t know. Been blessed to find my own way and path in life

[@p.kem4018]

@31:00 rice wine

[@p.kem4018]

Rice grains

[@williampollock8895]

Don't pet random dogs in Cambodia. Rabies is endemic here and none of the dogs are vaccinated.

[@wehatethecold]

Thanks for letting us know. We don’t pet them because we heard about this. But we chuck them a little food once in a while

[@mupchoi74]

The Khmer Rouge was simply returning Cambodia back to the era of Khmer calamity in the early 19th century until the French colonial rule beginning in 1863. The early 19th century was the time when Khmer education and intellectual were systematically subverted by the Nguyen Dynasty that Ben Kiernan wrongly blamed on the French in his book "The Pol Pot Regime". Pol Pot's grandfather name Phem by "Philip Short" was part of the Nguyen Dynasty organization and was killed by the French's trapped for helping organized supplies for rebellion against the French in 1886. Here the truth for most of us don't know. When Nguyen Phuc Anh established the Nguyen Dynasty, he called all Vietnamese people Han Nhen and established the Chu Han as official administrating language under Vietnamese control. The Chu Han is the Mandarin. In most, if not all Cambodia history books, the author simply leave the derivation of the Mandarin in Cambodia out. Therefore, most reader failed to received any real Cambodia history without knowing who was the Mandarin. The French continued to employed the Mandarin to do administration works because few Khmer were available to do it. Sihanouk was similar to the French, but tried to correct the problem by establishing schools at higher cost than most South East Asian's countries, "Michael Vickery". Most of those running the countries during the Khmer Republic and the Khmer Rouge were descendant of the Mandarin because most of the real Khmer were too systematically intellectually subverted. The new comer such as Hou Yuon, Hu Nim and Tiv Ol were not part of the Han Nhen, therefore, they were eliminated to subvert Cambodia from having the ability to administrating themselves in the future.

[@wehatethecold]

Wow thanks for the extensive comment and sharing your knowledge. Are there any books I could read to learn more? I am very interested in the history of Cambodia and Vietnam

[@kea037]

Too bad you’re getting ripped off everywhere

[@wehatethecold]

Where did we get ripped off? They paid for our food!

[@josemarianelsoncortez6725]

CAMBODIA HOW YOU TREATED THE PHILLIPINE BASKETBALL TEAM DELEGATION AT THE ASEAN GAMES..IS THIS HOW YOU TREATED YOUR GUEST? ...YOU PUT HONOR IN THE GARBAGE DUMP....VIETNAM..MALAYSIA ..INDONESIA ARE ALL BETTER COMPARED TO YOU..

[@noneofyourbusiness4423]

People shouldn't worshipping this statue

[@wehatethecold]

What’s the reason for that?