Ice cream to savour

Chhunly and me outside The American restaurant in Kompong Thom

I had 20 minutes to spare once the Mekong Express bus had stopped in Kompong Thom town center before it was due to leave again. Whilst everyone else piled into the Arunras restaurant, where I always find the food boring and the service worse, I headed a few doors down the side road to The American, where my friend Chhunly was working, for a catch-up and a milk shake and a banana split. They make their own tasty ice-cream as well as pizza and hamburgers and the restaurant is definitely worth trying next time you are in town. Steer well clear of the Arunras. Chhunly has been working at the restaurant for about a year now, studies English Literature for three hours every night and has little time for anything else, let alone the folk dancing that she was doing when I first met her a couple of years ago. That's a bit sad as she loved her dancing, but she views her studies and work as more important at this time.