Phnom Penh Hostess Girl

Phnom Penh Hostess Girl - Chris Coles

More educated and ambitious than the average bargirl from Cambodia's rural provinces, a Phnom Penh hostess girl can sometimes speak pretty good English, might be going to university or some kind of school, has her sights set on something higher, even a life outside Cambodia..........

Phnom Penh Nitelife Street

Phnom Penh Nitelife Street - Chris Coles

Two lines of Expat hostess bars, all pretty much the same, tuk tuk and motorcycle taxi guys hustling, the occasional click of cue balls, a mellow rock track drifting through the thick night air..........

Shanghai Hostess Bar Phnom Penh

Shanghai Hostess Bar Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

Shanghai Bar's a hangout bar, stocked with cute hostess girls on the way up, lots of HTC's, Samsung Galaxys and iPhones, a mix of Expats, Koreans, and westernized Cambodian business guys back from the U.S. and Australia......

French Bistro Hostess Bar Phnom Penh

French Bistro Hostess Bar Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

A combination French bistro on the ground floor and terrace.....downstairs, Cambodians from Paris drinking wine and French tourists dining on truffles and snails.......upstairs, Expats, Africans and Indians getting serviced by Khmer girls......

Phnom Penh Night Street

Phnom Penh Night Street - Chris Coles

A typical Phnom Penh nitelife street, tuk tuks and motorcycle taxis, food carts, stray dogs, feral cats, trash and garbage that never seems to get cleaned up, hostess bars on either side with girls out front chatting with each other, texting on their mobile phones and hustling wandering Expats.....

Street 51 Hostess Bar

Street 51 Hostess Bar - Chris Coles

Busy but cozy, Street 51 is a magnet for Expats on the prowl and swarms of Khmer and Vietnamese girls....a few larger bars, a couple of dance places, including Heart of Darkness, Pontoon...and a bunch of hostess bars, usually with a pool table inside and a little seating area out in front, each one with about ten hostess girls, hustling drinks and barfines....

Street 104 Phnom Penh

Street 104 Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

Bunny Bar, Rose, Zanzibar, Claudia, Top Ten.....all lined up and stocked with hostesses, mostly female but a sprinkling of ladyboys too.....

Late Nite Street 51 Phnom Penh

Late Nite Street 51 Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

Late night on Street 51 is full of little blinking lights, random music tracks, the calls of hello girls, motorcylces, tuk tuk guys hustling fares, Expats from all over the world, Europe, Australia, Russia, the Middle East, even Africa, and cute Khmer and Vietnamese girls....

Chinese Shrine Phnom Penh Hostess Bar

Chinese Shrine Phnmo Penh Hostess Bar - Chris Coles

Almost hidden in the dim light at the back of the hostess bar is the Chinese shrine, the daily offerings of food and drink, hoping to keep the spirits and ancestors happy, and the customers and their money flowing.....