After the waterfall, we headed to Sophep’s “Grandmothers” house. She cooked us a Cambodia Hotpot feast, and let us drink as much beer from her store as we wanted. Generally a pretty cool matriarch. Sophep’s “uncle” is a fisherman, so just when we thought the feast was over, he rolled up in his boat with some crabs, and we realized we were only half way done.
The “quote” marks are there because, while Sophep repeatedly referred to these people as “grandmother” and “uncle” they aren’t actually related. Apparently, when the Khemer Rouge took over Phenom Penh and kicked everyone out (literally everyone had to leave the city and go work in the countryside for the Agrarian Revolution) families from the city, or what was left of them, had to get adopted by other families in the country. This is how Sophep got his other family.
