Saturday, March 11, 2006

IKEA in PP

You will be pleased to know that that Geneva institution, IKEA, has made it to Phnom Penh. There are numerous establishments where you can go and choose items of furniture from the IKEA catalogue. They then go away and make it to indestructible specifications out of felled rainforest. Fortunately, the concept of the flatpack has not yet been adopted. Your furniture arrives strapped to the back of a tuk-tuk (a four-wheeled carriage with a moped welded to the front) and half a dozen Cambodians to carry it up the stairs...

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