Dinner with a context

This month, Red Fork Dinner club (hosted once a month at different locations around Phnom Penh, chefed by Teia and attended by a great range of her friends, colleagues, contacts and all interesting people) placed itself on top of the one of the most iconic buildings in Phnom Penh.

Built in the 1960's when PP was in its heyday, the White Building was designed by prominent Cambodian architects Van Molyvan and Lu Ban Hap who were charged with creating a new Cambodia, as a housing ownership scheme for civil servants (a sign of how modern PP was in the 60's). During the Khmer Rouge era the building was left to rot and now is one of the larger slums in the city,claimed by everyone and anyone and home to people to whom daily survival is more the agenda than home ownership.

Dinner was served on the roof of the building, some of which is partially collapsed. Tables, plates, chairs, and everything else were heaved up the stairwells and the oven was powered by plugging it in to a nearby bundle of wires that hung over the street.

It was, as always, a wonderful evening. See more photos here: Dinner on the White Building