Here's the thing

Oh well new year, new tan new everything.

One of the world things about here is that all transactions are done in USD.
Cambodian currency called 'Khmer riel' is so devalued that most notes are 100,1000, 5000.
So if you buy like a pouch of say shampoo you end up paying 2000khmer riel.

Not that it's expensive it just sounds like a lot, and most transactions in fact all transactions that I've done here barring a few little bits have been done in US dollars.

Buy a mug of coffee, pay $1.50.
I keep wondering how regular people here function and realized that most of their dealings in fact all are done in Cambodian currency.
Basically dollar transactions are most definitely a tourist thing.
The local junta which is rather poor buys and sells everything in denominations of thousands.

I've still got to wrap my head around it but this is how it is.

I bought a couple skewers of local meat for $1 which I thought was a tad exorbitant but at the same time a local bought it for almost half the rate.

Ah well, it's just one among the few instances when I noticed that tourists were charged in dollars whereas locals were charged in riel which didn't translate to as much as a dollar.

It's not a gripe, just an observation.

The people here really are poor and god knows how they'd ever come to have a dollar on them.