ThingsAsianKhmer. Wat Pho?
by Jack VanNoord, Jan 29, 2011 | Destinations: Hong Kong / Thailand / China
Cracking Up
Image © 2011 Jack VanNoord
We were visiting the Wat Pho temple in Bangkok. As I am sure you know, the Wat Pho temple was built several hundred years ago by people who were part of the Khmer kingdom.
This gave rise to the following exchange between me and my twenty-year-old nephew.
Me: "Hey, Austin"
Him: "Yeah."
Me: "Khmer."
Him: "Wat Pho?"
Both: "Ha ha ha ha ha."
Everybody else: nothing but eye rolls.
The more often we did this little exchange, the funnier it got.
