Week of Aug. 31, 2008
The Coffee ShopDescription
There's a small corner café in Phnom Penh, Cambodia that serves what reporter Megan Williams declares is "the best cup of coffee in the city." A former waitress runs it. She worked at a restaurant across the street that shut down.
Faced with unemployment, her regular customers at the restaurant — taxi drivers — came to her aid by clearing a spot where they had parked their cars and set up a kitchen, some plastic tables and chairs, and created a coffee shop.