Cambodia Do and Dont

- Don't use your feet to point at someone.
- Don't walk over a person's feet.
- Respect Cambodian elders (they are older than and had more experiences in life than most).
- Don't start to eat when you are a guest at the dinner table before your host has taken a bite.
- Cambodians holding hands is considered friendship and not gays.
- Don't burp while eating.
- Don't pick your teeth while eating.
- When you walk between twoCcambodians talking, bow a little as you across them (it is really rude to walk straight through them without bowing a little).
- Always greet your guest by a drink or place fruit or snacks for them if they are coming over to your home.
- When you are the bride and groom, at your wedding both families greet and welcome their friends and everyone.
- When you are engaged or married, sit bending your knees on the side and look down and not straight at your family in law (the parents) because it is respectful to do so.
- When you sit, women must sit knees bent and legs to the side.
- It is honourable for a woman to be able to cook meals and do everything in kitchen.
- When you get into Temple you have to take off your hat, drive bicycle or motorcycle slowly.
- you have to take take off your shoes befor getting into Preah Vihea or get up/get into monk's Kuthi.
- You have to sompeah when you speak or listen to the monks.
- You have to reply to monks by using the word "kyom konaa" or "konaa
- You have to call monks "Preah Dekjakun" or "Dekjakun"
- You have to dress to cover most of your body when you go to a temple. Do not use much lipstick, much powder or most jewelry.
- If you are young, you have to be brave to speak with monks, because monks are not always self-centered with you and they will try to teach you how to speak and act politely.
- When you are sitting in front of monks or elders you have to sit bending you knees (bot jerng). Do not sit on places which are higher than them.
- When you come across a monk by the way, you have to take off your hat.