Don't eat the bear paw

Yes...the trade in endangered animals. We've all heard the stories about how anything goes (...onto an Asian dinner plate). Just east of Phnom Penh there's a long string of huge restaurants frequented almost exclusively by Khmers (Cambodians) reputed to sell all manner of exotic cuisine - everything from cobra to dog to different parts of endangered deer among other things. The above billboard is just over the river from Phnom Penh right where the restaurants begin. It implies that you go to jail if you serve up anything threatened or endangered. One can only hope the authorities actually enforce whatever regulations might be on the books. As Cambodia, like much of the developing world, is open to the highest bidder, I wouldn't bet on the menu being close to what most Westerners would consider conventional.