Cambodia’s hand painted signs in a book

My friends from Very Ngon Homewares were on a recent business trip to Cambodia, and kindly brought me back a book I’d wanted for a while, Hand Painted Signs of Kratie by Sam Roberts. Sam and I share a love for crafted things, like hand painted advertising. Here’s a paragraph from the book:

As I received the book, I heard that the ‘last’ hand painted sign in Saigon has now gone from Hai Ba Trung street, replaced or overpainted by a less captivating image than the original one.