He chews on a bamboo shoot and eyes us with world-weary boredom, as if we were tiresome in-laws.

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With no alternative sites offered to the takenokozoku (bamboo-shoot tribe, as the street dancers call themselves after the first boutique in the area), they have no other obvious place to go.

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They are the ornamentation motifs of flower, vine, flame, lotus petals, bamboo-shoot or water-buffalo teeth, used to decorate objects and architectural elements throughout Cambodia, and people have long drawn these motifs from the environment and social life - from the Angkorian period to today.

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