You can either pay in US Dollars or Cambodian Riel. It takes a quick mind as you will be quoted a price in one or the other and often get change in both. One dollar is worth 4,000 riel. This is the first country I have been to that has no coins. Or, rather, they are not used and I didn't see any. If you are quoted a price of fifty cents you can either pay 2,000 riel or hand over a dollar and get 2,000 riel in change.
No matter how you pay, it's cheap. Everything is cheap. At 75 cents a can, I was paying the "tourist price" and was more than happy. From 1975-1980 the Khmer Rouge abolished the currency, there simply wasn't any currency at all. Suffice it to say, folks here still remember and prefer dollars to riel.
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