A grocer never works alone. These are the houses and the causes we have met along the way, the ones we share products, premises or simply an idea of how things ought to be done in Cambodia.
They are not logos parked at the bottom of a page. Each of these partnerships has a story, and often a concrete consequence for what you find on our shelves.
Paul Dubrule Hotel and Tourism School
Siem Reap, vocational training
Founded in 2002 by Paul Dubrule, co-founder of the Accor group, this school trains young Cambodians in cooking, service, hotel management and tourism. It runs as a non-profit and most of its students are on scholarships.
We met at the opening of our Siem Reap shop, in March 2024. We asked the school to build a set of canapés around our peppers, spices and teas. The menu was worked out with the teachers, then a temporary kitchen was set up alongside the shop in Kandal Village: student cooks worked under the eye of their chefs while others handled drinks and service.
A partnership came out of that day, and we keep it alive. We supply the school with our teas and spices for its cooking classes and its training restaurant, and our products are sold in its own shop.
The Paul Dubrule school website
KHLA Lodge
Kampot, hospitality
KHLA Lodge is our house in Kampot, on the banks of the Praek Tuek Chhu river, about ten kilometres north of town. The pepper plantations are next door, the salt flats around thirty minutes away by road, on the way to Kep. It is a small lodge, built for people who want to see where the products come from.
The link with the grocer is direct: our peppers and salts are what you find on the table, and the Kampot shop is on site. If you come during the harvest, from February to May, it is the shortest way to the plantations.
Ibis Rice
Northern Plains, rice and conservation
Ibis Rice is an organic jasmine rice grown by farmers in the northern plains of Cambodia, in villages that sit inside protected areas. The principle is simple and rare: families commit to clearing no forest and hunting no threatened species, and their rice is bought above the market price.
The name comes from the giant ibis, Cambodia’s national bird, of which only a very small population survives, precisely in those forests. Buying this rice funds the protection of its habitat.
We sell it in our shops because it matches exactly what we look for in a producer: real traceability, a fair price, and a benefit that does not stop at the farm gate.
Bringing back the Indochinese tiger
Cambodia, conservation
Khla means “tiger” in Khmer, and a leaping tiger is what sits on our logo. That is not decoration. The last wild tiger photographed in Cambodia was recorded in 2007, and the country declared it extinct in the wild in 2016. Cambodia has acknowledged it publicly and is now considering its reintroduction.
Two areas are being studied to receive it again: the Cardamom Mountains in the west, and the eastern plains around Mondulkiri. The work is led in particular by WWF and Wildlife Alliance, and it will only succeed with the agreement of the people who live in those forests.
We do not claim to fund a reintroduction programme. We carry the animal’s name, we work in the regions concerned, and we pass on what those whose job it is are doing.
Wildlife Alliance · WWF Cambodia
Our suppliers
Alongside these partnerships, we distribute the products of houses we chose for their standards. The Bigallet distillery, founded in 1872 at the foot of the Alps, is the clearest example: the quality of its syrups and liqueurs is what decided us to bring them all the way here.