This strange statue of a monkey king holding a lady half human and half fish right in the middle of a small pool in a neighbour’s house immediately captured my attention. It was hardly a month we had moved into this capital city, Phnom Penh. The barking of two little fancy dogs (who thought themselves ferocious) stopped me from getting a closer look of the small statue every time I walked past that house. Later I found similar statues in one of the souvenir shops but the girl in the shop failed to explain to me what it’s. During a trip to Kep, a beach town, I saw this beautiful statue on the way and this really kindled my curiosity. Then I started researching about the monkey and the lady