Cambodia showcases similar French influences, culinarily with pastries and coffee and architecturally with French peaked roofs and traditional windows.

These kind of add-on rooms often had sloping roofs and it just so happened that there was a French word pente abroad in the land at the time and pente meant "slope."

To the Western eye, blue-domed roofs belong on French estates, stone turrets on castles, and white Corinthian columns on Greek temples.