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What’s so Doubtful about a Doubtful Salad?
There’s a great beer garden in Phnom Penh that my friends and I like to go to often enough for it to be on our regular list. It’s on the corner of St. 360 and the delightful Tuk S’oy (smelly…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Hotel Nine
Dining at the Hotel Nine restaurant has dispelled a couple of myths for me: 1. Hotel restaurants aren’t usually very good, and 2. Tapas are too small to be satisfying. This unassuming little spot is quite the hidden gem. Unadvertised,…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Gastrobar Botanico
Getting into Gastrobar Botanico is a bit like foraging in the jungle. If you don’t have a machete on hand, it’s a bit of a challenge to skirt the hanging vines and push through the leafy plants flapping across the…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Fish and Company
Something Fishy? Spending an evening at Fish and Company is a bit like walking into a David Lynch movie. Imagine “Finding Nemo” meets “Fawlty Towers”. Toss in the scene from “Poseidon Adventure” where a band plays in the corner of…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Beirut
Beware the Ides of March. That’s all I have for a snappy intro. The day had started at 5am, poorly, and went downhill from there. So I was not in the best of moods when we turned up at Beirut,…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Sophy’s Restaurant
Sophy has for the last nine years run Sophy’s Café in Long Beach California, where the largest Khmer community outside the Kingdom can be found. A California friend who has long frequented her Long Beach place enthusiastically recommended I try…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Indian Delight
It’s hard to resist a restaurant when the menu uses words like “spit-drooling”, “hunger-evoking” and “finger-licking”. It’s also impossible to wrap your mind around the following phrase, displayed prominently on the menu at Indian Delight – “Our aromatic appealing dishes…
Cambodian Food: The Chef Hailed As A Genius By Raymond Blanc
My nine-month quest to learn how to cook Cambodian food hasn’t been an easy one. There are only a few decent cookbooks on the subject, and even they’re filled with contradictions, making it even harder to get to the bottom…
Spit-Roast Cows Banned For ‘Inciting Violence’
One of the strangest stories of the week must surely be the government ban on spit-roasting cows in public. Apparently, pen-pushers in Phnom Penh think the sight of calf carcasses being slowly barbecued and then chopped up in full view…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Dolce Italia
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Tough life here in the big city: Which rooftop pool bar should we go to? Italian or Sushi for dinner? Can you recommend a good driver? Blah blah. Back home I paid an obscene amount of money to share a…