Category Archives: Restaurant Reviews
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: La Cita
Phnom Penh’s expat community is sufficiently large that the opening of a place that serves a fine English breakfast or good value for the money pizza is hardly noteworthy, certainly not cause for excitement. On the other hand, the emergence…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: The Lost Room
Getting there is rarely half the fun in Cambodia (dirt bike enthusiasts excepted). Even if you have your own chauffeured transport, a very good speaker system and an ice chest of beer under your feet, it still doesn’t mean you…
Phnom Penh Coffee Smackdown
Phnom Penh. 6:00am. Sun breaking over the Mekong; ladies in pajamas flapping their arms in synchronized ecstasy to Akon along the river, chickens scratching, café workers stoking their charcoal fires in the cool morning air. Time to slog off to…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Viva Mexican Restaurant
It was never my intention for this review to be like a cactus – prickly. Indeed, taking into consideration the sum total of my Mexican gastronomic and culinary history thus far amounted to a pair of Freebird breakfast burritos, I’d…
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…