Category Archives: Restaurant Reviews
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews – Dim Sum at the Almond
It was the last Sunday of March and after firing up the Vespa (a thirty eight year old Sprint now with dents) and passing the Hieronymus Bosch depiction of hell known to all as Bodeng (the Building), it didn’t take…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Return to Sichuan
These days, being far too poor to eat food cooked by white people, it’s back to Chinatown for Sunday lunch with my old friend from Queens NY, Frank Rizzo ( the man whose hairdo is a hair-don’t). Carefully avoiding cheap…
Bambi and Chips in Battambang
You’d hardly notice it, tucked away down a central but quiet and slightly gritty side road near the train station, Jip Sreng was the world’s gloomiest aircraft hanger – a vast bleak ballroom of a place more or less empty…
Two More Battambang Suppers
I inwardly groaned when Chhay Vet suggested schlepping out into the wilderness on the edge of Battambang to hit yet another fried beef place, but Goh Dut, which we can translate literally as Burnt Cow, was quite different as the…
Supper and Breakfast in Battambang
We’d planned to take last night’s supper just out of town at ‘the restaurant with three wives,’ Chhay Vet and myself, mainly because I was highly curious to see the owner, a man with not one, not two but three…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews – Sovanna
Arriving at Sovanna we did at 7pm on a Sunday evening, we were lucky to tag a table only about a hundred tables away from the best seats amongt the sprawl of luminous pink or blue tables and chairs looking…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: La Patate
I imagined that a Belgian bistro would, be dark, smoky and retaining a noirish conspiratorial feel to it. Yet La Patate couldn’t be more different. It’s well lit and as brightly coloured inside as a Tin Tin cartoon strip with…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews; Pop Cafe da Giorgio
As I enter the front door of Pop Café I am blasted with a wave of aromas which transport me back to the Old World bistros of my Italian American New York neighborhood. The warm smell of freshly baked bread,…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews – Sichuan Restaurant
It’s twelve noon on a Sunday and the Sichuan Restaurant is so packed that you are lucky to get a table. I have already warmed up with two liters of TsingTao before my buddy walks in to commence the week’s…
Phnom Penh Restarant Reviews – Lian Rong Dumpling House
The bubbly blue-jeaned waitress sings “ni hao ma” as she deals two classy-looking, professionally printed menus onto the table next to a teapot and cups. Although a comprehendable English speaker, she provides me a small dose of Mandarine (because she…
