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Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Bet Jeun Chinese Restaurant
Upon entering, the first thing that impresses me is the cleanliness of this place. Many of the low-budget Chinese restaurants in town have a relatively no-frills atmosphere. That is not to say that the food is bad. It is just…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Armand’s
There’s a lot of restaurants in this town, many of them French, but when Armand’s opened it quickly shot to the top of everyone’s must-eat-here-more-often list. Affable owner Armand pulled off this feat by creating the perfect storm of location,…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: The Tea Club
As two smiling young Cambodian men roll open the double doors of “The Tea Club” I enter into an atmosphere of fine Chinese elegance. The interior of this place is imbued with a calming mixture of deep, rich, red paint…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Rahu
If you’re looking for Metro’s goofy wannabe urban chic (white on white, changing wall of color) you won’t find it here; Rahu is serious about its minimalism. Save for the huge painting of an angry monk child glowering down on…
Quick Sunday Dinners 1: The Rising Sun
The concept of the traditional English Sunday roast is all rather ho-hum to the septic tanks and colonials , but it’s a sacred ritual for those of us from, “This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of…
Burger Samdech
The august editor of this e-zine cornered me in a small, local watering hole the other evening, “Playboy” he bellowed from behind the safety of an American lass who was attempting to convince the DJ that Italian Disco was the…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Lian Rong
There’s not much in the way of frills or décor at Lian Rong, but the florescent lighting and basic outfitting of this unassuming little place on Monivong provide cover for a dining spot where you may find more than you…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Pacharan
The partially renovated colonial French villa which houses Pacharan restaurant maintains the charm of wooden stairways and paneling, well-lit spaces and classic yellow exterior with white trim and checkered flooring. Superimposed over these are modern additions of an island-style bar,…
Cheap and Cheerful Places to Eat, Cambodia Style
When I first arrived in Phnom Penh, all I wanted from a restaurant was air-conditioning. Nothing appealed to me on the riverfront. I hadn’t yet discovered Brown’s or Vego. And the last place I wanted to be was anywhere near…
Restaurants and Dealing with Awkward Customers in Cambodia
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I’ve been running the kitchen at a friend’s restaurant in Cambodia for the past couple of weeks. It’s the wet season, so there aren’t many customers about. But it’s been good fun getting back into the kitchen, and teaching the…