Breakfast Deals on St 172
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Breakfast Deals on St 172
At La Dolce Vita, breakfasts include the omelette and baguette with any one of the following: cheese, onion, ham, tomato, mushroom for 2.50. I pass up omelettes with baguettes because they make me feel like Bob Cratchit the night before Christmas.
The baguettes most restaurants use are a lot like cardboard, not like what you can get in Sihanoukville, the divine French ones or even the cakey ones Harry the German makes.
The cheese toastie goes for 2.00 and comes with one of the following: tomato, onion, pineapple .
Fried eggs and chips, which, they don't say, but includes ham.
The last breakfast on the menu, you have to eat just because of the name, Bubble and Squeak sounds like it was suggested to them by an Aussie very late at night: mashed potatoes with mixed vegetables, two fried eggs, baked beans (whose sweet taste, right out of a can doesn't go with any of the other items): 2.75.
The variety in this makes it seem the most nutritious, but it is as tasteless as most of the Western food in Cambo.
The Boston, nearby, offers bacon and eggs (any style) with toast or baguette for 2.50, as well as the same omelette with baguette with cheese, potato, tomato, onion for 2.50. Prices and items in Cambodian Western restaurants are so similar it suggests they are caught in what businessmen call the commodity trap.
Across the street is Aroma, whose full name is The Aroma Chef Restaurant and Bar, even though it is not a bar at all. Perhaps they tack bar onto their name to attract what we will discreetly call the drinkers.
Their menu includes eggs, baked beans, and hash browns. I have charitably omitted the price here be cause the hash browns were not hash browns but a mashed potato patty heated – I mean reheated – in a frying pan.
The baked beans were dry and sour, as if they been vomited up by a legless Brit on gap year after he'd just been told his girlfriend with the biggest tits in Cambo had dumped him for a tuk-tuk driver named Sharky.
Some might wonder why I don't mention eggs Benedict with Hollandaise sauce for 5.00 some restaurants offer. The reason is that I'm not here to accommodate the gluttonous appetites of the typical expat in Cambo.
Not a day goes by when, just to get to my hotel, I don't have to step over the bloated, eggs-benedict-stuffed belly of some expat, flat on his back, unable to get up because he wanted to go one way and his bloated gut wanted to go another and he lost the argument.
The baguettes most restaurants use are a lot like cardboard, not like what you can get in Sihanoukville, the divine French ones or even the cakey ones Harry the German makes.
The cheese toastie goes for 2.00 and comes with one of the following: tomato, onion, pineapple .
Fried eggs and chips, which, they don't say, but includes ham.
The last breakfast on the menu, you have to eat just because of the name, Bubble and Squeak sounds like it was suggested to them by an Aussie very late at night: mashed potatoes with mixed vegetables, two fried eggs, baked beans (whose sweet taste, right out of a can doesn't go with any of the other items): 2.75.
The variety in this makes it seem the most nutritious, but it is as tasteless as most of the Western food in Cambo.
The Boston, nearby, offers bacon and eggs (any style) with toast or baguette for 2.50, as well as the same omelette with baguette with cheese, potato, tomato, onion for 2.50. Prices and items in Cambodian Western restaurants are so similar it suggests they are caught in what businessmen call the commodity trap.
Across the street is Aroma, whose full name is The Aroma Chef Restaurant and Bar, even though it is not a bar at all. Perhaps they tack bar onto their name to attract what we will discreetly call the drinkers.
Their menu includes eggs, baked beans, and hash browns. I have charitably omitted the price here be cause the hash browns were not hash browns but a mashed potato patty heated – I mean reheated – in a frying pan.
The baked beans were dry and sour, as if they been vomited up by a legless Brit on gap year after he'd just been told his girlfriend with the biggest tits in Cambo had dumped him for a tuk-tuk driver named Sharky.
Some might wonder why I don't mention eggs Benedict with Hollandaise sauce for 5.00 some restaurants offer. The reason is that I'm not here to accommodate the gluttonous appetites of the typical expat in Cambo.
Not a day goes by when, just to get to my hotel, I don't have to step over the bloated, eggs-benedict-stuffed belly of some expat, flat on his back, unable to get up because he wanted to go one way and his bloated gut wanted to go another and he lost the argument.
Bubble and Squeak is an English thing. It's basically last night's veggie leftovers (peas, cabbage, onions etc etc) mixed and mashed potato and fried into patties. Pretty awful stuff unless it's done very very well, which won't be the case on 172.
I'm a big fan of Dolce Vita for dinner. Their pasta dishes are generally excellent and good value at $4 but the breakfasts are truly terrible. To give you an idea of how bad they are you just need to consider that logos likes them. I rest my case.
I have heard good things of Sony Side Up's Eggs Benedict, but haven't tried it yet. I must give it a go and report back.
I'm a big fan of Dolce Vita for dinner. Their pasta dishes are generally excellent and good value at $4 but the breakfasts are truly terrible. To give you an idea of how bad they are you just need to consider that logos likes them. I rest my case.
I have heard good things of Sony Side Up's Eggs Benedict, but haven't tried it yet. I must give it a go and report back.
I love Sony's eggs benedict, but the past couple of times he hasn't had them (they're not in the menu, they were introduced as a special) I hope he doesn't do away with them!
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Coffee at Dolce Vita. That's my breakfast.
When I do get around to brekky, I haven't found the right one yet on 172. My default is usually Dolphin. And the Sundance used to be good. Haven't had it in a while because I'm just never sure anyone's working there.
Thanks for the explanation of bubble and squeak, K440 boss.
Good thread idea.
When I do get around to brekky, I haven't found the right one yet on 172. My default is usually Dolphin. And the Sundance used to be good. Haven't had it in a while because I'm just never sure anyone's working there.
Thanks for the explanation of bubble and squeak, K440 boss.
Good thread idea.
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Bubble n squeak has only old roast potatoes, not mash, and old boiled cabbage, nothing else, mashed together and fried in lard or dripping. Throw in some back bacon, tomatoes, eggs and you have a real English breakfast. It was the first meal I learnt to cook around the age of ten.
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And this is why the NHS has over 1.4 million employees.horace wrote:fried in lard or dripping.
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My old man 's favourite snack was bread n dripping. He came from a family of thirteen, two died in infancy, four died during WW2 , the rest lived till their mid 70's and beyond. The last sister ( my aunt ) died two years ago aged 85. Hard working cockney, docker family, it ain't what you eat , it's how you live.
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Most of street 172 is "drunk food" like La Patate, is it not?
Dolphin is good value. Sundance is good as well - i think they have a wings night.
I see that Amazing Happy Pizza place always seems to have customers, I guess they are making a killing. 2 questions - 1) Do they serve good food which brings the customers? 2) I see some people sleeping on (or near) the tables at this place sometimes, I suppose it is actually "happy" and the result is why customers are asleep?
Dolphin is good value. Sundance is good as well - i think they have a wings night.
I see that Amazing Happy Pizza place always seems to have customers, I guess they are making a killing. 2 questions - 1) Do they serve good food which brings the customers? 2) I see some people sleeping on (or near) the tables at this place sometimes, I suppose it is actually "happy" and the result is why customers are asleep?
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172 is a grim place it has to be said. The only reason I've ever gone there to eat is because a prominent poster on here brought me to Dolce Vita once. Amazing what $5 gets you in there and very tasty.
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Much has been said and written about the hierarchy of different categories of expats, but there are really only two types: those who eat on St. 172, and those who don't.
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That's not true. I have eaten there five times (excluding Quealy) but I don't think that makes me someone who eats on 172.gavinmac wrote:Much has been said and written about the hierarchy of different categories of expats, but there are really only two types: those who eat on St. 172, and those who don't.
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Somebody's in denial.Bosco wrote:That's not true. I have eaten there five times (excluding Quealy) but I don't think that makes me someone who eats on 172.gavinmac wrote:Much has been said and written about the hierarchy of different categories of expats, but there are really only two types: those who eat on St. 172, and those who don't.
Oh, and eating at Shanghai Bar doesn't count. Obviously.
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