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Nouveau Pho de Paris
258 Monivong Blvd
T
023
723076; map p.66.
An enduring favourite, this popular
Chinese, Cambodian and Vietnamese restaurant serves
huge steaming bowls of tasty
pho
(lotus root and chicken
soup $4.50), spring rolls with chilli and peanut dipping
sauce, succulent crispy duck and the like (around $4-6
each) from a picture menu.
Daily 7am-midnight.
★
offers real value for money. The $6
tom yam
soup is
excellent and will feed two with rice. Breakfast
pho ha noi
costs $3 - a bargain.
Daily 6am-10pm.
★
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Malis
136 Norodom Blvd
T
023 221022,
W
malis
-restaurant.com; map p.66.
A trendy, upmarket
Cambodian restaurant with stylish modern building and
tables around a raised pond in the courtyard. Popular with
wealthier Khmers and the city's expat business and NGO
workers, it serves traditional and modern Khmer food, such
as scallops cooked in banana blossom. It's not cheap
though; a breakfast of
geautieuv sop
(rice noodles in a clear
broth with meat)
and coffee will set you back around $5
(until 11am), while dinner dishes start at $8 and rise
steadily.
Daily 6am-10pm.
Piccola Italia de Luigi
36 Eo Street 308
T
017 323273;
map p.66.
A teeny Sicilian-owned pizzeria - the closely
packed tables spill onto the street - serving the city's
biggest and, arguably, best pizzas. The thin-crust pizzas are
big enough for two (Italian sausage $7.75).
Tues-Sun
11.30am-2pm & 5.30-10pm.
★
Romdeng
74 Street 174, near Monivong Blvd
T
092 219565,
W
romdeng-restaurant.org; map p.66.
This nonprofit training school for former street youths
(organized by the Mith Samlanh NGO) serves excellent
Cambodian food in a colonial villa with pool. Try the lotus
root salad with chicken ($6.50) or the crispy fried tarantulas
($4) if you dare.
Mon-Sat 11am-9.30pm.
Royal India
21 Street 111
T
023 692 2205; map p.66.
This simple, friendly restaurant dishes up consistently good
and reasonably priced Indian food. The comprehensive
menu includes chicken and mutton curries,
thalis
, fresh
samosas, naan and good, sweet
lassis
; the butter chicken is
recommended ($5).
Daily 10am-10pm
.
La P'tite France
38 Street 306
T
016 642630; map
p.66.
A quaint, hard-to-find Parisian-style bistro with an
intimate ambience. The chef, Didier, is proud of his entirely
home-made menu, boasting beautifully prepared French
classics (stewed beef cheek $11) and fabulous desserts
(
crème brûlée
$5.50).
Daily 11am-10pm.
Sovanna
Street 21; map p.66.
This authentic Cambodian
BBQ restaurant is beloved by Khmers for its charcoaled
meats and ice-cold beers. Barbecued dishes come with a
zesty dipping sauce that you mix yourself and raw veggies;
you might want to order a fried rice, too. Options include
grilled spicy frog (11,500 riel), grilled chicken breast (10,500
riel) or fried beef with ant eggs (17,000 riel).
Daily 4-11pm.
Tamarind
31 Street 240
T
012 830139; map p.66.
This
breezy three-storey restaurant done up in the colours and
tiles of North Africa serves excellent tagines (fish lemon
tagine $8) and a mouthwatering selection of tapas,
Lebanese meze ($5.75) and small Asian dishes. The
baklava
with rum-and-raisin ice cream is heaven. Try and get a
table on the upper terrace and enjoy a cocktail looking over
the street.
Daily 9am-midnight.
The Vegetarian
158 Street 19
T
012 905766; map
p.66.
This veggie restaurant with a pretty garden terrace
serves super-cheap food; all mains are less than $3. Juices
cost from $1.75 and the creamy lotus root with cashew nut
curry will set you back just $2.50. Avoid the fried dishes,
though, as they can be a little greasy.
Daily
10.30am-8.30pm.
Yakitori Jidaiya
17 Street 278
T
023 630 2254; map
p.66.
Staff shout “
sama sama
!“ (welcome) as you enter
this Japanese BBQ restaurant that serves up sticky
kushi yaki
skewers, a particularly good
teppanyaki
beef
fillet ($6) and
yakitori don
(chicken rice; $4).
Daily
11.30am-2pm & 5-11pm.
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Chinese Noodle House
553 Monivong Blvd
T
012
937805; map p.66.
This tiny place is always, justifiably,
packed - the fresh pulled noodles, made at the front of the
restaurant, sunk into soups or fried, are delicious, as are the
speciality pork-and-chive dumplings ($1.50).
Daily
7am-9pm.
Ebony Tree
29 Street 29
T
012 581291; map p.66.
A
charming little restaurant in a laidback alfresco garden,
serving a selection of well-priced dishes (chicken in white
wine with Kampot pepper, $6.50), plus lots of veggie
specials, juices ($2) and cocktails (two-for-one 4-8pm). A
small boutique sells handmade clothes and accessories
near the entrance.
Mon-Sat 11am-11pm.
Frizz
67 Street 240
T
023 220953,
W
frizz-restaurant
.com; map p.66.
The menu at this small but excellent,
moderately priced restaurant helpfully includes an accurate
English translation of Cambodian dishes. Try the Khmer
barbecue, fish
amok
or
chhnang phnom pleung
(“volcano
pot”) - a table-top charcoal brazier, on which you can cook
your own meat and vegetables ($5.75). They also offer
cookery courses (see p.78).
Daily 10am-10pm.
Le Lotus Blanc
152 Street 51
T
017 602251; map p.66.
This vocational training restaurant, run by the charity Pour
un Sourire d'Enfant, serves an extensive range of French
and Asian dishes for around $6.50, and has a good all-you-
can-eat lunchtime salad-and-soup buffet ($5). Profits
support the children from the Stung Meanchey rubbish
dump.
Daily 7-10am, noon-2pm & 6-9pm.
Magnolia
55 Street 51
T
012 529977; map p.66.
Served with style at this breezy courtyard restaurant, the
mouthwatering menu of Vietnamese and Thai delicacies
