Kampong Cham Nightlife

This place typifies for me the problem with guidebooks and the "cult" asociated with them. Basically, if a place gets into a guidebook, it seems to lose effort and live on it's rep. Now, there is nothing wrong with performing well enough to get into a guidebook and mine spoke in glowing terms of Mekong Daze, which is obviously well-established in town. Personally, I found the place totally soulless.

I have no specific complaint at all. I did not eat here although the food looked perfectly OK, I just dropped in for a drink in the evenng. The service was OK, but only OK and completely lacking in the usual Khmer hospitality. My over-riding impression was that the mindset was "we've made it now, we can take it easy".

There is a pool table, book exchange, some extremely old English and French language magazines, a good river view and comfy chairs. They play some decent music of a wide range of genres but there is jsut something about the place that makes me not want to spend much time there. Tehre are enough options along the Riverside Road that you don't have to.

Dress Code: None.