Places to eat in Cambodia

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There are many branches of the Blue Pumpkin. We visited it once in Siam reap - after a long morning of visiting the temples and once in Phnom Penh. They have everything from Fresh Berry Smoothies to Waffles and pastries. Drowning in choices, i ordered two items. The Ham and cheese Quiche and the Cheese toast. Oh gosh im craving for those right now! The taste was just right and they are very generous with portions. They also have a gift / souvenier shop at the Siam reap branch, where tourists can buy their very own miniature Angkor Wat or other cultural souveniers. But quite pricey. The food however, was great value for money.

At the Phnom Penh branch, we enjoyed rocky road icecream and pasta. The ambiance of the phnom Penh branch is much more relaxed and casual than the Siam reap one. They have unique "Bed like" couches all arund the upper floor, where you can put your feet up and work on your laptop until your food arrives. The Food is kept on a "Breakfast in bead" kinda tray so its easy to feel at home :) Check out the site for a clearer image of this.

The website however needs a revamp since only the contact details and locations are currently listed. This place is a MUST if you ever visit Cambodia.

Favorite Dish: Ham and chese Quiche - Filled with mouth watering cheese and ham. Simply heavenly. Easily the best Quiche ive ever tasted.

The restaurant had just opened when I visited. The menu consisted of several Italian dishes, several Cajun style dishes and a mix of English and Mexican food. The restaurant is located on a busy but small street which has it's own ambiance.

The bar itself is a beautiful half guitar shaped wooden top with brick face.

There is a small area for live music and a set of drums with microphones, mixer and amplifier.

The music collection has about 70,000 songs, some of which are very esoteric.

There is also a free internet terminal as well as WiFi available, a bit slow in the day time but good at night.

Favorite Dish: Having eaten the hamburger, the Italian meatball sandwich and the Italian meatballs with linguini and homemade Marinara sauce as well as the Chilli and Mash I would have to say they were all very good. Being English the creamy smooth mash did it for me.

Being a big eater I found the large version at $6 the best choice. Other people that had the standard size were surprised I could eat so much.

If you're in Ocheutal beach and you don't go for a Pizza at Happy Pizza , you just miss one a good dinner ! went to 3 different but HAPPY PIZZA IS the ONE !

Wow , wow .... try and be happy with your choice !

Favorite Dish: PIZZA ! # 13

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After you have become dazed and exhausted walking around Phnom Penh pop into the Russian Market for souvenirs and then take the weight off your feet with a refreshing iced coffee at Mr Bounnareth's stall. He is a lovely man and will smile and nod (if you don't speak any Khmer which I don't) and you will come away pleasantly refreshed.

Favorite Dish: they had lots of food but we just had drinks

This restaurant offered halal food. And yet seafood (prawns) also chicken.
It was outdoors on the roof - I personally was too hot to eat - yet I recommend it as
everyone else was happy, and they managed to deal with a very large group we had
approx. 50 people.

the other reason I added it was to show you a picture of Pheakday Nim, the super duper
arranger from the embassy who made everything go smoothly and also a lady at this event and her daughters with whom I had a good conversation about the lack of programs for
Muslim women in the area - not that there aren't NGOs, they just aren't focusing on leadership

This was not specific to one restaurant; I had food prepared with Kampot pepper sauce and also with the green pepper pods and both were delicious. At the buffet at the Raffles hotel, I asked and they gave me a recipe, basically oil, chicken stock, garlic, the pepper (which you can buy whole or ground), oyster sauce and Chinese [their term] wine.
This was served with meat, but could be with chicken.

Me and my girlfriend were spending a couple of days in Ban Lung and did a google search for restaurants and discovered a place named Sal's. Reading the reviews people raved about the food so we decided to give it a try.

We went there and both had pasta dishes and on the following night had Tortillas both dishes were seriously tasty and quite refreshng compared to some previous places we hd visited on our travels.

The food is mainly western with a good selection of vegetarian food and a few local dishes.

We were also pleased to meet Sal and she made us feel very welcome and we also met a crowd of expats who frequented Sal's regularly which is always a good sign.

At the time of our visit the roads were being upgraded and it was a bit tricky to find Sal's but we asked the locals who pointed us the right way.

Favorite Dish: On our first night we both had pasta which were from the specials board.
Mine was Carbonara which tasted great and the bacon was as good as you get back home in the UK.

Second night we both had Tortillas mine was beef and my girlfriend had vegetarian both were great and good size portions.

We had excellent Khmer food here. I enjoyed Tonle Sap fish cooked in banana leaf. I believe they tried to adapt the taste a little to Western taste but the food was still very authentic to me. Very good value.

Recently they also have 24-hour pizza delivery service to make sure no tourist will ever go hungry in Seam Reap, whatever the hour

NB: Photo of their cooking classes, from their website