Black Jack’s
I went for a burger… it wasn’t even the biggest one they sold!
Black Jack’s burger
Obviously it was bloody brilliant….
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Impeccable! Extremely polite. Extremely helpful. Their breakfast was great. Their dinner was great. Air-con. Laptop in the room. Quiet room despite being in the middle of mayhem on the streets… there was a beer festival going on and we couldn’t hear any of it.
Right in the middle of everything, so restaurants, shops, buses, taxis, everything was easy!
10 Reb points
😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
(Nout wrong with this place)
After a 45 minute drive from the airport, we arrive right in the middle of it all! The streets are 10 times busier here than in Cambodia. Streets that are the width of a large Europenian car are being walked on, driven through, cycled through, and biked through all at once … with millimeters to spare. It’s impressive. If I was driving I would have been stressed about the damage, but our driver is obviously used to it.
We got out the taxi and were greeted by this. The street was so densely packed with people, the atmosphere was fantastic. Food everywhere, beer everywhere, people everywhere.
Old Quarter – Hanoi
Our room
After dumping all our stuff in the room, next on the agenda was dinner. We had a wonder round the streets near our hotel and sat down at one of the many placed that offer food. All the place you can eat or drink at have tiny tables and chairs for you to sit on! We went for Salt & Pepper Chicken (grissle or feet, we are not sure). We tried it, but didnt eat all of it as it was basically like eating cartilidge. Great experience, though.
Salt & pepper chicken feet
Our view from our seat
The hotel room has a laptop in it. Total Good send, as using my mobile all the time is wearing thin. A previous guest was clearly a connaisseur of the adult material, with such a specific search term to get right to it.
Google search history
Oft.
You know who you are, Dirty blighter!
Abba Cafe
This restaurant sits at a modest second place behind Georges Rhumerie. Good food. We had a garlic bread and mango salad starters followed by beef lok lak and beef fried noodles. No complains, very satisfying. As always, the staff were very friendly. And I didn’t have to by bottled water here. They gave you free top ups whenever you needed one.
Our bill came in a little bin
Abba Cafe bill
This is the best food we have had in Cambodia so far! Lovely restaurant with indoor / outdoor seating, and a cabana bar.
The staff were welcoming and explained the menu very well if we had questions.
Starter: Dim sum
I’ve had dim sum a few times before in various places round the world, but this is the best dim sum I have ever eaten!
For main course we had pork masale curry, and pork saucisse. Both were fabulous! Along with the dishes, we got 3 chutneys, and 3 chill is that you can add to your dish. The head chef came out of the kitchen to explain each one of the complimentary chutneys/chillis in detail, and the best way to eat them with your dinner. I had a sample of each with a spoon of my dinner, and every one of them was great.
Really nice restaurant, with a chef that cares about his food.
Bill and $2 tip
One of the cheaper nights we have had here, but definitely the best. This restaurant is a must!
Cuisine: Creole Cambodian fusion
Staff: Very friendly
Price: $22 (starter + 2 mains + 2 drinks)
Location: $3 tuk tuk ride from town centre.
5 minute walk from our hotel. Great food. Great service. We were in and out there within 50 minutes. Perfect dinner for a knackered day looking at temples in the blazing heat.
I little more expensive that the average restaurant, but the price is reflected in the food. No complaints from us for this meal.
We went for the Beef Lol Lak, and Chicken Amok.
The beef was basically steak in a sauce, with chips, but really well executed. Lovely spin on the on the usual steak and chips you’d get in any steak restaurant. Light yet very filling… still had a Death By Chocolate for dessert, though. I earned it from all the walking I did today.
The Chicken Amok was great too. Can’t say a lot about it as I didn’t have it, but trust us, this restaurant is definitely worth the extra money.
For 2 mains, 2 desserts, 1 cocktail, and a large bottle of water it was only $30.50.
Arguably still cheap!
Siem Reap is a couple of degrees hotter that Phnom Penh at the moment. That doesn’t sound like much, but I’ll tell you that it is 37-39℃ during the day. Mental!
This place is very tourist oriented, with far more tuk tuks, street food, and restaurants. People will pester you a lot here for business, but you just have to be brutal and say no until they leave you alone. You get used to it and they do expect it anyway.
It’s like an Asian mini-Vegas as it reminds me of the strip there. It has music blaring out and lights everywhere!
I wanted to go here for dinner, but it might have been a tad adventurous for us. We settled on a place that was busy and the menu looked OK. We just got pizzas as it was easy. Couldn’t remember the name of it so I just Google searched it and it is called “Happy Special Pizza”. They did a lot more than pizza, though, so we didn’t know that pizza was their thing.
Sitting there starving, our food took 40 minutes to come. This place is a pub that serves food, and we were the only ones eating as far as we could see. The pizzas arrived, and they looked great, but we’re nothing special, in all honesty. Not terrible in any way, just not a decent pizza.
The bill was only $18 including a cocktail and a large bottle of water, so it was fine for the price.
After dinner we went to the night Market to have a gander. Basically, it’s endless amounts of tat, with added gumph. And they just don’t leave you alone. Mildly infuriating, but ignoring them is yet only way to deal with it.
As it happens, I left my favourite sunglasses on the bus (gutted when I realised! I was having such a relaxing time in the pool at the time too) on the way here so I had to find a half-decent pair to use for going to the temples tomorrow. Got some “Ray Bans” for $5 haggled down from $8. Rubbish but they’ll do. I’ll never get a pair like my favorite ones again. I’ll pull through.
I’m glad we started the trip off in Phnom Penh, as it is a generally a nicer, less touristy place.
Water we got with dinner tonight. If I ever need to ask for this in a shop, I won’t be able to keep a straight face.
Found one of the best rated restaurants in Phnom Penh for dinner tonight. It is called Friends and does “Asian fusion tapas”. You need to make this one of your dinners out if you are in Phnom Penh.
Between us, we had quesadillas, snapper, and pork & chickpea stew. Fantastic food! I’m not much of a fish eater, but the snapper was delicious. This restaurant definitely deserves to be in the top 10 in this city.
My drink was a pineapple, mango, and ginger juice, incase you are desperate for the details. I am not drinking alcohol so this was the fanciest thing that I knew I would like on the menu. Very tasty!
I’m not sure what is on Laura’s cocktail, but it is definitely not a pickled onion!
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