Restaurants in Northwestern Cambodia
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Sunrise Coffee House
Caffeine is blended into a variety of delicious forms here and can be enjoyed with fresh-baked goodies, California-style snacks, pancakes, sandwiches and salads.
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Community Villa
Run by a Cambodian NGO that gives job skills to at-risk young people, this place, just off St 2, serves Khmer dishes, including ginger fish; Western meals, including salads; and the best pancakes and tukalok drinks in town. Most Cambodian restaurants have geckos that eat insects; this one has fearless frogs, so watch where you step at night.
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Mlop Doung
Said by some to serve Pursat's best cuisine, this garden restaurant - decked out in coloured fairy lights - serves Khmer specialities such as dtray bong kachait (fish with vegetables cooked at your table) in open-air thatched pavilions.
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Green House Café
Serves coffee, shakes, Khmer-style rice and noodle favourites, salads and exotic dishes - the menu has photographs so clients know what they're getting - such as pizza, hamburgers and doughnuts. Popular with students from the nearby colleges.
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Mlop Dong Restaurant
This timber-shed eatery serves up the standard Khmer favourites, including fried veggies. Mornings are atmospheric as locals drop by for a quick noodle soup, while after dinner this is about the closest thing Tbeng Meanchey has to a pub.
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Fresh Eats Café
Run by an NGO that helps children whose families have been affected by HIV/AIDS, this little place serves Western breakfasts, including bagels, and holds dance performances (USaround US$3) from 19:00 to 21:00 on Friday and Saturday.
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Psar Nat
Cheap dining is available in and around Psar Nat (eg in the space between the two market buildings), but be aware that some places specialise in what can only be described as 'unusable bits' soup. Psar Nat has oodles of food stalls.
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Vegetarian Foods Restaurant
Run by an ideologically vegetarian ethnic-Chinese family, this informal eatery serves home-made soy milk and delicious noodle soup breakfasts and brunches made with tofu or mushrooms. Recipes are Khmer, Chinese and Vietnamese.
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fruit and veggie stalls
South of the roundabout there's a row of food stalls, some with pots you can peer into, others with blazing braziers barbecuing chicken, fish and eggs on skewers. There are fruit and veggie stalls around Sheang Hai Restaurant.
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Araska Restaurant
Run by a Finnish-Khmer couple, this new establishment serves tasty Khmer dishes and good shakes but is best known for its hearty Western fare, including breakfasts, pizza, pasta, hamburgers and veggie options.
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Cold Night Restaurant
With 175 menu items, there are plenty of Asian and Western options, including sandwiches (tuna salad, club), burgers and pasta, plus a local version of pizzas. The name refers to the cold beer on offer.
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Phkay Preuk Restaurant
An enormous and energetic place with Khmer and Thai cuisine and a few Western dishes, including breakfast favourites. It may look closed from the front but head on in - the dining goes on out back.
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Smokin' Pot
Popular with the younger NGO crowd, this cheery, laid-back restaurant serves good Khmer, Thai and Western food - burgers and fried beef with ginger are favourites. Doubles as a cooking school .
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Dara Reah Restaurant
Popular with well-to-do locals, this large garden restaurant has two airy pavilions and generous portions of good grub. Specialities include a sizzling plate of rather chewy sliced beef.
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Suon Kamsan Restaurant
A big, popular place with Western and Khmer breakfasts, reliable Khmer mains and some Thai dishes. The Khmer menus are up on the wall. Crooners perform nightly from 18:00 to 23:00.
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Heng Heng Restaurant
In the evening food stalls pop up around the market. Next to the Meanchey Hotel, Heng Heng Restaurant is hardly more than a shed with red plastic chairs, but the food is decent.
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Sheang Hai Restaurant
Named after the Chinese city of Shanghai (the owner's nickname), this all-wood, mess hall-like place serves Chinese and Khmer dishes, including fried rice and tom yam soup.
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Monorom Restaurant
Next to the Monorom Guesthouse, this brightly lit place is the town's fanciest eatery. If you order a beer, you get hot oily peanuts you can try to eat with chop sticks.
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food stalls
Inexpensive food stalls can be found at Psar Sisophon (Sisophon Market), especially for breakfast and lunch, and in the evening along the north side of the park on NH6.
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market
The market, which burned to the ground in April 2007 but is being rebuilt, has both daytime eateries and a night market, as well as the usual fruit and veggie stalls.
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Magic Fish Restaurant
Affording fine river views from the balcony, this place - just north of the dam - serves tasty Khmer dishes and has the best roasted salt peanuts in town.
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Mercy House
Serves Western breakfasts, noodle dishes, fruit-based beverages and even veggie hamburgers (2800r) amid flowery tablecloths and struggling potted plants.
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Phoum Sra Em Restaurant
Across the roundabout at Sa Em, the tin-roofed Phoum Sra Em Restaurant caters to truckers - or you can eat at the guesthouse with the family.
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Mittapheap Restaurant
Popular with Khmers travelling between Phnom Penh and Battambang, this airy eatery serves good-sized portions of mainly Khmer dishes.
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Riverside night market
Locals in the mood for good-value Khmer food flock to about a dozen neon-lit eateries across the street from the Battambang Museum.
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