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As soon as you enter this fairly spacious restaurant, you are immediately hit by the infectious atmosphere. Sounds of people chatting, laughing and drinking beer; tables full of local people; and the wonderful aroma of seafood and meat being cooked on small gas cookers abound.

Soft music plays in the background and the green foliage covering the walls creates a natural atmosphere. The English menu includes a good choice of meat and seafood to cook on your own mini-barbecue.

The beef is served raw with raw eggs on top, a selection of side dishes –soy, chillies and sweet chilli sauce – and a large plate of mixed vegetables. A tasty choice for only 9,000 riel a plate, cooking it yourself makes for a more fun and interesting meal out.

As well as the DIY range, you can choose from a large variety of dishes on the menu. Some weird and wonderful choices include deep fried frogs, goat soup or beef with some big black ants thrown in to add that extra flavour! Most dishes are priced between 8,000 and 12,000riel with a few dishes just over the 20,000 riel mark. For 8,000/11,000 riel you can have a plate of really tasty squid or prawns with black pepper.

Full of flavour, the food is well presented and surprisingly, everything comes out really fast and at the same time. The staff are very friendly and helpful. The headset-wearing, English-speaking manager is happy to assist you if you need any help and takes pride in telling you about the local food and how it is cooked.

The beer is pretty cheap at 5,000 riel a bottle or alternatively, for 17,000 riel you can have your own 3-litre dispenser of beer on the table. One word of warning though, watch out for the beer girls. They are very good at filling up your glass without you even realising it and before you know it, you’ve managed to get through three bottles of beer when you only ordered one!

– Sandra Vallender

54 Langeadh Sros Restaurant, 15a Street 178

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