Khéma Angkor Restaurant Carr

 Siem Reap - As it is our final day of our trip, we decided to go to a fancy restaurant and French it will be - USD25 per person - it was free flow of wine, expensive cheese and fancy cuts of beef.  It is worth the price.

Cheese and meat platter 

Bread is served in a fancy butter stone 

Delicious onion soup 

Carrot salad with corn toppings

Special Blue cheese 

Prawn salad

Spaghetti and pork loin

The Pork loin was dry and tough and the least favourite dish of mine.

Pork totters and mashed potatoes

The Pork trotter meat was tender and was a good main course

Beef steak with mushroom sauce

The beef steak was tender and delicious, slight pink on the inside.  We had some much food and finished 2 bottles of wine - the most food on our whole trip.   Had the best time of my life.

The Little Red Fox

Siem Reap - has many quaint coffee corners and Little Red Fox is one of them.   Tugged away in one street corner lies this good coffee shop.

herein lies the Little Red Fox

Avocado toast

Affogato

A good afternoon spend with friends over a nice cuppa coffee and avocado spread.

Spoons Cafe and Restaurant - Siem Reap

Siem Reap - This is one of the most talked about restaurants on review due to their social involvement in the lives of Cambodian teens.  

Spoons Cafe and Restaurant

Spoons Cafe is part of the EGBOK (Everything’s Gonna Be OK) NGO.   This NGO focus entirely on hospitality training. The program for students is a year long, divided into three modules that cover hospitality, life skills, and employment training. The aim to train 45 students per year, and the first batch are already working the Spoons kitchen, while others train for future work as front-of-house staff.

4 good friends having a good meal

Fresh spring roll

Turk Kroeung

Turk Kroeung is a traditional Khmer fish gravy, tamarind, Prahok (fermented fish paste) and roasted boneless chicken leg and local vegetables

Forest Sausage

The plate was so pleasantly delivered with grilled beef and pork sausage, mint leaves, chili banana flower salad, grilled sweet potato and with tree ant dressing

Grilled chicken skewer

Grilled marinated chicken thigh, green mango salad with smoked fish

Fried Rice

This fried rice dish is colourfully arranged with a fried egg and minced vegetables

Num Plae Ai

Similar to Chinese Tang Yuen, sticky rice ball, palm sugar filled with grated coconut flesh

The food is good, highly recommend to come here. 

iL Forno - Italian restaurant

Siem Reap - Today, we hailed this Cambodian tuk tuk from a ride hailing app - Grab to our dinner destination. This tuk tuk is like a modern day horse drawn carriage.

Cambodian tuk tuk

iL Forno - an Italian restaurant with a stone oven.   In Italy, al forno – literally ' to the oven' – refers to any dish that's baked, whether that's a wood-fired pizza.  

Bruschetta

Bruschetta is an antipasto from Italy consisting of grilled bread rubbed with garlic and topped with olive oil and salt. We had toppings of tomato, garlic, spicy eggplant mousse and pesto.

Parma wrap

Pizza

Gnocci

Lasagne

Pizza oven baked ribs

Edward, Donny, Lesley and me

On a whole the menu and good is over priced. 

Elia Greek Kitchen Siem Reap

Siem Reap -  We decided to eat Greek today and the food was very good and fresh.  As we were deciding what to eat on the menu, the Chef pop by and say 'let me recommend for you' and his choices was delicious.

Beautiful Greek salad

This salad was so fresh with delicious cheese spread out over, olives, tomatoes, basil and was just yummy.

Mixed dips with Pilo bread

We had 5 dips of Tzatziki (mixed of yogurt, cucumber, garlic, extra virgin olive oil), Hummus, Eggplant dip, Beetroot and Olive paste.

Spanakopita

Spanakopita is made from Greek filo pastry with spinach, feta cheese, spring onion and chili.

Gyros meat ball

Mousaka

Mousaka is traditional baked casserole of minced beef, egg plant, potato, bechamel sauce (sauce traditionally made from a white roux and milk) and cheese.

Also had a drink called Aryan which is made from yogurt mixed with salt and served cold

Aryan

WILD restaurant

Siem Reap - We went to this restaurant for our dinner - WILD is one of Cambodia's popular restaurants in Siem Reap that sells all kinds of spring rolls.  This restaurant is owned by a French guy who was taking orders from patrons.  We ordered all the spring rolls that was on the menu. 

Location: Wat Damnak, Krong Siem Reap 17000, Cambodia

Top (Ave Caesar) Bottom (Monsoon Rainbow)

Ave Caesar had chicken, parmesan cheese, caesar salad dressing, and crush bread crumbs

Monsoon Rainbow, which is a special spring roll creation is made up of salad, mango, avocado, red cabbage, bell peppers, tomato, peanuts and mint along with mango dip.

Fried spring roll

Cambodian fried spring rolls had chicken along with local vegetables and dressing.  

Cheese & Wild Wild west spring rolls

As the name suggest, this deep fried spring roll had only cheese inside.

The wild wild west fried spring roll was made with beef, cheddar and caramelised onion

Deep fried potato wedges

greek getaway and ma ma mia fresh spring rolls

Greek getaways fresh spring rolls had salad, cucumbers, bell peppers, tomatoes, onions and feta cheese along with Mediterranean dressing

Ma ma mia fresh spring rolls had salad, fresh tomatoes, sun dried tomatoes, mozzarella, Italian basil with Italian dressing.

We had to order close to 8 dishes in order to be full. Nice and quaint restaurant but expensive in value.

Sambo Khmer & Thai restaurant

 Siem Reap - One of the popular Khmer restaurant in Siem Reap and it was quite full.   Mostly foreigners filled this restaurant.  The menu has one page of Khmer food and 3 pages of Thai dishes.   The owner was friendly and explained that her sister was a chef in Bangkok for many years for the many Thai dishes.  Sambo is the name of her father.

Location:  Wat Damnak, Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia

Lesley, me, Donny & Edward 

Fresh spring roll 

Sir Fried Ginger

This dish tasted different as instead of using ginger, the Chef used blue ginger - it did not blend well.

Amok

Instead of our dish Khmer red curry, they served us Amok resulting in this dish being complimentary.

Khmer Red curry

I liked the potato cooked in this dish and it was delicious and rich in taste.

Fried Khmer fish

This is the common Tilapia but tasted bland and has to be dipped into the separate sauce to bring out the flavour.

Hot holy basil

This dish is stir fried with onion, lemongrass, khafir lime leaves and Khmer basil.  

Stir fried morning glory with garlic