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 Traveller's Tales: Restaurants and eating places in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Look for the best places to eat in Siem Reap, Cambodia. You may read about recommended restaurants and food. Find out about local food and local dining customs. Also, you might want to read our
Angkor / Siem Reap city guide,
and Phnom Penh city guide.
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| P Flanders |
24 October 2003 |
Stayed at Princess Angkor Hotel - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Most restaurants good but my favourite is the Red Piano. Good food and friendly atmosphere. Beer good too!! They have a happy hour where drinks are half price until 7pm. The tiger draft is really good.
The highlight of the trip was the Angkor Temples and we had a really good taxi driver. His name was Inn Sokha he was the best taxi driver that I have used on my travels over the years. I would recommend him highly. Email address siemreapagh@yahoo.com
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| R Gonzaga |
18 October 2003 |
Stayed at Passaggio Boutique Hotel - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Going to Siem Reap I don't see any reason to stay in an expensive hotel since you will be out all day and probably most nights, retiring to your room just long enough for shower and sleep. I recommend staying in a place like the Passagio or even a guest house. For crafts-Artisans D'Angkor. To eat-The Red Piano, Bayon (khmer food), and La Noria.
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| T Kobayashi |
12 October 2003 |
Stayed at Sofitel Royal Angkor - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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At Tonle Sap restaurant, I could enjoy Apsara show. It starts from 7:30pm and ends 8:40. The rate is only 12US$/pax. Served with Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Chinese.
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| K Hoeing |
02 September 2003 |
Stayed at Passaggio Boutique Hotel - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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We had a fantastic time in Siem Reap/Angkor Wat. Three full days were exactly the right amount of time to be able to see all the temples, the floating village, the silk farm and have time to scroll through the city of Siem Reap.
We had a driver for the entire time ($20 per day), who turned out to be a very reliable and knowledgable guide as well.
After having seen a few bad examples of guides, other people had booked for the day, we decided not to take one. Instead, we bought one of the guide books the children sell at every temple. The book is very detailed and even explains the bas-reliefs in Angkor Wat better than some of the tour guides.
The food in Siem Reap was excellent. We did not have a single bad experience with the local meals we ordered. Fully recommended are the Soup Dragon as well as the Bopha Angkor.
Business seemed to be going very poorly this year due to SARS and the war in Iraq. Since it was wet season as well, there were not many tourists at all.
We felt sorry for the people who try to get their business running and are depending on the tourists.
Everyone was very friendly and lots of smiling faces were making the stay worthwile.
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| T Nightingill |
17 August 2003 |
Stayed at Angkor Village Hotel - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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We really liked the Madame Butterfly restuarant just out of town on the N6 highway.
We got around the temples with a hired driver. A bit pricey but very useful, if for no other reason than the cooling aircon in between the temple visits. A guide is useful if you want to get more detail about the temples. Also visited the Silk farm south of Siem Reap. Very interesting.
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| J Fitch |
13 July 2003 |
Stayed at Bopha Angkor - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Siem Reap is a hot, dusty hive of activity. An ideal location for visiting all the temples of Angkor.
It has its fair share of child beggars, amputees from landmines, doubtful smells and lots of litter. There are many motorbikes, tuks tuks and taxis with driver guides. There are colourful markets and plenty of restaurants and bars.We got our information predominantly from the Lonely Planet Guide to Cambodia and extra information from hotel reception and our guides.
Our favourite restaurants were The Bopha Angkor Hotel Restaurant for the best Cambodian and Vietnamese food, and the Soup Dragon for drinks, cocktails, local and Western Food. The Blue Pumpkin had lovely bread and cakes and fresh shakes. The Red Piano Bar has a good atmosphere and is a great hangout for Westerners. The Koulen II has wonderful Apsana dancing most evenings and a buffet dinner but it is not the best food unfortunately.
We got around cheaply, in tuk tuks with friendly drivers, and for longer journeys in very good taxis with guides arranged by the hotel Bopha Angkor. We arranged through the hotel, driver and guide to Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, which included the Bayon, the Elephant Terrace and the Leper King Terrace. On our second day, we took a trip to the floating fishing village on Tonle Sap. We went by tuk tuk.
We bought boat tickets for $US5.00 each at the ferry dock and were adopted by 3 very young boys, who gave us a colourful ride through the village with a stop on a floating bar and shop at the entrance to the lake for drinks and toilet.
On our third day we took a taxi with English speaking driver, arranged by the hotel, to Banteay Srei, a 35 kilometre drive and returned via Ta Prohm and Preah Khan, both of which are near Angkor Thom, stopping for lunch at local restaurant in front of Angkor Wat. We found it best to eat the local food rather than the Western food in these establishments.
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| B Moore |
07 July 2003 |
Stayed at Angkor Saphir Hotel - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Civit Thai II restaurant, about one block from Angkor Saphir Hotel, was absolutely one of the best places we ate at during our trip to Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. Met driver through contact from hotel. Driver was a good idea [A/C car was so nice] after wandering through the complexes on any hot day.
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| T Choi |
06 July 2003 |
Stayed at Princess Angkor Hotel - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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We hired a car ($20-$25/day) to see the various temples in the area, and that worked out fairly well. We had lunch once at the Foreign Correspondents Club, which was fine.
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| S Alcock |
06 June 2003 |
Stayed at Angkor Century Hotel - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Great location for visiting Angkor Wat. Town of Siem Reap has lots of interst too -markets and small restaurants.
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| F Vermeersch |
25 May 2003 |
Stayed at Passaggio Boutique Hotel - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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There is a restaurant just on the other side of the river (forgot the name, a terrace, green chairs I believe, they had 2 houses), very nice food, their local food was very good and beautifully presented, and they serve a lot of pizzas, beer was cold. We visited ... temples of course.
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