Chez Sovan
- Price Range: $$
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Private Lot
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: Yes
- Good for Kids: Yes
- Takes Reservations: Yes
- Delivers: No
- Take-out: Yes
- Waiter Service: Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: No
- Good for: Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol: Beer & Wine Only
56 Reviews for Chez Sovan
Great place!
The kitchen staff is authentic, the wall decorations are breathtaking and the food was yum!
I recommend this Cambodian hidden treasure to anyone who is feel tired of the hamburger!
Soup, Beef Skewers, and Fish Moose were all to die for!
The only other time I had been here, Myvan brought me after our trip through southeast Asia. I did not make it to Cambodia with her, which is the only part of that summer I regret, so I guess this was as close as I was going to get. She told me the food in Siem Riep sucked but that just didn't make missing Ankor Wat any less painful (thanks for trying).
I don't recall what we had the first time but when we returned recently for book club, I remembered why I thought it was good. We had a variety of vegetarian and meaty dishes. My favorite was the catfish in banana leaf because it was the least sweet but the noodle with tofu and the beef with pineapple and tomatoes were satisfying too.
Lunch on Saturdays appear to be slow so if you need someplace to chat for hours without any problems, this is the place to be. I'll be back the next time I'm in Campbell.
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4 stars for being one of the only cambodian restuarant in San Jose. Cambodian food is so delicious. If you havent had the ability to muster up the courage and get your tush here...YOU SHOULD. Try the sach co ang with pickled vegetables as an appetizer and the catfish amok. Very suttle flavors that your mouth will not reject! Always pair up dishes with one soup and your experience will be out of this worldd, woo!
This is a favorite place of mine after working just down the street from it for a long time. Similar to Thai food, but with enough of a deviation to call it a unique taste, it's a great change of pace from typical asian choices.
Pretty much every item that I've tried here I have enjoyed, but there are some that I always come back to:
They have a great pineapple and tomato dish that comes with your choice of meat (I prefer it with beef). The sauce is tasty and the contrast of beef, tomato and pineapple flavors (you have to include a chunk of each in each bite for the full effect) work really well together.
The amok (sort of a casserole looking thing with catfish or chicken - go with the fish) looks pretty awful when you open it up from the banana leaf it comes wrapped in, but actually tastes really good and is a unique Cambodian item. Always popular.
Last but not least, my favorite item. The chicken curry. Yeah, I know chicken curry doesn't seem like anything special, but it's just different here. A unique curry flavor, with nothing but chicken, potatoes and carrots stewed to a perfect tenderness without being mushy. I order it EVERY TIME, and always get a large so that I can heat it up as leftovers (just as good the second time around!). If you like your curry spicy, make sure to ask for it spicy. The default flavor is pretty mild, and they don't ask how you would like it, but they will spice it up on request.
I have never been here when it was crowded, which I like. Despite that, service can still be fairly slow. Overall, easily a 5 star for me based on the great quality of the food.
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So if Cambodian food tastes a little like Thai and Vietnamese food, that would make sense since it's geographically between those countries.
Chez Sovan offered my first Cambodian experience. And I loved it. We ordered the Catfish Amok that was wrapped in a banana leaf harboring intense lemongrass flavors. Unwrapping it at first may give you some disappointment, as it looks like cat food shaped into a house. The Tofu Kuy Tiew Cha reminded me of Pad Thai and just as delicious in its own way. I found the pineapple tomato fish soup to be just ho hum and would much rather eat pineapple if that's all I'm tasting.
But with so many vegetarian/seafood options for such reasonable prices and a really sweet staff, I can't wait to come back to try the rest of the menu!
Note: Parking can be hard to find in the lot and since the restaurant wasn't busy, I can't imagine where everyone went.
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4.5 stars. i came here for lunch yesterday, and i loved it. there were 4 of us, so we were able to try a lot of different things. we had the beef w/ pineapple and tomato, chicken curry, amok (catfish in banana leaf), rice noodles w/ tofu and veggies, and the tofu and eggplant. everything was delicious!! the amok looked a bit skeptical, b/c it just looked like mush, but it was so tasty. the curry was really good too and came w/ potatoes and tomatoes. everything was on the sweet side, b/c i think cambodian cooking consists of a lot of tamarind and coconut milk, but it was all yummy. for dessert, we had the fried bananas w/ coconut ice cream, which was good but not hte best i've had. we arrived at 1 pm, and the place was empty, so it's easy to come here for lunch w/o having to wait. too bad this restaurant is so far, but i would definitely come again!
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stopped by here on a whim because we saw the sign in the corner as we were driving by. Always heard great things and wanted to check out the food. Glad we made a detour on our route and ate here. The food was great (especially the chicken curry)! Lay off the shredded pork stir frey unless you got some mondo breath mints. Overall it was a great dinner with lovely company and a reasonable price.
Food: 4 stars
Service: 4 stars
Ambiance: 4 stars
Overall: 4 stars
Went there to celebrate our monthsary. Food was delish. We've been to the Oakland location as well. The Campbell location is twice as large and decorated. Cost was decent as all our dishes was $8. Monday nite, only 4 tables occupied.
Catfish Amok flavor was great & texture was soft. Husband thought it was a little too gingery.
Kwai Tui - the pad thai wannabee had great flavor. sweet like everyone else has been mentioning.
Laap - Ground beef dish with shallot & red chili - too dry. flavor was good.
I've seen the sign for Chez Sovan literally hundreds of times while driving by. Cambodian food isn't the first thing that comes to my mind when I have a unique food craving, but today, I'm glad I had a chance to stop by.
The strangely shaped parking lot was completely full and despite two other stores next to Chez Sovan, the crowds were clearly headed to Chez Sovan. A good sign.
Inside, the place is decorated simply, but was bustling with the lunchtime corporate crowds. I was seated quickly and in short order had decided my choices:
Catfish Amok - universally recommended, this authentic Cambodian dish consists of catfish, lemongrass, and a coconut milk infused wrapped with a banana leaf.
Lunch special - 1) hot and sour chicken soup
2) chicken salad
3) chicken satay
4) fried rice noodles with chicken
Perusing the menu quickly, I was struck by how much many items reminded me of Thai food, rather than of Vietnamese food which I had expected. In short, many curries, fried rice noodle and fried rice dishes.
So how was the food? Overall, a mixed bag that I'd rank as ok.
It started off quite strong with the hot and sour soup which looked and tasted exactly like the Thai Tom Yum Goong soup, except with chicken. Hot, spicy, and delicious, it really hit the spot.
The catfish amok arrived next and while beautifully wrapped in banana leaf, I found the sweet and savory flavors to be a very acquired taste. The catfish was also a bit soft and the flavor of the lemon grass overpowered me. I realized after that I must HATE lemon grass. The only other item that can make me dislike a dish so is water chestnuts (ie: Chinese food filler).
The chicken salad was largely made of shredded salad and cabbage and reminded me of other tart and tangy salads like those at PPQ Dungeness Crab (SF) or Vung Tau (SJ) with shrimp. It was nice and refreshing.
The chicken satay was awesome and I'm sorry I only got one. Like the soup, I can imagine this being a very popular item. The chicken was perfectly grilled and had a great flavor.
My final item was the chicken fried rice noodles and like the catfish amok is quite a popular dish here. Several patrons at other tables were educating other first time Chez Sovan diners that this fried rice noodles was like Pad Thai but so much better.
It definitely is almost a carbon copy of Pad Thai, but I'm going to have to disagree about it being better. The main difference being Chez Sovan's version is much wetter and drenched with tamarind sauce. In increments, I love tamarind sauce, but I found the amount used with their noodles to be too sweet and tangy. As well, unlike Pad Thai, which has plentiful bean sprouts to balance the sauce, Chez Sovan's rice noodles lacked bean sprouts or vegetables.
It was nice to finally try Chez Sovan and experience Cambodian cuisine. In all honesty, while I loved the hot and sour soup and meat skewers, the nearby Krung Thai(s) has an excellent Pad Thai, Pad See Ew, and Tom Yom Goong that, for me, fills almost the same niche.
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Just came here for some Cambodian food lunch with coworkers. We ordered Catfish Amok, Beef with Bamboo shoots, and a tofu dish. All were delicious! I also ordered the Mango sticky rice. OMG it was heavan in my mouth. They put a tad bit too much coconut milk on it for my friend, but to me it was perfect!
It was a little bit uncomfortable when the staff in the kitchen started talking really really loud that it sounded like they were yelling at each other. But since I understood them, I informed my companions that they were just gossiping about their husband(s). Hellooooo! I think you need a door to your kitchen! lol.
Go here for the food, it is so worth it!
The service is just ok.
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Came here for a buddy's birthday dinner. It was my first shot at Cambodian food. Based on fellow Yelpers, I knew I would be pleased!
We started off w/ some Krispy Rice cakes w/ a ground beef tomato sauce - 3.5 stars
We had a pineapple, pork and chicken type soup, which was pretty flavorful - 3 stars
We then had a Kwai Tiu, kinda like a Pad Thai but more saucy, and a more richer taste - 3 stars.
We also had a catfish ground up in some paste, and wrapped with Lotus leaves. - 3 stars
For vegetables, we had string beans with beef, which came out also with a very rich, and dark sauce - 3 stars
Finally, we had a Rice dish w/ Grilled Chicken on the top and some sauce below the rice, served w/ tomatoes and cucumbers on the side, very similar to a Vietnamese dish - 4 stars
For dessert, we had mango ice cream w/ sticky rice and coconut ice cream, which I passed on, since we only had one order to share amongst all 12 of us.
Service: 3.5 stars
Food: 3.5 stars
Overall: 3.5 stars
Awhile ago I was at Kirk's and I noticed this place across the way and it said it was Cambodian cuisine. Well I had no idea what that was but the BF and I decided to just go ahead and try it. The service is SLOWWWWWWWW. Really.. really.. slow. But they make up for it with the delicious food. We got a couple of skewers 1 beef, and 1 chicken. The beef was really good which suprised me because I'm more of a chicken person. We got their chicken fried rice and some other chicken dish I forgot its name but it had chicken, bell peppers, onions, chilis and peanuts. It was really good!! A lot of flavor. Overall the food was delicious and I'd definitely come back. I'd probably get it to go because the service is so slow that it gets annoying.
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Love the food---whatever you get, you are always in for a treat. The downside is that the service is the slowest in the area....I mean, it will take 1/2 hour for them just to take your order and another 1/2 + to bring you your food----but let me tell you, it is all worth the wait.
Food - 4.5
Service - 3
Ambience - 2.5
I love their Catfish Amok - chunky pieces of catfish cooked in coconut milk wrapped in a banana leaf. Divine. Also really like the watercress salad, which we always get with beef, but I believe you can choose chicken or pork as well. Some other notable faves include tamarind green beans and the satay skewers.
The service is pretty slow here like a lot of people have said, which is odd because it's never particularly full whenever we've been here for lunch. The decor is minimalist, that is to say, it is bland.
Tucked in a funky strip-mall location is the best, authentic Cambodian restaurant this side of Long Beach. The tomato pineapple soup with fish is one of many delicious menu items, its refreshing sweet-tart flavor with the delicate fish makes it the one dish I keep craving for.
I agree with Berg who called it a diamond in the rough, you don't come to this place for the decor. The food and friendly service more than make up for the low-key ambiance.
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4.5 Stars!
I used to live across the street for a couple of years so I ate here quite often. The food is very similar to Thai (for those who have not had Cambodian food). Chez Sovan is a family-run business, so most of the waiters/waitresses are the nieces & nephews.
It is small, but the atmosphere is nice with a decent decor of Southeast Asian influences. I have never had a problem with the service...
My favorites are (I don't recall the actual names on the menu):
Beef Curry Stew - tender strips of beef stewed with large chunks of carrots and potatoes.
Noodles (similar to pad thai) - get the tofu - it's actually good.
Yellow Chicken Curry - Coconut milk based with bamboo shoots, carrots, and potatoes.
The fried fish is good, but be sure to ask what the fish of the day is and what is the freshest. (please don't say, "most fresh")
Dessert - go with the fried banana and taro ice-cream. What a fabulous combo!
...Don't forget to order a nice large cold beer with dinner (Kirin or Sapporo) - great for savory foods.
Portions are good-sized, so if you prefer to share (family style), order the 'small' - that should suffice, especially if you are getting a few different things.
I sure do miss being able to go door-to-door (and back w/ my food) in 8 minutes. Oh the good ol' days......
Another one of those diamond-in-the-rough family-owned restaurants. San Jose is great for the random strip mall gem. Never thought that I would like Cambodian food this much. (well I guess it's not that different from other Southeast Aisan food)
Chez Souvan is a great place to get a meal that is both unusual (in a good way) and healthy. It has become somewhat of a craving that I get every now and then.
There's no way that I can give some pertinent advice regarding actual menu items to order (my Cambodian is a bit rusty). I can vaguely describe what I usually order. Hot and sour soup is killer. The beef and cabbage salad with lemon grass dressing is always refreshing and yummy. I also love some noodle dish with chicken and vegetables...not much help there.
This place is a little rough-around-the-edges, but the food always comes out properly. If you're in Campbell or near S. Bascom, and you like Thai or Vietnamese food, this is definitely worth a shot.
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Saw this place reviewed on the newspaper with 3.5 out of 4 stars and one $, as in cheap. So thought I give this a try.
Food was pretty good. We had the stir-fried pineapple and tomatoes with chicken, and the catfish stew. Both were kind of homey, in the sense it's like a dish your mom may make - there may be some mistakes, but good tasting nevertheless. E.g., string beans were a bit overcooked, and the presentation was like...missing - well, they just propped it from frying pan to the dish. However, the dishes were yummy, and the portion was good portion. We decided we would come back again.
Prices were more like two $$, like this site says. But overall, good enough for another visit and for recommendation.
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i finally tried chez sovan after hearing rave reviews from friends and reading them here on yelp. sadly, i was not impressed with this restaurant.
i'm not cambodian and i have never had cambodian food, so i didn't even know where to start when i saw the menu. i picked a few dishes that were "favorites" and "popular"... and i was excited about my new adventure.
sweet ice tea with cream... tasted like thai tea, the waitress even said it's like thai tea. it was way to sweet and i gave mine to my BF.
the noodles that are similar to pad thai.... too sweet and too saucy without spice or flavor.
the soup was good (chicken w/ ginger and cilantro).
pork rib in curry sauce and catfish amok... again, too sweet and did not have any spice at all. i'm not talking spice as in hot chili's, but i'm talking spice as in flavor.
overall, i thought all the food tasted like mild, bland thai food.
service was slow and inattentive. i attempted to ask questions about the food and the dishes and the waiter stuck his finger in his ear, scratched it, and said, "umm, they use a lot of different ingredients, i don't know." geeez, thanks.
sadly, i was disappointed with the food and service and i won't return.
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I stopped by for the first time last night after hearing about Chez Sovan a few times. Getting there at 8:40pm they said they could take my order, but that the kitchen would close soon, so I went with what I'd read was good - the Catfish Amok. It arrived looking like a present wrapped in big banana leaves! I carefully unpinned the leaves and unwrapped the best semi-sweet and savory dish - it had a consistency of a quiche filling with no crust, had a great flavor of coconut steeped with lemongrass. Hot, delicious, and fast! I was really pleased that I made it before they closed for the night.
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It's one of those "hard to find" places that you'll come back constantly for their great food. The services made my MANY experiences there even more memorable. The green-bean dish is one of my all-time favorites!
Cambodian, Vietnamese, Thai, whatever. Toss in a fancy French prefix and watch the ratings hit the charts.
Servings are epic, food is likewise and the interior is bit, how do you say, skeletal. The catfish amok was delicious and all textural comparisons to quiche are not without reason.
Fairly outstanding mango and sticky rice and the service is sweet and mellow.
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good and fresh. i'd say 3.75 stars.
when my friend said let's try this cambodian food place. i thoughts. what's cambodian food?
when you don't want fast food-y food...and your not up to a pretentious place... this is a great place to go for some good eats. feels like you're in a mom and pop place.
there was so much on the menu we didn't know what to pick. a lot of reading since the title of the meal made no sense to us ;)
we had chicken curry- tender chicken that fell apart in the sweet curry sauce. the tomato pineapple soup w/ fish-light fresh and yummy. a fried noodle w/ beef-very flavorful. and the eggrolls (was there sweet potatoe in that?)
anyways. worth checking out. :)
I love this place for something different and not so redundant. This was my first try at Cambodian food and I loved it! It is very similar to Thai but different.
Try the lunch specials! They're perfect. You can try out a number of things at a bargain of a price. :)
I love this place! We have had several large company dinners here and they do a wonderful job hosting our group. The owner, Anida, is the nicest person you will ever meet. The back room is currently being remodeled and they have added a very nice granite bar to the area. I love the food.... I could eat here on a daily basis. Try the Amok, the shish kabobs, the vegetarian spring rolls, the soup, the noodles, and the green bean shrimp dish!
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This place rocks my socks. I've been going to this SJ joint since back in the day and am consistently served amazing Cambodian food.
Its location is super random, but thank god my mom gave this place a shot and hunted it down (thanks to a rave review in the local paper) .
I rarely am satisfied from start to finish at restaurants, but Chez Souvan always delivers. I suggest that you start off w/ their Lemongrass Soup, then progress to their Chicken Salad, followed by their chicken/beef skewers w/ a side of rice. Finish up w/ an order of their Fried Bananas & Coconut Ice Cream and you're sure to walk away w/ a full & happy stomach! Oh and if you're looking for a tasty beverage, I recommend their Iced Coffee. Mm!
The cabbage soup is tasty and the chicken salad excellent. The dessert is unique. I like the jackfruit with coconut ice cream.
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if this was cambodian cuisine then tickle me confused. looking at the menu i was struck on the very "thai"-ness of the cuisine. at one point in the menu they disguised one drink as a very well known thai drink. i saw sweet iced tea w/ cream and i asked our waitress what that was. she said oh it's thai iced tea. well then...
the restaurant itself is very low-key and almost feels like an abandoned home the further you go back. definitely a head scratcher since this place has the "chez" prefix.
the food though was uninspired and in some cases not exciting whatsoever. on the flip side, there were true gems in here. the starting spring rolls (veg and non-veg) were very plain to me. a lot of people seemed to dig it but i just didn't find anything exciting there. the papaya salad was very nice with a great spicy tangy flavor. the small shrimp in it didn't bring too much to the overall dish though. the shish kebabs were ordered too and i had the chicken version which i thought was decent.
we split a lot of main dishes as it was my sister-in-law's b-day celebration and there was about 16 of us. we got a pad thai dish which was horrible. overly sweet and nothing to note as great. the lemongrass stir-fry beef dish was boring too. we got the chicken amok, which is essentially a steamed chicken dish that has coconut milk rice and some other seasonings all squashed together and steamed in a banana leaf. sounds great but the dish was very bland. the standout dishes were the catfish version of the amok which is the sole reason i would consider coming back here. the other standout was the green bean and tofu/chicken dish that had an excellent tamarind sauce. very good stuff.
for dessert we all split the banana fritters, jackfruit ice cream and rice and mango sticky rice. i honestly did not care for any of them. i felt the overuse of sesame seeds took away from the desserts.
overall, i felt this place was very inconsistent. it had 3 high points (the papaya salad, catfish amok, and green beans w/ chicken/tofu in tamarind sauce) but everything else fell flat. for that i'll deduct a star down from what i would've otherwise given a 3.
Small hole in the wall, i was a bit fearful for my life trying to find parking in the slightly run down area.
My first Cambodian food experience. The catfish wrapped in some kind of steamed leaf was to die for.
Definitely going back, that's more than i can say for most places.
This is one of those places that is very very close to 4.5 stars but just a tad short of it so I couldn't round it up to 5 stars. Only thing they can improve upon is service, I know I should not complain since it is an Asian restaurant, but only if their service is a little bit better, they would have earned 5 stars.
Food however here is excellent. And probably deserve 5 stars. I don't know much about Cambodian food, but from what I had, it's very similar to Southeast Asian cuisine - like Singaporean, Malaysian, Thai, Indonesian food, but less spicy. Good way to describe the food is - it's equally flavorful to those but more mild.
This goes into my theory of the spiciness of a certain type of cuisine is largely dependent on the proximity of the region to the equator. Closer to the equator, more spicy, further away less spicy. Try it out it really works. See Mexican, Malaysian, Carribean, Szechuan (chinese), South Indian. All validates the proof of my theory.
With that aside, I had the catfish Amok, which tasted absolutely delicious when it was piping hot. Cabbage soup and chicken salad was simple and amazing. Also the eggplant was very very good. Chicken curry is ok, very flavorful but mild for my taste but then again, I should not complain because they were adhering to my theory.
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I THINK this is the Chez Sovan we went to last night for a birthday dinner. The food very impressive and presentable. The bbq sticks and beef salad are killer! I highly recommend this establishment and I will definitely return. If you're a burger and fries kinda guy/girl - stay away. This is definitely authentic Cambodian food.
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I love this place. It's right by my work and I go there often and I'm never disappointed. Granted, I always get the same thing - but it is consistently good! Catfish amok, cha messour noodles and rice. That's all you need to order and you will leave a happy, happy person. I have ordered the lunch specials as well (Friday is the best day) but they are kind of chicken-happy over there so if you don't want anymore chicken - go for the catfish amok (think spongey fish loaf soaked in coconut milk and wrapped in a banana leaf pyramid) and cha messour!! I've had the papaya salad too which was wonderful, especially on a hot summer day. Mmmmmmm.
Cambodian food seems pretty similar too Thai food. I think the red chicken curry was the best dish I tasted. I went there for a engagement lunch so the menu was fixed. The neighborhood is ghetttooooo!
Possibly my favorite restaurant in the South Bay. If you don't like sauces, and rich flavors, this might not be the place for you. Cambodian? What's that? Everyone asks. Hard to describe, but closest to Thai, but different. Great place for dinner.
Gotta try the Chicken Lemongrass Soup, the Amok, Ginger Beef (Lots and lots of shredded ginger), and the "Choose your meat here" and string beans (tangy sweet sauce.). And go for the spring rolls.
Thank me when you're full!
They've also got a location almost in the hood on Oakland/13th. Close to my new hood. Cinder block exterior and bars on the windows. But tastes the same as the other kitchen. Nowhere near as nice interior wise as the Bascom location, but truly makes for a great Hole in the Wall.
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this was my first experience with cambodian food. the main room has better decor than the back room, where i attended a birthday party. it was, however, just as big than the main dining room.
the food was great! but most was reminiscent of thai food. yes, i know it's all southeast asian, but i was expecting a big difference. the food was served buffet style and i went back for seconds. i couldnt go without refilling my soup bowl of what was basically tom yum soup and grabbing another bbq stick...i think it was ginger beef.
i had my eye on the food instead of the birthday cake!
the parking is tight since there are other businesses that share the lot. street parking is ample and much easier to park since people tend to block each other in the lot.
i will definitely go back, order take out, or both! it's nice to have an alternative from japanese or chinese food!
Love it!
We love the following:
Fish Amok
Catfish with chicken
chicken with ginger
chicken salad
And others that I may have tried but do not remember. The only thing that I did not enjoy was some green beans based item where the beans were squishy and overdone ( almost looked like the frozen beans) so I will avoid things with green beans.
There isn't another restaurant that serves food like this (well, except their sister restaurant on oakland rd!)
Everything I ordered was tasty! Ordered the the catfish amok, watercress with beef salad, green beans with tofu and flat noodles with beef (similar to pad see ew). Yum! To top it off, for dessert we had the mango with coconut sticky rice. Definitely a place I'd try again and a place YOU should try as well.
This place has great lunch specials, 5 different pre-set menus for each day of the week.
for $8, you get: soup, 2 items, rice and iced tea.
The soups are more than just broth and flavorful. The curry is excellent - it's orange - the color is in between Thai yellow and red but it is much different from Thai curry - sweeter and not spicy but very flavorful. The salad with chicked and cabbage is really good - the sauce seems to have a base of fish sauce and vinegar. Good chicken skewers.
Ive had lunch there all 5 days of the week and have been happy with every day's special.
Aside from the Oakland road restaurant in SJ, the only other Cambodian restaurants I have seen are on Anaheim Blvd in Long Beach - Im not going to a restaurant in that area, thats where Ive taken cars to shady body shops for cheap parts. So this place is very nice by comparison - cool looking building and nice artwork on the walls.
This place is pretty decent! Cambodian food is like a mix of Thai/Vietnamese/Laotian food--rich flavors like lemongrass, garlic, basil, and of course fish sauce used as the salt supplement.
A little oilier than Vietnamese food, but definitely not as bad as the Americanized Chinese oily stuff. I only some sort of flat noodle sauteed with asparagus. Surprisingly, they placed eggs ontop, which was a nice touch. The beef stir-fry with pineapple and tomotoes is VERY good!
Good ambience. Went on my lunch break and it was nearly empty. Attentive service.
This Cambodian restaurant is definitely one of the many neighborhood lunch places for Xilinx employees. I've been here with large groups and they always seem to accomodate us.
My favorite dish is the lightly breaded fried fish with ginger and ground chicken. Also, check out their daily lunch specials.
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