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Phnom Penh'
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- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- None
9 reviews for Phnom Penh'
Cambodian food in LA: This place and the place on Spring in Chinatown that closes way too early.
My BF is Cambodian and his family has been coming here for YEARS. Get the Loc Lac with rice and a fried egg. I love the fried egg with lettuce, cucumber, meat, rice and the lime sauce (add some of the pickled thai chili in vinegar to make it extra sour)
If you are early enough you get a bowl of beef broth soup with green onions and in the soup a bone with tender meat on it. If you are too late you get no bone. :( Soup is still good though. Just a nice broth to drink before or during.
Their fried chicken is also interesting. It has a home-y feel to it... like if my mother made it with thick batter and extra hot because it just came out of the oven.
Beef noodles with the noodles fried: not the best
Beef pan fried noodles (the wide one) with Chinese broccoli and sauce is a little weird but I like it. It has a sort of Chinese BBQ sauce used for hot pot taste in it. Oh, and egg. I get this sometimes.
Overall they are pretty chill. They have okay - good service. Even if it isn't packed they are a good place. They just get a small lunch and dinner rush... but if they've been in business for so long they are doing something right.
Plus it is cheap! 15$ including tip for dinner for two? Good stuff.
For you Silverlakers... there is also a bar next door that seems pretty "hip" since there is never parking on Fridays when we go around that block. :)
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My roommate turned me onto this hole in the wall Chinese place. This spot offers up a huge menu of classics at fairly cheap prices. I went today for lunch and had some Egg Rolls and the Shrimp in Lobster Sauce. The food was good but I'm still searching for the menu's stand outs.
I ate alone. Not just alone at the table, but the entire restaurant was empty. Surprisingly, the service was still pretty slow. Also the dining room has a weird vibe to it and the fortune cookies always have odd things to say. Today mine read "you have nice legs". Thanks I guess, but that's not much of a fortune.
Despite all this, I'm sure I'll be back cause you can't eat Thai everyday.
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As far as I can remember, this place has been open for years! My family and I have been coming here on and off for as long as I can remember, but more recently since they have seemed to have changed ownership. The place is a lot cleaner than before since they painted the walls and completely changed the tables and chairs.
Well, the #1 item on their menu and the favorites of many would be the "lok-lac" fried rice, also known as their french steak fried rice. I really like the taste of how they marinate and cooked their meat, the special peppery sauce it comes with and to top it off, a fried egg! Trust me, you will fall in love with this dish as I have. (fyi, there's lettuce & cucumber on the side and soup... all for a cheap price)
If you're feeling for a more ethnic food item, I would recommend the hot and sour fish soup... it's made with a Vietnamese touch. Their beef pan fried noodles is good as well.
This place can be a bit deceiving, the name indicates a Cambodian restaurant but it serves mostly Chinese food with a few touches of other cultural foods such as Vietnamese, Thai and Cambodian. Anyways, no matter what the food is, all I know is that when I'm hungry, I always come here.
I was in this kid's car on a journey for something different, and he said their food is the bomb which I probably had it before. He's right, I've never had Cambodian food, so I was game for this adventure.
We were driving on Sunset from Hollywood to Downtown, and I asked if he knew where he's going or what's it called. He had this arrogant tone, "Pst. Yeah, I know my area. My friend told me it's one of the best! It's on Portia." This whole time, I kept thinking the name of the joint is Porsche like the name of the car, and why would a restaurant call itself that? Finally we drove back and forth at the same area, and I saw this Asian Restaurant which I thought was Vietnamese and it's not called Portia, so I ignored it and It was the only asian joint in the area. Both of us were getting frustrated and nauseous with the constant stop and go flow, Kid finally calls his friend up. Guess what? This whole time, the joint we're looking for is that Joint I saw, and it's on the small of Portia, and Portia is not its name!! Whaaaaaaaat?
By the time we sat down, I was so freaking hungry and wished I could order everything in the menu, maybe I was just that hungry. So we ordered the fried wonton, 2 beef balls noodle soup and Pork Chop over white rice, which rounds up to 25 ones with taxes and tips included. It ain't so bad after all.. Well, except the food coma it came with after that feast! Please understand though, when I say I get food coma after a meal, it means it's good, NOT bad..
Lesson learnt, don't believe the words coming out from a guy who says Panda Express is his favorite dining choice and a girl who says PF Chang's is her favorite dining choice...It spells ADVENTURE!
ps: Bring cash, Sam!!
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The epitomy of ghetto-ass hole-in-the-wall. There's always bums with shopping carts around here, and the odor from the nearby dumpsters is vile. There are so many roadblocks on my way to Phnom Penh but I'd gladly walk on hot coals with bare feet to get to this restaurant.
The food is so friggin good! All their noodle dishes are hearty and flavorful, but what I drive here from the Westside for, is their French Steak Fried Rice with Fried Egg. It's diced steak that's marinated and pan fried, so juicy and flavorful it graces your tastebuds with each bite, garlicky fried rice, and served with sliced cucumbers and a vinegar-pepper sauce. I can't get enough.
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This place is a hole in the wall with an extensive menu offering Cambodian, Vietnamese and some Chinese dishes. When I walked in all the tables were full so that was a pretty good sign. Don't expect ambiance or it to be super clean. But on the upside, it is cheap (pho with rare steak was $5.50), the food is good, and the service is friendly. I don't believe they serve alcohol. I asked for a coke and got one in a can. It's that kind of place. Parking is available in the gas station across the street, as well as on Portia and Sunset Blvd. I'll go back because it's near my house but I wouldn't recommend driving from afar to eat here.
My family used to frequent this place often during the 80s so much that they knew our "usual", and since then the place has not changed. I'd have to recommend against using the restrooms here but other than that, the food is great. I haven't been here in about 4 years, but I just had to post a review since the previous reviewers didn't really delve into recommended dishes.
This is a good place to go to if you have a large party of hungry college students, for example. In your order, make sure you include at least these 3 items:
1. Shaken French beef ("bo luc lac" in Vietnamese) but don't add the pepper and lime sauce sauce, in my opinion, because it's too sour and takes away the beef flavor
2. Sweet and sour seafood soup ("canh chua" in Vietnamese) - basically it's a catfish soup with pineapple, various seafood, okra, canned mushroom in a sweet and spicy broth; if you are like me and can't handle spicy, ask for it not to be too spicy
3. Fried crab balls (a Cambodian dish stuffed with imitation crab meat that you dip in a sweet, honey-like sauce)
There is an older gentleman who usually takes the orders--he speaks Vietnamese and Cantonese, and my parents would order in Vietnamese so that is why I listed what it is called in Vietnamese.
I don't recommend going here too late at night because of the neighborhood--it's better left as a lunch or early dinner destination.
UPDATE sometime in early 2008 when I drove something like 20 miles just to get some Phnom Penh: and the verdict is, it was a disappointment. Perhaps the chef no longer works there, who knows. I won't be going here again... sadness.
Phnom penh has fed me on many occasions growing up in Echo park. It's a small family owned restaurant with great Chinese Cambodian food. It's not the prettiest place in the world to eat at, but nonetheless a great lowpro spot to get good food.
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life lessons with sam y...
lesson 1 - do not ask a girl for directions.
lesson 2 - if asking for directions, do not use the terms, east, west, north, or south. and tell the person you are with the name of the place so you don't keep passing by it 12 times and get car sick...
lesson 3 - do not use cross streets when you ask for directions
lesson 4 - use buildings and terms like, that one place, with the thing.
lesson 5 - bring cash only here. or bringing someone with cash. thanks!
lesson 6 - they dont speak english or chinese so point at things on the menu and ask someone before hand about cambodian food. and make sure her favorite restaurant is not pf chang's.
lesson 7 - try the noodle soups, or the pork chop and rice, but do not order both together otherwise you will be in food coma like i was.
lesson 8 - its right next to the bar, the short stop so perfect for a night cap after.
lesson 9 - the area is called echo park, lots of street parking.
lesson 10 - yelp is not a dating site. its a food porn site.
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