"recently arrived on chin and gourmet of Asian cuisine I make one at one the restaurants viet Chinois jap combodgiens thaï from the surrounding area. a look at trip and I see the excellent notes of the phnom penh (the only chin I haven't tasted yet). I book and here I am with a phnom penh with a friend of mine who is also a connoisseur. Old-fashioned dining room that makes it more of a French restaurant of the 1970s than a Cambodian, the reception is courteous. I sat down and there first stupefaction: plastic chopsticks placed on a porcelain holder and ? Guy degrenne covers near my plate style townroy and boch. I'm checking the room and not an Asian what's often bad presage. a little trick on the map and new disappointment. While the restaurant is indicated Cambodian Chinese on the front, there are almost no Cambodian dishes and Chinese dishes for French as seen in all the false Chinese restaurants. two three dishes (bo loc lac, bo bun cha gio, banh xeo) marked in French history of or renamed to the Cambodian adjective. I order a steam assortment (dim sun) that for the 10.50 price is ridiculous, the Sun dim have nothing extraordinary and in addition served with nuoc mam?! In 30 years of asian cuisine never seen sun dim at mam nuoc, it's infect so I asked for soy sauce (minimum). And there the waiter doesn't even give me a cup to pour the soy and soak my steamers, so I pour directly from the bottle that makes go back into my hands and that of my trusting buddy took the same thing as me. The galery. follow a Cambodian crêpes (in fact a Vietnamese xeo banh) that makes half the size of the xeo banh served elsewhere in the hexagon. Normally the banh xeo eats cut and rolled in salad leaves, all soaked like nems in the mam nuoc. nothing a miserable little lettuce leaf with three mint petals. I listen to and interlocute me when the server explains to my friends served in the first how to eat it (my crêpe will arrive 5min later). blew up quickly despite being too fat, this crêpe still does not fill my stomach, at 13,50€, it would have been the minimum. a normal crêpe is worth 10€ in the best bets. we're still finished and... we recommend a portion of nem each. The nems are coming, good but not more than that. fun, I almost finished the nems and the waitress arrive at our table with plates and covered clean poir the nems I laugh and tell him that for nems it is useless. and yes mr, the nems eat with the fingers. disappointed but players we take a look at the desserts card: only two really asiate desserts, an old and a Cambodian (if the latter is not finally a usurpator), I even note the presence of the soufflé grand marnier (I didn't know it was sino-cambodgien n lol mdr xptdr). a fast always sorbet mango with three from mango so small and the addition arrives. 100€ ??!!! to two. ...I'm going home and I'm eating two packs of bjorg clasho hazel cookies. I'm not hungry. morality of history: the phnom penh is a restaurant dear to people who don't know Asian cuisine and who eat like French monks with degren but plastic baguettes. disappointing and spiteful. but the average age of the clientele was around 60 years old, the little tap on the shoulder and the satisfied hand wrist can be this clientele but not us. There are many better addresses on chin and I'm surprised that this restaurant has been in place for 27 years...Ah yes I forgot. Drinking a glass-free tsing tao is good for street food, but not when you put a degren next to the plate. note: 5/20 null."
