Cafe Indochine, Siem Reap, Cambodia

It seems that there are as many versions of the Cambodian specialty, Amok Chicken, as there are restaurants.  In our continuing search for Khmer specialties, D Guy, Joy and I chose the Cafe Indochine as the site of our dual Chinese New Year - Valentine's Day dinner venue.

To make up for the absence of the missing musketeer who was dutifully visiting back home, we ordered enough food to feed four - the Khmer tasting menu for two and the Cambodian tasting menu for two.

Some of the dishes that were included : Deep fried spring rolls, Warm pomelo salad, a delicious hot and sour Lobster coconut soup, a vegetable curry that reminded me of sayur lodeh, the ubiquitous Amok Chicken, the Lok Lak Beef with fries and the black pepper beef (chicken not shown).

Not a bad showing by the restaurant, but a very poor showing from us as we struggled, of course, to eat everything.  Our tuk-tuk driver was the lucky recipient of the food we couldn't finish.  We just hoped he was not vegetarian or Buddhist as we had given him a good portion of meat and beef.  Happy Valentine's Day!