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Gordon Ramsay Burger Opens in Phnom Penh, a First for Southeast Asia
The British chef is opening his first Gordon Ramsay Burger in Southeast Asia, in Phnom Penh. The restaurant will sit at the top of JS Tower, which will also house the region’s first Planet Hollywood Hotel. JS Group, the developer, announced the project on 14 October. It has not given an opening date.

Editorial team
2 days ago3 min read


Gastronomy & Recipe of Cambodia : The succulent Num Kom
Num Kom is a traditional rice cake made from simple ingredients such as glutinous rice flour with palm sugar, grated coconut and toasted...

Coin gourmand
2 days ago1 min read


Delicious Cambodian Recipes: Traditional Dishes to Cook at Home
Looking for something new and exotic to add to your cooking? Look no further than the flavours of Cambodian cuisine. Sweet, salty, spicy, sharp: Cambodia offers a mix of tastes found nowhere else.

Coin gourmand
Sep 294 min read


Kampot Pepper: The Ingredient Cambodia No Longer Has to Explain
Geographical indication since 2010, EU protection since 2016: Kampot pepper is one of the rare products the world agrees on. Featuring the KPPA and Malis restaurant.

Coin gourmand
Sep 232 min read


Topaz brings Marennes-Oléron oysters to Norodom Boulevard
Marennes-Oléron oysters, beef carpaccio, Mekong lobster: at Topaz in Phnom Penh, the French menu stays close to the original. Business Lunch offer runs through September.

Coin gourmand
Sep 232 min read


At Crab & Co, the sea comes to the table: Sam Taroth sits down to Kep West's signature seafood grill
Among the pleasures of a stay at Kep West, dinner at Crab & Co ranks high. Sam Taroth took a seat one evening at the resort's seafront restaurant. Sophy Ouch, Food & Beverage Manager, welcomed her at the table as the house's best-selling dish arrived: a long wooden board of grilled fish and seafood, all landed fresh on the Kep coast.

Coin gourmand
Sep 231 min read


Traditional Recipe: Cambodian Samlor Kako
How to make samlor kako, the traditional Cambodian soup with Khmer kroeung, prahok, toasted rice, pumpkin, green papaya and long beans

Coin gourmand
Sep 212 min read


Cambodia & Gastronomy: Chef Sopheak Sao to Bring Khmer Cuisine to SIAL Paris 2026
In October, the executive chef of Malis Siem Reap will join a Cambodian delegation at SIAL Paris, one of the world's largest professional food industry events. He will present a Khmer cuisine built around local products, including Kampot pepper, palm sugar, mango and cashew nuts.

Editorial team
Sep 75 min read


Diaspora & Cuisine: Chanthy Yen, Cambodia on Canada's menu
Born in Windsor, Ontario, to Cambodian refugee parents, Chanthy Yen learned to cook on the floor of his grandmother's kitchen. He has since won Top Chef Canada, cooked for Justin Trudeau, and opened Touk, his Cambodian restaurant, in Vancouver. A portrait of a chef who has put Khmer cooking front and centre.

Editorial team
Sep 73 min read


The Chef's Table: Fabrizio Aceti Brings a New Italian Chapter to Do Forni
VIPs, influencers and food lovers gathered this week around a five-course menu set to officially join the à la carte selection in October. At the stove: Italian chef Fabrizio Aceti, flown in specially to present his newest creation.

Coin gourmand
Aug 314 min read
![In Cambodia, festive meals almost always include a dish made with fresh rice vermicelli (នំបញ្ចុក [nom bânh-chok]), served with plenty of raw vegetables (អន្លក់ [ân-luk]) and accompanied by a fairly thick, coconut-milk-based soup, most often containing flaked freshwater fish and seasoned with numerous spices. The soup resembles a liquid curry. One of the most popular versions of this dish is called "nam-ya" (ណាំយ៉ា) or "nam-ya curry" (ការីណាំយ៉ា).](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b71427_3bc53c6047dd4c058968e0fd52400ed6~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/b71427_3bc53c6047dd4c058968e0fd52400ed6~mv2.webp)
![In Cambodia, festive meals almost always include a dish made with fresh rice vermicelli (នំបញ្ចុក [nom bânh-chok]), served with plenty of raw vegetables (អន្លក់ [ân-luk]) and accompanied by a fairly thick, coconut-milk-based soup, most often containing flaked freshwater fish and seasoned with numerous spices. The soup resembles a liquid curry. One of the most popular versions of this dish is called "nam-ya" (ណាំយ៉ា) or "nam-ya curry" (ការីណាំយ៉ា).](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b71427_3bc53c6047dd4c058968e0fd52400ed6~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_441,h_331,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/b71427_3bc53c6047dd4c058968e0fd52400ed6~mv2.webp)
Cambodia & Recipe: Fish Curry and Fresh Rice Vermicelli – "Nam-ya Curry" (ការីណាំយ៉ា)
In Cambodia, festive meals almost always include a dish made with fresh rice vermicelli (នំបញ្ចុក [nom bânh-chok]), served with plenty of raw vegetables (អន្លក់ [ân-luk]) and accompanied by a fairly thick, coconut-milk-based soup, most often containing flaked freshwater fish and seasoned with numerous spices. The soup resembles a liquid curry. One of the most popular versions of this dish is called "nam-ya" (ណាំយ៉ា) or "nam-ya curry" (ការីណាំយ៉ា).

Coin gourmand
Aug 232 min read


Nhoam Sdao: Cambodia's bitterest salad, and why it's worth trying
Forget prahok. If there's one Cambodian dish capable of throwing off even adventurous eaters, it's nhoam sdao — a salad built entirely around bitterness, made with the young leaves and flower buds of the neem tree, known in Khmer as sdao. Unlike amok or lok lak, this dish never tries to charm you on first taste: it has to be learned. And that's exactly what makes it one of the most revealing dishes in Khmer cuisine.

Coin gourmand
Aug 173 min read


Santana Hem: From Finance to Khmer Cuisine, a Richmond Chef's Rise
He left a career in finance for New York kitchens, before founding Hem and Her in Richmond, Virginia, and becoming the first chef-in-residence at VCU's Institute for Contemporary Art. Through his pop-ups and his signature cookies, Santana Hem, the son of Cambodian refugees, reinvents his mother's cooking and carries, dish by dish, the memory of the Khmer diaspora in the United States.

Editorial team
Aug 174 min read


Why Do Cambodians Eat Snake? A Deep Dive Into a Food Tradition Under Pressure
Grilled at a street stall, dried on a rural market table, or simmered into a sour soup, snake has long been part of the diet for some Cambodians, particularly around the Tonlé Sap. But behind this quiet culinary habit lies one of the largest wildlife harvests on the planet — and mounting pressure on a resource scientists increasingly consider unsustainable.

Coin gourmand
Aug 94 min read


Diaspora & Tomy Gousset: French cuisine told with a Cambodian accent
Born in Cambodia and raised in France from the age of three, Tomy Gousset has become one of the most endearing chefs on the Parisian food scene. At the helm of three addresses in the French capital — Tomy & Co, Hugo & Co and Marso & Co — he cultivates a generous bistronomic cuisine, built on vegetables he grows himself and on a career path that was never a straight line.

Coin gourmand
Aug 94 min read


Cambodia: The Country That Turned Insects Into a Way of Life
From the rice paddies of the Tonlé Sap to the smoking stalls of Skun, all the way to the fine-dining tables of Siem Reap, Cambodia has cultivated a singular relationship with insects for centuries. Neither a sideshow curiosity nor a mere relic of famine, Khmer entomophagy tells a story of resilience, craft and, increasingly, science. A deep dive into a tradition that may yet help feed the future.

La Rédaction
Aug 25 min read


Pong Tia Koon: The Balut Egg That Splits Opinion in Cambodia
Come evening, wicker baskets and steaming pots show up on nearly every street corner in Phnom Penh. Inside: duck eggs that aren't quite what they seem. Pong tia koon tends to catch visitors off guard — but for most Cambodians, it's just a good evening snack, nothing more dramatic than that.

Coin gourmand
Jul 273 min read


Ta Guan, the Forgotten Dessert That Traces Back to the Court of Angkor
Behind the great classics of Khmer sweets — num ansom, num kom, kralan — hides a quieter dessert whose story reaches back to a Chinese imperial envoy sent to observe the Khmer Empire at its height. Ta guan, a pudding of yellow mung beans served in a clear tapioca syrup, appears in no tourist guide. It passes on quietly, kitchen to kitchen.

Coin gourmand
Jul 272 min read


The Green Wave: How Matcha Conquered Phnom Penh
From Kyoto to Boeung Keng Kang, ceremonial Japanese green tea powder has taken over Phnom Penh's trendiest cafés in just a few seasons.

Editorial team
Jul 273 min read


L'Art du Partage: Topaz Brings Together Four Chefs and Penfolds' Great Wines
Four chefs, four courses, and a run of Penfolds' best-known labels — that was the shape of “Le Terroir Retrouvé” at Topaz in Phnom Penh. The idea was simple enough: build each dish around what a specific wine does on the palate. What came out of it, guests said afterward, felt less like a wine dinner and more like two very different terroirs finally getting a chance to talk to each other.

Coin gourmand
Jul 213 min read


Samlor Machu Trey: The Sour Bowl That Defines Everyday Khmer Cooking
Far from restaurant tables and dishes reserved for special occasions, one soup captures Cambodian home cooking at its most everyday. Samlor machu trey, a sour-and-savoury fish soup, is made across the country using whatever the day's market has to offer.

Coin gourmand
Jul 163 min read


Khéma Pasteur: Four Menus, Four Ways to Fall for the Place
On Pasteur Street, at the corner of Streets 51 and 228, Khéma Pasteur occupies the ground floor of the Arunreas Hotel as though it had always been there. Between the clink of glasses, the smell of melted butter drifting out of the kitchen, and the quiet bustle of the waitstaff, the place has been quietly pursuing its mission for well over a decade now: keeping the spirit of the French brasserie alive in the heart of Phnom Penh, without ever settling for a postcard-pretty déco

Coin gourmand
Jul 134 min read


Crossed Cocktails: Siem Reap's Elephant Bar and Manila's Long Bar Swap Shakers
Two of Southeast Asia's most iconic hotel bars are joining forces this summer for a project as rare as it is bold: sending their finest bartenders across borders, shaker in hand.

Editorial team
Jul 122 min read


Phnom Penh & Gastronomy : Khéma La Poste, the address where France comes to call
On Phnom Penh's historic Post Office Square, inside a restored colonial building, a restaurant rewrites, plate after plate, a postcard of a life lived elsewhere.

Coin gourmand
Jul 64 min read
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