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| - Wanna try a zippy new cuisine and eat like a pig for $15 per person? Then Khmer. Get it? "Come here." Oh, I crack myself up.[1]
Not a fan of fish sauce, coconut milk or curries? Then stay home and make room for me and my feedbag.
Ten hungry Yelpers and I gathered here and ravaged half the menu.
There were some hits:
E. Cambodiana soup: a green curry-based soup with chicken and enough green chiles to ignite fireworks in your mouth ($8.79, yields about 10 cup-size servings)
1. Phanaeng Kai: flavorful reddish chicken curry laced with creamy coconut milk and fragrant basil ($7.89)
11. Phanaeng Goong: same as #1 but with shrimp ($9.56)
14. Kako Khmer: another chicken curry dish--this time more yellow in color--with green papaya and sweetened with tender jack fruit ($7.89)
But also a few misses. Personally, I wasn't too crazy about:
The fish cake appetizer, (too fishy), their version of phad thai (too gloppy), golden beef (dry and tough), Khmer pancake (kind of limp and meh; this is never a good thing)
Get the fried banana with ice cream for dessert. The hot-cold contrast is undeniably satisfying (even if the ice cream is some cheapo no-name brand stuff). It's only $1.99!
The place is small and bare-bones, yet manages to have a family-run charm to it. The night we went, the mom was cooking and the son was waiting tables.
I would go back but with a max of 6 people. Not that our food or service suffered too much but, I dunno, I tend to feel bad foisting large groups on tiny kitchens; especially when they were so sweet and trying hard to make us all happy. You may not care but I get weird white-guilt-like about these things.
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[1] Forgot to mention: No alcohol served here; that probably helped keep the total of our bill low even though we ordered several apps, main dishes, and dessert.
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