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| - 4 stars for our first visit to this hole-in-the-wall restaurant!
Mekong River was recommended to us by a friend who is Cambodian as one of the areas best Cambodian restaurants. Though I live really close to Mekong River, I've always been a little skeptical of it as a suburban, Americanized Asian restaurant. It turned out to be really good!
We asked the waiter what he would recommend as authentic Cambodian food, and he mentioned #59, Chha Kreoung. He also mentioned #63 and #64, Samlaw Machu Kreoung and Samlaw Machu Kahti as close favorites that had really good flavor. We ended up going with #59 Chha Kreoung with shrimp and tofu. The flavors were really good - sweet, sour, and spicy with plenty of basil, and the spices were right on. (The beau used to live in the Bay Area and ate regularly at a Cambodian restaurant.)
We also got the Cambodian Curry with tofu. I really enjoyed this one. It was more on the sweeter side and had lots of veggies - potatoes, yams, green peppers, onions, etc in a really good peanut curry sauce. Yum.
The portions were pretty big, and so we had lots of leftovers! Good stuff. We will be back.
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