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Kimly: Kep Crab Market Crab-Shack, Awesome Fried Shrimp

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Kimly Restaurant
Crab Market (if you’re in Kep, you can’t miss it)
Kep, Cambodia

Kimly is the most popular restaurant in Kep’s Crab Market cluster of eateries, attracting a mixture of both Khmer and Western custom. Specializing in fresh seafood, and with a more extensive menu than other Crab Market restaurants, it attracts a cracking business during holidays, and is usually pleasingly quiet during the week. Everything is fresh, of course: you may note this place is built over the ocean.

Kimly is even so successful that they’ve built a guesthouse near Knai Bang Chatt: haven’t been there yet, doubt they put crab-scented air fresheners in the rooms but one never knows.

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Romdeng Again: Great Food, I Still Don’t Order a Spider

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Romdeng
#74 Street 174
Telephone: +855 092-219-565
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Romdeng is the Mith Samlanh street kid’s charity Khmer training restaurant, affiliated with the more Western accented Friends, near Riverside. Set in an old colonial building, it’s a salubrious place to try authentic Khmer dishes for a pretty good cause. The waitstaff, cooks, and I believe at least some of the management are all former street kids enrolled in hospitality training programs conducted by Mith Samlanh. It’s a good idea, and, thankfully, the food is good too.

Both Romdeng and Friends do excellent frozen drinks, and I enjoyed this lychee/passionfruit/mint mixture. Would have been better with a little vodka, but this was a lunch-break-from-work type affair so I was forced to hold back.

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