Dec
21
What makes Siem Reap so compelling after the fabulous shops and cool cafés and bars, are its excellent restaurants – everything from traditional Khmer food in a casual setting to contemporary and creative Cambodian cuisine served up in elegant surroundings. Out of all the restaurants we tried during our stay (and we tried a lot), …
Dec
20
Siem Reap, like Phnom Penh, boasts plenty of cool cafés and bars, whether it’s for a coffee and pastry to kickstart the day, a cold beer to quench the thirst, or a heady cocktail to sip after the sun goes down. There are so many options – these are just our favourites, below – that …
Nov
06
Part of what makes Phnom Penh such a cool, cosmopolitan city is its drinking scene – the place is brimming with buzzy cafés and bars. By day, there’s a lively coffee house culture, and come sunset, everyone’s sipping cocktails at the city’s many rooftop bars. Here are our favourites of the cafés and bars we …
Oct
20
I will always choose savoury over sweet, spice over sugar. My ideal dessert is something like this traditional chocolate Catalan treat, because it includes salt and olive oil. I’ll eat – and I’ll enjoy – dessert when it comes at the end of a degustation menu and I’ll happily test out Terence’s chocolate experiments (like this …
Aug
30
We’re espresso people: we like our coffee short, black, strong, and hot, Italian-style. Yet in Saigon we found ourselves stopping often for tall, sweet, cold glasses of traditional Vietnamese iced coffee, called cà phê đá or ‘coffee ice’, or cà phê sữa đá when it’s with milk. Made from Vietnamese-grown dark roast coffee beans, the …
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