Lum Orng Farm to Table Restaurant and Siem Reap’s Growing Green Movement

Lum Orng Farm to Table Restaurant and Siem Reap's Growing Green Movement. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Lum Orng farm to table restaurant has quickly become one of Siem Reap’s best restaurants, serving deliciously imaginative Cambodian food based on just-picked produce and seasonal ingredients. It is part of a flourishing green movement across the region, of which Siem Reap is leading the way. Siem Reap restaurants have been groundbreaking when it comes … Read more

Cambodian Chef Tim Pheak, the Travelling Chef Living the Dream at Home

Cambodian Chef Tim Pheak, the Travelling Chef Living the Dream at Home. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Cambodian Chef Tim Pheak has probably travelled more than most Cambodian chefs his age. Yet he says he is finally living the dream as an executive chef in Cambodia’s Siem Reap, where he’s cooking elegant renditions on traditional Cambodian dishes with organic local produce. Cambodian chef Tim Pheak – Cambodians put family names first, so you’d … Read more

Cambodian Chef Pola Siv on His Mother’s Cooking and How to Open a Restaurant

Mie Cafe, Chef Pola Siv, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Cambodian chef Pola Siv helms the kitchen of Mie Café, one of Siem Reap’s best restaurants, where the 35 year-old chef creates an elegant and inventive contemporary Cambodian cuisine rooted in local produce and European cooking techniques. Cambodian chef Pola Siv has a great story. Like the northern Cambodia city of Siem Reap’s other talented young … Read more