{"id":30467,"date":"2026-02-25T14:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30467"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:50:50","slug":"first-impression-of-phnom-penh-pho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30467","title":{"rendered":"First Impression of Phnom Penh Pho"},"content":{"rendered":"

My lunch buddy Chris and I went to check out Phnom Penh Pho<\/a> a few weeks ago. The food was good but the overall experience – sad to say – was not great. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the only Cambodian restaurant in town so we were eager to try it. They serve pho and rice dishes so it\u2019s very similar to Vietnamese food. Here are pictures of our food and then I’ll give you all a run-down. <\/p>\n

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Anyway, when we first got there, we were directed to sit at a table toward the front. There was a weird odor which I couldn\u2019t identify but, not being fond of fish sauce, sometimes unfamiliar sauces smell pungent to me. I just figured it was smell coming from a dish someone was eating at a table near us. <\/p>\n

I am not sure if our server was new or what but she couldn\u2019t figure out how to order food from the tablet and she didn\u2019t know which tables were which. She had to ask another server for help at least a couple of times. First to find the dish I wanted in the tablet and then again to ask him for help because she ordered it twice. I overheard him saying, just start over. <\/p>\n

Our spring rolls came out first and they were delicious. Then Chris\u2019 dish came. It didn\u2019t come out like he expected so he wasn\u2019t even sure it was right but we didn\u2019t really know what anything would look like so maybe it was correct. Then the male server comes and confirms again that I wanted pork as the meat on my dish so there wasn\u2019t confusion in the kitchen. At this point, I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019ve told them what I wanted at least half a dozen times.<\/p>\n

Finally, our server brings out this cooker and a pot of soup and I\u2019m thinking that I didn\u2019t think what I ordered was soup but who knows? I am thinking she probably brought me someone else\u2019s order because I had seen her almost deliver someone else\u2019s food to table 12 not knowing which one was 12. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I tried the broth and it was pretty tasty. Maybe this isn\u2019t what I ordered but if I knew which this was on the menu I would probably order it. LOL. But then I dug in looking for meat and found fish. This was definitely not my food. <\/p>\n

I tried to get someone\u2019s attention but both servers were busy. It took quite a while before I could get someone to come over and I explained to them that I got someone else\u2019s food. <\/p>\n

They took all of it back \u2014 cooker, pot of soup, and bowl of rice. Our server mumbled something like \u201cThey told me to bring this here\u201d as she was taking the stuff. But I am guessing they told her to bring it to table X but she hadn\u2019t committed the table numbers to memory so she brought it to our table by mistake. Shortly after came back with my actual dish. <\/p>\n

As I mentioned earlier, the food was very good. I think they just need better help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My lunch buddy Chris and I went to check out Phnom Penh Pho a few weeks ago. The food was good but the overall experience – sad to say – was not great. It\u2019s the only Cambodian restaurant in town so we were eager to try it. They serve pho and rice dishes so it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[3842,2069,978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30468,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467\/revisions\/30468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}