Okgna Ing Bun Hoaw, Street 108, Phnom Penh 120209, Cambodia
Description
Pisa - Old Market is chef Sothea Seng's creative Khmer fine-dining room on the first floor of a colonial-era building in the French Quarter, where the kitchen shops the adjacent Phsar Chas each morning and cooks seasonal Cambodian produce with a contemporary hand. Lunch runs as a two-to-four-course business set, dinner as a longer chef's discovery menu, served omakase-style in a fin-de-siecle bistro of exposed brick, mahogany tables and green velvet banquettes.
It is romantic at night, and reviewers rate it as a date spot; solo walk-ins can usually find a seat at the bar. The set menus are well paced, the duck and the tuna with avocado are on the menu, and the lava cake is tempting.
Menu highlights
Beef carpaccio — sliced local beef, crispy morning glory, fresh herbs, chili dressing
Chicken and banana blossom wonton in lemongrass and lime broth
Prawn "out of pot" — dried fish, green mango salsa, duck egg broth, kaffir lime
Sandai fish fillet, pan-fried, with heart of palm and sour lemongrass velouté