04/17/08

Overall, pretty good, and affordable for San Jose

by melissako

My boyfriend and I start off with my favorite tomato-pinapple soup with fish. It was tasty but I found it to be slightly on the salty side which had me gulping down water for a while. The sach ang (beef kabobs) were really good when eaten by itself or with rice; I'm glad we ordered 4 kabobs; & ended up with 1 1/2 for leftovers. We tried the fish amok recommended by so many other reviews; the fish steamed in the banana leaves was super tender and moist, however, I felt the coconut made it a little too rich for my tastes and my boyfriend insists that his mom makes it better. Finally, we ended with the mango delight, only they had run out of mango ice cream so we had coconut instead. Waaaay too sweet! More water gulping... Overall though, the food was pretty good, the server very courteous, and all those courses set us back only $40 for the whole thing. In the end, we'd still rather go out to Oakland's Phnom Penh: much more delicious for half the cost.

• Pros: they have a small parting lot
• Cons: only one server when we went; so service (i.e. refilling water, getting the bill) was a bit slow