Phnom Penh's First & Only Ethiopian Restaurant 🍲 My Wife & Kids' First Time, Thoughts 🤔

It was really good, just had to wait too long for the bill.

We are finally reunited and back together again, although it will take years to financially recover. Hopefully by the time we're 50 we'll still be healthy and strong enough to keep working, because don't really have a choice anymore. I used to live in Kep and operate a Kindergarten there. It's a sleepy quite town compared to most beach places, and that can either be a positive or a negative depending on the getaway you're looking for. If you do stay in Kep, I recommend only visiting the beach during the day.

The national park has some guesthouses and hotels located within it, and the beach is still accessible. The gibbons come down from the mountains every morning and walk through the gardens of the places, it's a magical experience.

I wasn't aware of any German lentil dishes, now I've got some googling to do. I was quite impatient too, but I didn't let the girls see that because they would've fed on my impatient energy.

Here in Cambodia the waiters and waitresses don't rely on tips like they do in the USA to complete their salary, so the old saying "the customer is always right" doesn't work here. Just the other day we spent 15 minutes explaining to a cook that we wanted veg fried rice without egg, a groundbreaking concept.

After we were positive he understood not to touch the eggs, he repeated muscle memory and sent us home with egg fried rice. After getting back to the hotel, a heavy rain began and we opened our food boxes to see the egg. I was pissed, drove back, and demanded new dishes me made. But of course this is Cambodia, and we know the owner of the restaurant has no active role, and instead the poor employees gamble each day with how much stuff to buy at the market. They would've lost the day's profits on our mistake, so we offered to pay all over again for dishes made correctly.

We received some abnormally light take-away boxes, and upon opening them at the hotel, we realized the new portions were 1/4th the size of the previous order, and literally cold diced carrots with cold leftover rice, only in Cambodia.

It was really good, but the girls didn't like the bread very much.

I have eaten at a handful of Ethiopian restaurants where the dishes were extremely bland, but the majority of places serve dishes slightly less spicy than Indian dishes. I hope you give it a chance again if you find another restaurant. The only thing wrong with the place we visited was that the owner wasn't very attentive, but the food was satisfactory.

Thank you, so nice to see new and different cultures coming to Cambodian to do business.

Oh no, that's a long stretch without a bite to eat, especially for a work day. I can respect that some folks don't love sourdough, but will never understand.

It was a good experience overall, I always love turning the family on to new cultures through their food.

A lot of Ethiopians eat rice, but only the ones not living in the mountains, where bread takes over the diet. I need rice with every meal too, but there is one thing that can replace it, and that's a good roti, paratha, or other flatbread. For some reason I don't like to mix rice and bread in the same meal.

She waited too long for the bill.

It is a heavy cuisine, especially the bean dishes. I am the same way with rice when it comes to a meal, but because South Asian is my favorite cuisine, the only thing that can replace rice is some kind of delicious flatbread, especially roti or paratha. In Cambodia the slang way to say "How are you?" is to say "Did you eat rice yet?" Somebody once told me Thais say the same the same thing too, is that correct?

Lots of beans for protein, otherwise we never feel full. Thanks for stopping by my friend.

It was a pretty good meal. I've eaten at about 10 different Ethiopian restaurants through the years, and this place had the best lentil dishes yet, but also the most uninspired salad too. The main thing is the joy of sitting down with the family and sharing a meal together again.

It's so good to be back, and I have missed eating delicious foods. The food in Suriname was very repetitive and bland, none of us liked it.

That last pic was after we ate. We were waiting for the owner to show his face so we could ask for the bill, but he was distracted with his phone and hiding in the kitchen.

Ethiopian food is very similar to Indian, especially the ingredients and spices used, but I would say it's more mild. The bread is what's special, injera, like a sourdough crepe, my favorite flatbread on the planet, but not a hit with the family.

I'm guilty of not taking any close-up pictures. We were so hungry that we'd eaten half of the dishes by the time we thought about Hive content. I still prefer dosa to injera, but I will always love all things sourdough.