Phnom Penh

Every single time I have dined in this cozy little Vietnamese/Cambodian restaurant I have truly enjoyed my meal and the service provided. I enjoy flavor that to others may be a bit extreme. I love super hot foods. Even at the hottest this is flavorful food, perfectly prepared and plated in portions that I find generous without being wasteful. When they say hot, they mean hot. Trust the guidance of the wait staff! The staff is always polite and the restaurant impeccably clean. Prices are, in my opinion, appropriate for the quality and quantity of food provided. I will return whenever I am in the area.

I don't know what happened, but this is the first time we went back since they reopened. The prices increased a lot, not just by a dollar or two here and there, but the entire menu increased a very noticeable amount. We ordered all of our usual favorite dishes that we normally love that usually tastes excellent, but everything tasted different this time, EVERY SINGLE ITEM, even beverages, like it was a completely different restaurant. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't that good either. There was one new dish we tried that was extremely salty, so salty that none of us could eat it and it just didn't taste good at all, compared to everything else. When I explained to the lady about the dish, she brought out a take out container which lead me believe she barely understood enough English to comprehend what I was saying about the salty, inedible dish. This was not the regular lady who is usually there all the other times we have been. I asked if there were new owners or if there was a new cook and she claimed it is the same cook as always. I find that hard to believe as every regular item we normally ordered did not taste like it was from the same restaurant. No remedy was offered to correct the problem, even after I urged her to have the cook taste the dish himself. They did not offer to take it off our bill or cook a replacement dish, even after I asked if they could just cook another dish for me. She kept trying to get us to take home the leftover even though I repeatedly said that it was not good, that we don't like it, we won't eat it, and we don't want it. She claimed that the cook insisted that THAT IS how salty that dish is supposed to taste. As salty as some other restaurants can be, I understand some dishes are just not likely to please everyone's tastes, so I noted that I would never order it again. After getting tired of trying to communicate, I just gave up, paid the bill, and left. In all honesty, I don't think I'll be returning, as sad as that makes me feel, it just definitely wasn't the same.