Day 1 Siem Reap
We have arrived in Siem Reap!! We did not have enough sleep so as soon as we reached the airport at 8am (it's an hour earlier here), we headed to the hotel immediately to check in and rest. The hotel offers free transfer to hotel and to town on tuk tuk.
The weather's pretty nice as it was cool and breezy even at 12 noon but was due to the rain the day before. Many areas we're flooded even on the main roads.
And this how one of the petrol peddlers look like:
The tuk tuks have expensive taste, they only want to be served either johnnie walker's black label or red label
We ended up in the famous Pub Street where our driver dropped us and were looking around for lunch. This place is somewhat similar to Khao San road except it isn't thaaaat busy. The area is a little dusty, but they have all sorts of food and drinks offered there.
We walked slightly further than Pub Street into a local restaurant. There were two families dining in the restaurant so we were quite sure we picked the right one among two side by side restaurants. A Korean group was sitting in front of us and ordered some barbecue dishes, with a portable stove AND once the fire was lighted, baby cockroaches started to flee out from the inside of the stove... unfortunately for the Koreans the food have arrived, and luckily for us and the other family, we immediately cancelled our order... This therefore confirmed the fallacy of argumentum ad popullum..
We got back to Pub street for lunch and ended at The Khmer House for some hopefully authentic Khmer cuisine... This time I searched on Trip Advisor and it has a 4star rating and confirmed by Carmen it is authentic!!
What we ordered:
Fresh spring roll - US$2.50
Khmer curry - US$3.00
Stir Fried Morning glory - US$2.00
Lok Lak beef - US$3.00
Drinks - US$3.00
Total+tax - US$14.50
Overall I give a four star too, good service and good food, pretty authentic
Around Pub Street and the streets surrounding it, you can pretty much find everything you need. After lunch we walked around, window shopped a little. There is nothing much to shop there, the t-shirt shops sell the same designs, and the same applies to the souvenir stores. Shortly after that, we had our body massage in one of the parlor there. The price varies from one to another, but be expected to pay about US$5-6 an hour. I don't usually go for massages but I have to say this is one of those I like more.
There is one place which you must go to if you come to Siem Reap and that is Blue Pumpkin, there are two outlets in the old market area, and they serve very good ice cream sorbet type on cones or cups and it's US$1.50 for a scoop. They also have very nice cakes and pastries. The ambience is very cosy with comfortable sofas. Free wi-fi is available almost everywhere in the old market as most of the premises have them, so wherever you go, you can get at least 2-3 wifi networks with strong signal.
After massage, our hotel driver picked us back to hotel, for free!
There's is pretty much nowhere to go unless you take a tour to other towns, but they are not really tourist centric and I would assume people don't speak too much of English there. Most places in Siem Reap are very rural, in terms of hygiene standards they may be pretty low outside of the tourist areas.
We had Khmer BBQ for dinner, a somewhat famous must try dish, it's sort of like Korean barbecue but with soup on the sides, similar to our BBQ steamboat. This is the dish which had deterred us from having lunch at the first restaurant we stopped by, and whats more worrying is that this is a street peddler so they probably do not have proper storage or cleaning facilities available. But we took the risk anyway, plus the weather was just right for BBQ, it was raining! We were served with a generous portion of beef strips mixed with egg and some local vegetables and yellow noodle.
After dinner was pretty much walking around and drinks. There are many places which offered 0.50c beer, but after some brief reading there were a few famous spots and we chose to sit down in The Temple Club for a mug of beer. I have to say it's the most happening place so far along Pub Street.
Next day will be Angkor Wat!
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The weather's pretty nice as it was cool and breezy even at 12 noon but was due to the rain the day before. Many areas we're flooded even on the main roads.
And this how one of the petrol peddlers look like:
The tuk tuks have expensive taste, they only want to be served either johnnie walker's black label or red label
We ended up in the famous Pub Street where our driver dropped us and were looking around for lunch. This place is somewhat similar to Khao San road except it isn't thaaaat busy. The area is a little dusty, but they have all sorts of food and drinks offered there.
We walked slightly further than Pub Street into a local restaurant. There were two families dining in the restaurant so we were quite sure we picked the right one among two side by side restaurants. A Korean group was sitting in front of us and ordered some barbecue dishes, with a portable stove AND once the fire was lighted, baby cockroaches started to flee out from the inside of the stove... unfortunately for the Koreans the food have arrived, and luckily for us and the other family, we immediately cancelled our order... This therefore confirmed the fallacy of argumentum ad popullum..
We got back to Pub street for lunch and ended at The Khmer House for some hopefully authentic Khmer cuisine... This time I searched on Trip Advisor and it has a 4star rating and confirmed by Carmen it is authentic!!
What we ordered:
Fresh spring roll - US$2.50
Khmer curry - US$3.00
Stir Fried Morning glory - US$2.00
Lok Lak beef - US$3.00
Drinks - US$3.00
Total+tax - US$14.50
Overall I give a four star too, good service and good food, pretty authentic
Around Pub Street and the streets surrounding it, you can pretty much find everything you need. After lunch we walked around, window shopped a little. There is nothing much to shop there, the t-shirt shops sell the same designs, and the same applies to the souvenir stores. Shortly after that, we had our body massage in one of the parlor there. The price varies from one to another, but be expected to pay about US$5-6 an hour. I don't usually go for massages but I have to say this is one of those I like more.
There is one place which you must go to if you come to Siem Reap and that is Blue Pumpkin, there are two outlets in the old market area, and they serve very good ice cream sorbet type on cones or cups and it's US$1.50 for a scoop. They also have very nice cakes and pastries. The ambience is very cosy with comfortable sofas. Free wi-fi is available almost everywhere in the old market as most of the premises have them, so wherever you go, you can get at least 2-3 wifi networks with strong signal.
After massage, our hotel driver picked us back to hotel, for free!
There's is pretty much nowhere to go unless you take a tour to other towns, but they are not really tourist centric and I would assume people don't speak too much of English there. Most places in Siem Reap are very rural, in terms of hygiene standards they may be pretty low outside of the tourist areas.
We had Khmer BBQ for dinner, a somewhat famous must try dish, it's sort of like Korean barbecue but with soup on the sides, similar to our BBQ steamboat. This is the dish which had deterred us from having lunch at the first restaurant we stopped by, and whats more worrying is that this is a street peddler so they probably do not have proper storage or cleaning facilities available. But we took the risk anyway, plus the weather was just right for BBQ, it was raining! We were served with a generous portion of beef strips mixed with egg and some local vegetables and yellow noodle.
After dinner was pretty much walking around and drinks. There are many places which offered 0.50c beer, but after some brief reading there were a few famous spots and we chose to sit down in The Temple Club for a mug of beer. I have to say it's the most happening place so far along Pub Street.
Next day will be Angkor Wat!
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