{"id":263,"date":"2009-05-18T18:38:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T11:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2011-05-27T18:39:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T11:39:05","slug":"life-is-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/cambodian-food\/restaurants\/life-is-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lastappetite\/3535623190\/\" title=\"Sweet Cafe salad by phil.lees, on Flickr\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.flickr.com');\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3299\/3535623190_14c6caf76a_o.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"717\" alt=\"Sweet Cafe salad\" \/><\/a><br \/> <br \/>\n<small>Nhoam svay trey chhaoe (Green mango salad with smoked fish)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>I spent a whole lot of time in Phnom Penh reliving my old life. I had plans to cover a few new restaurants but the holiday temptation to slide back into the old ways was too powerful. <\/p>\n<p>Part of that life is Sweet Cafe. Sweet is the most dependable Khmer restaurant in town. Of all the Cambodian restaurants in Phnom Penh, it was here that I dined with most frequency. Order the most traditionally Khmer-looking foods on the menu and you&#8217;ll never walk away disappointed. Order something not from the pantheon of Cambodian foods, vegetarian for instance, and chances are you&#8217;ll be served up a loosely inedible dish in a glutinous sauce. This is a restaurant designed for middle class Cambodia and not for the unpredictable caprices of Westerners who occasionally drop in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lastappetite\/3535623214\/\" title=\"Sweet Cafe trokun by phil.lees, on Flickr\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.flickr.com');\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3372\/3535623214_bd9ebc09f5_o.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"717\" alt=\"Sweet Cafe trokun\" \/><\/a><br \/> <br \/>\n<small>Trokun de luxe &#8211; kangkong stir fried with chili, whole garlic cloves and shredded lotus stem.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>The one thing that has changed at Sweet is the menu; now an approachable photographic bible of meals. If you were keen on methodically eating a swathe through the cuisine, this would be a great place to start. There are not less that 200 dishes presented in full pictorial glory. Order a sour soup, a salad and a fish and you&#8217;ll never eat poorly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lastappetite\/3534804711\/\" title=\"Sweet Cafe Samlor Machou Yuon by phil.lees, on Flickr\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.flickr.com');\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3415\/3534804711_e3eb6d6d02_o.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"717\" alt=\"Sweet Cafe Samlor Machou Yuon\" \/><\/a><br \/> <br \/>\n<small>Samlor machou yuon (&#8221;Vietnamese&#8221;-style sour soup)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Location: Sweet Cafe, 21B Street 294<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nhoam svay trey chhaoe (Green mango salad with smoked fish) I spent a whole lot of time in Phnom Penh reliving my old life. I had plans to cover a few new restaurants but the holiday temptation to slide back into the old ways was too powerful. Part of that life is Sweet Cafe. Sweet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/cambodian-food\/restaurants\/life-is-sweet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life is sweet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phnom-penh","category-restaurants"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phnomenon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}