East City Travel Guide

Street stalls will keep shoestring travellers happily fed on noodle dishes or filled baguettes for 2000r or less. Stalls spring up in different places at various times of day: markets are a good place for a daytime selection, and the riverside in the early evening. Next up in the price range, guesthouses tend to serve a standard selection of local and Western dishes for $1-3. Khmer street-corner restaurants , with plastic garden chairs, charge around the same for standard local fare. This is the fulcrum of evening social activity for moderately well-off Khmers, so it's often difficult to find a table in the more popular of these restaurants. The more fashionable options are concentrated at the southern end of Monivong Boulevard. For a slightly more upmarket variation on the same theme, make for the cluster of popular Khmer joints on the other side of Friendship Bridge. Finally, there are innumerable reasonably priced restaurants aimed at expats and tourists; expect to pay $3-5. Most restaurants open from around 11am until 9pm, although places catering to a mainly Western clientele stay open until 11pm.