Description: We’d been booked in to the Anghor Village hotel for a meal prior to our visit to the Aspara Theatre. Although we were in a small group (4 of us) tour this meal was part of a mass catering arrangement and all visitors to the theatre were going to be dining here. We were placed at long tables with short legs and sat on a cushion on the floor with our feet in a shallow pit. It was an extremely uncomfortable seating arrangement but of course it was supposedly dining in a traditional Khmer setting.
The meal was served at a steady pace and just as we thought we’d got everything more arrived. Like many restaurants we’d been in everything comes at once so there seems to little or no differentiation between courses. I guess the meal was just as we expected it to be with the usual serving of clear and somewhat tasteless soup, spring rolls, dumplings, dips etc. I can’t say that this was the best ever food that we’d eaten whilst in Cambodia and it was a bit overpriced for what it was.
However, this is a place that is built for and solely caters for tourists so we should not have expected any less. The service was efficient and each course was served with a smile and although we felt we’d eaten quite well we were left feeling peckish later on in the evening.
I guess people eat here because of the show because it was in this very room that we would later on in the evening enjoy a full and varied music of traditional dance. That’s why service had to be efficient they wanted to make sure we’d all eaten and the tables were cleared of everything except drink before the show started.
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