"Saying a restaurant treats you like family is normally a cliché reserved for Olive Garden commercials. But if there’s one place where the sappy statement holds true, it’s this legendary Cambodian spot in Long Beach. We’ve seen servers pull up a chair to give their personal dining preferences, like how they squeeze sambal oelek into their velvety rice porridge instead of using the sweeter sriracha, or suggesting you order rice noodles in your soup because they absorb the bone broth better than egg noodles do. A meal at Phnom Penh makes parking tickets, smog alerts, and every other daily sh*tstorm feel like distant memories. We’ll happily drive 90 minutes for that kind of comfort (and some very good rice porridge). On your worst days, you should do the same." - brant cox, nikko duren, arden shore, sylvio martins
