This veteran noodle house serves up hearty Cambodian dishes, featuring uniquely flavorful noodles in a cozy spot—you might want to snag a reservation!
"Open since 1985, the family-owned Phnom Penh Noodle Shack boasts plenty of options that include springy noodles and hot, gently steaming soup broth. The spot stays busy thanks, in large part, to its cult-favorite house special soup with sliced and ground pork, stomach, liver, shrimp, and noodles in a massive bowl (two can share this portion easily). The casual diner-style interior only enhances the experience." - Rebecca Roland
"The confident Cambodian cooking at Phnom Penh Noodle Shack knows no bounds. While most diners dig into the restaurant’s famous noodle soup, don’t overlook the rice porridges — especially the filling house special with ground pork, chicken, and beef meatballs. The portion is large enough for two or three people to comfortably share in the restaurant’s dimly lit, homey dining room." - Cathy Chaplin, Eater Staff
"Dish: Phnom Penh Noodles Phnom Penh is one of the best Cambodian restaurants in Long Beach, and frankly, one of our favorite spots in the whole city, period. Open Tuesday-Sunday from 7am-3pm, this tiny place specializes mostly in breakfast comfort dishes like rice porridge and meat pies, but it’s their house special noodle soup with pork bone broth that we’ll brave even the foggiest of mornings to eat. You can choose between rice or egg noodles, but we actually prefer doing a mix of both." - brant cox, kat hong, nikko duren, sylvio martins
"Phnom Penh Noodle Shack started as a five-seat restaurant in 1985 and grew into a neighborhood favorite that’s filled with loyal fans most days of the week. On the menu are some of the city's best Khmer-style rice porridge, stir-fried noodles, and pork noodle soup. Newcomers can’t go wrong with the namesake soup, which comes packed with pork, shrimp, herbs, and the noodles (flat, skinny, rice, or egg) of their choice." - Mona Holmes, Brian Addison
"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
