Hotels in the redlight districts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia?

This is the part of the forum where we discuss Cambodia's nightlife! While most bars, nightclubs, pubs, beer gardens, and hostess bars are in Phnom Penh, we discuss the Cambodian nightlife across all of Cambodia, including Siem Reap, Kampot, and Sihanoukville. The main nightlife areas in Phnom Penh are on Street 136, Street 130, Street 110 and Street 51, but there are other party spots that aren't girlie bars where expats, tourists, and locals drink until the sun comes up. Feel free to post specials and promotions that relate to nighttime fun!
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ronadurante wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 6:45 pm
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ronadurante wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:23 pm City is a dump, I'm at the hometown hotel. I'm on a bus tomorrow, what a waste of a trip.
Any western food in this area?
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True, I found street 130, it's all good now.
I think I read somewhere if you walk down to the promenade theres tons of freelancers, true?
I hate going through the whole lady drink and barfine scene
you might be better off around street 51/golden sorya mall/Pontoon club if youre after freelancers, but there are some that walk along the riverside restaurants
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And it's not like khmer food is for many a challenge like perhaps thai food
That's completely the wrong way around.
Some Thai food is very spicy but in general it's delicious to westerners.
Apart from amok and a few others, Khmer food takes some getting used to.
Some dishes, and most street food, is, completely unpalatable.
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finbar wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:00 pm
And it's not like khmer food is for many a challenge like perhaps thai food
That's completely the wrong way around.
Some Thai food is very spicy but in general it's delicious to westerners.
Apart from amok and a few others, Khmer food takes some getting used to.
Some dishes, and most street food, is, completely unpalatable.
and yeah theres the common Thai food, then theres Isaan food which its own thing, similar to Khmer food, i find to find Thai food is more aesthetically pleasing than the Khmer food you see at service stops etc
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finbar wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:00 pm
And it's not like khmer food is for many a challenge like perhaps thai food
That's completely the wrong way around.
Some Thai food is very spicy but in general it's delicious to westerners.
Apart from amok and a few others, Khmer food takes some getting used to.
Some dishes, and most street food, is, completely unpalatable.
You've selectively edited my quote and thereby misrepresented what I said. Here it is again: 'And it's not like khmer food is for many a challenge like perhaps thai food which is generally pretty chilli hot for westerners.'

Note my bolding emphasis.

I standby what I said: many barangs are not used to the thai chilli hot dishes unless they've already been toned down for the farang taste. Not so much an issue with khmer food. Having said that, I do think thai offers more than khmer cuisine overall in terms of variety but that is off topic to my main point of westerners generally not open to asian food..

Dunno why you find khmer food so unpalatable coz I've found otherwise..
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clutchcargo wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:39 pm
finbar wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:00 pm
And it's not like khmer food is for many a challenge like perhaps thai food
That's completely the wrong way around.
Some Thai food is very spicy but in general it's delicious to westerners.
Apart from amok and a few others, Khmer food takes some getting used to.
Some dishes, and most street food, is, completely unpalatable.
You've selectively edited my quote and thereby misrepresented what I said. Here it is again: 'And it's not like khmer food is for many a challenge like perhaps thai food which is generally pretty chilli hot for westerners.'

Note my bolding emphasis.

I standby what I said: many barangs are not used to the thai chilli hot dishes unless they've already been toned down for the farang taste. Not so much an issue with khmer food. Having said that, I do think thai offers more than khmer cuisine overall in terms of variety but that is off topic to my main point of westerners generally not open to asian food..

Dunno why you find khmer food so unpalatable coz I've found otherwise..

You guys should start off selling screws before you are qualified to give advice on food like yong does.
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I don't know what the beef is here.
I'm not misrepresenting anything, I just disagree that Thai food is generally too spicy for many westerners.
Khmer food on the other hand is often made with low quality ingredients, or strange body parts, poorly prepared (shards of bone in everything, chopped on the floor), and employs some quite unusual flavours (lots of bitter or fermented or 'off' notes). There's plenty of good stuff too of course when you go more upmarket.

I don't know anything about red-light hotels though.
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ronadurante wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:23 pm City is a dump, I'm at the hometown hotel. I'm on a bus tomorrow, what a waste of a trip.
Any western food in this area?
This says more about you than it says about Phnom Penh. What were you expecting? Thailand ?
This is a real question btw, not taking the piss. Obviously, you had some expectations when you decided to come to Cambodia, and it has turned out to be different from what you expected.
So, how, why, what ? :unknown:
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To be fair, if he alighted at hometown guesthouse, and he wasn't wearing a wifebeater...
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ronadurante wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:23 pm City is a dump, I'm at the hometown hotel. I'm on a bus tomorrow, what a waste of a trip.
Any western food in this area?
Plenty of great western food outlets in Phnom Penh
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fax wrote:Sun & Moon for ballers
How is Sun & Moon for ballers?

It isn’t $100 for a small room like Sokha nor is it backpacker central.

Trendy but functional room design. Clean, well maintained room, good breakfast buffet. No outward appearance of the tour bus hordes. Has an elevator.

I tend to spend $30-60 for a room a night. I like a nice clean room that I don’t have to walk a mile and multiple flights of stairs to get to, a comfy bed, and room service that promptly attends to details. I think it’s a good value for my money.
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