SIEM REAP BY INDOCHINE

This is a story from someone whose taste i trust really much. He stays in Singapore and loves to explore foods around him.

This time he went to Holland Village. And here the fling goes....

This is the first time i went to holland village, a street dedicated for more adventurous culinary journey in Singapore (beside the hawker center of course). After a couple mins walk,I picked random restaurant called Siem Reap by Indochine. justifying the name they supposed to serve Cambodian dishes, I walked in to be seated in an asian themed cafe with Budha statue and other asian influenced ornaments, reminds me of Budha Bar but in smaller scale.

 (omg..only 3 pieces???)

I started with the Tam Som, which i found a bit irritating, because of the extreme level of acidity and a bit of bitterness that come from the shredded papaya and lemon juice. its quite refreshing at first bite to be frank, but i couldn't carry on longer. This maybe suitable to person who like to eat unripe mango.

Moving to the chicken, it was grilled properly, but I couldnt find anything special with the chicken, it was like ordinary grilled chicken, quite disappointing since I was expecting more than this, I was expecting the flavor that comes from lemongrass, coriander rootm and white pepper that didn't show quite strongly in this meal.

To my amazement, the star of this dishes is the rice! the fragrant Jasmine rice had a perfect texture. It had the crunchy texture that came from Thailand rice yet very soft inside. I could also control the rice perfectly using chopsticks, the thing that I found it a bit difficult to do with rice other than Japanese rice (which is very soft and sticky).

So overall the dishes wasn't quite an amazement. For 16$ seems that I could find anything better than this.

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