149 real places · MICHELIN Keys, Asia's 50 Best Discovery and Khmer press · no Eater coverage
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This interactive map of Phnom Penh (Cambodia) brings together 149 hand-picked places: 47 attractions, 45 restaurants, 26 cafés and 31 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
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Tap a route to see it drawn on the map, stop by stop.
3–4 h on foot · Start 8am at the Palace, which shuts 11 to 2 · Shoulders and knees covered · Finish with the sunset cruise · 7 stops
Half a day · Tuol Sleng 8–5 (USD 5 + USD 5 audio guide) and Choeung Ek 7:30–5:30 (USD 6, guide included) · Two separate gates, two different prices · Cover arms and legs · 6 stops
3 h · Vann Molyvann's concrete, 1958 to 1966 · Best at dusk, when the stadium fills up · Nearly all of it is free from the street · 6 stops
Half a day · Start 7:30 at the Russian Market, which shuts at 5 · Always haggle and carry loose riel · There is no official Khmer silk seal: ask and touch · 7 stops
From 5pm · Aerobics in the park, sunset on the bridge and alley bars · Now the rains are over it's all outdoors · Head back by PassApp or Grab, not walking alone · 7 stops
ព្រះបរមរាជវាំង · Daun Penh
The palace where the king still lives: gilded roofs, the Throne Hall and gardens that look painted on.
Tip: Open 8–11 and 2–5: it closes at midday, so don't turn up at noon. USD 10 covers the Silver Pagoda and the audio guide. Shoulders and knees covered — free sarongs at the guard booth.
🚇 You are on the grounds; main gate entrance
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Over 5,000 solid silver floor tiles and an emerald Buddha: the treasure the Khmer Rouge didn't take.
Tip: Covered by the same Palace ticket. Most of the floor is carpeted to protect it — look at the edges, that's where you see the silver. No photos inside.
🚇 A 3-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The 59 m spire with Brahma's face looking out in four directions. This is where Khmer kings are crowned.
Tip: The interior is rarely open — seeing it from outside is the norm. 29 October is King Sihamoni's Coronation Day and the grounds turn ceremonial.
🚇 You are on the grounds; main gate entrance
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The open terrace on the palace wall where the royal family appears and classical Khmer dance is performed.
Tip: You get a perfect view from Sothearos street without paying. Heads up: the Water Festival programme in front of the palace is SUSPENDED for 2026, though the 23-25 November holiday still stands.
🚇 A 3-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The king's private residence. If the blue flag is flying, Sihamoni is home.
Tip: You never go in, but you see it from the Palace garden. Watch the flagpole: the blue flag means the king is inside.
🚇 A 2-min walk from the Royal Palace
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A prefabricated iron house the Empress Eugénie sent as a gift in 1876. Pure colonial oddity inside a Khmer palace.
Tip: It sits inside the Palace grounds and most people walk past it. Look left of the Throne Hall: grey and metallic, unmistakable.
🚇 A 2-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The terracotta-red pavilion holds the world's best Khmer sculpture collection, with Angkor pieces you won't see in Siem Reap.
Tip: It is right next to the Palace — do both the same day. The central courtyard with its lotus pond is fine to photograph; the galleries are not.
🚇 A 5-min walk from the Royal Palace
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A high school turned into a Khmer Rouge torture centre. Today it is a genocide memorial site, inscribed by UNESCO.
Tip: Open 8–5 daily. Admission USD 5; the audio guide is a separate USD 5 and is worth every cent. Arms and legs covered, and no mobile phones inside the exhibition buildings.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 11-min walk
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The Killing Fields. A quiet field of open graves and a glass stupa holding thousands of skulls. You visit it in silence.
Tip: Open 7:30–5:30. Admission USD 6 with the audio guide included — unlike Tuol Sleng, where it costs extra. It is 10 km out: budget 45 min by tuk-tuk and 90 min inside.
🚇 City bus 11B to Salar Sangkat Choeung Ek, then a 13-min walk, or a tuk-tuk from the centre
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The seventeen-tier Buddhist stupa holding over 5,000 skulls, arranged by age and by how each person died.
Tip: You enter barefoot and in silence. Cambodians leave incense and bracelets: don't touch or move them for a photo.
🚇 City bus 11B, Salar Sangkat Choeung Ek stop, then a 12-min walk
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Show on mapវត្តភ្នំ · Daun Penh
The 27 m hill that gave the city its name. Legend says Lady Penh found four Buddhas floating in the river here.
Tip: USD 1 for foreigners. Go up the naga staircase on the east side. The area gets lonely after dark: come by day.
🚇 A 28-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The statue of the widow who founded the city in 1372. Phnom Penh means, literally, 'Penh's hill'.
Tip: It stands at the foot of the hill, not on top — plenty of people climb past it. Free, and locals leave jasmine offerings.
🚇 A 27-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The seat of Cambodian Buddhism since 1443 and home of the Supreme Patriarch. It half-survived the Khmer Rouge.
Tip: Free and almost tourist-free, one block from the river. At dusk the monks chant: sit at the back and listen.
🚇 A 9-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The 'temple of the lotuses', founded in 1442, with a forest of white and gold stupas holding monks and royals.
Tip: Free and half a block from the Palace. The park alongside fills with evening aerobics classes: the city's best portrait.
🚇 A 8-min walk from the Royal Palace
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One of the city's five original monasteries, from 1442. It now runs meditation sessions open to anyone who walks in.
Tip: The English-language meditation sessions are free and open: arrive 10 minutes early and sit at the back. Cover shoulders and knees.
🚇 A 3-min walk from the Independence Monument
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A 1970 temple whose murals tell the Buddha's life in modern scenes — there are aeroplanes and cars among the gods.
Tip: Free and two blocks from the Olympic Stadium. Look at the north wall mural — that's where the aeroplane is. Shoes off before the vihara.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Olympic Stadium
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The brick-coloured lotus tower Vann Molyvann raised in 1958 to mark independence from France. The city's icon.
Tip: You don't climb it, you circle it. It lights up red, blue and white at dusk, and on 9 November, Independence Day, the official ceremony happens here.
🚇 You are on the grounds; main gate entrance
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A nine-metre bronze of the king father under an open dome, facing the Independence Monument.
Tip: 15 October is his commemoration day and the plinth fills with offerings. Free, always open, and lit at night.
🚇 A 3-min walk from the Independence Monument
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A brutalist 1979 concrete slab with soldiers from both countries. One of Cambodia's most argued-over monuments.
Tip: It stands in Wat Botum park, 300 m from the Palace. Ask an older Cambodian what they think: the answer is half the visit.
🚇 A 10-min walk from the Royal Palace
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Vann Molyvann's masterpiece: concrete, water and earth banking from 1964. It has never hosted an Olympic Games.
Tip: At dusk it fills with aerobics classes, football and people running the terraces: walking in to watch is free. The Olympic pools are open to the public.
🚇 You are on the grounds; main gate entrance
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The mushroom-shaped water tank Vann Molyvann planted beside the stadium. Pure 1960s concrete.
Tip: You can't go in — it's for looking and photographing. Best light late in the afternoon, when the concrete turns orange.
🚇 A 6-min walk from the Olympic Stadium
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Vann Molyvann's 1961 concrete fan, opening towards the river. The Khmer Rouge leaders were tried here.
Tip: Outside only unless there's a performance. The fan shape only makes sense from Sisowath Quay, not from the back street.
🚇 A 9-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The house the architect designed for himself in 1966: cross-ventilation, a pond and shade, with no air conditioning.
Tip: It is private property: look from the pavement, don't ring the bell. Fold it into a Toul Tom Poung walk.
🚇 City bus 5, American Intercon School stop, then a 4-min walk
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One of the sixties cinemas the city lost but never demolished: now housing, with the marquee still legible.
Tip: People live inside: photograph the façade from across the street and don't go in. Phnom Penh had over 30 cinemas before 1975.
🚇 A 10-min walk from Central Market
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The curved concrete marquee is still there, turned into a garage and storeroom. A fossil of the modern sixties city.
Tip: No sign, no entrance: this is urban archaeology. Combine it with Tuol Sleng, a few blocks away.
🚇 City bus 5, Bokor Intersection stop, then a 1-min walk
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The museum explaining why Cambodia was the only country on earth to abolish money: the Khmer Rouge blew up the central bank in 1975.
Tip: A modern, air-conditioned and nearly empty museum: ideal for midday heat. Closed Mondays. You'll understand the dollar-riel thing in twenty minutes.
🚇 A 23-min walk from the Royal Palace
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Show on mapសមាគមសិល្បៈសុវណ្ណភូមិ · Chamkar Mon
Khmer shadow theatre with pierced-leather puppets — the 'sbek thom' tradition that nearly died with the genocide.
Tip: Shows run weekend evenings: ring ahead to confirm the day before crossing town. After the show they let you handle the puppets.
🚇 City bus 7, Boeung Trabek Pumping Station stop, then a 9-min walk
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A small hall for contemporary Khmer theatre and dance, a step from Wat Phnom. Local programming, not a tourist show.
Tip: The listings live mostly on Facebook and change weekly: check the same day. Cheap tickets, cash only.
🚇 A 7-min walk from Wat Phnom
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The new lookout over the Koh Norea cable-stayed bridge, the whole Mekong in front and the city backlit.
Tip: Now the rains have ended the sky stays clear: arrive 40 minutes before sunset. Free, with drinks stalls alongside.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from the Royal Palace, about 11 min
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Show on mapកោះពេជ្រ · Chamkar Mon
The Bassac's man-made island: odd replicas of the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, river promenades and the city's new skyline.
Tip: Free and huge: come by tuk-tuk and do it on foot or by bike. The government suspended the central 2026 Water Festival programme here, so November will be quiet.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from the Royal Palace, about 8 min
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The stupa remembering the 351 people killed in the Koh Pich bridge crush during the 2010 Water Festival.
Tip: The Water Festival was suspended for years after that, and Phnom Penh's 2026 programme has been suspended again. The 23-25 November holiday stands, but there are no boat races here.
🚇 A 22-min walk from the Royal Palace
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Show on mapសួននាគព័ន្ធទឹក · Daun Penh
The fountain park opposite the Royal Palace, with stone nagas spouting water and the city's best street aerobics.
Tip: At 6pm the speaker-powered classes start: pay 1,000 riel and join in, nobody will look twice. The fountains come on at dusk.
🚇 A 14-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The long park running along the Bassac, full of families, food stalls and people cycling as the sun drops.
Tip: This is where the city comes out to breathe now the rains have stopped. Bring loose riel for the stalls: no cards there.
🚇 A 18-min walk from the Royal Palace
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Show on mapកំពង់ផែទេសចរណ៍ · Daun Penh
The Sisowath Quay jetty where sunset cruises leave for the Chaktomuk, the crossing of the four rivers.
Tip: Boats leave around 5:30pm and cost USD 5–10 a head, drinks extra. Haggle at the jetty and pay as you board, never before.
🚇 A 24-min walk from the Royal Palace
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Show on mapផ្លូវបាសាក់ · Tonle Bassac
An alley of tiny bars hidden behind Street 308: every door is a different bar, all from the same crew.
Tip: Night only, never daytime. Each bar has six or seven stools: if it's full, move to the next door. Dollars accepted.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Independence Monument
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The newer take on the bar alley, next to Wat Langka: terraces, live music and fewer tourists than Bassac.
Tip: Now the rain has stopped the upper terraces reopen: it's the best time of year to sit outside.
🚇 A 5-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Show on mapកាំភ្លើងចងគួច · Toul Kork
The replica of the revolver with a knotted barrel the UN gave Cambodia: a symbol of disarmament after the civil war.
Tip: It sits on a northern roundabout, off the tourist loop: ask your tuk-tuk to stop two minutes on the way to Toul Kork.
🚇 A 22-min walk from Wat Phnom
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A discreet marker opposite the old Freedom Park, where grenades thrown at a 1997 rally killed at least 16 people.
Tip: It's small and easy to walk past: on the pavement, 200 m from the Palace. A two-minute stop on a Riverside walk.
🚇 A 5-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The main mosque of Phnom Penh's Cham community, rebuilt after the Khmer Rouge razed it.
Tip: The Cham are Cambodia's Muslim minority, singled out for persecution between 1975 and 1979. Visit outside prayer times, dressed modestly.
🚇 A 18-min walk from Wat Phnom
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A Taoist temple of the Chinese-Khmer community on the peninsula where the Mekong meets the Tonle Sap.
Tip: Cross the Chroy Changvar bridge by tuk-tuk: on the far side the city drops a gear and you see the whole Chaktomuk.
🚇 A 24-min walk from Wat Phnom
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Show on mapមជ្ឈមណ្ឌលសិល្បៈវត្តភ្នំ · Daun Penh
A workshop and showroom at the foot of the hill, where silver, lacquer and Khmer carving are worked in the open.
Tip: Looking is free and you can ask prices with no pressure. The best place to learn to spot real lacquer before you buy at the markets.
🚇 You are on the grounds; main gate entrance
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A tiny museum devoted to the 'khleng ek', the Khmer singing kite with a bamboo bow that hums in the wind.
Tip: Kite season starts right now with the northeast monsoon winds: between November and January the sky fills up.
🚇 City bus 5, Aeon Mall I stop, then a 12-min walk
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Show on mapសារសារ · Boeung Keng Kang
The country's most influential contemporary Khmer art collective, artist-run, with shows and residencies.
Tip: Open only when there's a show: check their schedule first. Free entry and the artists are usually around to talk.
🚇 City bus 5, Bokor Intersection stop, then a 9-min walk
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Show on mapហ្គាឡឺរីស្ទ · Daun Penh
A commercial gallery for current Cambodian painting and photography, in a restored colonial house.
Tip: You can walk in just to look. If you buy, ask for the artist's certificate: that's what separates a work from a market copy.
🚇 A 6-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The park at the foot of Vattanac Tower, the dragon-shaped skyscraper that defines the Phnom Penh skyline.
Tip: The tower lights up at dusk and this is the best spot to photograph the whole building without crossing the avenue.
🚇 A 7-min walk from Central Market
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Show on mapវត្តមង្គលសិរីគៀនឃ្លាំង · Chroy Changvar
A quiet temple on the Chroy Changvar peninsula, white stupas and a view of where the rivers meet.
Tip: Hardly anyone crosses the bridge: you'll have the place to yourself. Bring water — there's little shade and fewer shops over there.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from Wat Phnom, about 13 min
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Show on mapផ្លូវរថភ្លើង · Prampir Makara
The Royal Railway tracks crossing the neighbourhood at street level, with houses, stalls and motorbikes sharing the same strip of dirt.
Tip: The Royal Railway is long-distance, not urban, and passes only a few times a day. Mind yourself on the tracks: there are no barriers.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from Central Market, about 8 min
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Show on mapម៉ាលីស · Daun Penh
The house that turned Khmer cooking into fine dining: fish amok, lok lak and royal-family soups served in a courtyard with a pond.
Tip: Book for dinner, especially in dry season, which is now. Order the real amok: steamed in banana leaf, not served as a bowl of curry.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Independence Monument
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A multi-storey wooden house stuffed with antiques, serving Khmer and Thai Isaan food, with a plant-filled terrace.
Tip: Ask for a table upstairs on the terrace: now the rain has stopped it's the best seat in the house. The fish with Kampot pepper is the order.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Show on mapដើមត្នោត · Daun Penh
Kethana's kitchen — the chef who taught David Thompson how to make amok. Home-style Khmer recipes, no concessions to tourist palates.
Tip: First floor of a wooden house on Street 178, easy to walk past. Closed Sundays: don't cross town without checking.
🚇 A 11-min walk from the Royal Palace
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Show on mapកាបាស · Daun Penh
Modern Khmer cooking built on small Cambodian producers: Kampot pepper, Kep salt, local jasmine rice.
Tip: Ask where the pepper comes from: Kampot pepper has held a Geographical Indication since 2010 and is the only one allowed the name.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Royal Palace
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Show on mapរំដេង · Daun Penh
A Friends-International training restaurant: it trains at-risk youth and serves provincial Khmer food, fried tarantulas included.
Tip: Several of the city's social restaurants have closed; this one is still going. There's a pool in the garden and it's one of the few places easy with kids.
🚇 A 21-min walk from Central Market
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Show on mapហ្វ្រេន · Daun Penh
Romdeng's older sibling, half a block from the National Museum: Khmer tapas, oddball smoothies and the same training project.
Tip: The perfect lunch between the Palace and the National Museum. Without a booking there's a queue at noon: go at 11:30 or 2.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Royal Palace
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Show on mapហាហ្គា · Boeung Keng Kang
An international buffet from a social enterprise employing survivors of trafficking and domestic violence. It has run for decades.
Tip: The midday buffet is the best value in the neighbourhood. You pay in dollars and small change comes in riel: that's normal here.
🚇 A 14-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Show on mapប្រាសសឺរី លូអ៊ី · Daun Penh
The French brasserie inside Rosewood, Phnom Penh's two-MICHELIN-Key hotel. Bistro classics up in Vattanac Tower.
Tip: Cambodia has no MICHELIN restaurant stars, but it does have hotel Keys: this is one of them. Open to the public, you don't need to be a guest.
🚇 A 9-min walk from Central Market
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Show on mapសូរ៉ា · Daun Penh
Rosewood's cantilevered 37th-floor terrace, hanging over nothing with the whole city and the Mekong below.
Tip: Now the rains are over the terrace opens without interruption: the best time of year. Dress code: no flip-flops or singlets.
🚇 A 9-min walk from Central Market
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Show on mapចាន់លាង · Daun Penh
Rosewood's Cantonese table: steamed dim sum, lacquered duck and tea served with the ceremony it deserves.
Tip: The midday dim sum is far cheaper than the evening menu and you order piece by piece.
🚇 A 9-min walk from Central Market
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Show on mapឡឺរ៉ូយ៉ាល់ · Daun Penh
The dining room of the 1929 Raffles Hotel Le Royal, a MICHELIN Key hotel: Franco-Khmer cooking under ceiling fans and colonial arches.
Tip: Open to non-guests. If you only want to see the hotel, have a drink at the Elephant Bar next door and read the photos on the wall.
🚇 A 10-min walk from Wat Phnom
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Show on mapបារដំរី · Daun Penh
The Raffles' 1929 bar where Jackie Kennedy and half the war press drank. It still pours the house-invented Femme Fatale.
Tip: The afternoon happy hour halves the drinks and is the cheap way into this bar. You don't need to be staying there.
🚇 A 9-min walk from Wat Phnom
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Show on mapតូប៉ាស · Tonle Bassac
The city's most serious French table since the nineties: aged meats, a real cellar and textbook service.
Tip: Expensive for Phnom Penh, cheap for what it is. Book, and if you want the lunch menu ask for it: it isn't always on the card.
🚇 City bus 5, Ministry of Agriculture stop, then a 9-min walk
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A French charcuterie and bakery with tables: pâtés, cheeses, baguettes and Cambodia's Franco-Khmer bread legacy.
Tip: Breakfast with a baguette and condensed-milk coffee costs little and explains half of Cambodian history. Opens early.
🚇 A 8-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Khéma's branch on the colonial Post Office square, one of the best-preserved French ensembles in the city.
Tip: Sit outside and look at the yellow 1890 Post Office, still working. Best early, before the heat.
🚇 A 5-min walk from Wat Phnom
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Healthy Khmer cooking with garden vegetables and lighter takes on lok lak and amok. A BKK1 reference.
Tip: A genuinely good vegetarian option, not just rice. There's a garden: now the rain has stopped, ask for an outside table.
🚇 City bus 5, Ministry of Agriculture stop, then a 11-min walk
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The Russian Market branch on Street 123: the same garden-led Khmer cooking, with the craft district all around.
Tip: The best lunch a few steps from the Russian Market, where eating well is hard. Walk on to the silk shops afterwards.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 11-min walk
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An open-air Khmer grill, loud and full of Cambodians: charcoal meat, beer on ice and plastic tables until late.
Tip: You order by tray and share. Draught beer comes by the pitcher and costs cents: ask for 'draft'. Dollars accepted.
🚇 A 6-min walk from the Independence Monument
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The grill's second site, metres from the original. They opened it because the first one couldn't cope.
Tip: If the first is full, walk thirty paces. Note: the original site called Sovanna I has closed, so don't look for it.
🚇 A 6-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Hand-pulled noodles and dumplings from the northern Chinese community, made in full view on Monivong.
Tip: Cheap, fast and no English menu: point at what your neighbour is eating. Cash, and riel works better.
🚇 A 16-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Kuy teav, the rice-noodle soup Cambodia has for breakfast: pork broth, fried shallot and lime, served from dawn.
Tip: Go before 9: the good broth runs out. Add the lime, chilli and sugar from the tray yourself; nobody will season it for you.
🚇 A 16-min walk from Central Market
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Show on mapមីខ្មែរ ១៩៦០ · Toul Tom Poung
A Khmer noodle house channelling 1960s Phnom Penh, with furniture and crockery from the golden age.
Tip: A good stop between Tuol Sleng and the Russian Market. Order num banh chok if they have it: breakfast noodles with fish curry.
🚇 City bus 5, American Intercon School stop, then a 3-min walk
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Three generations of one family making the same noodle broth. Khmer food with no design and no concessions.
Tip: No English menu and none needed: you order kuy teav, end of story. Opens early, closes when the broth runs out.
🚇 City bus 5, American Intercon School stop, then a 4-min walk
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The Riverside's showiest Khmer restaurant: carved nagas, a terrace over the Tonle Sap and apsara dance some nights.
Tip: Now the rain has stopped the outdoor terrace is the only table to ask for. Check which nights have dancing before booking.
🚇 A 9-min walk from Wat Phnom
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Chinese dumplings and noodles with a Phnom Penh accent, on Street 308, the liveliest in the near south.
Tip: On the corner of the Bassac Lane alley: eat here, then drink next door without taking transport.
🚇 A 8-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Wood-fired Neapolitan pizza made by Italians, on the same Street 308 as the bars.
Tip: The pavement tables fill first and can't be booked: arrive at 6:30pm or wait on your feet.
🚇 A 8-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Tacos and quesadillas in the heart of the Russian Market district, one of Cambodia's few honest Mexicans.
Tip: A good stop after the market. There's another branch on the Riverside if you're on that side of town.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 11-min walk
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Show on mapអ៊ីរីណា · Toul Tom Poung
Pelmeni, borscht and vodka in the district everyone calls the Russian Market, though the name dates from the Soviet eighties.
Tip: The market is called 'Russian' because Soviet expats shopped there in the eighties: its Khmer name is Psar Toul Tom Poung.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 9-min walk
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Show on mapធេសបាត់ · Boeung Keng Kang
South Indian cooking from Kerala: huge dosas, thalis and coconut curry, in the middle of BKK1.
Tip: The midday vegetarian thali is one of the cheapest, fullest lunches in the city's expensive district.
🚇 A 6-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Show on mapដូសាខនើ · Boeung Keng Kang
A tiny dosa and idli place on Pasteur street, open for years and always full of regulars.
Tip: Almost everything is vegetarian and costs a couple of dollars. If you don't know what to order, masala dosa never fails.
🚇 A 4-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Levantine cooking on Sisowath Quay: hummus, falafel and fresh bread, the river right in front.
Tip: The pavement tables look straight at the Tonle Sap. Order the sharing platter: it feeds three and costs like one.
🚇 A 8-min walk from Wat Phnom
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A Cambodian dim sum chain open morning to night, with trolleys, steam and whole families on Sundays.
Tip: Cheap, air-conditioned and perfect for the hottest part of the day. There are several branches: this one is in Toul Kork.
🚇 A 24-min walk from Wat Phnom
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Khmer street food with tables, on Street 123: skewers, fried rice and lok lak at stall prices.
Tip: One of the few places in the district where you eat well for under three dollars. Open late.
🚇 City bus 7, Dubai KTV stop, then a 12-min walk
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A house with a dirt garden, a wood oven and its own vegetable patch, for seasonal Cambodian produce.
Tip: Hidden at the end of a lane: look for the wooden gate. The garden is mostly open-air, so this is the time of year to come.
🚇 City bus 5, Ministry of Agriculture stop, then a 9-min walk
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A neighbourhood restaurant and bar on Street 450, Franco-Khmer cooking, open until two in the morning.
Tip: This is where the night ends in Toul Tom Poung. Note: TINI, the neighbouring Street 450 cafe, is permanently closed.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 7-min walk
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A wine shop with a kitchen on Street 240: hundreds of labels, cheese and the city's best by-the-glass list.
Tip: Buy in the shop and drink it at the table for a small corkage: far cheaper than ordering off the list.
🚇 A 6-min walk from the Royal Palace
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A neighbourhood French bistro beside Wat Langka, with a chalkboard of daily dishes and pavement tables.
Tip: The board changes daily and is cheaper than the fixed menu: always ask what's on the board.
🚇 A 4-min walk from the Independence Monument
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A Khmer banquet palace with a giant buffet and classical dance: this is how Cambodians do weddings and parties.
Tip: It's huge and not intimate: you come for the show and the variety, not for refined cooking. Book if you come as a group.
🚇 City bus 7, Chbar Ampov Bus Terminal stop, then a 11-min walk
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Lower Mekong cooking: river fish, riverbank herbs and recipes almost nobody serves in a restaurant.
Tip: Ask which fish is fresh that day: with the river dropping now, it changes week to week. It's above a pharmacy, easy to miss.
🚇 A 8-min walk from Central Market
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Khmer cooking from the Cardamom mountains, with forest spices and provincial dishes that never reach the Riverside.
Tip: 'Kravanh' means cardamom. Order something with prahok if you dare: the fermented fish paste that underpins everything.
🚇 A 10-min walk from Central Market
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A bakery-deli with sourdough, pierogi and pies, one of the few places making real bread in the city.
Tip: Bread comes out in the morning and sells out: go before noon. The best buy for a picnic in the riverside park.
🚇 A 14-min walk from the Independence Monument
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A training restaurant from the NGO Pour un Sourire d'Enfant, teaching cooking and service to youngsters who lived off the dump.
Tip: It's out of the centre, near the old Steung Meanchey dump: go by tuk-tuk and book, as they work with groups.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from the Olympic Stadium, about 14 min
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Show on mapយាំម៉ចា · Daun Penh
Cantonese dim sum steps from Central Market, in a huge room where the district's traders have breakfast.
Tip: Opens at 6am: the perfect breakfast before doing Central Market, which starts early.
🚇 A 5-min walk from Central Market
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An old-school kuy teav place, broth on the boil from five in the morning and a neighbourhood crowd.
Tip: Ask for 'kuy teav sach chrouk' (with pork) and pair it with condensed-milk coffee: that's how Phnom Penh has breakfast.
🚇 City bus 5, Ministry of Agriculture stop, then a 10-min walk
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Grilled pork and rice, Cambodia's national breakfast: coconut-marinated pork, broken rice and a bowl of broth on the side.
Tip: It costs a dollar or two and is served 6 to 10am only. Bring riel: stalls can't break large notes.
🚇 City bus 5, Eton House International School stop, then a 5-min walk
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Cambodia's flagship specialty coffee brand: it roasts beans from Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri, grown in-country.
Tip: Most people don't know Cambodia grows coffee. Order the Mondulkiri filter and ask which farm: they'll tell you.
🚇 A 12-min walk from Central Market
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A Belgian-founded bakery and cafe, with tarts, quiches and bread that have set the neighbourhood standard for two decades.
Tip: There are several branches: this is Toul Kork, the quietest. The Street 240 one suits you better if you're downtown.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from Wat Phnom, about 14 min
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Show on mapអេរិក កៃស៊ែរ · Daun Penh
A French boulangerie on Sisowath Quay: Cambodia's baguette is a direct legacy of the protectorate, and here it's taken seriously.
Tip: Buy a baguette and watch how Cambodians use it: stuffed with pâté, cucumber and chilli, and called num pang.
🚇 A 19-min walk from Wat Phnom
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The branch in the craft district, good for breakfast before diving into the Russian Market maze.
Tip: The Russian Market gets going at 7 and winds down around 5: eat here early and go in while it's still cool.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 6-min walk
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An NGO training cafe for women in vulnerable situations: coffee, cakes and simple lunches steps from the Palace.
Tip: Several of the city's social projects have closed in recent years; this one is still standing on Street 178.
🚇 A 8-min walk from the Royal Palace
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A cafe and shop run by an NGO employing women who have left sexual exploitation. The spa and boutique are upstairs.
Tip: Go up to the first floor even if you're only having coffee: the clothes and bags are made by the women in the programme.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 10-min walk
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A pioneering fair-trade cafe in the Russian Market district, with vegetarian food and Cambodian beans.
Tip: On the market corner with air conditioning: the best refuge when the market gets unbearably hot.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 8-min walk
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A specialty coffee shop on Street 135 working with beans roasted in Phnom Penh and its own pastry.
Tip: Opens early and is one of the few places where you can order a filter coffee and be understood exactly.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 7-min walk
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A rescue-cat cafe on Street 442: real adoptions, homemade cake and a dozen cats sleeping on you.
Tip: Closed Mondays. You take your shoes off and wash your hands before entering the cat room.
🚇 City bus 7, AMK Micro Finance stop, then a 5-min walk
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A Melbourne-style cafe on Street 240, the pleasantest downtown street to walk, with brunch and decent flat whites.
Tip: Street 240 is full of design shops and galleries: have breakfast here and walk the whole block.
🚇 A 9-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The Cambodian chain that beat Starbucks at home: local beans, careful design and branches across the city.
Tip: Order the 'Khmer coffee': strong black coffee with condensed milk over ice, the way the whole country drinks it.
🚇 A 5-min walk from the Independence Monument
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The Toul Kork branch, a low-rise residential district of embassies where locals come to study and work.
Tip: Toul Kork is where Cambodia's middle class lives: worth the walk to see a Phnom Penh with no tourists at all.
🚇 A 24-min walk from Wat Phnom
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A neighbourhood stall where condensed-milk coffee is served alongside kuy teav, as Cambodian custom demands.
Tip: Khmer coffee is 'kaafé tuk doh ko' and arrives with three fingers of condensed milk at the bottom: stir before you drink.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 4-min walk
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A pavement coffee stall in the north of the city, plastic chairs, bagged ice and genuinely local prices.
Tip: Iced coffee here costs about 2,000 riel: half a dollar. Ask for it 'tuk doh ko' if you want condensed milk.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from Wat Phnom, about 10 min
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A stand squeezing Pursat oranges to order, fruit piled up on the Riverside pavement.
Tip: Ask for 'tuk krauch' and watch them squeeze it: if they add ice, ask for none. Bagged factory ice is safe; hand-chipped, less so.
🚇 A 12-min walk from Wat Phnom
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A local ice cream shop with Cambodian flavours: durian, young coconut, green mango and Kampong Speu palm sugar.
Tip: Kampong Speu palm sugar has held a Geographical Indication since 2010, like Kampot pepper. Order that flavour.
🚇 A 20-min walk from the Independence Monument
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A cafe and patisserie training young women in baking. The animal-shaped cupcakes are its signature.
Tip: Two blocks from Central Market and a good stop with kids: low tables and few steps.
🚇 A 20-min walk from Central Market
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A Southeast Asian chain with bread, bagels and fair-trade coffee, and wifi that actually works.
Tip: A good plan B if you need to work: sockets, air conditioning and big tables. Mobile data beats wifi almost everywhere in the city.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 9-min walk
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Show on mapខាហ្វេសារមន្ទីរ · Daun Penh
The National Museum courtyard cafe, under the trees with the museum's red walls behind.
Tip: You can use the cafe without paying museum admission. Now the rain has stopped, the courtyard tables are the ones to take.
🚇 A 6-min walk from the Royal Palace
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A branch of the Thai chain beside the 1924 National Library, a little-visited high-ceilinged colonial building.
Tip: While here, look into the National Library: the Khmer Rouge used it as a pigsty and it lost nearly its whole collection.
🚇 A 9-min walk from Wat Phnom
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A Cambodian chain cafe and bakery, open late and full of students with laptops open.
Tip: One block from Wat Langka. Almost every Cambodian chain accepts KHQR QR payment, tourists included.
🚇 A 6-min walk from the Independence Monument
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A Cambodian cafe steps from the Royal Palace, good for an eight o'clock coffee before the gates open.
Tip: The Palace opens at 8 and closes 11 to 2: eat here at 7:30 and go in on opening, before the heat and the groups.
🚇 A 6-min walk from the Royal Palace
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A Franco-Khmer patisserie by Central Market, with éclairs, mille-feuille and condensed-milk coffee.
Tip: The natural stop when you leave Central Market on the east side. There are air-conditioned tables inside: useful at noon.
🚇 A 6-min walk from Central Market
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A northwest neighbourhood bakery with Khmer sweet bread, num pang and iced coffee at local prices.
Tip: Ask for num pang pâté: the stuffed baguette Cambodians eat standing up for under a dollar.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from Wat Phnom, about 22 min
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Bubble milk tea from the Taiwanese chain, the drink that took over Phnom Penh among the under-thirties.
Tip: Ask for 30% sugar: the default is brutal. This, not coffee, is what young Cambodians drink.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from Wat Phnom, about 13 min
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A neighbourhood ice cream and coffee shop by the Russian Market, with artisanal gelato and pavement tables.
Tip: The perfect reward after haggling at the market. Now the rain has stopped, the outside tables are the ones to ask for.
🚇 City bus 7, Dubai KTV stop, then a 4-min walk
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The yellow art deco dome of 1937, one of the world's largest, with four wings packed with silver, watches and fabric.
Tip: Always haggle: the first price is usually triple. Mind your bag in the crowded aisles, where most theft happens.
🚇 You are on the grounds; main gate entrance
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The craft and silk market par excellence: a low-ceilinged maze of carvings, lacquer, silver and clothes from the country's factories.
Tip: There is no official Khmer silk authenticity seal: the test is the feel, and a burnt thread that smells of hair. Always ask whether it's silk or polyester, and ask to see the reverse.
🚇 City bus 5, Toul Tom Poung Market stop, then a 7-min walk
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The market Cambodians shop at, not tourists: three floors of food, clothes and hardware without a single postcard.
Tip: It's chaotic and tight and that's the point. The upper food floor is where you see the real Cambodia.
🚇 A 15-min walk from Central Market
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A fresh food market two blocks from the river: Mekong fish, herbs, prahok and seasonal fruit.
Tip: Go before 9am, when the fish arrives. Prahok, the fermented fish paste, is sold by the kilo here.
🚇 A 12-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The old market in the north of the centre, narrow lanes and food stalls, the least touristy in the old quarter.
Tip: At night the surrounding streets fill with food stalls: the district's informal night market.
🚇 A 8-min walk from Wat Phnom
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The embassy district's market: fruit, flowers and prepared food, cleaner and tidier than the big ones.
Tip: A good first market if you've never been in an Asian one: small, twenty minutes end to end and nobody chases you.
🚇 City bus 5, Eton House International School stop, then a 5-min walk
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Show on mapផ្សាររាត្រី · Daun Penh
The Riverside night market: clothes, souvenirs and a food court where you eat sitting on mats.
Tip: Open Friday to Sunday from 5pm. Now the rains are over it runs every night without cancellations.
🚇 A 9-min walk from Wat Phnom
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Koh Norea's new night market, with food trucks, live music and a Bassac view. Where young people go out.
Tip: It's open-air: the good season starts right now and runs to March. Bring loose riel for the small stalls.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from the Royal Palace, about 14 min
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The wholesale clothing market beside the stadium: traders from half the country stock up here.
Tip: Much of the clothing is genuine surplus from the Cambodian factories that sew for global brands. Check the labels.
🚇 A 9-min walk from the Olympic Stadium
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A large local market west of the centre, with flowers, provincial fruit and very few foreigners.
Tip: This is the seasonal fruit market: pomelo and persimmon are starting now. Try the Koh Trung pomelo, GI-protected since 2018.
🚇 A 20-min walk from the Olympic Stadium
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The market on the far side of the Monivong bridge, known for dried fish stalls and dawn num banh chok.
Tip: You cross the Monivong bridge: ten minutes by tuk-tuk. Go at dawn, which is when it makes sense.
🚇 City bus 1A, Chbar Ampov Market stop, then a 2-min walk
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Show on mapផ្សារទួលគោក · Toul Kork
A clean, manageable residential market where you see a middle-class Cambodian family's daily shop.
Tip: If you want to learn Khmer herbs before cooking or ordering in a restaurant, this is the market.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from Wat Phnom, about 12 min
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Show on mapសិប្បករវត្តធំ · Boeung Keng Kang
A workshop and shop inside a temple compound, where artisans with disabilities work silk, silver and wood.
Tip: You can watch the loom working: the best way to learn to spot real Khmer silk before buying at the Russian Market.
🚇 City bus 5, Ministry of Agriculture stop, then a 4-min walk
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The same project's downtown shop: handwoven silk, bags and silver objects made by artisans with disabilities.
Tip: Prices are fixed and there's no haggling: in exchange you know who made each piece. One block from the National Museum.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Royal Palace
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Show on mapហ្វ្រេនអិនស្ដាហ្វ · Daun Penh
The Friends-International shop: upcycled objects, clothes and crafts made by the programme's families.
Tip: Right next to Friends the Restaurant: eat there and buy here. All proceeds go to the same training programme.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Royal Palace
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Bags and backpacks made from fishing nets and reclaimed plastic, sewn by women in Phnom Penh workshops.
Tip: They're light and take no suitcase space: the city's most practical souvenir. Fixed price, no haggling.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Cambodian fair trade since 1995: silver recycled from bullet casings, Kampot pepper and local coffee.
Tip: Here you buy Kampot pepper with a verifiable designation of origin, not market pepper that could be from anywhere.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Independence Monument
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The branch in the craft district, same fair-trade standards and fixed prices.
Tip: Compare with the Russian Market three blocks away: you pay a bit more here and know exactly what you're buying.
🚇 City bus 5, American Intercon School stop, then a 9-min walk
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Cambodian designer jewellery on Street 240, hand-worked silver and design that looks to Angkor without copying it.
Tip: Ask for the piece's certificate. If you buy silver in a market, weigh it: real silver is much heavier than it looks.
🚇 A 9-min walk from the Royal Palace
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The country's best bookshop: Cambodian history, translated Khmer literature, maps and a huge children's section.
Tip: If you're going to Tuol Sleng or Choeung Ek, buy a book on the period first: it changes the visit entirely.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Independence Monument
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Cambodia's first Japanese mall, from 2014: air conditioning, a supermarket, an ice rink and a cinema.
Tip: The basement supermarket is the best place to buy packaged Kampot pepper and palm sugar to take home.
🚇 City bus 5, Aeon Mall I stop, then a 3-min walk
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The largest of the city's three AEONs, in the northwest, with a water park and a giant food court.
Tip: It's far: half an hour by tuk-tuk from the centre. With kids and heat, the water park justifies it.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from Wat Phnom, about 21 min
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The third and newest, in the south of the city, on the way to the Choeung Ek Killing Fields.
Tip: A good air-conditioned stop on the way back from Choeung Ek, 15 minutes west by tuk-tuk.
🚇 Tuk-tuk from the Independence Monument, about 35 min
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The classic downtown mall, next to Central Market: eight floors and a roof terrace facing the art deco dome.
Tip: Go up to the top-floor terrace: the only place you see Central Market's yellow dome from above, and it's free.
🚇 A 4-min walk from Central Market
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The luxury brands at the foot of the dragon-shaped skyscraper, the skyline's most recognisable building.
Tip: Go in even if you don't buy: the tower lobby has a marble staircase worth the photo, and the air conditioning is free.
🚇 A 7-min walk from Central Market
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The Cambodia Securities Exchange building, with shops, offices and a food court serving real Khmer food.
Tip: The basement food court is cheap, clean and serves genuine Khmer dishes: the best midday option around here.
🚇 A 8-min walk from Central Market
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The mall beside the Olympic Stadium, with a supermarket, cinema and a longstanding local clientele.
Tip: Pair it with the Olympic Stadium three minutes' walk away: see Vann Molyvann's architecture, then cool down.
🚇 A 5-min walk from the Olympic Stadium
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A Cambodian-owned mall on Boulevard 271, with a big supermarket, cinema and food court.
Tip: Chip Mong is a Cambodian group, not a foreign one. Almost every till takes KHQR: the easiest way to pay without carrying cash.
🚇 City bus 7, Boeung Trabek Pumping Station stop, then a 6-min walk
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An old-school Cambodian department store in the heart of BKK1, with a supermarket downstairs.
Tip: The basement supermarket is where expats shop: a good place to stock up if you're renting an apartment.
🚇 A 11-min walk from the Independence Monument
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A modern mall by the Koh Pich bridge, with restaurants and terraces facing the Bassac.
Tip: The upstairs restaurant terraces come back into use now the rains have ended: a good sunset plan.
🚇 City bus 5, Aeon Mall I stop, then a 10-min walk
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Cambodian natural cosmetics with local ingredients: Kampot pepper, coconut oil and Mekong herbs.
Tip: It's light, fine for hand luggage in small sizes, and one of the few souvenirs people actually use.
🚇 A 7-min walk from the Royal Palace
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