Malis

We've established our eating out routine here. In KL, we used to eat out prettty much half of the week, sometimes even more than half of the week. After all, we live on top of a mall and the restaurants are just elevator away from our home.

Here in PP, we only eat out every Friday night and Saturday lunch. It's because we sleep early here, exemption on the weekends of course.

So last Friday night we tried Malis.

According to The Phnom Penh visitor's guide "Malis is Phnom Penh's superlative Cambodian dining experience. Artfully prepared contemporary and traditional Khmer cuisine from the kitchen of the renowned Cambodian chef Luu Meng, served in stylish, elegant surroundings of Angkor-inspired pools, gardens and architecture."

This is the entrance of the restaurant.

A very cozy, relaxing ambience.

Before our orders arrived, they gave us this one. It tasted like a version of Filipino atsara with a bagoong-like on the side. And here's what we ordered:

Prawn cake

Fish Amok - traditional Khmer food.

Stuffed pork with some veggies on top.

Creme Caramel for dessert

And another dessert - banana wrapped in something (?) Hehehe. I forgot what it was called.

When we were about to eat, a very familiar person entered the restaurant. It was Sen. Franklin Drilon! I said hello and he was surprised by my greetings. He stopped and chatted with us for a while. He is a politician after all. Hehehe! I wanted to have a picture with him only I realized it too late. He was already inside the airconditioned part of the restaurant (we were dining al fresco) with some people. I wondered what he was doing in Phnom Penh?

Oh, and the food? It was okay. The fish amok was a little bland for my taste. I like my food a little bit salty. The price was also on the expensive side. So I am not sure if we're going back there.

Malis
#136, Norodom Boulevard