| | Phnom Penh is legendary for its bars and a good bar crawl begins with a half price happy hour cocktail at the Foreign Correspondents Club ( FCC Overlooking the Tonle Sap River, the stylish FCC is a favorite of diplomats, foreign journalists, tourists, photographers and the expats. Many praise its extra-dry martinis which you sip while lounging on leather chairs or propped at the curving wood bar. Before moving on, grab a slice of the wood-fired pizza or a bowl of Khmer noodles spiked with French influence. | |
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| 104, Phnom Penh’s Pub Street 104 Street along the riverfront is fast becoming the Riverfront’s Pub Street with a growing cluster of pubs, sports and hostess bars, and some of the riverfront’s better restaurants. Dine to nightly live music at the Bhopa Phnom Penh, play foosball at OneZeroFour while being served by smiling hostesses or head next door to Monsoon wine bar, an intimate little place with a great selection of international wines by the glass or the bottle. When peckish, they have a small but excellent Pakistani menu. If you have energy to spare, drinks, eats and the slate pool table at the Pickled Parrot is open 24 hours. | | | Green Vespa and the Heart of Darkness North on the riverfront is highly popular Green Vespa Bar which actually has a cool green Vespa high above its entrance. Music, British sausages, mash and pies and great whiskies and single malts keep this place going night and day. The Heart of Darkness discotheque was closed a few years ago when a patron was shot. Now reopened, having had a face-lift and metal detectors installed, it is super-packed especially on the weekends. A favorite hangout of kids of the Phnom Penh elite. | | | Elephant Bar A taste of Phnom Penh’s nightlife is incomplete without a visit to the landmark Elephant Bar in the Raffles Le Royal Hotel. As you sip their their signature cocktail, Femme Fatale, designed to commemorate Jacqueline Kennedy’s visit to Phnom Penh, make believe you are back at a time when Phnom Penh was the “Pearl of Asia.” | |
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