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Saibal told me that I needed to try this restaurant and he was right. The sign on the road says “Beef Stix,” but that was a previous version of the restaurant. The current place, Pnomh Penh, still serves Cambodian food but is a sit-down restaurant with simple but elegant service. The husband of the husband-and-wife team runs the front of the restaurant and is very gracious.

I started out with a vegetarian spring roll, which was wrapped in the traditional thin, soft crepe. I put on a slight drizzle of hot sauce and used the dipping sauce, which gave just the right amount of spiciness. The lemon grass soup was the hit of the evening. It had a light, flavorful broth with just enough lemon to add an accent without being overwhelming. My curry was very good. It was subtly flavored and very gentle. Saibal tells me that the lightly fried fish is the ultimate dish there, and the owner also recommended it. I’ll have to go back and try it.
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Fuzeburger is a relatively new restaurant on Ponce de Leon. I wasn’t sure what kind of atmosphere to expect—it’s a bar-n-burger place with a fusion approach to burgers. The feature a lot of items with Asian flavors and quite a bit of Mexican-inspired food as well.

I tried the Kobe burger, which is wagyu beef (the generic term for beer-fed Kobe-style beef). I figured that if they have it, I had to try it. The burger was good but I didn’t get a wagyu vibe out of it. (I’ve had Kobe beef in Kobe; imagine a giant piece of fat larded with meat. Very good and rich but unusual.) That may have been my fault in part—I went for a medium burger and something slightly less cooked may have given more flavor. The onion rings were very well done.
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