Bali Café
March 9th, 2008
I can’t find much to recommend the Bali Café on Sisowath Quay. It is expensive by local standards, with little ambiance, and the service is laconic at best.
But it does have the most fascinating night show in town. Armies of lizards, curling around the balustrades, jumping across gaps to catch the many mosquitoes crowding around the lamps. Munching quietly on their feast. I watched them for what seemed like hours, remembering our first visits to Cambodia in the eighties, remembering nights when the curfew was in place. Sitting on Maman’s lap, we rode quietly through the cyclo-filled streets, our skins slick with citronella oil.
The air smelled of jasmine.
Bali Café
379 Sisowath Quay
Phnom Penh
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