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Everything about this training restaurant for underprivileged youth is slickly cute and colorful. It's a bit disconcerting, considering many of the t-shirted trainees were apparently rescued from grim lives on the street, but the Tree Alliance, run by a French-led NGO that has seven restaurants around Asia, knows how to market its fair-trade products and food.
Whether in a turquoise dining room plastered with bright children's paintings or in its lovely outdoor garden, this is a nice spot to combine social action with a meal that's been creatively constructed in the manner of what might be termed high-end "hippie-Asian." However, the menu doesn't just guide one's choices with symbols standing for spiciness, but silhouettes of Angkor Wat to show that a dish is "truly Khmer."
These include a tamarind fish soup and a luscious smoked eggplant dip -- though it comes with pita bread.
All the salads are ample and well-scrubbed and it hardly matters that the rice balls here are stuffed with brie cheese.
Oddly enough, considering the new-age scene, there are also frog legs and crocodile burgers on offer.
The staff are 100% Khmer, for sure, but it's just too bad Marum doesn't go further to apply its fun flair to more that's truly local.
Address : #8A, B Phum Slokram, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Map : https://goo.gl/maps/JkcrxHMKGN52
