The search for a rehearsal dinner venue continues. Little Cambodia has the best food, and Hak Heang has a fabulously Asian banquet hall, complete with a decorated stage and microphone.
The food is as authentic as it gets. They don't shy away from serving the stuff that scares white people, and I'm loving the Fried Pig Intestines, clean rings of fat that taste like meat-oil. The sweet bed of pickled cabbage is a cool-down from the hot n' fried, and both go well with rice.
I'm told you can't eat Cambodian without ordering a plate of Lok Lak. They're tender cubes of beef sauteed in coverlet of viscous soy. Salty and heavy, with a dipping sauce the lightens with lime and brightens with perky black pepper.
The side of comfort-food Beef Soup seems to come standard with so many meals, and this one finishes somewhat sweet. They give it away like it grows on trees, but it's too good to be free. The mouth-watering MSG hugs the unbelievably soft chunks of meat is as it falls off the giant soup bones.
Those rice plates and soup are impossibly cheap, but seafood never is. Thirty dollars seems pretty pricey for a Salt and Pepper Crab, but it's a sizeable crab with a lot of meat in the middle. It's super-salty and greasy as sin, but it's irresistible.
Love the authentic element, but it's a no-go for a rehearsal dinner. It's too hard to get all the family out here, and the neighborhood will only get more sketchy at night. On the inside, Hak Heang is almost perfect. Service can be a bit spotty, but it's decent for an authentic Asian restaurant, and the food is delicious and criminally cheap. If only we could find a Hak Heang in a more accessible place!
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