Phnom Penh Oriental Delight Restaurant — Restaurant in Palmerston North

I've been coming here for more than 20 years, and thus far, not much has changed - the food has consistenly been non-descript Asian, but the tastes have always been great.

Despite coming here for more than 2 decades, I've only really tried a small portion of their menu. The Hokkien noodles and Singapore noodles are our go-to favourites, especially when we have no idea what we actually want to eat. Their chicken, wonton noodle soup is the ONLY thing we crave whenever we're sick. (There's just something magical and comforting about this dish.) While the laksa, while not overly authentic, has the rich, aromatic falvours that any good laksa should have.

However, the one thing that I love more than anything else, is their ice-coffee. Sweet and strong, it's a great treat that I dream about far too often. My kid, on the other hand, thinks their milkshakes are to die for; something that the wife agrees with.

In short, there's something for everyone here and there's something for every...

I was a bit disappointed. I got the chilli chicken on rice, although the flavours were nice I wasn’t a fan of the chicken or the carrots in this. The chicken tasted like typical takeaway type of chicken, I’m not sure how to explain it but it just doesn’t taste very fresh. And the carrots seemed a bit undercooked. Going by the fact that there was tables and chairs in store and the store was quite spacious I wasn’t expecting takeaway fast food quality. The portions were quite generous but I would rather get half the portion size with better quality.

I have to say the people working here were very lovely though, and I wish I could leave a...

I ordered green curry, not too spicy. What arrived was a plate piled up with rice with faint green glutamic transparent slush on top with 2 red capsicums and abundance of peas amongst chicken pieces. It tasted of nothing. No lemon grass or kaffir lime leaf, zero spice to it. When I took it back I told them it was the worse green curry I ever had. The male chef proceeded to shout “Bullshit” at me in his poor English. I got my money back. My friend and I got no polite good by or...