About Sandan Restaurant
Sandan Restaurant is operated by one of the largest NGOs in Sihanoukville — disadvantaged youths are trained for the hospitality sector while the restaurant operates as a working dining destination. The kitchen serves a variety of local Cambodian cuisines, with the kitchen's most-cited offering being the excellent 'taster menu' where guests can sample many of the local dishes in a single multi-course meal.
The signature is the Sandan Khmer Tasting Menu ($18 per person, six courses) — appetisers including the Cambodian-style spring rolls, papaya salad with grilled prawns; a soup course of Samlor Korko (the Khmer vegetable-and-fish soup); a main of Fish Amok (the Cambodian national coconut-fish curry, here in the traditional banana-leaf-steamed presentation); a Lok Lak beef course; a rice course with Kampot pepper accent; a dessert of Cambodian palm-sugar pudding.
Beyond the tasting menu, the restaurant runs Happy Hours from 5pm to 7pm and organises Khmer dance performances every Friday from 7-9pm. The à la carte menu features the standard Khmer signatures — Fish Amok ($7), Lok Lak ($8), Khmer Red Curry ($7), Beef Loklak Salad ($6), Kampot Pepper Crab ($14 in season). A meal of three Khmer plates and drinks for two runs $30-45.
The room is comfortable Cambodian-restaurant style. Forty seats across a single ground-floor open dining hall plus a small outdoor courtyard, with decorative Khmer-traditional architectural touches and a small open kitchen visible at the back where the trainee staff work. The training-restaurant character is genuine — the kitchen and front-of-house staff are visibly being mentored, and the social-impact narrative gives the dinner a built-in conversation.
Best Occasion Fit
First dates with travel-curious partners — the social-impact narrative and the multi-course Khmer tasting give the meal a built-in conversation. Birthdays — the dance-performance Friday-evening service is properly celebratory. Team dinners with visiting colleagues — the format absorbs four to ten and the cause-driven element gives the dinner context.
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