About Starfish Cafe
Starfish Cafe is one of Sihanoukville's most-recommended Western-friendly daytime cafes — operating from a 7 Makara Street location in central Sihanoukville, the kitchen serves Western-Khmer breakfast-and-lunch plates with fresh-baked bread as the kitchen's signature offering. The cafe is particularly popular with Sihanoukville-resident expats and visiting Western travellers seeking comfortable daytime cafe atmosphere.
The menu is broad. Western breakfast — full English breakfast ($5), eggs Benedict ($6), French toast ($4), pancakes ($4). Bakery — fresh-baked breads, sandwiches with Khmer-style fillings ($3-5), pastries ($2-3 each). Khmer lunch section — Khmer fried rice with prawns ($5), Lok Lak rice plate ($6), Khmer noodle soup ($4). Coffee programme — Cambodian coffee, Western espresso-based drinks. A typical breakfast or lunch visit runs $5-12.
The room is comfortable cafe-style. Thirty seats across a single ground-floor open dining hall plus a small streetside terrace, with bay windows facing 7 Makara Street, decorative Western-cafe touches with Khmer-art accents, low pendant lighting. Walk-ins always work; cards are accepted; the staff speak Khmer and English.
What makes Starfish the right Sihanoukville daytime-cafe choice is the dual-quality combination — the Western-breakfast options are properly cooked, and the Khmer lunch section is genuine rather than tourist-shortcut. The fresh bakery is one of the city's reference bread sources for traveller takeaway.
Best Occasion Fit
Solo travellers — bay-window seat with breakfast or a Khmer lunch, $8 bill, the proper Sihanoukville daytime cafe ritual. As a first date for breakfast or lunch, the casual cafe format is unfussy. Team dinners as the daytime element of a longer Sihanoukville day work for groups of four to six.
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