Siem Reap Restaurant has served Cambodian food from Dixon Street since 2007, grounding its menu in home recipes and market-fresh local ingredients. The spacious Te Aro dining room is set up for an evening meal, whether that means a table for two or a larger group sharing a banquet. Takeaway and delivery extend the kitchen beyond the room, while a licensed drinks list led largely by New Zealand wine and beer keeps the dine-in experience complete.
Small plates reveal the menu's mix of freshness, spice and texture. Pork, chicken and vegan dumplings sit beside satay chicken, grilled pork belly, peppercorn-garlic prawns and crisp salt-and-pepper squid. The stuffed chicken wings are particularly distinctive, filled with vermicelli, water chestnut, onion, lemongrass and peanuts. A seasonal platter brings several starters together for three to five people, making it a sensible opening when the table would rather taste broadly than commit to one plate each.
The larger dishes move from coconut-rich curries to recipes with a clearly Cambodian profile. Beef saramon is slow-cooked with coconut cream, lime leaf, galangal, star anise and peanuts, while amok fish combines market fish, egg, coconut cream and aromatics before being steamed in banana leaf. Ban chow folds chicken, prawn, coconut and bean sprouts into a crisp rice pancake, and char kreang chicken builds around lemongrass, kaffir lime leaf and turmeric. Loc lak, noodle dishes and seafood sour soup widen the selection again.
Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options are marked through the dinner and banquet menus, helping mixed groups see which routes are available before ordering. Parties of five or more can choose set banquets that begin with shared starters and continue through curry, stir-fry, noodles, ban chow and rice. That communal format fits the restaurant particularly well: the menu has enough contrasts in sauce, spice, meat, seafood and vegetables for a table to build a varied Cambodian dinner without every diner remaining inside a single dish.
Address: 99 Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
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