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Mawn
Phila and Rachel Lorn’s intimate Bella Vista BYOB has become one of the city’s hottest reservations because of its delicious tributes to the Cambodian cooking of Phila’s family. The pan-Asian menu goes well beyond its description as “a noodle shop with no rules” to present crispy soft-shell shrimp glazed in fish sauce caramel, refreshing Burmese salads, stellar whole fish in hot ginger-scallion oil, and an “All-Star seafood rice” jeweled with uni, crab, scallops, and roe. The most memorable dishes, though, lean toward Phila’s Khmer roots, from the banh chow crepe salad with “Sunday fish sauce” to steak and prahok, oysters with minty rau răm and Cambodian black pepper mignonette, and specials like the prawn crudo in chili oil, which show this kitchen is still evolving in the most exciting way.
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