Pong – The Best Breakfast muffin in Cambodia
The best breakfast muffin in Cambodia you ask? Pong Cambodia may have flown under radar to this point, but the rapidly rising Cambodian food proprietors are carving out a niche for themselves as the kings of fast food breakfast dining.
Who are Pong Cambodia?
What’s the Pong story? Realizing there was no true indigenous Cambodian fast food outlet, Pong Cambodia opened their first branch in October of 2020. Pong literally means egg in Khmer, so the initial menu specialized in egg-based mouth-watering ‘sandgers’ made from scratch using freshly baked brioche, fresh eggs and a wide array of delicious fillings. Some of the standout dishes were their signature Avocado Bacon and Chicken Teriyaki.
You can check out their Facebook page here.
What is a Sandger Cambodia?
What on earth though is a sandger? If you’ve got this far you may well be asking yourself what a sandger is, and this is a very valid question, but also one of the things that makes Pong so unique. Pong serve a dish that is nested in bread, like a sandwich, but is served hot and with the kind of filling you would expect to find in burger. Rather than give some kind of elaborate explanation, the entrepreneurial team simply decided to invent a new word to describe a new dish, the sandger, a combination of a sandwich and a burger. Now though it is the Pong Muffin and its four flavors that are making waves in the capital’s foodie culture.
The Best Breakfast Muffin in Cambodia?
So what is the story with the Pong Muffin? It comes in 4 flavors: Bacon and Egg, Egg and Sausage, Sausage, and the Deluxe Muffin. Now if these flavors or their appearance seem somewhat familiar, this is no accident. The founders were big fans of the McMuffin of McDonalds fame. Now unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ll be aware that there is no McDonalds in Cambodia and thus no McMuffin, so Pong took the initiative of importing some McMuffins, deconstructing them and rebuilding them to suit the local market.
The Pong Muffin vs the McMuffin. There are acute similarities, but also some wonderful differences. The Pong Muffin is made with softer bread making it less chewy and they have also used local seasonings to give it a very Khmer kick.
To read about why there is no McDonalds in Cambodia click here
Where can I get the best Breakfast Muffin in Cambodia?
And best of all their stores, which now number 3 in Phnom Penh, as well as one in both Siem Reap and Sihanoukville open at 6.30 am with the aim of delivering the order to the customer within 4 minutes. And of course you get to wash it down it with great coffee, with the company offering everything from lattes and cappuccinos to their signature Khmer coffee, which is served with just the right amount of condensed milk to suit the local palate.
What is the Pong Cambodia address?
We’ve hyperlinked to the Google maps for all five of the locations for the best damned muffin in Cambodia. We’ve also included their phone numbers for y’all that can’t read a map.
Pong Olympic 015 455 222
Pong Santhormok 015 431 222
Pong – Preah Trasak Paem 015 268 222
Pong Siem Reap 015 256 222
Pong Sihanoukville 015256222
Breakfast might be the most important meal of the day, but it is also notoriously one of the hardest to prepare or buy, particularly for us barang. Pong’s just made things that much easier with probably the best breakfast muffins currently available in Cambodia. Sure does beat a greasy fry-up on the Mekong.
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