Sophy’s Thai hot pot soups are righteous—the Sterno flaming and the stock bubbling as the waitress dishes up your straw mushrooms, shrimp and chunks of chicken from a coconut milk-based broth as spicy as you can stand. But if it’s Cambodian food you came for, the Phnom Penh Noodles are what you order. They serve it two ways here: as a soup or as a noodle dish. Get the soup; soup rules, and this is a good one. Obviously a relative of shabu shabu—the Japanese cook-your-own soup—and of pho, the so-called national soup of Vietnam, the Phnom Penh Noodles eats like a meal, as hearty as it gets at Sophy’s.

SOPHY’S FINE THAI AND CAMBODIAN 3720 E ANAHEIM ST, STE 102 | LONG BEACH 90804 | 562.494.1763 |OPEN DAILY, 9AM-10PM | DINNER FOR TWO, $30-40 | BEER AND WINE

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