Bat Dambang, Cambodia
Jaan Bai Restaurant
On Street 2 in Battambang, Jaan Bai operates as one of Cambodia's more deliberate social-enterprise restaurants, channelling proceeds into vocational training programs for at-risk youth. The kitchen draws from the Khmer pantry in a city that sits at the agricultural crossroads of the Tonle Sap basin, making the sourcing argument here easier to believe than in most places. It belongs to a small tier of Cambodian restaurants where the food and the mission reinforce each other.
