"... the best stuff at Sophy’s Thai and Cambodian is Khmer all the way."

Sophy Khut brings Cambodia Town wherever she goes (Kimberly Valenzuela)

At Sophy's Thai and Cambodian, Choose the Latter
Sure, you could order the pad Thai, but why would you?

Thursday, Mar 4 2010
By EDWIN GOEI
OC Metro

Long Beach’s Anaheim Street is to Cambodians what OC’s Bolsa Avenue is to Vietnamese. And for close to eight years, one of the most successful and beloved restaurants there was Sophy’s Thai and Cambodian. But in late 2008—a year after the largest community of Khmers outside Southeast Asia finally got city officials to designate them as the country’s first Cambodia Town—Sophy’s was forced to move out. Its landlord refused to renew the lease.

But luck and pluck have always characterized owner Sophy Khut and her crew. About the same time they were serving the last meal at the original location, she’d already gotten a new place ready to pick up where the old one had left off. Yes, it was seven blocks removed from her old hood, but in this building, recently vacated by a Chinese buffet, there would be four times the space. More important, it had its own parking lot. There would be no more tow-truck threats for those who couldn’t snag one of four designated spots at the old locale.

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