Welwel. Best bread in town on a 4.8 average that holds up across real volume, and the only place where a loaf still tastes like a loaf two days later. Go before ten, because the good things go first.
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Cambodia inherited French bread and kept exactly one thing from it. The baguette survived the protectorate, the civil war and forty years of everything else, and it is still sold on every corner for a few hundred riel. The croissant did not survive nearly as well, and most of what is sold under that name in Siem Reap is a sweet bread roll shaped like one. That gap is the single most useful thing to understand before you buy pastry in this town, because it explains why the busiest bakery on the map is not the best one.
The good news is that the last few years have changed things. Sourdough arrived with the long-stay crowd, two or three kitchens now do long fermentation properly, and the Khmer bakes that were never French to begin with are having a much better decade than the croissant. This ranking scores each bakery on its Google rating weighted by review volume, then corrects for what the volume hides: the biggest name here carries a 4.2 across more than 1,300 reviews, and it leads the traffic rather than the quality. So the craft bakeries come first, the famous ones get their own group, and nobody has to pretend.
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Rice cakes, banh mi and the small counters where a dollar still buys breakfast.
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Map of all 14 bakeries
Worth the detour
The five bakeries where someone is actually baking: long fermentation, real butter, and things that sell out.
| # | Bakery | Style | Price | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | Welwel | Craft bakery | $ | (150+) |
| 🥈 | The Village Bakery | Bakery & café | $ | (150+) |
| 🥉 | The Temple Sourdough | Sourdough bakery | $ | (100+) |
| 4 | Teuy Doung | Khmer bakery | $ | (100+) |
| 5 | Leaf Bakery | Bakery & coffee | $ | (100+) |
1WelwelEditor's pick
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: The best bread in town on the best rating that holds up
2The Village BakeryBest atmosphere
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: Viennoiserie and a courtyard to eat it in
3The Temple Sourdough
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: Real long-fermented sourdough, sold out by noon
4Teuy Doung
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: Khmer bakes done properly, almost no foreigners
5Leaf Bakery
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: Small, consistent, the neighbourhood favourite
The big names
The bakeries everyone finds first. High traffic, convenient locations, and ratings that tell you what that costs.
| # | Bakery | Style | Price | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Temple Coffee n Bakery | Bakery chain | $$ | (1,000+) |
| 7 | Paris Bakery | French bakery | $ | (500+) |
| 8 | HARI Bakery | Bakery & restaurant | $ | (50+) |
| 9 | Angkor Croissant St.30 | Croissant bakery | $ | (50+) |
| 10 | Angkor Croissant II | Croissant bakery | $ | (30+) |
6Temple Coffee n Bakery
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: The most visited, not the best baked
7Paris Bakery
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: The old institution, baguettes all day
8HARI Bakery
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: Cakes and a full kitchen behind them
9Angkor Croissant St.30
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: Croissants on Street 30, early and cheap
10Angkor Croissant II
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: The quieter second branch, higher rated
Khmer bakes and corner counters
Rice cakes, banh mi and the small counters where a dollar still buys breakfast.
| # | Bakery | Style | Price | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Grandma Rice Cake | Khmer rice cakes | $ | (50+) |
| 12 | Banh Mi Siemreap | Banh mi counter | $ | (50+) |
| 13 | GROWN Coffee & Bakery | Coffee & bakery | $ | (30+) |
| 14 | The Muffin Man | Café bakery | $ | (30+) |
11Grandma Rice CakeBest value
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: Num ansom and rice cakes, a dollar a piece
12Banh Mi SiemreapBest value
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: What Cambodia actually did with the baguette
13GROWN Coffee & Bakery
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: New, small, a perfect rating so far
14The Muffin Man
blog.bestBakeries.col_bestFor: On the temple road, better than it needs to be
What happened to French bread in Cambodia
The baguette is the one piece of the French protectorate that Cambodians kept, adapted and made better. It is thinner and crustier than the French version, it costs between 500 and 2,000 riel, and it is sold from glass cabinets on the roadside from dawn. What it mostly becomes is num pang, a split baguette filled with pâté, pickled vegetables, herbs and chilli, which is the same idea as Vietnamese banh mi and a genuinely great breakfast for a dollar.
The croissant travelled far less well. Butter is expensive here and lamination is slow, so most bakeries make a sweet enriched dough in a crescent shape and call it a croissant. Two places on this list laminate properly.
Everywhere else, order the baguette instead and you will be happier.
Where to find real sourdough
Sourdough in Siem Reap is a recent arrival and a small scene, which makes it easy to summarise: The Temple Sourdough does long-fermented loaves as its whole business, Welwel bakes them alongside a wider range, and The Village Bakery does a lighter version with a better crumb than crust. All three sell out, usually by early afternoon, because they bake to the day rather than to a shelf. Expect $4 to $7 a loaf, which is expensive against local bread and normal against imported.
The test is the second day: a real sourdough loaf is still good toasted on day two and day three, while an enriched supermarket loaf is cardboard by then. If you are staying a while, ask about a standing order — all three take them, and none of them advertise it.
Khmer bakes are a different tradition
Num is the Khmer word covering cakes, sweets and steamed bakes, and almost none of it has anything to do with France. Num ansom is sticky rice with banana or pork wrapped in banana leaf and steamed for hours. Num kroch are fried sesame balls.
Num plae ai are rice-flour balls with palm sugar inside that burst when you bite them. Grandma Rice Cake and Teuy Doung both do this properly and both cost about a dollar, and neither has an English menu worth reading. This is the part of the list that residents actually buy weekly and visitors almost never find, largely because it is sold from counters rather than cafés.
If you try one thing off this page that you have not had before, make it num plae ai.
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Bakeries by area
The centre and Pub Street hold the high-traffic names, which is convenient and exactly why their ratings sit where they do. Wat Bo, across the river, is where The Village Bakery sits and where the mornings are quiet enough to eat outside. Wat Damnak, further south, has the second Angkor Croissant branch, better rated than the original and half as busy.
The Khmer counters are spread through the residential streets north and east of the Old Market, with no signage in English and no reason to have any. The temple road going north carries The Muffin Man, which exists because of the traffic to Angkor and is considerably better than it needs to be for a location that captive.
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Local correction
The raw score put the busiest bakery first on volume alone at a 4.2 rating. That is not a defensible number one for a bakery, so the craft bakeries lead and the big names sit in their own group.
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Open the directoryFrequently asked questions
What is the best bakery in Siem Reap?
Welwel, for the bread. It holds a 4.8 average on real volume and its loaves are still good on day two, which is the test that separates a bakery from a shop that sells bread.
Why is the most popular bakery not ranked first?
Because volume and quality are different things. The busiest name in town carries a 4.2 across more than 1,300 reviews, which reflects a convenient location rather than better baking.
Where can I get real sourdough?
The Temple Sourdough, Welwel and The Village Bakery. All three sell out by early afternoon and all three take standing orders without advertising it.
Are the croissants any good here?
At two places on this list, yes. Elsewhere what is sold as a croissant is a sweet enriched roll in a crescent shape, because butter is expensive and lamination is slow.
How much does bread cost in Siem Reap?
A roadside baguette is 500 to 2,000 riel. A filled num pang is about a dollar. A sourdough loaf from the three places that bake one is $4 to $7.
What is num pang?
A split baguette with pâté, pickled vegetables, herbs and chilli. Same idea as Vietnamese banh mi, sold from roadside cabinets from dawn, and one of the best dollars you will spend here.
What Khmer cakes should I try?
Num plae ai, rice-flour balls with palm sugar that burst when you bite them. Then num ansom, sticky rice steamed in banana leaf. Both about a dollar at Grandma Rice Cake or Teuy Doung.
What time should I go?
Before ten for the craft bakeries, because they bake to the day and the good things go first. The Khmer counters start at dawn and wind down by mid-morning.
Do any bakeries deliver?
Most of the café bakeries are on the local delivery apps. The Khmer counters are not, and standing orders at the sourdough bakeries are arranged by asking rather than by app.
Is there gluten-free or vegan baking in Siem Reap?
Very little gluten-free. Vegan is easier, since a lot of Khmer bakes are rice-flour and coconut based and contain no dairy or egg to begin with.