Oun Lido’s

The 25 Best Restaurants In Portland, Maine - Portland, ME - The Infatuation

"Portland might be known for its cobblestone streets and lobster, but there’s a large Cambodian American community that started to arrive in the late 1970s. And Oun Lidos, from the crew behind Công Tử Bột, is serving the most interesting Cambodian food in the city right now. The spicy, tender lemongrass beef skewers and deeply flavorful twice-fried lemon chicken are the standouts, as are the noodle dishes like the mi goreng, a stir-fry with frilly egg noodles and a sweet soy curry sauce. They recently added a large space upstairs for indoor dining, but you can still order at their counter downstairs and post up at nearby Tommy’s Park to enjoy it all." - alana dao 2

Oun Lido's - Review - Old Port - Portland, ME - The Infatuation

"Portland might be known for its cobblestone streets and lobster, but there’s a large Cambodian American community that started to arrive in the late 1970s. And Oun Lidos, from the crew behind Công Tử Bột, is serving the most interesting Cambodian food in the city right now. The spicy, tender lemongrass beef skewers and deeply flavorful twice-fried lemon chicken are the standouts, as are the noodle dishes like the mi goreng, a stir-fry with frilly egg noodles and a sweet soy curry sauce. They recently added a large space upstairs for indoor dining, but you can still order at their counter downstairs and post up at nearby Tommy’s Park to enjoy it all." - Alana Dao

The 4 Best Dishes Eater Boston’s Editor Ate in September | Eater Boston

"Chef Bounahcree Kim calls the mee kathung “my baby,” and it’s easy to see why: wide, chewy rice noodles and tender braised beef swim in a warming five-spice gravy, while peppery, bright watercress strewn on top cuts through the richness. The dish reads as a deeply comforting, lovingly developed plate—exactly the kind of meal you’d crave on dark, cold winter days." - Erika Adams

The 9 Most Anticipated Restaurant Openings of 2024 | Bon Appétit

"The second restaurant from the team behind Cong Tu Bot brings multilevel Khmer-Chinese cooking to Old Port with an all-day take-out counter offering Chinatown-style baked goods, rice plates, and boba. Chef Bounahcree Kim will serve childhood favorites like iced jello salad with coconut sauce and mi ka thung (a wide noodle stir-fry with shredded beef, five-spice gravy, and pickled mustard greens); the take-out counter is set to open in February with full service planned for later in the spring." - ByKate Kassin

From Esquire’s 2024 Best Restaurants: Oun Lido’s is a joint venture from Bounahcree “Bones” Kim, a thirty-four-year-old Cambodian American, and Vien Dobui, who runs Công Tử Bột, Portland’s best Vietnamese restaurant. Using Maine’s rightfully lauded ingredients, cooking in a space that’s still in the process of being built out, and tapping into hazy, precious memories of childhood, Bones turns out plates that brilliantly synthesize Cambodian and Cantonese flavors. Baptized in pungent homemade prahok, a Cambodian fish sauce, his beef salad topped with toasted rice powder is a salty-sweet-crunchy-meaty mouth party. The skin on the fried hot lemon chicken is as glassy as the water of Casco Bay. The mee kathung, another Khmer staple, made with broad rice noodles, is tangled with braised beef and served with an unusually rich five-spice gravy. It tastes like home, no matter where home is or what language one uses to describe it.