Peephuptmei Restaurant

They’re noodle soups are alright the food is very generous portions, freshly cook & it’s very tasty! I’ll come back here again. They have my bubble teas & their Thai ice tea is really good. I like that is light, not strong concentrated & less texture! The prices are not bad & very reasonable too.
The service was excellent, very friendly staff & they get the correct order in precise!

One star for the hot tea, one star for the special Cambodian rice noodle soup, and one star for the quiet hole-​in-​the-​wall casual restaurant. Good portions and good service. The parking lot is tiny. Your best bet is to street park.
Had one incident where there was a hair in my soup one night but they replaced it right away with a fresh new bowl (wish this never happened).

Damn! All I gotta say is get the loc lac fried rice with egg on top. It comes with a lemon pepper dip and it’s delectable! Now I ordered for take out so I can’t say much for the service but it looked full when I came in to pick up. You can tell the food is made by someone’s mama’s recipe haha it’s so authentic and delicious. I also got the fried chicken which comes with a lot, but they’re skinny as heck. I dunno where the chicken comes from. The spring roll was alright, I just wish it came with peanut sauce instead of fish sauce. I guess there’s a difference between the Khmer and Viet version. I would go and get that loc lac everyday!

Really recomend this place!
I want to give 100stars because this place is a good food good place in Lowell.
I live in boston. but me and my family always come to lowell every month. sometimes is once a week. just because this place.
My favorite is Pork ND soup, Dry ND beef, egg rolls, larb pork, larb beef !!!
So yummy, and noting to complain.
Because food is very good.
Restaurant is clean
All server, waitstaff, cashier
Even chef and everyone very nice.
Polite, attentive, great service.
I love love love peephup tmei !!!
My favorite place:)

Parking is a bit of a hassle, but I generally go here for lunch on a weekday so its not too much trouble. It gets packed during the weekend. The food is always consistent and delicious. I usually get the ‘katiev special’ or the special noodle soup. The broth is amaaaazing! The servers are always straight to the point and nice.
I wish it would close at 9 because I would find myself eating here for dinner more often. :(

I’ve always loved coming here. But it’s been so long since I moved. Do they take debit? I can go after work but seldom remember to bring cash.

Highly recommend getting the spring rolls. They’re huge and they’re stuffed with noodles, lettuce, herbs, pork, and shrimp. Served with sweet fish sauce and peanuts. I like to dip my spring rolls into the sauce and then take the sriracha and squirt some of it on there for extra spice… Highly recommend!!!
Dried meekathung… yummmm. It’s Cambodian chow foon, dried. I tend to not like the extra gravy, too goo-​ey for my liking.
Their iced coffee… always on point. Always. It’s strong, but not as strong as vietnamese iced coffee, not too sweet, not too bitter… it’s just right.
My husband always gets the fried rice with beef loc lac, he seems to like it, me, I feel ok about it.
The Phnom Penh noodle soup was my favorite here, I’ve found a new place… got to Heng Lay.
You should also try kathiew kaw ko (Cambodian beef stew noodle soup). I eat that and I’m full for the whole day.
You’re welcome.

I was a frequent customer until I chose to eat there on a Sunday afternoon. Ordered their Kuy-​tiev and it was VERY VERY BLAND. So tasteless. I did not want to pay at all. But I had to. I used to love their food. However now it seems their cooking is inconsistent. Maybe I’ll try again another time.

The food here is very good and tastes fresh. We are always looking for new places to try for lunch at work and ventured out of our comfort zone for this. We got takeout and ordered the chicken loc lac with (a recommendation from other Unilocalers to get a egg on top. The egg made the dish amazing! The portion sizes are good and the food is reasonably priced. I want to try other things but since the chicken loc lac is so good I always get that. I have tried their white and fried rice and both are equally great. Would defiantly recommend coming here.

The family run establishment boasts that it serves «Authentic Chinese, Cambodian, Vietnamese Cuisine», it’s actually almost all Cambodian.
The restaurant also sells premade Cambodian snacks and hard to make specialties like «nom som», «nom bao» and «nom bot» that are popular in the community.
We were seated by the window and were quickly brought our complimentary hot jasmine tea. Similar to other Cambodian and Vietnamese restaurant, the utensils, napkins and Asian condiments are already on the table for convenience.
I put in an order of fresh spring rolls (4 rolls for $ 6.00) to start our meal. The spring rolls were the best that I’ve had in the area. There was ample pork and shrimp along with a variety of vegetables and herbs.
The Mo ordered an iced coffee drink made with condensed milk.
For our main entrees, we split chowfoon «mee ka thung» special and spicy beef «Cha sach ko kroueng»
The stir fried wide rice noodles left much to be desired. It lacked flavor and color. I didn’t like they used regular broccoli in their dish. Also there was no fish patty in the noodle dish either. The beef was tough and fatty.
The spicy beef dish was actually really spicy. The Mo was like «even this is a little too spicy for me and I eat spicy food.» Unlike the beef in the noodle dish, the meat was tender. The flavors of the Cambodian curry paste «kroeung» was perfected. My only complaint is that they cut the jalapeño peppers similar to the bell peppers strips and I accidentally ate one. Boy was my mouth on fire!
Similar to all Cambodian restaurants, complimentary clear broth is served with all rice dishes.
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Things to know:
There are two entrances, one on Branch Street and one through the back parking lot
They do not offer tap water, you have to buy bottled water or drink the complimentary tea with ice
The spicy beef dish is indeed SPICY!
They make the best «Thuk Prahok» dipping sauce among the Cambodian restaurants in Lowell
They do catering

The food here isn’t so terrible. Their hot pot doesn’t really have any taste to it. It was pretty blan. I haven’t try any dish that I like yet.

love this place. Have been a loyal customer for over 4 years now. great food

I love this place — big portions I would eat here everyday very clean and nice presentation

Service — horrible
Food — ok
Ambience — None
It’s so dirty! Servers are rude and parking sucks!
My husband used to love eating here a few years ago. Now he refuses to step in it. The food is not the same. We ordered the hot pot and it was so salty. How on earth is the broth

New favorite Cambodian restaurant in Lowell (that I’ve visited) which was held before by Senmonoram Restaurant. Their Tom Yum beat Senmonorams and Simply Khmers. it was absolutely delicious. I had their «Avocado Shake» and OMG it was delicious! It wasn’t sweet, it had that natural flavor which I love.
I ordered their «Pickled Spinach with Intestine Stir fry», «Seafood Tom Yum» and «Hong Kong Steak». all three were good. Though I have to admit that their Pickled Spinach dish wasn’t as good as Simply Khmers. but it was better than Senmonorams. Their Hong Kong Steak was run of the mill, but I liked how the beef was red on the inside and crispy on the outside. a lot of places get that wrong.
The reasons why I didn’t get a five star review was because the service kind of sucked. and the parking situation was bad. The décor was ok, I liked how their interior was bright with a wall completely covered with windows. The other Cambodian restaurants I’ve been too felt like dungeons compared to this one.
Overall, best restaurant I’ve visited so far and will be frequenting this place more often.

Ok… i’ve been eating here since they were a tiny restaurant with 5 tables.
I took a friend to this restaurant. She order special noodle soup but no tripe. The food came with tripe. she sent it back. the food came again with no tripe. While she was eating and she found some tiny pieces of tripe. My friend said she knows that they won’t cook a new order for her. they will just take it out but she expects them to take it our completely. she was really upset. she told me don’t even take her back to this place again. (first incident)
Second time, I went there with my husband. I found hair in my food. it looked like «down there kind of hair». I almost finish the plate! I wanted to throw up. they still charged me but I didn’t pay it.
I gave them another chance! Went there and found the table so sticky and smelly. everything was so dirty. I saw workers used dirty rags to clean table. All utensils were so smelly. I told my husband if I don’t really crave for crispy noodle, don’t come back here again.
Then I craved for the crispy noodle. we were back. and then we found a baby cockroaches in my food, hugging my pork. I showed it to the server. they took the pork meat to the kitchen, took that order out of my bill but didn’t take the plate out of my face!!!
since then… NO MORE!

Dear Spicy Mushroom,
Why are you so delicious? My dying wish would be to know how to cook this myself. I have tried to decipher the ingredients, but my palette must not be professional enough because I don’t think I could mimic it. I wish Peephup Tmei would come out with a cookbook with this in it so I could make it at home.
Your #1 fan!
Dreamsrey

Food here is solid and it’s authentic Khmer food. When I find myself craving homemade Khmer food I usually order takeout from here. I like their crazy noodle, I think its the best one in town. They don’t skimp out on the portions or meat. The sauce has a great taste and I always have enough leftovers. I can list other dishes such as their spicy mushroom, sweet and sour soup and chicken wings. All are yummy.
Its not in the best area and parking does suck, which is why we do takeout the majority of the time. Also, they now take credit cards so that’s a huge plus for me. And there’s no minimum.

After going here on three consecutive weekends, I think I can draft a fair review. We don’t usually eat Cambodian food but one day we felt like trying something different and my wife wanted papaya salad. So we came here. Our spicy tolerance is just ok which is why we got out ass handed to us on the first outing. The papaya salad is pretty hot but it’s very tasty! I ordered the spicy frog meat rice plate and that was also super spicy. On the side, we ordered fresh spring rolls and unlike Vietnamese Phở places, these rolls are bigger and you get four of them, not two, but you also pay a couple dollars more (I think it’s worth it).
We had to order water and Thai iced tea to put out the inferno on our tongues. Sometimes I’d have to take a break from the papaya salad or rice plate and take a bite from a spring roll to simmer my mouth down!
The next time we went, my wife ordered the papaya salad again and I ordered the spicy beef rice plate (cooked exactly the same as the frog meat dish). Just as hot as last time but this time we ordered the drinks ahead of time :-)
And just last night for Chinese New Years, we took our family out and came here. This was a good opportunity to try some other stuff. We ordered a plain frog meat dish, spicy Cambodia fish, the #80 soup (can’t remember what was in it other than lemongrass and fish), a beef rice plate (with peppers and onions), a beef and flat rice noodle plate, and of course, papaya salad. Everyone enjoyed the frog meat and papaya salad. My sister in law’s boyfriend doesn’t have a great tolerance for spicy foods, so the beef rice dish was his but even though there was no mention of ‘spicy’ on the menu item, he felt it was a bit too spicy for him (but c’mon, you’re in a Cambodian restaurant). My father in law isn’t into spicy foods either, so the beef noodles were his, which he must’ve enjoyed because he finished well before anyone else.
The #80 soup wasn’t so good. It was too sour for a soup and wasn’t what we expected. The Cambodia fish didn’t get a lot of thumbs up either, although I thought it was ok. The fish is actually ground up and mixed with other ingredients, then batter dipped and fried. It came with a plate of raw veggies (cucumbers, peppers and eggplant) which nobody had any idea how to eat??? Kind of random, but we expected the fish to be cooked with those veggies when we saw it on the menu.
Everything else was good. The service is good. The wait staff are very friendly, although I get the sense they know we’re not southeast Asian and are laughing their ass off watching us struggle with their spicy foods! All in good fun! I was never a fan of papaya salad but after having it here, I am now.
Parking is a little tough at this restaurant. Their lot has maybe 6 spots but that’s a very tight fit especially with the snow. There is some street parking and a liquor store across the street which has 6 more spots. I’ve found a spot each time but next time I might not be so lucky.
The price is fair only because your portions are big. The food is great too.

I was busy last night and my gf made dinner so i didn’t pack a lunch. well, i had 45 minutes and was in the mood for cambodian. thanks to my trusty evo i see that there is a place .46 miles from work. i drive to it and park on the street (although there was private parking).
i had plans to do takeout but it’s hard to write a fair review with just take out so i decided to dine in.
the lady at the counter spoke zero english, not even dine in/​take out. i just sat myself down at the cleanest table. when i say cleanest table, i mean table with the least amount of stuff on it. the place was GRIMY AS HELL! but within 10 minutes of sitting down there were a lot of cambodians who came in, good sign right? the menu was GROSS, they seriously need to clean it.
there was just too much on the menu, confusing as all living hell. they must have thought i was cambodian because there are two menu’s and i got the one that had a good amount of khmer on it. i asked if the noodle soup was like phở (viet noodle soup) and waitress said no, it was cambodian. so i had the yellow noodle special soup and a thai iced tea.
the noodle soup came out in 5 or so minutes and the first thing i did was taste the broth. YUM. it was good. the beef was sliced thicker and therefore was still cooking (just the way i like it) and there were 2 shrimp.
overall the dish was good, nothing spectacular, i wish it had some beef tendon and what not. but maybe cambodians do their noodle soup this way. there was a good amount of beef in it though. my mom makes better noodle soup, but for 6 bucks, you can’t really go wrong with it.
the service did SUCK though. the waitress pretty much dropped the bowl in front of me and she did the same with the menu. you’re not going to get much love at these places, it’s grimy, the service sucks, but the food appears to be pretty authentic. i’de like to try it again with someone who is cambodian and venture out to other dishes, there were just too many and i didn’t know where to start!
i wouldn’t go here on a date, but for lunch, i’m willing to come back. for take out.

Oh Peephup Tmei– how you give my girlfriend a hard time to say your name. Great food though! Being in Lowell (one of the largest Cambodian populated cities in America), you’d think there would be more Cambodian restaurants servings traditional plates. Out of all of them so far in Lowell, Peephup Tmei is the best so far… but I know there can be better. Food is a little salty too but inexpensive.
I normally order the dried noodle (yellow or white) dishes with pork. You can’t go wrong with the ½ rice plates as well. I would recommend going with a Cambodian food connoisseur (like myself) just to explain all the traditional dishes because they serve all of them.
Atmosphere looks a little grimy and service isnt that great (hence the loss of a star)
–Khemara

I thought this place was o.k. because the food was good and reasonably priced.
I had a pineapple beef dish and a spring roll appetizer. Well, the pineapple beef was good and the spring rolls were delicious and HUGE. They were packed with herbs and shrimp and a little rice noodle. The dipping sauce was really good. It was a good meal.
The place is run-​down looking, though. It didn’t look real clean and the décor was cheesy, not Asian and just not appealing.
Go for the good, cheap food, not the atmosphere.

The only time I make the trek up to Lowell is for Cambodian food. It would be great if there were restaurants close to Boston (Elephant Walk doesn’t count). I’ve only been to Red Rose down the street but my friend said this restaurant was good so we decided to go.
To be honest, I eat one dish only and that’s Loc Lac. It’s cubed beef, usually deep fried, served with a lime and black pepper dipping sauce on a bed of rice, veggies, and a side of soup. The one thing I really liked here was that they had a chicken version which was perfect since I’m watching what I eat. They also serve Loc Lac with fried rice.
The chicken was sauteed instead of deep fried but it was really good. We added a fried egg on top which is a must. The egg was cooked perfectly with a runny yolk. A few of my other friends got the the regular Loc Lac which was also sauteed, and they liked it a lot too. Let me tell you, for $ 8.50 (not sure how much the egg cost) you can get enough food to feed you for two days. It didn’t come with soup, but you can ask for it. It’s basically the noodle soup broth. But since we ordered a soup entrée to share, we didn’t get it.
My boyfriend and another friend ordered the pork noodle soup which was delicious. Unlike Phở, the broth was so flavorful he didn’t add any sauces to it. We also ordered a Cambodian sweet sour soup with chicken and shrimp for the table to share. It’s almost like Tom Yum soup without the lime juice, pineapple, and tomatoes. It was very good, especially with rice. My friends ordered the ice coffee that they liked a lot. It was made with condensed milk.
Service was good and they were friendly. When we asked for water, they gave us bottled water. That was very surprising since we always get tap water at Asian restaurants.
Prices were very reasonable. My friend said hot pot there is very good so I’ll definitely make the trek back there for it.