The 5 Best Matcha Cafés in Phnom Penh (2026)

The operation that established matcha as a serious category in Phnom Penh, and the one with the clearest sourcing story: premium matcha imported directly from Japan, with the BKK1 branch built specifically around Shizuoka matcha. Shizuoka is Japan's largest tea-producing prefecture and a sensible choice for a café working at volume — consistent, high quality, and less prone to the supply constraints that affect the smaller Uji producers. That reliability has let Matcha Times expand to multiple branches across Cambodia, including the Machida Shoten location, which reviewers consistently rate for the best matcha latte in the country. The BKK1 room sits in the middle of Phnom Penh's café district on Street 57, walkable from most of the neighbourhood's hotels. Order the matcha latte first — it is what the brand is built on and what it does better than anyone else in the city.

A matcha and coffee shop on the first floor of a Norodom Boulevard building, in front of ACLEDA Bank, and the most straightforwardly comfortable room on this list — clean modern decor, a cosy rather than clinical atmosphere, and staff whose English is good enough that you can actually discuss what you are ordering. That last point matters more than it should in a city where the café boom has outpaced the service training, and it makes Sip House the easiest entry point for a visitor who wants to understand what they are drinking. The first-floor position keeps it above the boulevard traffic, which is a meaningful upgrade on Norodom. A second branch operates in Toul Tompoung, the neighbourhood better known to visitors as the Russian Market area. Reliable, pleasant, and central.

The best-value serious matcha in Phnom Penh, and the room most obviously built for staying rather than passing through — reviewers consistently single out the quiet atmosphere as being genuinely suited to studying or working, which in a café district as social as BKK1 is a deliberate positioning rather than an accident. The menu is broader than the name suggests: matcha lattes alongside milky hojicha, which is the roasted-tea alternative worth ordering if matcha starts to feel repetitive, and matcha soft serve for anyone who has been walking Phnom Penh in the heat. Prices are the lowest on this list by a clear margin and the quality does not drop to match, which is the combination that earns it a place here. Clean, cosy, and unhurried — the practical daily option rather than the destination visit.

A Japanese-leaning café on Street 302 in Boeung Keng Kang I, and the most visually driven room in Phnom Penh's matcha scene — Hero House is built for photographs as much as for drinking, with a design sensibility that has made it a fixture of the city's social media food coverage. Behind that, the Japanese flavour programme is genuine rather than decorative, and the matcha sits within a menu that takes the broader Japanese café format seriously. The atmosphere is deliberately relaxed, which suits the BKK1 location: this is a neighbourhood where people linger. Open daily from 8:00am to 8:00pm, giving it longer hours than most of the city's cafés and making it viable for both a morning start and an early evening stop. Go for the room, stay for the matcha — in that order, honestly.

The longest-established matcha-focused café in Phnom Penh, predating the current wave and holding a consistently strong rating across several years of reviews — which in a market where cafés open and close as quickly as they do here is the most meaningful signal available. The name sets out the proposition: matcha treated as a craft with presentation as part of it, and the drinks arrive looking considered rather than assembled. Being older than the BKK1 cluster gives it a different and slightly more settled character than the newer design-led rooms, with a regular customer base rather than a rotating social media crowd. Worth visiting as the scene's origin point, and a useful reminder that Phnom Penh's matcha culture did not appear from nothing in the last two years — someone was doing this before it was commercially obvious.