What language is on this menu?

[hzrt8w]

A restaurant called "Seafood Cove" in Garden Grove (Little Saigon), Southern California, has printed their menu in 4 languages. I recognized 3 of them: English, Chinese and Vietnamese. I could not figure out what the fourth language is. Thai? Lao? Indian? Or something else?

I have the original 5 Mpixel picture uploaded here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/8627788/ea04ed...Cove4_orig.html

If anybody recognize the language on this menu (under the Vietnamese), I would love to know which it is. TIA.

[pieman]

Looks like Thai or Khmer to me.

[insomniac]

I was going to say Lao or Khmer

[nakji]

After staring long and hard at the listings for "shrimp" in my Laos and Cambodia phrasebooks (the only Vietnamese word I could understand with clearly legible text below it), I'm going to definitively say Khmer.

I'm so glad Vietnam uses a romanized script! I forgot how hard it is to first train your eye to see the script; then to sound out a meaning.

[Peter Green]

It's Khmer. Lao and Thai are similar, but this is definitely Khmer. Note the "r" where the front element drops down below and hooks up from the left to the right.

[Lei Feng]

Yep. 99% sure it's Khmer, the language of Cambodia.

I beleive the character that looks like a W or "UU" only appears in Khmer.

[Fat Guy]

We have a Cambodian restaurant in Brooklyn, and while it doesn't print the menu in Khmer it does have a great sales pitch across the top of the menu:

" ** No Pork - Less Fat - Better Than Chinese Food! ** "

[Stupid_American]

It's probably a Khmer/Cambodian font (close to the script).

[hzrt8w]

Thank you very much everybody. It makes a lot of sense.

Seafood Cove is located at the edge of Little Saigon (Garden Grove) in Orange County. It seems then that there might be a high population of Cambodian-Americans living in the areas besides Vietnamese.