De Cyco is the definition of neighbourhood bar and restaurant: less than a dozen tables, siblings pouring drinks and serving food, and a stage, guitar and open mic available for anyone who walks through the door. The menu is a Khmer/Australian mash-up, with fried rice, lok lak and noodles on the home-grown side; pasta and chips on the other. A plate of crunchy, fried calamari served with sweet chilli sauce costs $2.50. Fried rice with seafood the same. Pastas are a dollar or two more. Draft beer is 99 cents. The crowds tend to grow boisterous as the night grows long, but as anyone who has ever been on stage will attest, the more you drink the better the music sounds. De Cyco, #93C Street 260.
