Thanks to the favor of Mother Nature, Vietnam is one of the Southeast Asian countries that inherits the great diversity of tasty seafood.
Let’s enjoy the sea flavor at Vietnamese seafood restaurants on famous beaches such as Nha Trang, Phu Quoc, and My Khe,… With the chilling beach view in good weather conditions, you will want to stay in Vietnam for a long time than expected.
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Surrounded by a long coast from North to South, Vietnam enriches the diversity of culinary art through various fresh seafood plates you can find in any Vietnamese seafood restaurant. Your trip will be incomplete without enjoying such an authentic sea flavor when visiting Vietnam. We will list down the 10 most delicious and famous Vietnamese seafood you cannot skip when visiting Vietnam.
Sentinel crab is considered one of the famous kinds of Vietnamese seafood. You can easily find it at any marine tourist destination in Vietnam. One thing that you may not know is sentinel crabs have similar shapes to crabs, which confuses most people. Nevertheless, raw sentinel crabs will have mossy color while raw crabs have a reddish brown color.
For visitors who haven’t enjoyed the salty flavor of seawater for a long time, sentinel crabs will remind you of the sea smell. There are various ways to prepare a flavorful seafood dish that lead you to different enjoyable experiences.
Recommended Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant for Sentinel Crab Dishes
Nhà hàng Biển Xanh
Nhà Ghẹ Phú Quốc
Crab is always the top favorite Vietnamese seafood dish of tourists. When visiting Vietnam seafood restaurants, people will choose crabs as the first dish to try. Like sentinel crabs, you can enjoy various tastes of crabs such as boiled crabs, roasted crabs with tamarind, and crab hot pot,… It’s such a pleasant time to enjoy the fresh crab dish and watch golden hour.
Crabs are caught freshly from fishermen and transformed straightforwardly into seafood restaurants. Therefore, you do not have to worry about the quality of crabs. Our crabs are fresher than anywhere else. You also can choose the crabs you want before cooking them in any Vietnamese seafood restaurant.
Some visitors will stop by a local market to buy crabs as gifts for the family before leaving. It will be a worthy present for your relatives.
Recommended Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant for Crab Dishes
Nhà hàng Phương Nam Hạ Long
Nhà hàng Hồng Hạnh 3
Among Vietnamese seafood species, squid is quite famous and loved by many tourists and locals because the price is reasonable. The perfect time to enjoy the freshest quality of squids is from March to May.
When spending a holiday in Vietnamese coastal provinces, you can easily find well-known squid dishes in Vietnamese seafood restaurants or local markets. Some squid dishes have become popular local specialties such as dried squid in Binh Thuan, Ha Long’s fried ground squid cakes, and fried squid with Tamarind sauce in Da nang,…
Recommended Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant for Squid Dishes
Chả mực Giã tay Hiền Nhung (The address for Ha Long’s fried ground squid cakes)
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Jellyfish are typical Vietnamese sea species that appear in any coastal area from the North to the South of Vietnam. To enjoy the tastiest flavor of jellyfish, you should visit Vietnam in the summer – the season of jellyfish.
Because of the mild sweet taste and crispiness, jellyfish have become a main ingredient in salad dishes such as jellyfish with shrimp and cucumber, and jellyfish salad with shredded green mango.
For the hottest day in summer, there’s nothing better than having a jellyfish salad to refresh yourself. There is a time jellyfish salad has become a “superstar” among Vietnamese street food. With the affordable price, lots of Vietnamese teenagers hunt for this dish. Therefore, jellyfish are the must-trying Vietnamese seafood when traveling to Vietnam.
*Note: Jellyfish salad is usually sold at street food stalls.
Recommended Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant for Jellyfish salad
Sweet snail is known as “Royal snails”, which has become a premium delicacy in any Vietnamese seafood restaurant. The diners will be not only impressed by the perfect taste from the first try but also the eye-popping appearance of the sweet snail will spark your appetite right away.
With the exotic flavor, Vietnamese chefs will not let you down because various dishes are made from sweet snails. You can try steamed sweet snail, a fried sweet snail with salted duck egg, or stir-fried sweet snail with butter and garlic,…
If you have a chance to visit Vietnamese beaches, you cannot miss such a valuable experience with brilliant Vietnamese seafood like sweet snails. Phu Quoc is one of the beaches you should visit, where the sweet snail has become a specialty.
Recommended Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant for Sweet Snail Dishes
Quán Cóc
Ốc Phi Quán
Scallops are rich in nutrients and become famous Vietnamese seafood, especially in Phan Thien and Phu Quoc – the paradise of seafood. With the mild sweetness and the decent scent of butter from the flesh, scallops will allure diners right after you eat them.
Because of the tempting original taste, scallops can be used as sashimi or cooked in different ways such as grilled scallops with cheese, grilled scallops with onion, or scallop porridge,…
To enrich the sea taste with a plate of flavorful scallops, you should take a sip of a glass of sparkling wine.
Recommended Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant for Scallops
Bờ Kè 86 Quán
Quán Mỹ Duyên
Hard clams are one of the soft-bodied sea species with white or yellow color shells. You can find them at any time at seafood markets. With the pleasant taste, hard clams can be cooked for several dishes such as steamed hard clam with pineapple and lemongrass, stir-fried hard clam with butter and garlic, and hard clam sweet, and sour soup,…
Recommended Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant for Hard Clam Dishes
Hải Sản Nghêu
Quán Năm Nghêu
Razor Clam is one of the most impressive Vietnamese seafood because of its long nail shape. There’s a time razor clam has become the hottest seafood among Vietnamese teenagers. With its rich smell of sea taste and reasonable price, you can freely enjoy various flavors of razor clam as much as you want. The inexpensive Vietnamese seafood could lead you to a valuable experience.
There are some signature plates of razor clam such as fried razor clam with tamarind, stir-fried razor clam with butter and garlic,…
Recommended Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant for Razor Clam Dishes
Quấn Ốc Na Hải Phòng
Ốc Tươi Đi Bộ
Taking advantage of a suitable environment, shrimp species in Vietnam has grown significantly. There are various shrimp species such as white shrimp, lobster, and pink shrimp,… Shrimps are a familiar dish in our daily life, but enjoying a plate of the freshest shrimp while chilling in the sea breeze with crystal sea water is an enjoyable experience that you should not miss when visiting Vietnamese beaches.
Apart from the diversity of shrimp species, the way to make shrimp dishes also varies with grilled lobster with cheese, steamed shrimps with lemongrass, Malabar spinach soup with dried shrimp,…
Recommended Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant for Shrimps Dishes
Nhà Hàng Tôm Hùm Seafood Nguyễn Khánh Toàn
Quán Hải Sản Thời Cổ Đà Nẵng-The Antique Restaurant
Visitors will be attracted by the prominence of mantis shrimp in the coastal areas. With the chewy flesh and rich sea flavor, mantis shrimp will be your top favorite Vietnamese seafood. There are different types of mantis shrimp you can try such as mantis shrimp vermicelli soup, grilled mantis shrimp with chili salt, and steamed mantis shrimp with beer.
Recommended Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant for Mantis Shrimps Dishes
Nhà Hàng Hải Sản Phố
Nhà Hàng Hải Sản Sầm Sơn
In conclusion, the variety of Vietnamese seafood can satisfy everyone’s taste buds. You will regret it if you do not try one of our seafood dishes above. With the rich taste of the sea, Vietnamese seafood will leave a long-lasting impression so whenever you want to enjoy a dish of seafood, Vietnamese seafood will be at the top of your mind.
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