Best Food In Mui Ne Phan Thiet Vietnam

Sweet snail is considered one of the most delicious seafoods. As its name suggests, oc huong, or sweet snail, is unique becaof its natural and enchanting fragrance. Sweet snail is a precious, exotic seafood becait is difficult to find and buy. So everyone should try to enjoy it once in his or her life.

 

Sweet snail catches the eye with its light yellow shell garnished with brown spots. Unlike other kinds of snails, which are named after their shapes, the sweet snail’s name comes from its scent. You will feel relaxed while enjoying sweet snail. The sweet snail’s strange and aromatic smell encourages appetite. 

 

Dong is a reptile shaped like a lizard and stands about 20-30 centimeters long. The dish of minced fried dong with lemon grass and chili, eaten with banh phong tom (glutinous rice chapati mixed with powdered shrimp) is worth a try.

One of the best-known banh xeo restaurants is Cay Phuong (flamboyant tree). It was the first restaurant of its type to appear on this street and has existed for some decades now. The restaurant owner says preparing banh xeo looks simple, but making a good pancake is really an art.

Making the perfect banh xeo requires, above all, high-quality rice. The rice is soaked in water overnight and then ground into fine flour. To make the banh xeo batter, the cook usually adds little salt and thinly sliced scallions to the flour, though each family has its own secret recipe.

Banh xeo is traditionally prepared on a small, flat pan with a long handle placed on an open fire. When the pan becomes hot, shrimp, fat pork and bean sprouts are added. A thin layer of batter is then poured into the pan and covered. After just a few minutes, it is ready to be folded in half and enjoyed.

Nowadays, many people have replaced the pan with a set of four or more miniature pans to make many small banh xeo at once, good for impatient customers.

Banh xeo is served with rau song, a plate of different types of fresh vegetables including lettuce, mint, perilla and thinly sliced banana flower, and nuoc cham, a dip made from fish sauce, sugar, chili, garlic and lemon.

After enjoying banh xeo, you can try many other Phan Thiet food specialties along Food Street. Among the choices are banh can (rice cake baked on a clay stove and served with nuoc cham). Unlike many other regions, banh can in Phan Thiet is also eaten with boiled duck eggs or braised fish and sliced carambola or mango.

Some dishes that get the thumbs-up from both local and foreign tourists are bun ca (fish and vermicelli noodles), usually prepared with ca loc (mullet), and bun rieu gio heo (crab noodle soup with pig leg).

But that’s not all. On other downtown Phan Thiet streets, such as Ngu Ong, Bo Ke or Hai Thuong Lan Ong, visitors can taste such regional specialties as goi ca (fish salad), goi oc (shellfish salad), muc mot nang (fresh squid dried in the sun for one day), banh re (deep fried pancake), banh quai vat (fan-shaped flour cake) and thit heo cuon banh trang (boiled pork and fresh vegetables wrapped in rice paper). If visitors’ sense of adventure is still craving something different, try dong nuong muoi ot, a type of lizard broiled and served with chilly salt.

 

Banh Can (Mini-Pancakes)

 

Perhaps, to those people who have fallen in love with Vietnamese cuisine, Banh Can (also mini-pancakes) is not by means strange as it is spreading through many regions of Vietnam.

 

 

One of the places where you easily find it is Phan Thiet; it is possible to claim that getting Banh Can enjoy is absolutely not hard since plenty of small food booths serving this food are located along streets here. The best time to find the one is in the afternoon and evening.

Highly recommended addresses: Hai Thuong Lan Ong Street and around Phan Thiet market.

 

Banh Canh (Vietnamese Thick Noodle Soup)

 

Although Banh Canh in Phan Thiet is a common recipe which is easy to prepare, it is highly nutritious for people at any age. You can have bread soaked in the broth while savoring this must-try food of Phan Thiet as it is considered as an interesting way to get a sense of the quintessence inside it. Taking a Vietnam beach break in Phan Thiet will blow your mind to different sorts of thick noodle soup of this land, some of which are the soup with fried fish cakes and the soup with steamed fish cakes. Especially, the food is seemingly sweeter and more unique than itself in other places. Remember to give it a try during your trip to Phan Thiet.

 

 

Address: 

Bánh Canh xá xíu (Charsiu Noodle) on Kim Dong street. 

Bánh canh chả cá. 496 (or 596) Tran Hung Dao street, from 3 pm, very crowded. Mrs. Ly restaurant at 566 Tran Hung Dao, from 4 pm. Restaurant on Hai Thuong Lan Ong street, from 4 pm to 7 pm.

 

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