Not only famous for its fresh and abundant seafood, food in Phan Thiet also attract tourists because of its local specialties, which are both simple and famous but also delicious and nutritious. Each dish has a very unique flavor that makes anyone who eats it remember it forever.
1/ Seafood – the must try food in Phan Thiet
When mentioning delicious dishes in Phan Thiet, you must recognize seafood. It is easy to see popular seafood and drinking shops set up close together on the embankment near Tran Hung Dao Bridge facing Doi Duong Beach, on Mui Ne Beach along Thu Khoa Huan Street.
You will see shrimp, crabs, squid, fish, and snails still alive and swimming around. When a customer buys it, the shop owner will weigh it and then pick it up and process it immediately, making the meat chewy, sweet, and crispy. The ways to prepare seafood in this sea are very diverse: steamed dishes with ginger and lemongrass, stir-fried dishes with tamarind pork fat with garlic and chili, and grilled or baked dishes with cheese.
Stepping here, you will feel like you are standing under a culinary sky with countless delicious Phan Thiet dishes that cannot be refused. However, remember to ask the price before deciding to choose the dish.
2/ Fish cake soup
Don’t be surprised if someone orders a big bowl of Phan Thiet-style fish cake soup and still dips it in a loaf of hot, crispy Bread. Enough to know the unstoppable appeal of this divine Phan Thiet delicacy!
Rice flour soup noodles are loose, opaque, and fragrant. The sweet broth is typically made from pork bones, fish, and straw mushrooms, with some places adding quail eggs and incredibly chewy fish cakes. Phan Thiet people also eat very spicy food. So they often add green chili soaked in fish sauce, creating a tangy taste and stimulating the taste buds.
The broth of fish cake noodle soup in Phan Thiet, Mui Ne, is primarily a bit sweeter than in Saigon but is really charming with its quality. From only 15,000 VND, you can enjoy a bowl of hot, heart-warming banh canh, a true Phan Thiet delicacy.
- Fish cake noodle soup: 66 Tran Quy Cap, Phan Thiet.
- Quan Xiu: No. 1 HA, Kim Dong Street, Phan Thiet.
- Fish cake noodle soup: Tuyen Quang Street, Phan Thiet.
- Co Xi fish cake noodle soup: 309 Huynh Thuc Khang, Phan Thiet.
- Hai Thuong Lan Ong Street: Hai Thuong Lan Ong Street (near SKCB center).
3/ Quang noodles Phan Thiet
Quang noodles are also on the list of delicious food in Phan Thiet and are no less than Quang noodles in Quang Nam. In Phan Thiet, this dish is eaten with duck meat instead of pork. Some people like breast meat, some like thigh meat, and some choose wingtings.
Fragrant, soft, fatty duck meat comes with herbs, peanuts, and bean sprouts. In addition to herbs, you can ask for noodles or a bunch of yellow noodles to fill you up completely. The prices at the shops below range from 25,000 – 40,000 VND.
- Quang noodles with duck meat: 129 Tran Phu, Phan Thiet.
- Trai Hom duck noodles: 133 Tran Phu, Phan Thiet.
- Quang noodles (only sold in the morning): 70 Le Hong Phong, Phu Thuy, Phan Thiet.
- Mi Quang opposite Tuyen Quang school: Trieu Quang Phuc Street, Duc Nghia, Phan Thiet.
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4/ Rice paper with shrimp paste
Grilled fish sauce rice paper on chilly rainy days, there is no greater joy than this Phan Thiet delicacy. Squatting chairs surround a glowing charcoal stove, waiting for hot rice paper to come out of the oven.
The filling includes onion fat, shrimp paste, eggs, butter, spring rolls, spring rolls and a little shrimp shrimp. This dish is prepared very simply. But the filling inside can be varied in many different ways, depending on each restaurant. But overall, it was very delicious!
You can find this snack on street corners, school gates, markets, or along the road in the afternoon. You can wander around the street corners below to find snacks that are authentic to Phan Thiet delicacies.
- Grilled rice paper Street Corner: Thu Khoa Huan Street, Phan Thiet.
- Grilled rice paper: Ngu Ong Street, entrance to Van Thuy Tu, Phan Thiet.
- Grilled rice paper: Tran Hung Dao – Thu Khoa Huan intersection, Phan Thiet.
- Baked rice paper at Tam Bien intersection: Near Old Tieng coffee, Tran Hung Dao Street, Phan Thiet.
5/ Cobia hotpot – Food in Phan Thiet
Cobia hotpot is considered a famous and legendary delicacy in Phan Thiet. The hot pot broth is rich in sour, spicy, salty, and sweet flavors. Fresh fish meat is both chewy and fragrant; add fish eggs and fish stomach, add crispy, fatty pork rinds, flavor, and a few slices of chili to make it extremely delicious. In addition, the noodles and large vegetable baskets have bitter herbs, banana ears, grated water spinach, and bean sprouts dipped in a dip that you will never get bored of eating. Remember the bowl of chili sauce to prepare the beach in true Phan Thiet style.
Ms. Tu’s famous homestay, loved by backpackers, said that if you go to Phan Thiet and don’t eat cobia hotpot, you’ll have to go again. However, there are still some other hot pot restaurants that taste the same delicious Phan Thiet dishes that will make you forget the way home.
- Ty fish hotpot: 34 Chu Van An, Phan Thiet.
- Small Bright Fish Hotpot: 80 Ngu Ong, Duc Thang Ward, Phan Thiet.
- May Hue or Ngoc Lan fish hotpot: 11 Phan Dinh Phung, Phan Thiet.
6/ Bread
The section of Le Hong Phong Bridge facing the market is correct at the corner of the roundabout. Every night, it’s crowded with people parking around a row of Bread, patiently waiting for their turn. Locals still call it waiting Bread. The shop opens from 7 pm and sells until late but is always crowded.
The Bread is filled with shumai, pork, eggs, fried and steamed rolls, then added with pickles and crispy pickled vegetables, delicious and “armpit-aching” in the style of Phan Thiet delicacies. The shop owner also adds a little black soy sauce, a little fatty sauce, or a few drops of spicy, thick fish sauce. Once you eat it, you will remember this flavor forever.
7/ Squid teeth – the signature food in Phan Thiet
The best snack and drink among Phan Thiet’s delicious dishes is squid teeth. At popular restaurants, squid teeth can be grilled with salt and green pepper, steamed with ginger and lemongrass, stir-fried or breaded and fried, and served with some pickles or Vietnamese coriander.
Almost every restaurant and popular eatery has squid teeth. But to have grilled squid tooth skewers right away, you can visit Pham Van Dong restaurants along the Ca Ty River embankment, Nguyen Tat Thanh Street leading to Doi Duong Beach, or the nightlife area on Vo Thi Sau Street near Dong Hai church.
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8/ Banh xeo, banh can
One of the delicious dishes eaten in Phan Thiet in the late afternoon that everyone likes is banh xeo or banh can. Banh xeo here is only as small as the palm of your hand. And it can be eaten in a bowl with fish sauce. Crispy is a fragrant cake made from flour, filled with minced meat, shrimp, and squid, and seasoned with nutty peanut fish sauce. One crispy bite makes your teeth happy.
Banh can in Phan Thiet is simple but delicious. This dish can be served with different dipping sauces depending on the restaurant. Some places have fish sauce with braised fish, some areas have pork rinds. And some places have meatballs with shumai, star fruit, or minced mango, sour and delicate.
On a fantastic day, just go to the shops below. Then sit by the red stove, and wait for each pair of hot and crispy cakes to be put into the bowl. It will be “excellent.”
- Banh Xeo Cay Xoai: Tuyen Quang street, Phan Thiet.
- Cay Phuong pancake: Tuyen Quang street, Phan Thiet.
- Banh xeo cursing: Behind Hung Vuong secondary school, Phan Thiet.
- Banh Can: No. 168 Thu Khoa Huan, Phan Thiet.
- Banh can: No. 8 Hai Thuong Lan Ong or Banh can at the foot of Duc Thanh Bridge, Phan Thiet.
9/ Mai fish salad
This is one of the most famous and rare Phan Thiet delicacies that almost every tourist wants to try. A delicious Phan-style salad has tough, crispy fish meat, not fishy and incredibly fresh. The fish chosen to make salad must still jump around.
Small apricot fish the size of a little finger, squeeze lemon, marinate with spices, and mix with coriander, onions, basil, and roasted peanuts. You can eat it with a viscous salad dipping sauce rich in tamarind flavor, ripe bananas, garlic, chili, and sugar, or wrap it in rice paper and raw vegetables. Delicious, calm, and refreshing. Let’s take a look at some places where you can enjoy this delightful dish right away!
Phan Thiet market dining area
- Seafood restaurants along the Ca Ty River embankment.
- Cay Bang Restaurant: No. 2 – 4 Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Phu Hai Ward, Phan Thiet.
10/ Fish spring rolls
Spring roll filling is made from fish and cassava roots. Delicious rice paper, a specialty of Binh Thuan, fried until crispy and golden brown, pleasing to the eye just looking at it. The dish is served with raw vegetables, eggs, spring rolls, spring rolls and bean curd broth. Eating this dish requires another roll to satisfy your taste.
The place that has famous fish spring rolls with the delicious taste of Phan Thiet is Dung restaurant on Vo Thi Sau Street. You go downhill to Tran Hung Dao Bridge, turn right onto Vo Thi Sau Street, go another 800 meters, and you will see the restaurant on the right.
Has our list of 10 delicious food in Phan Thiet made you want to stay in Phan Thiet longer than expected? You can still only take 100,000 VND to go snacking in Phan Thiet and still be complete until you roll around the street.
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