Nha Trang, the beach city in the South Centre Coast of Vietnam, attracts tourists by many factors. Coming to Nha Trang, you will have the chance to admire the beautiful nature, pristine beaches, and islands, and discover the ocean world. Besides, you can enjoy many delicious foods in the area. Below are 11 specialties in Nha Trang you should try when you are here.

Ninh Hoa Grilled Fermented Pork Roll (Nem nuong Ninh Hoa)

There are two types of Ninh Hoa pork roll, fermented pork rolls fresh (nem chua), and grilled fermented pork roll (nem nuong). While the fresh roll is suitable for a souvenir, you should eat the fermented roll right at the restaurant.

The cook wraps the pork roll in a piece of rice paper, together with slides of cucumber, green mango, carrot pickle, and some types of raw vegetables such as salad, basil, etc. After wrapping, you can use it with the special sauce, and enjoy the blend of fat, sweet, sour, and spicy flavor.

There are many restaurants or street food stalls you can try the grilled fermented pork roll. However, the three restaurants below are the most popular for both tourists and local people.

Nem nuong Vu Thanh An

- Address: 15 Le Loi Street

- Opening time: 7.00 a.m. – 10.00 p.m.

Nem Dang Van Quyen

- Address: 16A Lang Ong Street

Nem nuong co Hai

- Address: 24 Hai Ba Trung street

- Opening time: 2.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.

Jellyfish vermicelli (Bun Sua)

Jellyfish vermicelli attracts tourists by its rich broth from fish and other seafood ingredients. The main ingredient of this food is the jellyfish which fisherman catches offshore. Besides the pieces of thick and crunchy white jellyfish, you can enjoy the steam and fried fish cakes, fresh onions, chili, and herbs. The jellyfish vermicelli bow is sweet, not fishy, and tasty. This is the taste of the sea you cannot forget when you leave Nha Trang. You can try the food in these restaurants below.

Banh canh Ba Thua – 55 Yersin, Van Thang

Nguyen Loan Restaurant – 123 Ngo Gia Tu street

Bun sua Doc Lech – Yersin, Ba Trieu crossroad

Nam Beo Restaurant – Cho Dam Apartment, Phan Boi Chau

Can cake (Banh Can)

Can cake is one of the most delicious specialties in Nha Trang. Although it does not originate from Nha Trang, it has a special flavor of Nha Trang with the taste of the sea.

 

In Dalat, the cake is made from rice flour, onion, egg, and ground pork meat. However, coming to Nha Trang, local people here add the cake with octopus, shrimp, and squid.

The cake is more delicious when you use it with fish sauce and fresh vegetables. After trying Can cake and leaving Nha Trang, you will never forget the taste of this food.

Most of the restaurant opens in the afternoon and serves food until midnight. You can find the restaurant in 151 Hoang Van Thu street, 48 Hoang Hoa Tham street, 51 To Hien Thanh Street, and 2/4 street.

Nha Trang Pancake (Banh Xeo Nha Trang)

Nha Trang Pancake also stays in the list of the specialties in Nha Trang you should try. The pancake is crispy outside and has chewy stuffing. The same as Can cake, people in Nha Trang use squid as the stuffing instead of pork in other regions.

The fresh squid is the ingredient that makes a difference for Nha Trang pancake. The cook will wash the squid, leave it as a whole, and will not remove the ink inside. Therefore, you will see a bow of black sauce with the sweet, spicy, and fishy taste.

You can enjoy the pancake in these restaurants below.

• Banh Xeo Co Tam – 06 Thap Ba, Nha Trang
• Banh Xeo 31 – 31 Ngo Duc Ke street, Tan Lap, Nha Trang
• 97 Hoang Dieu Street, Nha Trang
• Quan Nem 51 – 29-31 Le Loi street, Nha Trang

Nha Trang duckweed cake (Banh Beo Nha Trang)

Duckweed cake is a popular and familiar dish of Central provinces with an unforgettable flavor. There are many ingredients to make the unique taste of duckweed cake such as shrimp, ground meat, chives, onion, etc. In Nha Trang, you can find not only that type of duckweed cake but also sweet cake as well.

The sweet cake is more delicious with coconut milk and white sesame. The coconut milk is added with a little sugar and salt to have a moderate salinity. This is the special features of this type of duckweed cake.

You can enjoy the duckweed cake in these addresses below.

• 01 Nui Mot, Nha Trang
• Banh Beo Be Tu – 15 Huynh Thuc Khang street, Nha Trang
• 24 Le Chan street, Nha Trang
• 30 Huynh Thuc Khang street, Nha Trang
• 19 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street, Nha Trang
• Banh Beo Be Nam – Bach Dang street, Nha Trang
• 60 Phan Chu Trinh street, Nha Trang

Many tourists coming to these restaurants highly recommend and evaluated them. They attract tourists by the delicious taste served with some additional dishes and tasty sauce.

Dien Khanh wet cake (Banh uot Dien Khanh)

Dien Khanh wet cake is one of the local specialties in Nha Trang. The main ingredients of this cake are rice flour, tapioca flour. The cook will mix them with water to create a mixture. The mixture will be coated on a piece of cloth, below is boiled water in an earthenware oven. After being cooked, the wet lake will be put on a plate and covered with onion, meat paste, pureed dried shrimp, and mashed green beans. They create a blend in the flavor, attracting not only local people but tourists as well.

You can try the wet cake in the Dien Khanh wet cake street in Dien Khanh town, 10 kilometers to the West from the center. The street is full of wet cake restaurants open from 4.00 a.m. to serve the need of tourists. Besides, you can also drop in 16A Hong Linh Street, 15 Huynh Thuc Khang street if you do not want to get out of the city center for your meal.

Nha Trang smashing rice paper cake (Banh Dap Nha Trang)

Nha Trang smashing rice paper is one of the unique and delicious specialties in Nha Trang. There are two main elements in the cake. They are the wet cake from rice flour inside and the baked rice paper wrapped outside.

You should enjoy the cake right after it is taken from the grill. At that time, the baked rice paper is still crunchy, and the wet cake is hot and tasty.

Below are some addresses you can find savory smashing rice paper cake.

• Banh Dap Hong Linh – 16C Hong Linh, Nha Trang
• Banh Dap Binh Minh – Le Dai Hanh – Ngo Gia Tu crossroad
• 08 Ngo Duc Ke, Nha Trang

Let’s enjoy the taste of the cake with a special sauce made from the fish guts!

Lac Canh Grilled beef (Bo nuong Lac Canh)

Lac Canh grilled beef restaurant at 44 Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, Nha Trang is the most popular restaurant for grilled beef in Nha Trang. The restaurant opens at 10.00 a.m. and closes at 11.00 p.m. Therefore, you can come here for both lunch and dinner, or anytime you drop by the street.

The beef is sliced, seasoning with honey and some other spices. You can grill the meat yourself in the clay oven and enjoy the sound and smell of the beef grilled. You will not resist trying pieces of beef grilled with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, sliced onions. The sour, spicy, and

salty of lemon chilly salt is also the attractiveness of the food. The more delicious the sauce is, the more attractive the grilled beef is.

Besides Lac Canh Grill beef restaurant, you can also try the food in Bo Bum Boy restaurant at 174C Ngo Gia Tu street, and Bo nuong 225 at 225 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street.

Let’s grill the beef on your own and enjoy the taste of them!

Nha Trang cake soup (Banh canh Nha Trang)

Visiting Nha Trang, you should not miss the cake soup, one of the specialties in Nha Trang. There are three elements to create the attractiveness of the food below.

• Cake flour

Rice flour and tapioca flour are two main ingredients to create the cake flour. The cook will put the mixture of flour, salt, and water into the pot, heat and stir well over low heat, and stirred. Finishing many stages, you can see the clear color of the soup cake.

• Broth

The broth is cooked from different types of fishes, together with ripe tomatoes. These ingredients create the sweetness and rich in flavor for a pot of broth.

• Spices, additional food

The cake soup in Nha Trang is eaten with onions, grilled chopped fish, or fried fish cake. The fish cake here is made from fresh fishes added with spices.

You can try the cake soup in these addresses below.

• Co Lien – 26 Nui Mot, Nha Trang
• Quan Hong – 42 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Nha Trang
• 04 Tran Thi Tin, Nha Trang
• 07 Bach Dang, Nha Trang
• 42 Vo Thi Sau Nha Trang

Dai Lanh squid hotpot

If you want to find a delicious squid hotpot in Nha Trang, you should go to Dai Lanh beach. Dai Lanh beach belongs to Van Ninh district, 80 kilometers to the North from Nha Trang. The cuisine here is associated with the rustic coastal commune of Dai Lanh.

Dai Lanh people live mainly on squid fishing. Every night, hundreds of ships will turn on the neon light to lure and catch squid. Therefore, you can easily choose for yourself the freshest squid here.

The squid will be sliced into small pieces and placed on the plate. When the hot pot broth is boiled, you can drop each piece of squid into the hot pot and wait to enjoy it. The broth is not as fussily as other types of hot pot in other places. It has the combination taste of the ginger, ripen and sour pineapple, squash, herbs, and clams.

Along the beach, you can find many squid hotpot restaurant, and you can enjoy the food at any of them at a reasonable price.

Deep herring salad

Deep herring salad is a famous specialty in the Central of Vietnam. You can easily find it in Ninh Thuan, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, and Nha Trang in Khanh Hoa province.

The main ingredient of this food is the deep herring salad. This fish is small has a transparent and sleek body. Especially, deep herring does not have scales and fishy smell; therefore, it is suitable to make the salad. Besides the main ingredient, you can find garlic, chili, tamarind, sugar, fish

sauce, peanuts, porcelain bananas, lettuce, basil, star fruit, and cucumber in the food. You can use the sauce to make the food rich in flavor. The sauce is made from the fishbone combining with ground meat and fish sauce.

Below are some addresses you can find deep herring salad.

• 188, 2/4 Street, Nha Trang
• 166, 2/4 Street, Nha Trang
• 06 Ngo Si Lien Street, Nha Trang
• 133 Thap Ba, Nha Trang

All of the restaurants at these addresses provide the food at reasonable prices. They are also evaluated to have delicious salad and professional serving styles of the staff. Coming to these restaurants, you will not have to worry about the quality of the food.