Nha Trang is not only famous for its clear blue beaches, dreamlike islands, but also leaves an impression on visitors by its irresistible dishes bearing the flavor of the sea.
SEAFOOD
Seafood is an indispensable part of Nha Trang’s cuisine, with a long coastline and a long tradition of seafood exploitation, Nha Trang is a paradise for those who love seafood dishes.
Fresh seafood in Nha Trang.
Here is a list of famous delicious seafood dishes of Nha Trang
Snail dishes: The best snail season is from February to September. In October is the season when the snails breed, the snails are now all delicious because of the gritty snails in the stomach. However, there are almost always delicious snails here to serve customers. Each shop has tricks to keep goods and know-how to grow seafood.
Traveling to Nha Trang without enjoying a snail dish in Nha Trang is a waste. Visitors can easily find strange and delicious snails such as: jumping snails, snail salad, fried snails, boiled snails, grilled snails, snail porridge, fried snails … in Nha Trang, below is a list of the famous delicious snails in Nha Trang.
Nha Trang is known as a paradise for snail lovers.
Hand snail: Nha Trang has a special kind of snail, a hand snail, a snail as big as the hand is available in the glass case. When there are customers eating, the shopkeeper chopped, steamed, and then put on a plate.
Stir-fried snail with coconut: The attractive factor of this dish besides the greasy taste of coconut milk is the “already” feeling of bringing the jade green snail meat into the mouth, feeling the attractive and greasy flavor.
Nha Trang cigarillos: This type of snail lives at a depth of 15-20m in coral reefs and cliffs. Therefore, catching cigarettes is a difficult process. The fishermen have to roll up each big rock and bring it ashore, then chisel the stone to catch the snails.
Vinegar snail: Vinegar snail has a pretty shape with many regular white brown veins on the outside of the shell. Especially, it is one of the few snails that can separate the intestines and shells while alive.
Grilled garlic snail: Although not quite as attractive as the above dishes, Nha Trang garlic snail dish is still the first choice of snail lovers.
GRILLED BEEF
Grilled beef is also one of the specialties of Nha Trang. Gourmets still ask each other: “Until Nha Trang has not eaten Lac Canh roast beef, then we know that Nha Trang has half”. Although it was just a joke, it was actually not an exaggeration. In the culinary handbook of foreign visitors, there is always the address of Lac Canh beef shop.
The secret to the delicious taste of this beef dish lies in the recipes of mixing beef with honey and more than 10 spices of the restaurant. Lac Canh roast beef is sliced and grilled on charcoal. There are quite a few types of roast beef to choose from. This dish is usually served with raw vegetables, but you can also order bread or rice paper to serve.
Lac Canh is famous for grilled beef in Nha Trang.
CAN CAKE
Sitting around the hot coal stove, watching the baker skillfully pour the flour into the mold, then enjoy the hot can on a windy day is an enjoyable experience for anyone coming to Nha Trang. Banh can is a popular dish in the central and southern regions.
These cakes include rice flour, fat, scallions and eggs. Today, banh can has many types of people such as shrimp, squid. Banh can is eaten with raw vegetables and sweet and sour sauce made from Nha Trang fish sauce with ingredients such as onions, chili, garlic and chili. You can enjoy banh can on Le Thanh Ton or Nguyen Thien Thuat street.
Can cake.
FISH CAKE
Nha Trang Fish Ball is famous for being delicious because it is made from fresh fish. The golden and fragrant fried fish cakes make customers still crave. When making cha, people often use termites, mackerel, fish, barramundi, barracuda, dragonfish, marlin … but the most delicious is the barracuda, now very rare.
JELLYFISH NOODLES
Jellyfish noodle Nha Trang – is a typical coastal dish, not only the local people love but many tourists come here also do not forget to enjoy. Especially, when the weather starts to heat up, jellyfish is a delicious, nutritious, cool dish with high cooling properties. Jellyfish noodles appear in many places, but Nha Trang jellyfish vermicelli dish from past to present are the most famous. Sea people who have been away from their hometown for a long time, returning to Nha Trang must definitely find jellyfish vermicelli, do not have to go to famous places, because the nature of this noodle dish is already rich in sea flavor – home flavor.
