Attractive cuisine
Herring salad: The first dish on your must-try food list in Phu Quoc is herring salad. This dish is sold throughout restaurants and eateries from high-end to affordable. Herring is preliminarily processed, rolled with vegetables and rice paper, dipped with fish sauce without a fishy smell at all.
Ham Ninh crab: The crabs here are not big, but they are considered delicious, sweet and fresh by diners. Depending on the time, the price of crabs will range from 200,000 VND to 500,000 VND per kilogram. You should choose 6 to 7 crabs per kilogram, if you like to eat egg crabs, you can choose females, and if you eat meat, choose male crabs. The most delicious way to prepare it is boiled crab dipped in lemon salt and pepper.
Grilled Perimeter Whistle: Gourmets often like the grilled banh with salt and chili. The saltiness of salt, the spicy taste of chili peppers and the sweetness of the apricot whistle mix to create a very special taste. Compared to stir-frying, boiling, grilled banh mai whistle still retains its crispiness and chewiness, so it is more loved by locals.
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Holothurian: It is one of the famous specialties in Phu Quoc. This is a dish that is popular with diners because it has high nutrition and is considered a high-class food. Fresh sea cucumber is often processed into stir-fries with bitter melon, sweet chili or stewed with goat meat and pork. Many people also use sea cucumber to cook porridge and improve health. Because it is a high-class food, the price of Sea Cucumber is also quite expensive, the price is usually above or below one million VND per kilogram.
Bun Ken: Not everywhere there is vermicelli, not only the name but also the taste of this type of vermicelli is also very strange. Bun Ken often uses rice vermicelli, microfiber served with herbs, spinach, cucumber, grated papaya... The reference address is Ut Luem vermicelli on 30/4 street.
Melaleuca mushroom: This fungus usually grows after early rains in the melaleuca forests in Phu Quoc. The mushroom season only lasts for more than a month, so visitors do not always get to enjoy this dish. Delicious dishes you should try are boiled chicken with mushroom soup or fish balls with mushrooms.
Sea urchin: In the Central region, fishermen often take meat and eggs soaked in spices and stir-fry them before putting them in a pot of porridge. In Phu Quoc, the sea urchin that has just been caught will be cut into thorns, split in half, washed and then placed on the charcoal stove to grill, add onion fat and you can eat it. In addition, visitors can also enjoy some other dishes such as lemon nhu, grilled nhu, and nhum porridge.
Abalone: Phu Quoc Bao Nguc is famous for its nutritional value and is considered a remedy in oriental medicine. Fresh abalone can be used to prepare many rustic dishes such as boiling, baking, stir-frying, cooking porridge...
In addition, Phu Quoc also has many attractive specialties such as sim honey, sim wine, pepper, fish sauce, king crab, grilled snails with salt and chili, grilled fan scallops with onion fat, grilled egg squid... These dishes can all be easily found in budget to high-end restaurants.
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Where to eat
Fishing villages such as Ham Ninh, Cua Can and Rach Vem are also suggested destinations to enjoy fresh, cheap seafood in local style.
One of the most famous seafood restaurants here is Ra Kai restaurant, 30/4 street, Duong Dong town or Xin Chao restaurant, with sunset view, at 66 Tran Hung Dao, Duong Dong town. The average price is from 400,000 to 600,000 VND per person. Some other addresses are Com Bac 123 restaurant on 30/4 street), Quoc Anh restaurant on Bach Dang street, Phung fish cake soup near Dinh Cau.
Coming here, visitors should also enjoy Kien Xay Bun Quai, near Dinh Cau. This is a fresh vermicelli, served with squid, fish cakes and shrimp cakes. The highlight of Phu Quoc vermicelli is the "self-serving" bowl of dipping sauce from soup powder, sugar, main noodles, kumquat (clog), ground chili. Each bowl costs from 35,000 VND.
Phu Quoc also has many delicious eateries introduced by locals and tourists, such as Ho Ky goat shop, 30/4 street; Beef shop 100 Tran Hung Dao, Nha Tua rice pot restaurant , 68 Ly Thuong Kiet.
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