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Nha Trang city, with its picturesque coastal beauty, leaves diners mesmerized not only by the poetic seascape but also by the richness and uniqueness of its seafood cuisine. Let's explore it now!
Nha Trang has long been an ideal tourist destination for travelers both domestic and international. Here, visitors are not only immersed in the fresh air but also enchanted by the natural landscape blending between the sun, wind, sand, and sea salt. Additionally, Nha Trang seafood cuisine, with its specialties, plays a significant role in creating a distinctive mark here. Let's discover the culinary world of this beautiful coastal city with PasGo!
Fish Cake Noodle Soup
Unique Bun Cha Ca Experience
An Impressive Blend of the Familiar and the Unusual
Jellyfish Vermicelli
Jellyfish vermicelli features small jellyfish, resembling coconut water-soaked rice, caught by fishermen from distant islands. The broth is made from ribbonfish, resembling a small bow, boneless and sweet. Additionally, fish paste made from famous fish species such as sailfish, mackerel, etc., is deboned, ground into a smooth paste, steamed until cooked. Simply add vermicelli, garnish with herbs, clean jellyfish, and a few fish paste balls into a bowl, pour hot broth, and enjoy a bowl of sweet fish-flavored vermicelli with fresh crunchy jellyfish pieces.
A Must-Try Dish for Visitors to Nha Trang
Squid Pancake
Squid pancake in Nha Trang is similar in size to Central Vietnamese pancakes but has a quite unique and delicious taste. Besides the essential ingredients of a pancake, the main ingredient that makes this specialty of Nha Trang coastal cuisine so appealing is fresh squid. Additionally, most squid pancake stalls also include fresh shrimp but absolutely refrain from using pork ingredients.
Squid pancake is a very familiar snack in Nha Trang coastal cuisine
Because the squid used to make squid pancakes is entirely fresh squid, minimally processed before being cooked, when you eat it, the squid ink will burst out and blend with the dipping sauce, turning it into a deep black color. And this is also the interesting aspect and unique feature of this dish.
Mullet Salad
Mullet is a small sea fish about the size of two fingers, small like anchovies but with shorter and flatter bodies, whitish in color, scaleless, odorless, and only used for making salads. The fish meat, after being squeezed with vinegar, will change from whitish to milky white, cloudy, then mixed with roasted peanuts, thinly sliced onions, chopped ginger, various herbs such as coriander, basil, mint, perilla, Vietnamese balm, fish mint, etc., shredded and mixed evenly with fish, seasoned with just the right spices to complete.
Mullet salad is often a side dish in meals in the Nha Trang coastal area
The key factor that determines the taste of a salad probably lies in the dipping sauce. Many people often carefully extract boiled mai fish bones to make a sweet dipping sauce. Adding thính to the boiled mai fish bone broth, simmering, letting it cool, mixing with a little minced meat and chili garlic lime fish sauce in appropriate proportions will create the right flavor for the salad dipping sauce. A delicious fish salad must have the gentle sourness of lime, the spiciness of chili, natural sweetness from fish combined with the characteristic flavor of fish sauce in the dipping sauce, and the freshness of raw vegetables. You can find this dish in any seafood restaurant in Nha Trang.
Seafood in Fishing Villages
Due to the coastal characteristics, Nha Trang seafood is both fresh and abundant, yet very affordable. You can enjoy seafood at restaurants or seaside stalls. However, the most delicious and interesting experience is to visit fishing villages and eat freshly caught seafood right by the sea. Here, you can choose live or freshly caught shrimp, fish from the sea and ask the restaurant to prepare them, then wait to enjoy. In addition to various types of shrimp, squid, blood cockles, snails, etc., you should also try grilled fish in Nha Trang. Grilled ponyfish with chili salt dip is very famous in Nha Trang with its chewy, fragrant, and sweet meat.
Grilled ponyfish - A specialty of fishing villages
If you want to experience a rich and authentic seafood cuisine, Nha Trang is an ideal destination, so let's explore it now!
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