Street Food In Nha Trang Vietnam

By friendlytravel | Jan 6, 2023
Asia > Vietnam > Nha Trang

Most of the attractions in Nha Trang is historical sightseeing and island hopping trip. Besides that, Nha Trang is also a famous city of local cuisine with many special foods for both domestic and foreign travelers. Among many types of street food. We are carefully selected to highlight foods with hygiene, reasonable price, good look, and delicious. Hopefully, you guys all enjoy and are happy while traveling in Nha Trang.

1/ Pho Nha Trang (Noodles Soup with Beef, Chicken)


Beef Noodles Soup (Pho Vietnam)

Beef Noodles Soup (Pho Vietnam)

Pho is a traditional food of Vietnam, can also be considered as one of the typical foods for Vietnamese cuisine. The main ingredients of pho are pho noodles and broth (or broth as the Southern name) with thinly sliced beef or chicken. There are also spices like soy sauce, pepper, lemon, fish sauce, chili ... These spices are added according to the taste of each user. Pho is usually used as a breakfast or at night, but in big cities, this food is enjoyed throughout the day.
Many provinces in southern Vietnam and some other regions of pho are presented with a plate of herbs such as onion, bean sprouts, and coriander leaves, basil, of which coriander is the typical leaf of pho. Pho is usually beef or chicken noodle soup and these of taste very successful for many years.
Pho soup water is usually used for boiling water from beef bones (if the owner does not have much experience to deodorize beef bones, it can be replaced with pork bones), with many spices including cinnamon, star anise, ginger. Roast, cardamom, cloves, coriander seeds, dry toasted onion. The meat used for pho is beef (with all kinds of beef, dull, dandruff is re-cooked or fully cooked) or chicken (chicken boiled, tear meat for sweet sweetness).
"Pho" is traditionally made from rice flour, coated into thin sheets, and cut into fibers. Pho is always enjoyed when it is hot. To get a good bowl of pho depends very much on the experience and know-how of the processor, which is especially important for the pot of broth.

  • "Pho Ha Noi" at 20 Yersin street
  • "Pho Goc Ha Noi" at 8 Yer Kieu street
  • "Pho Bo" at 63 Le Thanh Phuong street
  • "Pho Hong" at 40 Le Thanh Ton street
  • "Pho Hong Giang" at 115 Hoang Hoa Tham street

2/ Banh Can Nha Trang (Mini Stove-Pancakes)


Mini Pan-cake (Banh Can)

Mini Pan-cake (Banh Can)

Mini pancake is a popular pan-cake in Vietnam, one of the most especially street foods in Nha Trang. Mini pan-cake is shaped similar to “Moon shape”, made with rice flour. Making a base cake usually requires a special mold, usually made of earthenware, and has many round holes to place the mold. Because the clay stove is big, usually many holes surround the mount stove.
You can put onions or pour eggs mix inside with seafood, beef, pork, shell, shrimp, squid and served with raw leafy vegetables, but often served with green mango, star-fruit, minced cucumber.
The accompanying sauce is usually diluted fish sauce, garlic, chili, or braised fish sauce when used often dipped whole cakes into the sauce. The dipping sauce can add a bit of minced pork, onion, and chili to add flavor and nutrition.

  • "Banh Can" at 134 Tran Quy Cap street
  • "Banh Can Hai San" at 62 To Hien Thanh street
  • "Banh Can Thap Ba" at 107 2/4 street
  • "Banh Can" at 51 To Hien Thanh street
  • "Banh Can Trung" at 151 Hoang Van Thu street

3/ Banh Xeo Nha Trang (Pancakes)


Seafood Pan-cake (Banh Xeo)

Seafood Pan-cake (Banh Xeo)

Pancakes are one of the Vietnamese delicacies. This is a cheap and delicious cake, popular with popular people. It can be said that pancakes are present throughout the provinces from Nha Trang to the Southern of Vietnam. Now, it has become a familiar food that has won the hearts of foreign tourists. The main ingredients for making pancakes are pureed rice flour mixed with coconut milk and turmeric powders.
There are also pork, shrimp, bean sprouts, steamed green beans. The accompanying vegetables include lettuce, mustard greens, herbs. The dipping sauce is mixed with delicious fish sauce, crushed garlic chili, lemon, white sand sugar, monosodium glutamate with pickles, radish, chopped carrots, and vinegar. The cakes are coated in a deep pan placed on a charcoal stove.
People coated with flour dough poured into a hot pan with cooking oil (or grease), quickly spread the dough so that the outside is thin and thick. Arrange thinly sliced boiled pork, shrimp, or silver cloves, mung beans clean, and cook the steaming and sprouting on top. When the cake is crispy, fold the cake in half and scoop it out onto a plate. Each plate has three or four pieces. A plate of fresh, crispy yellow pancakes placed on the table with a dish of fresh vegetables and a cup of bright red chili sauce looks extremely attractive.
The way of eating pancakes of the Nha Trang people clearly shows the natural and liberal manner. Use a hand to tear a piece of hot pancakes and place them on mustard leaves, add raw vegetables, roll tightly, and then dip fish sauce mixed with a sour, spicy, salty, and sweet taste; a few more carrots, radishes. The special thing about pancakes is that the more people eating is happier.

  • "Banh Xeo Chao" at 85 To Hien Thanh street
  • "Banh Xeo Co Tam" at 66 Thap Ba street
  • "Banh Xeo Huong" at 81 Hoang Van Thu street
  • "Banh Xeo" at 31 Ngo Duc Ke street
  • "Banh Xeo Hai San" at 97 Hoang Dieu street

4/ Bun Ca Nha Trang (Fish-Vermicelli or Fish-Noodles Soup)


Fish Noodles Soup (Bun Ca)

Fish Noodles Soup (Bun Ca)

The secret to cooking water used to make fish vermicelli - how to make the water both fresh and sweet - is a process, which requires the owner to be very delicate. Many people tell each other that the noodles before adding spices will be cooked with pineapple to make the water used more fresh, the sugar used to cook is rock sugar, not sand sugar, then to settle and only take the clear water.
Particularly with the steps of the cooking water, each region has a way, showing different flavors. But after all, when boiled water, people will boil the freshest fish, shredded fish to get the meat out for the last. The skin and bones of the fish are simmered, to settle the water into the pineapple juice, including fish sauce, monosodium glutamate, chopped onions, white peppers. So that the broth will not be cloudy and tasted so that has just been eaten.

Every time people will make hot noodles on the spot, use broth, add a few chopped scallions, slices of tomatoes and the final highlight is fried fish cakes. Grilled fish here is made with the best mackerel, then fried or boiled to last. The fish vermicelli soup will come with a small plate of chopped raw vegetables including lettuce, herbs, and bean sprout.
The spice is indispensable with lemon, chili, and a special sauce made from fresh chili, raw garlic, granulated sugar, monosodium glutamate so thick and very spicy. A noodle bowl is a combination of the spicy, sweet, and sour of lemon, meat, and fish cake, of the clear broth that diners eat and inhale delicious compliments.

  • "Bun Ca Nguyen Loan" at 123 Ngo Gia Tu street
  • "Bun Ca Min" at 170 Bach Dang street
  • "Bun Ca Sua" at 87 Yersin street
  • "Bun Ca Cay Bang" at 6 Han Thuyen street
  • "Bun Ca Co Ba" at 123 Yersin street

5/ Nem Nuong Nha Trang (Mince Pork rolled BBQ)


Spring Roll Pork Grilled (Nem Nuong)

Spring Roll Pork Grilled (Nem Nuong)

Sour Minced Meat is mainly made of still hot thigh meat in large pigs using a pestle or blender to grind (or grind) finely then pound again, then mix garlic, pepper, and chopped pork skin.
Usually, when customers come to the restaurant, in addition to the baked spring rolls, there is always a plate of sour rolls and grilled rolls for guests to enjoy. Sour spring rolls served with garlic and dipping sauce including chili, garlic, sugar, and fish sauce. The taste of sweet and spicy fish sauce served with spring rolls is very attractive.

Making baked rolls consists of pureed or grilled minced meat, fried rice paper (fried rice paper rolls, put in the oil pan to inflate).
A grilled spring roll consists of about 6-8 pieces of minced meat, the same amount of fried rice paper. Served with the main dish is raw vegetables. Grilled spring rolls are not complicated, but there are also 4 taste types of spicy, sour, and acrid smell.
Depending on the season of vegetables can be displayed including fish, chives, basil, holly, lettuce, cucumber, acrid banana, star fruit, mango, sour onion.

  • "Nem Nuong Vu Thanh An" at 15 Le Loi street
  • "Nem Nuong Dang Van Quyen" at 2/4 Phan Boi Chau street
  • "Nem Nuong 52" at 31 Le Loi Street

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