Mekong Delta
The hopping riverside night market has a lively string of hotpot restaurants, as well as stalls selling all manner of grilled things.
Mekong Delta
The hopping riverside night market has a lively string of hotpot restaurants, as well as stalls selling all manner of grilled things.
Tra Vinh
Cheap, cheerful hole-in-the-wall with wholesome traditional dishes such as sour soup, fish in claypot and pork with rice.
Phu Quoc Island
This simple wood restaurant is run by the very fluent English-speaking Kiem. In spite of the name, the dishes are Vietnamese rather than Japanese, and…
Mekong Delta
Yes, this Korean-fusion cafe's speciality is spicy, thick rice and tapioca noodles in a crab soup with grilled shrimp, fish cakes and pork, a kimchi take…
Can Tho
One of Can Tho's culinary claims to fame is this restaurant's banh cong, a savoury mung-bean 'muffin' studded with whole shrimp. Three generations of…
Phu Quoc Island
The Pepper Tree is set on an upstairs veranda – appropriately, at La Veranda resort – and offers an exhaustive choice of Vietnamese dishes, such as…
Chau Doc
The atmospheric riverside setting of this cavernous restaurant is complemented by the extensive menu of fish and seafood dishes, such as squid with chilli…
Ben Tre
Adding a welcome touch of innovation to Ben Tre's largely uninspiring dining scene, this friendly place attracts a healthy contingent of travellers and…
Chau Doc
This informal spot with metal tables and chairs has so-so service and little English spoken (but an English menu), yet the food is really something, with…
Chau Doc
On the way to Sam Mountain, 1km out of town, this simple eatery makes a great pit stop for roll-your-own nem nuong (fresh ricepaper rolls filled with…
Can Tho
Looking onto busy Hai Ba Trung, this travellers’ favourite has a good blend of local and international food at reasonable prices, though it's a case of…
Ha Tien
Some of Ha Tien's cheapest and best eats are available at the night market, which has recently relocated to the new area of the city to the west. The…
Mekong Delta
Down a lane off the main road into town, this large, open-sided restaurant is perpetually popular, serving up delicious grilled meat and fish. If there…
Mekong Delta
Ultra-fresh fish and seafood are served grilled and steamed with a variety of sauces at this professional restaurant. Pick your dinner from the fish tanks.
Mekong Delta
This reputable meat-and-rice joint offers aluminium furniture, bright lights and a menu of local specialities, such as clay-pot eel with rice.
Mekong Delta
Convenient for the bus-station hotels, this is lively by night and does inexpensive molluscs: shrimp, snails, blood cockles and the like.
Ben Tre
Centrally located, this place attracts a lively local crowd thanks to its popular grilled chicken, best washed down with draught beer.
Ben Tre
Sizzling meat and seafood skewers and bowls of noodles await at the market food stalls.
Phu Quoc Island
At this crustacean eatery you won't be crabby once you get your claws into the likes of soft-shell crab with green-peppercorn salsa, com ghe (rice…