Vietnam Practicalities - Food in Hoi An 會安美食

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In Vietnam, there are many choices of food: street food is the most typical, small restaurants serving one food, tourist restaurants serving different kinds of food, upscale restaurants for the middle class and tourists, French or fine dining restaurants. In this post, I will share my food experience in Hoi An.  Restaurants and snack places in other cities will be shared in separate posts. Not all meals were nice. I will be very open to tell what's good and what's so so.

Hoi An


We followed a friend's advice to visit Pho Xua for a quick lunch.  At TripAdvisor, its rating was 4.5.  We ordered pho (beef noodle) and bun cuon (steam rice roll).  They were OK but did not 'wow'. Price was unbeatable.  2 snacks and 2 drinks for less than USD4.



A cool drink is indispensable under the big heat in Hoi An in early March. We had a beer at Mango Rooms Restaurant. It is located next to the river. Nothing is better than to escape the heat both sheltered and cooling the throat.  At time, there was buy-1-get-1.  VND50,000 for two beers was a good deal.  It's excellent to watch people passing by.



Hoi An is very touristic. Either the prices were too high or the menus did not appeal to us. Walking here and there a few times, we opt to have a table facing the river.  We ordered steam fish but it came fried fish.  Both fish and salad tasted good. It's romantic with dim light for the food and the lights from lanterns on the boats.
Location: Hội An, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam

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