Halong Travel Guide -
Restaurants
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In Halong,
there is a wide range of restaurants
including budget restaurants, seafood
restaurants, as well as good European and
Chinese restaurants. In the center of
Baichay tourist area, superior restaurants
are often located around the beach area and
in the large hotels. Along Halong Street are
many clean restaurants, offering seafood
specialties and Vietnamese dishes.
• European restaurants:
1. Hoang Gia
In the area of the park, Halong Street,
Baichay
Tel: 033.845.913
2. Heritage
Halong Restaurant in the Heritage Hotel,
Halong Street, Baichay
Tel: 033.845.020
3. Halong
Plaza Restaurant in the Halong Plaza Hotel
Tel: 033. 845.810
4. Halong
Restaurant in the Halong Hotel
Tel: 033. 846.321
5. Bachdang
Restaurant in the Bachdang Hotel
Tel: 033.846.330
• Chinese
Restaurants: Quan Hai Lau
Next to Baichay Tourist Wharf
Tel: 033.847.037
The restaurant
has 250 seats, (in different rooms,) it
offers menu service with Chinese dishes and
a Chinese chef.
• Seafood
specialty restaurants:
1. Sea Food
Restaurant in Halong Street, Baichay
Tel: 033.845.822
2. Thu Huong
Restaurant, in Halong Street, Baichay
Tel: 033.845.142
3. Bin Bop
Restaurant in group 10, zone 1, Tran Hung
Dao Ward
Tel: 033.627.686
4. Noi Nho
Restaurant, Tran Hung Dao Street
Tel: 033.825614
5. Bien Xanh
Restaurant, No. 8 Le Thanh Tong
Street
Tel: 033.825112
Apart
from the restaurants on the mainland,
customers can contact the floating
restaurants if they want to have an
appetizing meal on the sea:
Bien Mo floating Restaurants, No 1 and No 2,
belong to Quangninh Marine Products Export
Company.
Customer
reception at 35 Bentau Road, Halong
Tel: 033.828951; 825196
Fax: 033. 826683
Visitors can also arrange with the tourist
boat owners to have an appetizing meal
aboard ship.
• Specialties:
arca, oysters, shellfish
- "Shellfish
supermarket" at Caidam area, 2km from
Baichay Tourist Wharf. It is an attractive
place for tourists in the evening.
- Next to Long Tien Pagoda (near Halong
Market), open most of the night.
• Popular
rice and noodle restaurants: (with
seafood)
- On the lower
part of Vuondao slope, near Baichay Post
Office.
- Along
Hangnoi Street, Bendoan area and LongTien
Pagoda.
• Cafes:
Apart from
bars and cafes in the larger hotels, there
are many other cafes:
- Trung Nguyen
Café No 1, Nguyen Van Cu Street, Halong
City.
- Trung Nguyen
café No 2, Cong Doan Hotel, Halong Street,
Baichay.
- Thang Long
Hotel: House on Stilts café, "ruou can"
(rice wine drunk out of a jar through
pipes).
Tel: 033.847276
- Noinho Café,
10 Tran Hung Dao Road, Halong City
Tel: 033.628027, 033.629128.
There are
numerous cafés and refreshment locations in
Halong Street (Baichay) and Le Thanh Tong
Street (Hongai).
Seafood specialties:
Like
other coastal areas of North Vietnam, Halong
has a wide variety of seafood specialties.
The most popular are:
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Arca: Lives under mud and has two
shells, it is as big as a cup and it can be
steamed, grilled or made into soup. "Ruou
ngan" (arca wine) is a specialty of Halong,
which is highly nutritious and simple to
process.
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Sopuncuchlac (sa sung): are
varieties of sea worm that live in the sand
and are about 4 cm in long, with tiny veins
running lengthwise. This species is peculiar
to Halong. After processing the fresh
sopuncuchlac it should be stir-fried with
celery and leeks or grilled. It goes well
with beer drinking, especially as a noodle
consommé.
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Holothuriodiac: is referred to as
sea ginseng. There are two kinds, black and
white. It looks like a cucumber with a soft
body. It is prepared with pork, chicken, and
bamboo shoots and dried pigskin as a dinner
dish.
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Sepia esculenta: is a kind of large
cuttlefish weighing up to 2kg., which can be
prepared with leeks, garlic leaves or
boiled. The fresh Sepia esculenta can be
dried, grilled or fried with sweet and sour
source. It goes well with beer and is makes
a good present for friends after a trip.
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"Blood" shellfish: has been a
famous seafood specialty in Indochina for
some years. It can be steamed with beer,
fried or boiled and eaten with pepper-salt.
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Teredo: lives in the aegiceras and
mangroves, mostly at the foot of the
mountains. Opening two hard and sharp shells
reveals the teredo's meat. It is prepared
with egg and flour or used for soup and is a
popular dish.
Besides
these sea products, there are the usual
seafood specialties such as: shrimp, crab,
garruppa fish, pomfret fish, threadfin fish
etc.
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