Bui Restaurant boasts spacious and elegant vibe that allows for cozy reunion ambience with your beloveds. Highlights of this restaurant is lush greenery and floral vibe to bring guests closer to nature. This Lunar New Year, the restaurant is further adorned with flamboyant paper crackers, flower vases and a reenactment of the rural marketplace. Its refined charm aside, the restaurant is appealing with a wide array of authentic Vietnamese dishes, many of which are steeped in Tonkin quintessence that has held countless gourmands enthralled. Meatball rice vermicelli, snail and crab yolk rice vermicelli, deep fried nem, La Vong fish terrine, etc. are several must-tries of the restaurant. Furthermore, a meal of braised eels, fried tofu and banana, braised fish, boiled pork, eggplants or shrimp paste also awakens your all five senses. The restaurant deploys natural additives without any glutamate and reduced amount of sugar for preparations.
Hoa Giay Restaurant - Café looms humbly on a road at the downtown. The café is draped in both lingering nostalgia and an exotic charm of little Hoi An. Most ingredients are delivered from Quang Nam, thus the overall taste strongly reeks of Central region quintessence. All dishes are presented on old fashioned tableware or on a rustic bamboo tray to engender cozy and home feelings for gourmands. A meal typically involves steamed mackerel; stir fried squid, boiled egg dipped in fish sauce, etc. Rice rolls stuffed with boiled pork or Quang Nam noodles are also great additions to your must-try list.
Mekong Kitchen is a perfect rendezvous for those far away from home in search of authentic Mekong treats. The restaurant is indeed spacious and airty. Wooden tableware, old fashioned kitchenware and dim yellow lamps arouse coziness and inner homesickness of a lost homeland. Seafood and rambutant salad rolls, grilled hemibagrus with lolot leaves, crab fried rice, cha siu pork in coconut, mound hotpot or grills… never disappoint any guests. Staff members don ba ba tunic and are all hospitable beyond compare. The tastes are exotic and proper. Desserts include fresh mango jackfruit ice cream, grilled cassava cake or Mekong Delta fruits.
Quynh Trang
(Source: Vietnam Today 1/2022)