Best Local Food in Phu Quoc Island You Must Try!

Phu Quoc always brings interesting experiences for visitors, one of which is the food that tourists cannot miss when you come here. Let’s take a look at top 10 local foods in Phu Quoc Island that you must try!

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1.Best Local Food in Phu Quoc island – Spidercrab Fried Rice / Cơm chiên ghẹ

Best local food in Phu Quoc island - Spidercrab Fried Rice
Spidercrab Fried Rice

Best local food in Phu Quoc island – Do not be surprise if you come to any restaurants on the island and find out that spider crab fried rice is always on the menu. Crab Fried Rice is a combination of fragrant white rice, fresh boiled crabs, fried egg and a special sauce … all blended to create a rustic flavor that visitors should not miss when traveling to Phu Quoc Island.

2. Boiled Ham Ninh Spidercrab / Ghẹ luộc Hàm Ninh

Boiled Ham Ninh Spidercrab
Boiled Ham Ninh Spidercrab

Ham Ninh spidercrab prices range from 100.000-150.000 / kg depending on small or big crab. You should choose male spider crab if you like to eat more meat but if you like the egg of spider crab then you should choose the female one. Visiting Phu Quoc without enjoying boiled crabs is considered as incomplete trip.

3. Grilled oysters with salt and chili / Còi biên mai nướng muối ớt

Grilled oysters with salt and chili
Grilled oysters with salt and chili

There are many ways of preparing oyster such as: sautéed with shiitake, mushrooms, onions and cabbage. However, with guests want to enjoy pristine flavors of the sea then nothing is better than oyster grilled with salt and chili. The salty of the salt, the spicy of pepper will leverage the sweetness of oysters.
You can enjoy this dish at some vendor stalls at Ham Ninh Beach, Ganh Dau Beach or Sao Beach, a normal dish have the price range from 40.000 – 70.000 VND per plate.

4. Herring salad / Gỏi cá trích

Herring salad
Herring salad

This is the local dish of people on the island which is very popular and well known dish that people often enjoy in the meal. Herring caught fresh then cleaned and sliced, then drop into the fresh lemon juice. Eating the herring fillet pieces with rice paper, onion, sliced red onion, basil, grated coconut, chilies, some peanuts and also enjoy with Phu Quoc spicy fish sauce spicy and sim wine to feel all the flavors of this delicious local cuisine.
Here are some restaurants that you can refer to:

  • Trung Duong Restaurant: 30th April Street, Duong Dong Town. Tel: 077 384 6467.
  • Le Giang Restaurant: Tran Hung Dao Street, Duong Dong Town. Tel: 0773.846444

5. Snails with mango salad / Gỏi xoài ốc giác

Snails with mango salad
Snails with mango salad

Snails with mango salad will definitely not disappoint visitors with its pleasant scent and delicious flavors. This dish is really popular in Phu Quoc’s cuisine; therefore you can easy find it in any restaurants’ menu or vendor stalls which serve affordable seafood. Snails combine with mango salad is extremely attractive and brings a lot of nutritious.

6. Braised Squid with fish sauce / Mực om nước mắm

Braised Squid with fish sauce
Braised Squid with fish sauce

Any cafes, restaurants in Phu Quoc Island have this dish appear in their own menu and visitors can easily have the opportunity to enjoy. When the restaurant staff brought braised squid with fish sauce, you will feel this attractive of this dish right away. Squids are seasoned with spices then fried. The garlic, stir-fried with onions, peppers and scallions to make the delicious sauce. The fried squids mixed with sauces seem so simple but only local people in Phu Quoc can make it more and more delicious.

7. Cobia Sour Broth / Canh chua cá bớp

Cobia Sour Broth
Cobia Sour Broth

One of the ways of preparing delicious cobia that many diners love is cooked with sour broth. Unlike the sour in the mainland, the sour flavor in Phu Quoc needs minced lemongrass and turmeric, cannot mention fresh or sour bamboo shoots. Besides the fresh sour from tamarind, cobia sour soup still needs a bit more lemon juice to make the broth clear and look nice. Cobia sour broth was considered king of broth here because of its delicious flavors.

8. Tram Mushroom / Nấm tràm

Tram Mushroom
Tram Mushroom

Enjoy Tram mushroom soup you will feel the sweetness of mushrooms, fragrant of pepper and it even more delicious when you enjoy with Phu Quoc fish sauce. Dried mushrooms are sautéed with abalone or sea cucumber and you can also enjoy this mushroom with chicken, pork and eggs. But the most delicious are the Tram mushroom soup with mushrooms cooked crispy and you will feel a little bitter taste also, add some chili powder and pepper to feel full flavors of a hot bowl of Tram mushroom soup.

9. Echinus / Nhum

Echinus
Echinus

Phu Quoc local people have two ways to make echinus dishes: the first one is shave off the meat inside; stir fried and put it into porridge. The echinus porridge brings the fat, fleshy and has a very special smell. And the other way is cutting the echinus into half then grilled it in a short time, use a spoon to scrape the meat inside then enjoy it with salt pepper lemon sauce, you will feel the intriguing of the echinus.

10. Grilled Mackerel / Cá song nướng

Grilled Mackerel
Grilled Mackerel

Mackerel meat grilled enjoy with some herbs, vegetable rolled with rice papers and some chili lime sauce, all create the sweetness that will melt your tongue and make you will never forget that flavors. Eating grilled mackerel with some sip of sim wine, you will feel like the time is stop and immerse in the sea nature; therefore, do not miss the chance to try this special dish when traveling to beautiful Phu Quoc Island.

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