Da Nang food and where to eat it
Earlier I posted about my favorite com ga in Da Nang, but if you head south 25 km, you’ll find chicken & rice of a different variety, called com ga Hoi An. Com Ga Hoi An Called cơm gà xé, Hoi An’s signature dish is markedly different from it’s city-dwelling cousin to the north. Xé means ‘shredded’ Read more…
Flipping through an in-flight magazine recently, I saw an article on unusual coffee shops in Vietnam, including one in Da Nang called Traffic Sign Cafe. It’s a bit tricky to find, and I should have known as much since the address, Lo 21 Tran Nhan Tong, shows the lot number rather than the Read more…
Com ga is simply chicken and rice (OK, literally ‘rice chicken’) and it’s a regular dish in my lunchtime rotation. It’s pretty famous in Central Vietnam, and Da Nang has it’s share of ‘must-try’ spots, including a couple on Hai Phong and the awesome Quan A. Hai on the corner Read more…
Bo Ne is a funny dish. Usually in Vietnam, food is named by what kind of meat or noodle it is, followed by how it’s cooked. So if you have pho noodles, and xao means ‘sauteed’, then pho xao is sauteed pho noodles and ngheu xao is sauteed clams. Pretty simple. But bo ne is unique in that it’s name is Read more…
Visitors to Da Nang are often surprised by the lack of phở (that O sounds like the U in ‘up’) here. The main reason is that Vietnamese food, like so many things in Vietnam, is highly regional. Pho is a northern dish, and Da Nang is firmly in Central Vietnam. In Hanoi, Read more…
Where’s the best place for a Da Nang coffee? That’s like asking where’s the best fish sauce; it depends on what you like. And while there are probably hundreds of good coffee shops in Da Nang (and lots of bad ones too), these all stand out for a reason. Here’s a Read more…
Ly Son Island is a small island located off the coast of Quang Ngai province. There’s only 1 boat a day from Quang Ngai, and it leaves at 7 am. The port, however, is a 3-hour drive from Da Nang. That means a 3 am departure from Da Nang after adding Read more…
This week marks 5 years living in Asia, including Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. I was thinking this morning about all the exciting and sometimes weird Asian food I’ve had over the years, and thought it would be fun to narrow it down to a Top 5. So here they are, Read more…
Since my girlfriend arrived in Vietnam 2 months ago, we have been playing this game where, when we go out to eat, I’m not allowed to take her to the same place more than once. This was easy in April; I can rattle off my top 20 Da Nang quan nhau no Read more…
Vietnamese food has lots of dishes with the name bún, because bún means ’round skinny noodle’. So when I walked into Bun Thuy (Thủy is a person’s name), I really had no idea what I was getting. It could have been bún chả cá (noodles with fish cakes), bún thịt nướng (noodles with grilled meat) Read more…