Phu Quoc food guide8 places

What you can only eat on the island

Bún quậy and gỏi cá trích are not on mainland menus — you have to cross the water

Phu Quoc is 575 km², fifty kilometres from north to south and twenty-five across. It is easier to understand the food if you stop thinking of it as a destination you fly to and start thinking of it as land sitting in the middle of a fishing ground. When the boats come in each morning, that is what the broth will be.

Two products made the island's name: nước mắm, its fish sauce, and pepper. Phu Quoc fish sauce received EU Protected Designation of Origin status in 2012 — the first food from Southeast Asia to hold it. That sauce is the base seasoning of everything here, and the pepper gets mixed with salt and lime into the dip that goes beside every plate of seafood.

The six places below were chosen for one reason: you will struggle to find these dishes on a menu in another city. The noodle soup where you mix your own sauce, the herring cured in lime and tossed with coconut and rolled in rice paper, the coconut-curry breakfast noodles, and a fishing pier where you pick a live crab and they steam it in front of you. A local meal generally runs 50,000–90,000₫, about 60 to 110 baht (1 THB ≈ 790₫, Aug 2026).

In this guideBún quậyGỏi cá tríchCrab bánh canhBún kènGrilled sea urchinHàm Ninh crab

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What you can only eat on the island

1Bún Quậy Kiến XâyWhat you can only eat on the island

The sauce is made at your table, not in the kitchen

Bún Quậy Kiến Xây

Approximate locations — see each card for the exact address

01What you can only eat on the island

Bún Quậy Kiến Xây

The sauce is made at your table, not in the kitchen

Bún quậy began on Phu Quoc and never really left it. The rice noodles are extruded on the spot, and paste made from fish, prawn and squid is dropped straight into the broth to poach. But the dish is not really about the broth — it is about the sauce. Sit down and you get an empty dish with salt, sugar, chilli powder and calamansi (tắc). Put in salt and sugar, squeeze in the calamansi, then work it with your chopsticks until it thickens — the verb for that stirring, quậy, is where the name comes from. Start with half a spoon of salt, a spoon of sugar and half a calamansi, taste, then add chilli. The broth arrives underseasoned on purpose: that is the signal to dip.

Local favouriteCan be made without porkOpen kitchenFamily friendly

What to order

Bún quậy đầy đủBún quậy đầy đủ (mixed seafood)55,000–65,000₫ depending on what goes in55,000₫≈ ฿70
Nước míaNước mía (sugarcane juice)5,000–10,000₫10,000₫≈ ฿13
Sinh tố chuốiSinh tố chuối (banana smoothie)45,000₫≈ ฿57

Hours: 06:30–23:30
Price: 55,000–65,000₫

28 Bạch Đằng, Dương Đông, Phú Quốc

Before you goNobody mixes the sauce for you — assembling it from the dish on the table is how this place works. Most people eat it for breakfast, but it stays open late and works as a night meal too. There is a branch of the same shop inside Grand World in the north if coming down to Dương Đông is awkward. No pork in this dish.

#bunquay #phuquocfood #duongdong #islandnoodles #makeyourownsauce #vietnamesebreakfast

Quán Việt — Gỏi Cá Trích & Các Món Nướng3 photos

02What you can only eat on the island

Quán Việt — Gỏi Cá Trích & Các Món Nướng

Quán Việt — Gỏi Cá Trích & Grills

Herring, never cooked — cured in lime and dressed with coconut

Gỏi cá trích is the first thing Phu Quoc locals put in front of a visitor. Herring is sliced thin and cured in lime juice and vinegar, then tossed with shredded onion, fresh coconut, roasted peanuts and herbs. There is a way to eat it: wet a sheet of rice paper (bánh tráng), lay leaves on it, add a chopstick-load of the salad, roll it, and dip into the ground peanut sauce. The lime handles the fish, the coconut brings the sweetness. This kitchen is equally good at crab and charcoal grilling, so a table of salad, steamed crab and grilled fish shares well. The price list runs wide — 13,000 to 250,000₫ — so ask what crab is going for before you order.

Local favouriteCan be made without porkFamily friendly

What to order

Gỏi cá tríchGỏi cá trích (raw herring salad)
Ghẹ hấpGhẹ hấp (steamed blue swimmer crab)Priced by weight — ask the per-kilo rate first
Ghẹ rang meGhẹ rang me (tamarind crab)
Cháo hàoCháo hào (oyster congee)

Hours: 09:00–22:00 (라스트오더 21:30)
Price: 13,000–250,000₫

261 Nguyễn Trung Trực, Dương Đông, Phú Quốc

Before you goThere are reports that the shop has moved to 24 Trần Hưng Đạo — check the current pin on your map app before you set off. Crab is sold by weight, so watch it go on the scale and settle the per-kilo price first. The herring is not cooked, so if raw fish is a problem for you, take the grilled fish or steamed crab instead.

#goicatrich #phuquocfood #herringsalad #duongdong #seafoodvietnam #ricepaperroll

03What you can only eat on the island

Bánh Canh Phụng

Crab noodles from five in the morning

Bánh canh is a thick, slippery noodle pulled from rice and tapioca flour — shorter than udon and far more slippery. On Phu Quoc it comes topped either with a whole blue swimmer crab (ghẹ) or with sliced fish cake (chả cá). The broth is simmered from crab shell and fish bone, clear and faintly sweet, finished with fried shallots and spring onion. This place opens at five, shuts at eleven, and opens again at one — a timetable built around people out doing the morning shopping. The crab version means picking meat out of the shell with your hands. If you are short on time, the fish cake is faster.

Local favouriteCan be made without porkCash onlyFamily friendly

What to order

Bánh canh ghẹBánh canh ghẹ (crab thick noodle soup)
Bánh canh chả cáBánh canh chả cá (fish cake thick noodle soup)

Hours: 05:00–11:00, 13:00–21:00
Price: 15,000–30,000₫

27 Bạch Đằng, Khu phố 2, Dương Đông, Phú Quốc

Before you goThey close between eleven and one — turn up at the usual lunch hour and you will find the shutters down. They also close early when ingredients run out, so before nine is the safe window for breakfast. The crab version is eaten with your hands, so bring wet wipes. Don't count on cards; bring cash.

#banhcanhghe #phuquocbreakfast #crabnoodles #duongdong #bachdang #localeats

04What you can only eat on the island

Bún Kèn Út Lượm

Coconut curry broth — usually gone by ten

Bún kèn is a breakfast noodle you mostly find on Phu Quoc and in Hà Tiên, the port across the water. White fish is poached, picked off the bone and fried with turmeric and lemongrass, then coconut milk goes in to make a thick sauce — closer to a dressing than a soup. Over that come raw leaves, shredded green papaya, roasted peanuts and fried shallots, and you squeeze lime and toss it all together. Thai visitors will recognise the register: it sits somewhere between a curry and Thai nam ya. A bowl is 20,000–25,000₫, about 25–30 baht. They make a set amount each day, and it is often gone by half past nine.

Local favouriteCan be made without porkDaytime onlyCash only

What to order

Bún kènBún kèn (coconut curry noodles)20,000–25,000₫25,000₫≈ ฿32

Hours: 06:00–10:00 (재료 소진 시 조기 마감)
Price: 20,000–25,000₫

42 Đường 30/4, Dương Đông, Phú Quốc

Before you goGo before eight — it often sells out by half past nine. The sign is small and the shop is stall-sized, so walk 30/4 street checking house numbers rather than looking for a facade. Because of the coconut milk the sauce is heavy; squeeze half a lime and toss once before you start and it lightens right up. No pork.

#bunken #coconutcurrynoodles #phuquocbreakfast #duongdong #streetfood #hatienfood

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05What you can only eat on the island

Quán Ốc 343

Sea urchin and shellfish over charcoal

There is only one way Phu Quoc eats sea urchin (nhum): split it in half, spoon in scallion oil and crushed peanuts, set it over charcoal, and when the edges bubble, squeeze lime and eat it out of the shell with a spoon. It tastes straightforwardly of the sea and is barely seasoned. A sign reading ốc means a shellfish grill house, and urchin usually sits as one line on that menu. The other lines are worth your time too — sea snails cooked in coconut milk (ốc len xào dừa) are fun to suck from the shell, and grilled scallops and squid never miss. Urchin is seasonal. If they say no, move to the shellfish.

Local favouriteCan be made without porkOpen kitchenCash only

What to order

Nhum nướng mỡ hànhNhum nướng mỡ hành (grilled sea urchin with scallion oil)50,000–80,000₫ each, depending on season and size60,000₫≈ ฿77
Ốc len xào dừaỐc len xào dừa (sea snails in coconut milk)
Mực nướngMực nướng (grilled squid)

Price: 50,000–80,000₫ (성게 1마리 기준)

343 Đường 30/4, Khu phố 1, Dương Đông, Phú Quốc

Before you goSea urchin is seasonal — if there is none, switch to the shellfish. It is priced per piece, so check the rate before you decide how many. This is a local evening grill house and we could not verify its opening hours, so go after six; if it is full, 30/4 street has several other ốc places of the same kind and the neighbour will do.

#nhumnuong #seaurchin #ocphuquoc #grilledseafood #duongdong #islanddinner

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Gió Biển

The island's northwest corner, with its feet in the sand

Gành Dầu is the fishing commune at the island's northwest tip. It is a long drive up from Dương Đông, but the sea toward Cambodia opens out in front of you and the density of visitors drops away. This place sits right on that beach, so you eat with the surf in earshot. The menu is whatever the boats brought in, and the one not to miss is cá kho tộ — fish braised in a clay pot with fish sauce and caramelised sugar, one of the anchors of Vietnamese home cooking. It is salty, sweet and deep, and it needs plain rice beside it. Pair it with the evening of a day spent up north at Grand World or VinWonders and the route makes sense.

Great viewLocal favouriteCan be made without porkFamily friendly

What to order

Cá kho tộCá kho tộ (caramelised fish in a clay pot)
Hải sản nướngHải sản nướng (charcoal-grilled seafood)Made up from whatever came in that day — ask the price first

Price

Gành Dầu, Phú Quốc (해변 쪽)

Before you goIt is far from Dương Đông, so it is safer to hold your car for the return — there are stretches of the evening when Grab will not pick up out here. Seafood is priced by weight; check the scale and the per-kilo rate first. It is a beachfront restaurant with no street number and we could not confirm an exact address. Tie it to a northern day (Grand World, VinWonders), and note that this road is dark after sunset.

#giobien #ganhdau #cakhoto #phuquocseafood #beachrestaurant #northphuquoc

07What you can only eat on the island

Xin Chào Seafood Restaurant

Xin Chao Seafood Restaurant

Two floors on the Dương Đông seafront

A two-floor seafood house on Dương Đông's seafront road (Trần Hưng Đạo). The ground floor serves Phu Quoc specialities and the upper floor is a bar; both are open to the sea, so the view works at lunch and after sunset.

The dishes people order here are grilled prawns with salted egg, grilled squid with lemongrass and chilli, and the island staple gỏi cá trích (herring salad). Scallops baked with cheese are a regular add-on.

Great viewEnglish menuFamily friendly

What to order

Tôm nướng muối ớt / trứng muốiGrilled prawns with salted egg
Mực nướng sả ớtGrilled squid with lemongrass and chilli
Gỏi cá tríchGỏi cá trích (herring salad)
Sò điệp nướng phô maiScallops baked with cheese

Hours: 11:00–21:30

66 Trần Hưng Đạo, Dương Đông, Phú Quốc

Before you goSeafood is often priced by weight — check the per-kilo rate before ordering. Sea-facing tables fill first in the evening, so arrive before sunset if you want one. We could not confirm a per-person price range.

#xinchao #phuquocseafood #duongdong #seaview #goicatrich

08What you can only eat on the island

Ra Khơi

Ra Khoi Seafood Restaurant

By the night market, open until 23:00

Within walking distance of the night market and open until 23:00, which makes it the late-dinner option after you have walked the market. Reservations are accepted.

The menu is wide enough to order sides — fried rice, morning glory — alongside the seafood. What keeps coming out of the kitchen is prawns in tamarind sauce, tamarind scallops and gỏi cá trích (herring salad).

Reservation recommendedOpen lateEnglish menuFamily friendly

What to order

Tôm rang mePrawns in tamarind sauce
Sò điệp rang meTamarind scallops
Gỏi cá tríchGỏi cá trích (herring salad)
Rau muống xào tỏiMorning glory with garlic

Hours: 10:00–23:00
Phone: +84 91 809 6096

131 Bis đường 30/4, Dương Đông, Phú Quốc

Before you goPair it with the night market and you do not move twice. It fills up in the evening, so booking helps. For seafood sold by weight, check the scale and the per-kilo rate first.

#rakhoi #phuquocseafood #nightmarket #latenight #tomrangme

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