10 Best Dishes In Phu Quoc Island You Must Try

What to eat in Phu Quoc Vietnam? Discover 10 best dishes in Phu Quoc Island you must try!

Among the best things to praise for the Phu Quoc Island, the delicious dishes are the big magnets that you must enjoy. Just travel to the Pearl Island and you will pick up many specialties to indulge the palate. Here are the 10 best dishes in Phu Quoc that you must try if deciding to honeymoon to Phu Quoc Island or investing the beach vacation here.

#1: Crab Fried Rice

The dish carries the quintessence of the Phu Quoc seafood and the islander’s simplicity. It is the tasty combination of the white rice, the aromatic flesh boiled crabs, fried eggs, etc. Every ingredient together makes up the rustic flavor, pleasing even the most fastidious gourmets.

#2: Ham Ninh Boiled Crab

The small yet delicious crabs in Phu Quoc impress the seafood lovers. Due to your preferences, you can select the female crabs for the delicious essence or choose the male crabs for meat. Any trip to Phu Quoc will be incomplete if you don’t try the boiled crabs.

#3: The “Coi Bien Mai” Grilled with Salt and Chili

The “Coi Bien Mai” dish can combine it with mushrooms, onions, cabbages, etc. But to the gourmets, the best way to savor this seafood is getting it grilled with salt and chili that greatly enhances the taste. And only in this way, the dish remains crispy and delectable.

#4: The Herring Salad

The Herring Salad is famous for the fresh taste of the herring in combined with the lemon juice. When eating, the fish fillet pieces are wrapped with the sliced onion, basil, chili, peanut, shredded coconut meat, etc. The complete pieces are then dipped in the Phu Quoc superb fish sauce.

#5: Mango Salad with Snail

 

Though the dish is rustic, it’s very delicious, nutrient, and attractive with the wonderful fragrance to enchant the gourmets from the first glance. This delectable salad is included in the menu of most restaurants, bars, and food stalls on the streets of Phu Quoc.

#6: Braised Squid and Fish Sauce

This specialty gains fame for the appetizing look and taste. The squids are fried and then braised with the thick sauce of the aromatic garlic, onions, pepper horns, scallions. On the completion, the dish evolves the enchanting scent to make everybody mouth-watering.

#7: Sour Soup with Cobia

The cobia is best cooked with the sour soup. Different from the soup on the mainland, the Phu Quoc sour soup with cobia must have the minced lemongrass and turmeric, the fresh or sour bamboo shoots. Besides, there use the fresh tamarind and a bit of lemon juice to create the sour taste as well as the transparent broth. The dish is also called the King Soup.

#8: Melaleuca Mushroom

This special kind of mushroom creates the tasty soup in combined with pepper and Phu Quoc fish sauce. The fried mushroom can be stir-fried with sea cucumber or abalone. Besides, it can be cooked with chicken, pork, and egg to make the wonderfully fragrant soup. The soup is most delicious when being hot.

#9: Sea Urchin Phu Quoc

 

The sea urchin can be cooked in two ways. First, it’s stir-fried lightly to be added to the broth. Second, it is cut half to be grilled and eaten with the sauce of salt, pepper, and lemongrass. Its meat is fragrant and fat.

#10: The Grilled Grouper Fish

The grilled grouper fish’s meat used in combined with the vegetable is wrapped by the rice paper to create the mouth-watering sweet flavor. Enjoy this one of Best Dishes In Phu Quoc Island with the island’s wine.