What and where to eat in Nam Dinh provincial city
You are in Nam Dinh city and have no idea what and where to eat. Don’t worry, just take a quick look at this post and you will be able to find the restaurants that are familiar to just the locals so as to try the best foods served.
BANH GAI
(Bánh gai)
This is a special sort of pie created first in Nam Dinh and only in Nam Dinh where people can find the best of this food. It looks quite the same as banh chung, but it looks smaller and its ingredients are totally different. There are some branches suggested for well-made banh gai on Tran Hung Dao street.
Address: Banh gai Ba Thi – #108 Tran Hung Dao street, Nam Dinh.
Thanh Lich – #104 Tran Hung Dao street, Nam Dinh.
BANH NHAN
(Bánh nhãn)
This is another special food that represents Nam Dinh’s culinary. It is a pie but as small as a candy, sweet, crispy and goes really well with green tea. Banh nhan is sold in packs like snack in every grocery in Nam Dinh.
KEO SIU CHAU
(Kẹo sìu châu)
This kind of candy is mentioned in every talk about Nam Dinh because of its delightsome delicacy. It is a small, long cube shape candy made from peanut, sesame, malt and sugar. It tastes so fragrant, sweet and crunchy. Keo siu chau is sold in packs or boxes in every groceries in Nam Dinh.
Suggested address : #161 Minh Khai street, Nam Dinh.
#181 Minh Khai street
BUN DAU MAM TOM
(Bún đậu mắm tôm)
This food is quite popular in Vietnam especially Hanoi but Nam Dinh also has amazing bun dau restaurants. In a market on Ly Thuong Kiet street, there is a famous bun dau restaurant that has the best bun dau and many other street foods.
Address : Ly Thuong Kiet street, Nam Dinh.
PHO
(Phở)
Nam Dinh is always famous for pho, this is where pho was created a long time ago, the place that keeps many secret recipes to cook a beyond compare bowl of pho. Pho Nam Dinh is famous not only because it is the most delicious pho in Vietnam but it also reflects the friendliness, industriousness, and subtlety of the people here. There are many pho restaurants in Nam Dinh; they could be some small popular ones on the sidewalk or some elegant ones.
Suggested address: Pho Tang – #17 Hang Tien street, Nam Dinh.
Pho Dan – Bac Ninh street, Nam Dinh.
Pho 10 Ly Quoc Su – #6 Ben Ngu street, Nam Dinh.
BANH GOI
(Bánh gối)
This is a very popular street food of Nam Dinh people just like bun dau. It is a pie with a skin of fried rice paper, full of minced meat, mien (a kind of vermicelli made of cassava) and a parboiled quail egg inside. Banh goi is teenagers’ favorite food. Suggested places for the best banh goi in Nam Dinh are Miss Mai’s, Miss Bich’s and Cho Chua There are also other junk food there.
Address: Miss Mai – #94 Tran Bich San street, Nam Dinh.
Miss Bich – #285 Hoang Van Thu street, Nam Dinh.
Cho Chua – Thon 3 village, Nam Giang street, Nam Dinh.
BANH XEO
(Bánh xèo)
Another popular street food in Nam Dinh. It is like banh goi in some ways but it is not banh goi. This pie is smaller, has fried rice paper too but thinner and the meat inside is kept in large pieces. It goes with a special kind of sauce requiring many accurate steps of mixing and preparing, and some kinds of raw vegetables. The tourists should come and try this food is on Tran Hung Dao street.
Address: Tran Hung Dao street, Nam Dinh.
DUCK MEAT
(Thịt vịt)
Nam Dinh has such strong potential of agriculture that duck meat in Nam Dinh is so delicious. There is even a whole street called the duck meat street where lots of duck meat restaurants are located, and many duck courses are served. The suggested name of the restaurant is Van Dinh, but all the restaurants on the street are still good.
Address: Tran Thai Tong street, Nam Dinh.
ROASTING STREET
(Phố nướng)
There is another street called Roasting street with many roasting restaurants. They serve different kinds of raw spiced meat which will be roasted right at the clients’ tables. These are perfect places for big parties. Some extra-ordinary restaurant names should be Huy Map and Hoa Diem Son.
Address : Tran Hung Dao street (by Truyen Thong lake), Nam Dinh.
BALAN BREAD
(Bánh mì balan)
Bread is a famous food of Vietnam but Balan bread of Nam Dinh is the best indeed. Everyone coming to Nam Dinh buys some loaves for themselves and bring home because Balan bread is unique. A loaf of Balan bread is thick, fragrant and plump. It goes well with both condensed and normal milk. The best branch of Balan bread is on Hang Thao street.
Address: #23 Hang Thao street, Nam Dinh.
#31 Hang Thao street, Nam Dinh.
COFFEE BEANS
This is the most well-known coffee shop in Nam Dinh with tasty drinks and elegantly designed architecture. Pizza is also served here and it is super tasty. Especially there are some special rooms with large screens as mini cinemas. It is a perfect place to relax, read books and hang out with friends.
Address : Coffee Beans – #55 Thanh Chung street
KEM XOI
(Kem xôi)
Kem xoi is the food people can only find in Vietnam, a perfect combination of sticky rice and ice cream. Kem xoi is sold in many street food restaurants in Nam Dinh but the best, also the oldest one is on Nguyen Du street. Tourists can taste another Nam Dinh’s specialty here: Xiu pao pie (Bánh xíu páo).
Address: Kem Xoi – #132 Nguyen Du street
BEEF STEAK
(Bò bít tết)
This food is no longer strange to everyone but there are some places in Nam Dinh that make the most unforgettable beef steak ever. This is a perfect choice for an evening out with friends or family .
Address: #99 Hai Ba Trung street
DING TEA
This tasty mixture of milk and tea is now so familiar to everyone and so is the Ding Tea brand. Ding Tea in Nam Dinh is just inaugurated in 2015 but the drinks are amazingly good.
Address: #1 Hang Tien street
BUN CHA
(Bún chả)
Bun cha is so popular that president Obama spent his time trying this on his recent visit to Vietnam, and bun cha in Nam Dinh has its own attraction. Nam Dinh has many bun cha restaurants, both on the sidewalk and in houses.
Address: Thanh Binh – #139 Hung Yen street
O MAI
(Ô mai)
A popular tasty jam of Vietnam, made of dried black apricots and some other fruits. These once were very effective medical herb ingredients of the old Eastern traditional treatments, with some modification in processing, Vietnamese created O mai as a nosh for every age. Above all the brands, Hong Lam and That Su are two names you should try.
Address: #3 Minh Khai street