In Halong Bay, you will have chances to enjoy seafood in a restaurant, on a luxury overnight cruises or even at some vendors on the street.

Seafood in Ha Long

There are top 5 seafood dishes that you can not miss:

1. Seafood noodle

Seafood noodle is a dish you must try first in Halong. When talking about Halong Bay, tourists will think about seafood which is known as the most famous and amazing dishes in Halong Bay. However, it is also a delicious dish which is made from seafood is seafood noodle. The noodle is the most popular dish and attracts many diners in Hanoi. However, when eating in Halong, surely you will have a completely different feeling when this is a paradise of fresh seafood.

A full bowl of vermicelli or seafood fish cakes will include shrimp, surface, squid, crab meat, fish ball, and vegetables. Furthermore, the seafood noodle will be served with raw vegetables blend harmoniously between sweetness and broth with the cool taste of raw vegetables.

Seafood noodle

2. Grilled squid

In the top 10 of the ranking of the best Asian dishes, grilled squid is a proud speciality of the people in Halong. From a distance, you can smell the aroma of patties right from the frying pan.

When you enjoy each of these natural yellow patties, you will find the crisp, chewy and juicy taste of fresh squid. Not only that, the squid is brittle in the mouth, creating a quite interesting and strange feeling.

Grilled squid

3. Horseshoe crab ( Sam bien)

Horseshoe crab belongs to the family with the crab family. Interestingly, these horseshoe crabs often come in pairs, the females carry the males on their backs, so when you catch one, you will catch both of them. Perhaps, when eating the crab, they always have to eat a couple of horseshoe crab because they were afraid that if they eat only male or female horseshoe crab, they will be cold. It is the reason why when processing, people often make a pair to sell.

Besides that, horseshoe crab can be processed into various dishes such as steamed horseshoe crab, stir-fried horseshoe crab with vermicelli, grilled horseshoe crab cartilage, stir-fried horseshoe crab with chilli, and so on. Therefore, you can comfortable enjoying all the famous and delicious dishes from the special crab.

Horseshoe crab ( Sam bien)

4. Fried Snails

Certainly to Halong, you cannot ignore snails. The fried snail is a snack that is very popular among locals, popular price, only fluctuating around 35,000 VND / dish depending on the type. Fried snails with soy sauce, lemongrass, tamarind sauce, coconut and so on is delicious and addictive. To taste fried snails you should go to the sidewalk shop which will bring feel more comfortable and delicious with the way of processing rustic.

Fried Snail

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Cha Muc (Squid Sausage)

Cha Muc is the most famous food of Quang Ninh and also in the top 50 specialties of Vietnam. The main ingredient of Cha Muc, of course, is squid. However, according to local fishermen, the high quality dishes must use squid from the Halong area, which made this dish become Halong speciality.

Stuffed Pancakes with Squid Sausage

This dipped squid served with sweet scented sticky rice and chili sauce is the best and the most a popular dish at the banquets held in Halong bay. Besides, it is also a speciality that every visitor want to buy as a present.

Prawn, lobster and oyster

Halong Bay has many kinds of prawn, lobster, white pearl shrimp, or tiger shrimp. However, the most valuable and most delicious are prawn and lobster.

Another well-known seafood in Halong Bay is oyster. Oyster is a nutrition-rich food and provides a plethora of energy for your body.

Ngán

Ngan is a type of hard clam. In Vietnamese, Ngan means tasteless but in fact it is quite delicious and carries a very delicate and pleasant aftertaste.

Some dishes from Ngan

Sam (Horseshoe crab)

The meat of Sam can be processed into a lot of different dishes, such as pudding crab, crab salad, sweet and sour crab legs, crab sauté with peppers and lemongrass, fried eggs and crab, steamed crabs, fried crab, fried crab’s cartilage, stir-fried crab and glass noodle.

Banh gat gu

When you hold the top of the cake, its tail’s going up and down like we nod our head. That’s why the name is Nodding Rice Cake “Gật Gù”. These foods will absolutely make you fall in love with Halong Bay so you must be sure that you try them all at least once.

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Considered as beautiful as Ha Long Bay of Quang Ninh Province, Lan Ha Bay is located on the south of Ha Long bay, surrounded by Cat Ba Island in Hai Phong city. It promises to be an attractive destination for tourists.

Located in the south of the bay and east of the Cat Ba island, Lan Ha Bay has an area of over 7,000 hectares featuring spectacular beauty of 400 islands, with many interesting shapes. Unlike Ha Long Bay, all islands in Lan Ha Bay are covered with green trees, although they are extremely small.

Despite not well-known to tourists, Lan Ha Bay is considered one of the most beautiful bays of Vietnam. In autumn, it is the best time to visit Lan Ha bay with gentle sunlight, cool breeze of the ocean that make tourists comfortable and relaxed while boating around the bay.

1. The ideal time to travel Lan Ha Bay

With its cool and fresh climate, visitors can travel in Lan Ha Bay at any time of year. However, domestic tourists often travel Lan Ha Bay from April to October, while foreign tourists often visit Lan Ha from November to March.

2. Transportation to Lan Ha Bay

From the center of Cat Ba Island you move to Ben Beo, buy tickets and hire boat to go where you want. If you just want to walk around the bay (near shore and not go away), you can rent a motorboat for the convenience.

3. A number of Attractive Destinations in Lan Ha Bay

Located adjacent to Ha Long Bay but Lan Ha still brings its own beauty. You can also combine a trip from Lan Ha Bay to other tourist attractions on Ha Long bay.

Related: Visiting the Most World Beautiful Fishing Village in Ha Long Bay

Luon Cave

Luon cave on Bo Hon island, Turtle in the front and Sky Gate on the right. It is described with steep cliffs and blue water in four seasons. Luon cave always attracts visitors not only because of unique shapes but also natural scenery harmony.

Nam Cat Island

Nam Cat Island attracts visitors by the wild beauty, four natural surfaces, and stunning sea and forest.

From Ben Beo, it takes about 15 minutes on boat to get Nam Cat island. Because of the pristine beauty, tourists always enjoy the feeling of tranquility. The intervention of humans on the island is limited as much as possible to keep the natural values. With 3 large wooden stilt houses and 6 bamboo hostels, tourists will find themself with nature and the sea air. In addition, the island also has a full range of services for tourists, from the beach, kayaking, diving, fishing, etc.

Monkey Island

To get Monkey Island, tourists often take about 10 minutes from Ben Beo, and then go through Cai Beo fishing village and some small islands. Previously, Monkey Island is known as Cat Dua island because there are many pineapples on the island but inedible. Currently, the island’s name is often called Monkey Island. The reason is that the island has more than 20 monkeys brought by rangers of Cat Ba National Park. They usually play with tourists, eating foods such as bananas, apples, tangerines, candy, etc.

Van Boi beach

This is a tourist destination for kayaking and swimming because it is located in the quiet part of the bay, green water and beautiful landscapes.

Turtle Islet

As a small island located in the Lan Ha Bay shapes like a turtle swimming in the water. The islet is located near Ben Beo to Viet Hai village.

Related: Huffington Post Selected Cua Van Fishing Village As An Ideal Destination

Bell Islet

Bell islet is also known as Pen islet, Candle islet, or Banana islet. It is a small island on the road from Cat Ba to Cua Van fishing village.

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Cat Ba is a beautiful and poetic island located in the average height of 70m over the sea level; hence the weather is cool all year round, even in the extreme hot days in the north; this place still creates a cool green space for tourists.

Cat Ba Island from distance

Poetic beauty of the pearl island

If you ever come to Cat Ba once, you will see this place is covered with green color of trees, blue color of sky and sea water. The fresh atmosphere on Cat Ba island gives travelers a romantic vacation in the beautiful archipelago.

A corner of Cat Ba Island

Vast green color combines with fresh air

About 25km from Ha Long city, you absolutely can combine trips to Ha Long Bay and Cat Ba Island, with nearly 2 hours by ferry, visitors can admire breathtaking sights there.

Sunset on the small island

On the island of Cat Ba, there is a primary forest on limestone with hundreds of plants and animals and was recognized as the world biosphere reserve by UNESCO. Cat Ba is promoted to develop ecotourism together with Lan Ha Bay, Cat Gia Gulf, pristine and majestic Monkey Island.

Lan Ha Bay

Monkey Island seen from above

Renowned grilled horseshoe crab

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Delicious And Unforgettable Ha Long Squid Ball Part 1

After that, adding some chopped onion, a little bit fish sauce and some spoons of liquid lard and mix them continuously in about 2 minutes.

Depending on the liking of each person, we can create different shapes for the squid ball. However, you should remember to prepare a bowl of water and put a little oil on your hands to prevent them from being sticky with the squid. Using a spoon to take a little squid and then put it in your hands, roll it into a ball and press it.

Squid ball with hot rice rolls are a perfect combination that you should taste.

Standing in front of a stall filled with pieces of fuming fried squid balls, visitors will not be able to resist its attraction. If taste a piece of warm squid ball, you will feel the full flavor of the famous dish of Quang Ninh. Sweet crispy squid pieces with marinated spicy will stimulate all senses of diners.

Related: Five Advice For A Perfect Ha Long Trip

Sip a soup of hot squid ball in cold days, have you tasted it?

The best way to enjoy Ha Long squid ball is when it is still hot. Tourists here usually taste it right at the stalls, and then buy more as present for their relatives and friends. Local people use squid balls with white sticky rice and rice rolls and dip with fish sauce.

Hot fried squid balls are sold right in stalls of markets.

Due to manually ground, the price of Ha Long squid ball is more expensive than other kind, but its flavor and quality is much better. Quang Ninh has ground squid ball, but it is not considered as a specialty. To date, there are many units specialized in making and selling squid ball within Ha Long city; hence, tourists can easily buy it in markets and witness at steps of processing.

If you have the opportunity to tour Ha Long Bay, besides setting the stunning sea, visitors should miss out the squid ball made in traditional way. It is reported that the Ha Long City People’s Committee is considering and drawing geographical indication for Ha Long squid ball. The promotion Ha Long squid ball product helps to enhance its competitive advantage in the market, protecting its reputation and prestige. This is a good opportunity to introduce this specialty to the national and international market.

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Delicious And Unforgettable Ha Long Squid Ball Part 2

Ha Long landscape attracts a lot of tourists

Squid ball is one of long time specialties. It was was discovered in 1946 and was firstly made by Tai Le- a famous chief who served the domestic and international visitors in Hon Gai (during the French colonial period). During that period, this tasty dish was a favorite taste of local people and now it has been more and popular in the world.

Squid ball is an indispensible specialty in Ha Long

Ha Long squid ball is delicious in a special way compared to squid ball in other regions. This difference comes from material of this dish. Ha Long squid ball is made from a kind of squid with white and thick body. Such this kind of squid lives in Ha Long waters. Local people said that only squid in Ha Long region has delicious meat that cannot find elsewhere. Perhaps for this reason Ha Long squid ball can exist so long and be more famous.

Ha Long squid ball has unforgettable taste

The very first step to make a nice dish of squid ball is selecting the squids. We should choose the squid with fresh and thick carapace on the back with a weight of around 0.8 to 2.0kg. To be a professional squid ball maker, you must be clever, meticulous, and hardworking. It is very scrupulous to “operate” the squid, too. We need to omit the bowel and the vesicle, remove all the skin. We should keep the fin on the two sides of the squids because this part would create the crunchy taste after cooked. Then, wash them with the water and slice them into pieces.

Related: Five Advice For A Perfect Ha Long Trip

Crunchy and fragrant squid balls

If we want the squids to be crunchy and fragrant, we should grind them in a stone mortar by our bare hands. Put the squids into the mortar one by one. It is recommended that we should not make them well kneaded, especially with the fins. In that way, the squid would be stickier and some parts that are not well grinded yet will turn to be very crunchy when you eat. When grinding, add some peppercorns to make them mix steadily with the squid meat because later the squid would stick very hard.

Ha Long squid ball is usually served with white sticky rice and a little fish sauce.

Delicious And Unforgettable Ha Long Squid Ball Part 2

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The Viet beauty Cruise serves the best 5-star services.

Welcome the dawn among heaven immense sea with a delicious cocktail.

Now, if standing on Ha Long Bay, you will see a brown sail, strange that. In the afternoon, when the summer sunshine yellow dye breath cliff or scolded when winter makes smog obscure the surface, you will see a beautiful sail how brown it. Brown sails between heaven Ha Long vast sea, and over the long longitudinal deals ever loved anyone Ha Long.

The Viet beauty Cruise’s cabins are well-equipped with European quality and standard facilities and definitely meet all your requirements. Every cabin has ocean view window, en-suite bathroom, air-conditioner, reading table and so on. The Viet Beauty Cruise guarantees your pleasure and memorial trip in Ha Long Bay. Knowledgeable captains and well-trained staff who will make your cruise adventure unforgettable and enjoyable.

Mr. Horsham from England commented “We thoroughly enjoyed our 1 night cruise on Viet Beauty. Food delicious, cooking class enjoyable Thia Chi before breakfast and the visit to oyster farm was a bonus as we didn’t know we would be doing that. Kayaking, swim and visiting the amazing caves all fantastic. Thungh was a great guide and all staff pleasant.”

And enjoy peaceful moments of life

The Viet beauty Cruise brings ideal personal space for couples.

The Viet beauty Cruise restaurant

Try once on The Viet beauty Cruise with brown sails at any given moment, you would see a wonderful Ha Long bay. There is probably no better place than Ha Long Bay to de-stress and re-energize.

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Cat Ba island is about 30 km from Hai Phong city center and is granted with a lot of landscapes together with rich source of seafood. One of the favorite marine animals here is horseshoe crab. With natural origin, horseshoe crab in Cat Ba is always fresh and become a must- eat delicacy when traveling Cat Ba in the coming summer days.

Horseshoe crab usually travels in couple; hence it is easy to catch both when we see one.

Horseshoe crab is protected by a hard carapace. It weighs about 1kg for an adult female one and 500g for a male one. To catch this kind of marine animal, fishermen have to take the departure date and water raising time into account.

The horseshoe crab is processed into a variety of food such as: soup, salad, fried dish, porridge, etc. but most attractive dish is the grilled horseshoe crab. Especially, female horseshoe crabs in the breeding season bring a lot of eggs and become an unforgettable dish.

Horseshoe crabs’ eggs are full of nutrition.

Just female horseshoe crabs are used to cook and the way to prepare is quite complicate and meticulous. The chef must remove its blood to maintain its original meat flavor. All fins, liver and organs are removed. The lower half of horseshoe crab is separated to be grilled and its eggs will be marinated with onion, spices and nuts, then grill it on charcoal.

After marinating horseshoe crabs with spices and putting on the grill until fragrant, we can enjoy it. The dish is usually served with sour grapefruits, pickled radish, herbs, roasted peanuts, fish sauce, garlic, peppers, onion, etc.

Despite a specialty, it is very difficult to process the horseshoe crab dish to avoid poison and allergies; hence you need to choose a reputable restaurant to enjoy.

The breeding season is from October to February (lunar calendar), the number of restaurant serving this dish also increase more than other months in year. You can visit the chain of restaurants on 1/4 street or Nui Ngoc street in the town to enjoy.

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The pristine beauty of Quan Lan

Quan Lan is highlighted with fresh green color of grasses and blue sky.

A corner of the sea

White and smooth sand

The pristine sea with white sand and deep blue water

Bumpy rocks

The specialty of Quan Lan

Sweet and romantic Quan Lan by night

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Ha Long specialty- Swimming crab

The blue crab is described with light blue shell and claws, white dots, long and thin legs. You should choose firm and big crabs and good elasticity in their abdomen.

The swimming crab meat is tasty and nutritious. There are two popular dishes from swimming crabs: steamed and boiled but boiled crabs are preferred most. Swimming crabs are usually steamed with beer and a little lemongrass.

Must-enjoy food in Ha Long

The dish must be enjoyed when it is still hot. Diners divided its body into two pieces; they will see yellow and firm roe, and then extract its white meat. It is often served with chili sauce. Finally, we use pliers to extract firm meat from the hard shell of claws. The dish is more delicious when it is served with white wine.

Swimming crabs are also used for hot pot. Crab meat makes the broth sweeter and tastier. The crab hot pot needs to be added with some spices, sour fruits, and salads (green cabbage or herbs).

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