Lobster paradises disperse the coast of Vietnam, ensuring travelers will immerse in aroma of snow-white flesh melting in your mouth, and making even lobster gourmets also satisfied.
1. Binh Ba, Khanh Hoa – Lobster Island
Based in Cam Ranh Bay and nicknamed Lobster Island, Binh Ba is obviously a paradise for seafood lovers, where almost every household has an open-air lobster farm. Thanks to clean saltwater that churn out high-quality lobsters, Binh Ba island has emerged as the leading supplier for deluxe restaurants throughout Vietnam, and also an abroad exporter.
Aromatic baked lobster with cheese is the most must-try recipe in this island, best enjoyed in evening. Lobster meat is fresh and tough. Biting a piece makes eaters desire to bite more. The flavor of cheese spread around stimulates the sense of taste. To those who naively remove the lobster heads, it is a pity! The advice is that it’s better to not do so, as the delicious lobster roe is quite much.
Where to buy: Along Binh Ba dock
Baked lobster with cheese on Binh Ba island
2. Binh Hung, Khanh Hoa – Inexpensive lobsters
Boasting one of the most marvelous coastal province in Vietnam, Khanh Hoa offers multiple selections for lobster fans.
Binh Hung, similar to Binh Ba, possesses cool, blue coastlines, fine, white sands, and a flourishing seafood farming industry that offers travelers the chance to experience fishing, explore fish and lobster farms, as well as get insight into life of the local fishermen.
This island has inside it a tranquil, pristine beauty with wild nature. It’s not as much crowded as Binh Ba, so the lobster prices are more reasonable.
Where to buy: Binh Hung farm at the dock.
3. Ly Son, Quang Ngai – Finding lobster is never a problem
A part from well-known specialities like garlic, fish sauce, seaweed, king crab and turban snail, Ly Son is also famed for lobsters. At present, this island has roughly 150 lobster farms densely sited along rivulets leading to the anchored area of An Hai ward, making the finding of this seafood is never a problem.
Where to buy: An Hai dock
4. Con Dao, Ba Ria – Vung Tau – The sole place having fire lobsters
Only found in Con Dao, as exceedingly great speciality of the island, red lobster, or fire lobster, is a small kind growing very slowly, unable to raise in farms and only available in the wild. Fire lobster distinguishes itself through very tough, fresh and shrunk meat, and clusters of nutritious yellow roe inside that grows along its back and into a large piece at its head.
Where to buy: Con Dao market
Fire lobsters in Con Dao island
5. Phu Quy, Binh Thuan – Crunchy, fibrous lobster meat
Literally translated into “prosperous”, Phu Quy island feature all kinds of seafood such as king crab, lobster, moon crab, cobia and grouper that create really tasty dishes unlike anywhere else. Lobsters here offer a unique fibrous texture thanks to tendons hidden in the meat that makes the food fresh, firm and crunchy. This dish is cooked in a variety of styles: steamed, grilled, left raw with salad, or as soup.
Where to buy: Phu Quy dock, local restaurants.
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