Hoi An Restaurants

there is a restaurant in the old city, on the main street, just before the japanese bridge, on the left side of the street. It's front is to the main street, but there is also an entrance from the canal street. we ate there twice, and both time everything was EXCELENT

Favorite Dish: the pork and the fish dishes were very good, but the vegeterian set menu (in the picture) was even better

Hoai River Restaurant is a small family owned and operated restaurant in the Heritage Town area of Hoi An. Mr. Tran is the owner of Hoai River and is a friendly, dignified, and English speaking host. He, his wife, and his children cook up excellent and inexpensive Vietnamese dishes, including Hoi An specialties such as cao lao noodle bowls and "White Rose" dumplings. Hoai River also serves bia hoi, fresh draught beer, for less than 20 cents per glass. Additionally, the restaurant's location is just off the main path of roaming hawkers. You do get hassled a little bit, but far less than at most other restaurants in the Heritage Town.
Hoai River also offers cooking classes.

Favorite Dish: The Cao Lau, a noodle bowl with croutons, bean sprouts, veggies, and pork slices in a tasty broth is excellent as are the "White Rose" open shrimp dumplings. The spring rolls are up to Vietnamese standards; you really can't go wrong with anything on the menu.

When in Hoi An, be sure to visit the Mango Rooms. It is beautiful restuarant which serves, western, local and fusion food. The restuarant has two sections, one which faces the river the other the main road. There are three unique tables in the restuarant. These tables are set on a raised platform and you sit on tatami mats surrounded by cushions.

Favorite Dish: We had a dish called "Asian Sins" and beef bagget. The bagget is the best I have ever had. Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. The beef is well seasoned and very tasty. "Asian Sins" is a dry beef noodle dish tossed with tomatos, onions, basil, fish sauce and lots of yummy herbs. This is undoubtly the best meal I had in Vietnam.

If you have access to the library, there is an excellent article about street vendors in Saigon. It talked about chefs from Culinary Institute of America are leading cooking tours through Vietnam. Some of the restaurant listed are: Quan Co Tam, known for 'banh trang phoi suong', a dish of sliced pork and herbs wrapped in thin rice pancakes. My favorite is 'banh xeo', translate sizzling crepe, usually folded with chopped pork and mung beans and of course fresh cilantro and other veggies and nuoc cham. On this article, it recommended a place on 46A Dinh Cong Tra in District 1.
It also recommended Thuy Restaurant/Quan 94 of 94 Dinh Tien Hoang, District 1. Famed for its crab restaurant. Try the peppery crab spring rolls and mien cua, a thin broth filled with glass noodles, mushrooms, cilantro and hunks of crabmeat.
One thing I forgot to try while in Vietnam, 'nuoc mia', sugar cane juice. I can't believe I forgot it. Sugar canes are stripped of their hard shells and squeezed through this pressing machine that produced a sweet and cool juice. Yumm!

On the riverside so you can watch the world go by. Brilliant mango shakes and great local food. You can learn how to cook too for just an extra 50000 dong on the menu price.
Staff are lovely. Try the fried wantons.

Favorite Dish: I tried fried wantons at other restaurants but for some reason these hit the mark.
the Mango shake is so creamy your straw will stand up

All restaurants in Hoi An have more or less the same dishes on their menu, including the local specialities, Cao Lao, some kind of noodle stew, White Rose, which is similar to Cantonese Dim Sum, and Won Ton, the crispy variety.
Recommended places to eat are :

Faifoo Restaurant : good and cheap

Hong Phuc : not only good and cheap, but also serving their delicious house speciality "grilled fish wrapped in banana leaves.

Ly 22 : they let you to order "a little bit of everything", great quality, friendly service. The best of the bunch!

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To start, the beer is cold, on tap and only 3000VND (33 cents US) for a small mug. The shrimp and fish grilled in a banana leaf are superb, and the price is just over 2USD! You can't go wrong here, so give it a try.

Favorite Dish: The Seafood is great. There was no need to try anything else. I had found perfection!

Tam Tam Cafe is an intriguing and warmly atmospheric restaurant/bar in Hoi An's old town. There are pool tables and the walls are covered in historical pictures. The restaurant wends its way through different rooms and there is a narrow outdoor terrace overlooking the street below. The Vietnamese menu is supberb and I've been told the French and Italian cuisine is also of a high standard.