B and I headed north up Vietnam and stayed 3 nights in Nha Trang. Nha Trang is a beach town on the verge of blowing up as a major tourist spot. Looking to the left and right of our hotel you could see another 3 resorts being built on each side. Along the main road was nothing but beach.
If you head south in town you’ll get some wack Gold Coast vibes, all the restaurants and bars are super trashy backpacker joints and there are more tourists than locals. Tourists that enjoy drinking at a spot called Booze Cruise, a bar with a boat on top of it serving NON STOP MIDORI ILLUSION SHAKERS (we didn’t go in but this shithole probably served that).
Up to the north of town was a different story, lots of cool lunch spots serving local fare and a massive market serving BAGS FULL O’ CHICKEN:
The beach was mad windy and the surt too rough so we spent most of our time swanning about in the awesome infinity pool at the resort.
And drinking ICE CREAM FLOATS!
Who would’ve thought vodka and ice cream would go together so well? Scientists, that’s who.
The weather was meant to be real wack for the whole time we were there but was just a little overcast and overall pretty warm. We had dinner on the beach one evening and that was one of the best meals of the whole trip. In Sydney if you’re hungry at the beach but don’t wanna walk to get food, the best you’re gonna get is a Calippo or something. In Nha Trang ladies bring you lobsters!
This awesome lady grilled us up a sea feast that was the freshest we’d ever had.
Grilled scallops in tamarind sauce.
Lobsters, prawns and some big ass snails.
Crabs!
It was a good feast!
While the street food culture in Nha Trang was nothing compared to Ho Chi Minh (and later in our trip we would learn that it was even less compared to Hanoi!), we still found some mad shit. Or should I say, MAD FRITS?! (no I should not).
That little bag of awesome contains a banana fritter and some sweet potato chips. The vendor took one of those little Vietnamese bananas (which taste way nicer than oz bananas, they’re super fruity tasting), smooshed it, dipped it in batter and sesame seeds and deep fried it. Soooooo gooooood.
The sweet potato chips were rad too, sweet potatoes in Vietnam are sweeter and yellower, and deep fried is definitely the best way to eat them.
We had another sea feast in Nha Trang in some restaurant with a windmill out the front. The food was good but clearly not good enough for me to remember the name of the place.
Overall Nha Trang was cool, I was thankful we visited during the off season for tourists because it can totally see this place being the worst ever. When we were there though it was a warm, lazy little beach town. A good spot to relax but not essential to visit when you come to Vietnam!
