Best Restaurants in Hoi An

Visiting Hoi An, travellers are attracted by not only its charm and beauty, but also a distinctive culture here. Just stepping out of your accommodation and explore the town, you can absolutely join the street hawker lives here. Travelers can try any street food or local signature cuisines from these hawkers. However, one of the best spots is the savory ice-cream cart, where you can enjoy a wide variety of colorful delicious ice cream.

Savory Ice-Cream Cart in Hoi An

On the last days of spring, enjoy the ice cream from these carts, from long time ago, has been an inevitable activity and culture of people here. As the sticks of ice cream here, are covered by small aluminum cylinders or tubes, people call it ”tube” ice cream. Its flavor brings eaters the coolest sensation ever, little sweet and salty as the daily life of people living in this area, the sunny and windy land.

Tube Ice-Cream in Hoi An

Some people say that coming Hoi An you have to take a walk around the town with the colorful sticks of ice cream on hands, which contributes a part of perfecting the colorful painting of Hoi An town.

Grilled Banana with Coconut Milk Sweet Soup is one of the richest nutrition Vietnamese Dessert. “Che chuoi nuong” is widely known in the South as sweet and fleshy flavor. This recipe is one of the most common in Vietnam and it is very easy to do.

"Che Chuoi Nuong" in a Hoi An Restaurant

Ingredients
- 10 bananas
- Banana leaves
- 400 ml of coconut milk
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of corn starch
- Crushed roasted peanuts

Instructions
- Roll each banana with banana leave, put into the oven in 250 °C about 20 minutes. After that, unwrap the leaves and put it back to the oven for 5 more minutes to have the golden brown color. Slice it into smaller pieces to easy to serve.

- Add 400 ml of coconut milk, 100 ml of cold water, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1/4 teaspoon of salt and bring to a boil. Mix 1 teaspoon of corn starch with a little water and put into the mixture and cook over low heat, stirring frequently for 5 minutes until it become thicken.

- To serve, add about 3 – 4 banana pieces into a bowl and cover with a few tablespoons of the coconut base and garnish with the crushed roasted peanuts to enhance the flavor. This dessert can be eaten hot, at room temperature or chilled.

There is no doubt that the authentic Vietnamese cuisine is regarded as one of the best culinary arts in the world. However in order to pair a suitable wine to classic Vietnamese meals seems to be not easy. According some studies from Internet and several Vietnamese cuisine restaurants (HOME Hoi An Restaurant, HOME Hanoi restaurant, Ngon Villa restaurant and so on….), some kinds of popular wines are selected as the first alternatives when people enjoy the Vietnamese food.

Charming Corner in HOME Hoi An Restaurant

The first distinction of Vietnamese dishes is the sophisticated mixture of sour, spicy and sweet. Based on these flavor, the wine with some ripe fruits as Sauvignon Blanc should be the one of best selections. Another opinion is that the German Mosel Riesling wines pair with the lively spiciness of so many Vietnamese dishes. However many people think that, the herbal, green pepper character owned by Austria Gruner Veltliner wine is perfectly matched with many classic Vietnamese dishes.

It can be seen that as the diversity of Vietnamese food, there seem to be many ways to match them with different kinds of wines.