Phu Quoc Island has always been famous for brilliant white sand beaches and fresh, blue seawater around the year. The locals are also known for producing the oldest and most prestigious traditional fish sauce in Vietnam. Besides the natural beauty, visitors can't help but mention the seafood specialties here. Below are the unique dishes that you should not miss when coming to Phu Quoc.

Herring delight salad

Herring salad (Gỏi Cá Trích) is a specialty dish of the beautiful Phu Quoc sea that fascinates any diners. Visitors can find this specialty dish at any restaurant on the island. The cooks guarantee to make it from the freshest fish traded from the locals so that your health is safe. The restaurants always serve it with fresh vegetables, and a bowl of dipping sauce with a very distinct flavor is indispensable. You can add a little peanut to make it more sweet and savory. A plate of herring salad has a moderate price of about $6,51.

Grilled horn scallop

Horn scallop (Sò mai) is a type of giant sea scallop, triangular and deeply embedded in the seabed. The size is equal to the back of an adult's hand, the shell bulging like a banana, dark brown. it weighs more than one kilogram.It is processed into many unique dishes by the people here, but they only use the meat that is quite pasty for processing. The locals also use his scallop for cooking porridge or bake it with onion, but the most common is to grill it with onion.

This specialty is being sold in many places on the island for $1,74 - $3,04, enough for two people to eat well.

Boletus

Boletus is an exceptional dish that you can find in Phu Quoc. Because only on this island does a special and unique melaleuca mushroom appear. The locals have harmoniously combined the rare mushroom with fresh seafood right on the island, such as squid, shrimp, to create the perfect and unique soups with skillful hands. The soup has a delicious taste, and it is more attractive and sweeter when used with Phu Quoc anchovy fish sauce. However, this kind of mushroom also has a bitter taste, creating its characteristics. Besides soup recipes, they are also used to process other simple dishes for only $1,74 per dish or more.

Slipper lobster

Slipper lobster is soft, sweet, delicious, nutritious, and is one of the must-try seafood dishes to tourists for its delicious taste. There are a variety of processing methods such as steaming, boiling, grilled. Each processing method brings different flavors, but the chewy sweetness of shrimp meat remains intact. However, the locals especially love grilled shrimp with lemongrass and chili. Before baking, shrimps are washed, cut in half, marinated for 10-20 minutes with a mixture of minced lemongrass, mixed with salt, pepper, and chili, then placed in a charcoal oven for 5 minutes, and the shrimp shells are golden and smelly.

KHEO cake (Cake of skill)

"Kheo" means "skillful", "smart" in Vietnamese, showing how careful the locals make it. This cake is a dish that the locals make from wheat flour with delicious flavors of the accompanying ingredients such as coconut, green beans, taro. It has a mild sweetness, a little fat and does not cause satiation for users. There is a very diverse shape. Sometimes it is rounded like a beautiful miniature dumpling, sometimes it is shaped like a hedgehog with thorns around it, and sometimes it is rectangular, spiral. All shapes are unique and eye-catching. Visitors can buy it for $5,21 per pound at the famous Thai Binh bakery.