Halong Food & Drink

There are many restaurants in Halong City (Bai Chay Town), opposite to the Bai Chay Beach, which offer mostly Vietnamese rice dishes and seafood. Local specialities include su fish, found only around Halong Bay, shrimp and mussels.

 Emeraude Café

Tel:033 849 266, on the Bai Chay coast near the post office. The only restaurant in the area that serves Western food.

Cafe 555

Try some Vietnamese Coffee the Cafe 555 opposite the Bai Chay Tourist Wharf. Well, you need to walk about 100 meters to your right if you exit Bai Chay. The cafe is located in between a row of shops by the main road. They serve some potent coffee here so if you are a coffee lover, you hit jackpot here. If you don’t drink coffee, they have other drinks there too.

Cafes:
Apart from bars and cafes in the larger hotels, there are many other cafes:
Trung Nguyen Café No 1, Nguyen Van Cu Street, Halong City.
Trung Nguyen café No 2, Cong Doan Hotel, Halong Street, Baichay.
Thang Long Hotel: House on Stilts café,  "ruou can" (rice wine drunk out of a jar through pipes).
Tel: 033.847276

Noinho Café, 10 Tran Hung Dao Road, Halong City
Tel: 033.628027, 033.629128.
There are numerous cafés and refreshment locations in Halong Street (Baichay) and Le Thanh Tong Street (Hongai).