About 2 hours drive from Ho Chi Minh City, Phuoc Hai town in Dat Do district, Ba Ria - Vung Tau province is one of the famous fishing villages over 100 years old. Nearly 80% of Phuoc Hai's population lives on fishing and seafood processing. If departing from Ho Chi Minh City, visitors can follow National Highway 51 to Ba Ria City, continue along Truong Chinh Street and turn onto Provincial Road 44 to Long Hai, go straight on the coastal road and you will see Phuoc Hai fishing village.
From 6am, oyster shops open to welcome visitors until late at night. Along the Phuoc Hai embankment every afternoon or on weekends, holidays, and Tet, groups of motorbikes and cars line up. Dozens of oyster shops are bustling with people coming and going. During rush hour, visitors even line up to enjoy this special milk oyster dish.
Phuoc Hai milk oysters are fresh and delicious and have many ways of processing.
The oysters chosen are Pacific milk oysters raised in Long Son commune, Vung Tau city. Because they are harvested and consumed on the same day, these oysters are extremely fresh and delicious. In particular, visitors will be able to choose each oyster by hand and have them weighed. After that, the oysters are cleaned, separated from the shell, and arranged on a plate in a beautiful round shape, with a bowl of lemon juice and mustard next to it.
Dip raw oysters in a little lemon juice until they are barely cooked, then dip them in mustard and put them in your mouth. The spicy, refreshing feeling rushes up to your nose, adding a cool taste when mixed with the flavor of oysters that have lived for a long time in sea water, the sweet aroma of oyster milk. This is a very stimulating dish, served with herbs to complete the flavor.
For those who cannot eat raw food, oysters can be prepared in various ways, such as steamed, grilled with scallion oil, grilled with cheese, etc. Oyster porridge is also a popular choice. Steamed oysters cost only 35,000 VND/kg, grilled oysters with scallion oil or cheese cost 5,000 VND/each, each person only needs less than 100,000 VND to enjoy oyster dishes with all kinds of flavors.
The ideal time to enjoy Phuoc Hai milk oysters is in the afternoon, when the sun is about to set. If you come here with your family or relatives, you will enjoy fresh, fatty oysters while breathing in the cool, fresh air, catching the wind and feeling the taste of the sea, watching fishermen pulling fish, or each boat carrying fish to shore and feeling the simple life here.
In Phuoc Hai, after enjoying oysters, visitors can visit the whale cemetery, which is recognized as the largest whale cemetery in the country. In addition, nearby there is an extremely attractive check-in point, Nuoc Ngot Pass (Long Hai town). Along the coastal road, there are also many tourist attractions.
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