Seafood Dinner!

The thing to eat in Vũng Tàu is seafood. One must sit al fresco right next to the rocky beach to enjoy the sea breeze and quiet ambience.

I've been told to try 2 restaurants here. But since I would be eating with colleagues and counterparts, I left the decision of dinner venue to them. To my secret delight, they picked Ganh Hao, which was exactly one of the 2 that I wanted to check out.

The food was really really fresh. The colleagues went crazy and ordered 6 dunno-what-type crabs for 7 of us- 1 crab for each except me who couldn't appreciate crabs. There were many many dishes of food, prawns, kangkong (morning glory), fried spring rolls, etc. I especially loved the steamed sea bass and clams.

I kinda wanted those huge fresh lobsters. But didn't dare to suggest since nobody mentioned anything about lobsters. :(

Oh. Ganh Hao serves vodka. Not just any vodka; it's Belvedere. And when I saw the single malt menu, I gasped. Well, not extensive. Only 1 choice of distillery- Glenmorangie. But there were 5 selections of original, lasanta, quinta ruban and nectar d'or! WAHHH!!!! I was VERY impressed. But if you must know, I didn't order anything alcoholic. I stuck to bottled water. :p

I stared at the other tables. All, except our table had drinks proudly displayed, like alcoholic stuff. We had water, they had beer; we had watermelon juice, Coke and Sprite, they had Russian vodka and whisky. The humans at those tables seemed more interested in drinking than eating the food. At the rate they downed those shots, even I am a little wary of the way the Vietnamese drink. They are scary.

I didn't have much cash. I forgot that I wasn't going to be in a big city and cash would be the currency rather than credit cards. However, Ganh Hao has a proper website, email address and all, plus all tourists and forums mention it, I figured it would accept credit cards. Hehhh. They do, just not Amex. Visa only. I decided to buy dinner, on personal account, not the company tab. Shhhhhh. Don't tell, I fibbed that dinner was on the latter.

My heart almost skipped a beat when the server presented the bill to me. 1,263,000! Then I remembered it was in VND. Converted, it was just SGD105. It must be the cheapest seafood meal I've ever had with 6 other people.