Nha Trang Guide
← Eat

9 places for Squid Banh Xeo Nha Trang

Rating: 4.4 / 5 — Our own score, not an average of guest reviews

Our own score, not an average of guest reviews

Whole fresh squid inside. The small crisp kind or the big pan kind, Nha Trang style

North of the city

Illustrative photo · Photographed by a customer

Illustrative photo · Photographed by a customer

Illustrative photo · Photographed by a customer

Illustrative photo · Photographed by a customer

Illustrative photo · Photographed by a customer

Illustrative photo · Photographed by a customer

Illustrative photo · Photographed by a customer

Illustrative photo · Photographed by a customer

Address
Nine shops across the city. Addresses and prices in the list below
Opening hours
Afternoon into the evening, roughly 15:00 – 21:00
Price range
15,000 – 55,000₫/dish
Best time to go
Late afternoon, right after visiting the Po Nagar towers

Overview

Southern bánh xèo is plate-sized and soft. Nha Trang does two sizes, both filled with fresh squid: a palm-sized one fried crisp in a small cast-iron pan, thin and crunchy to the edge, and the bánh xèo chảo, nearly plate-sized, poured into a big pan with prawns and quail eggs added. The pan version is the easier one to find in Nha Trang.

You eat it by wrapping the pancake with fresh herbs in rice paper, then dipping in sweet-sour fish sauce or the cloudier fermented kind. The dish is most associated with Thap Ba and 2 Thang 4 street on the north side of town, the same run as the Po Nagar towers, but not only there: the nine shops listed below are spread across the city.

What differs from the bánh xèo you may know is the filling: fresh squid rather than pork, prawn and bean sprouts. The gap between the two sizes is wider than you would guess, and the price boards at two of the shops below show it: a small one at Cô Hồng is 9,000₫, so five or six is a normal order, while one pan-sized at number 85 is 40,000₫, or 55,000₫ for the special. The same dish, four times the money, because a pan is a portion and a small one is a mouthful.

On logistics, this is a dish to fold in rather than travel for. Pick the Thap Ba shop and you are on the same run as the Ponagar towers and the Thap Ba mud baths. See the towers late afternoon, then eat at 17:00–19:00, and the evening is done.

In the same family: bánh căn and bánh đập. Other sea dishes: gỏi cá mai and seafood congee.

Some shops, with addresses

  • Bánh xèo chảo 85

    Open map →

    101 Tran Nhat Duat, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.3★ Google · 440 reviewsOpen 10:00 – 21:30

    The pan-sized version, with prices printed in Vietnamese, English and Korean: prawn, squid, pork or quail-egg bánh xèo are all 40,000₫ each; the special one with prawn, squid, quail egg and pork is 55,000₫; fried rolls 25,000₫; rice paper to wrap in 5,000₫. One is nearly the size of a dinner plate, so one each is enough.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Bánh xèo Cô Hồng

    Open map →

    26 Dang Vu Hiep, Tay Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.9★ Google · 474 reviews

    26 Dang Vu Hiep, west Nha Trang. A shop in a residential area away from the hotel strip, so its customers are almost all local.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Bánh căn bánh xèo Cô Tư

    Open map →

    6A Thap Ba, Bac Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    3.0★ Google · 420 reviewsOpen 7:00 – 22:30

    6A Thap Ba, north Nha Trang, open 7:00–22:30. The longest hours here, which makes it the only one that works both early and late. It serves bánh căn as well as bánh xèo, so a group can order both and compare.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Bánh xèo cô Xuyên

    Open map →

    36 Le Dai Hanh, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.5★ Google · 176 reviewsOpen 14:00 – 21:00

    Opens at 14:00 and closes at 21:00. Exactly the late-afternoon window this page describes, not a breakfast shop. No photographs on the site yet.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Bánh Xèo 134

    Open map →

    134 Tran Quy Cap, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.2★ Google · 204 reviewsOpen 15:30 – 21:00

    The shop names itself after its house number, and opens latest of the afternoon group at 15:30. No photographs on the site yet.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Bánh Xèo

    Open map →

    31 Ngo Duc Ke, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.2★ Google · 78 reviews

    31 Ngo Duc Ke, and this is the one I would send you to for this dish: an old local shop, squid bánh xèo with fresh squid, the batter thin and crisp without being greasy. The pan here is larger than usual so the pancakes are big, at 12,000₫ each; four squid ones with a tapioca dumpling came to 80,000₫. The dumplings are worth ordering too. The room is dim and hot, and at midday there is a queue of locals waiting.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Ngọc — bánh căn, bánh xèo, bánh canh tôm hùm

    Open map →

    113 Hoang Hoa Tham, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.6★ Google · 1,308 reviewsOpen 7:00 – 22:30

    One kitchen, three dishes, and the name says them all: bánh căn, bánh xèo, and lobster bánh canh. The last is its best seller, a whole prawn sitting on the bowl. Open 7:00–22:30, so it works for breakfast and for late, and it is one of two places here with room enough for a group.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Hai Phượng - Yến

    Open map →

    46/27 Hung Vuong, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.6★ Google · 991 reviews

    A special bánh xèo with prawn, squid and pork belly at 100,000₫ for a plate of four. The dearest version on this page, and the only shop here printing its menu in five languages: Vietnamese, English, Russian, Korean and Chinese. It sits in an alley in the night-market quarter and does bánh căn as well, so it appears on that page too.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Xóm Mới Garden

    Open map →

    144 Vo Tru, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.8★ Google · 16,357 reviewsOpen 6:30 – 22:30

    144 Vo Tru, open 6:30–22:30. This is not a bánh xèo shop but a large Korean-style grill compound: a wide room in timber and warm light, plenty of planting, good for a group or a family. Seafood bánh xèo and grilled nem are on the menu, but they are not the strength. The pancake comes heavy on spring onion, thin on filling, with a weak dipping sauce. Come for the room and the grill, not the bánh xèo.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

Addresses come from each shop's own Google Maps listing, and the Open map button opens that shop's pin rather than running a search. 18 shops on the site have no listing we could confirm, so they have no button: the address lookup returned a different business, and a button that points at the wrong place is worse than none. A Google score appears only when Maps carries both the score and the number of reviews — a bare average cannot be weighed, so this page leaves it out. Street-food stalls change hours and close without telling anyone; call ahead if you are travelling across town.

What to order

  • Whole fresh squid inside the pancake
  • A thin shell that's crisp all the way to the edge
  • Small enough that you can order several fillings
  • The cloudy fermented dipping sauce, try it if you're up for it

Practical tips

  • The small ones are priced per pancake, from 9,000₫, so order in rounds and keep them hot
  • Add a shrimp or egg one to compare against the squid
  • Pick the Thap Ba shop and it groups with Po Nagar and Cho Dam, all on the north side

Frequently asked

How does it differ from southern bánh xèo?

It is filled with fresh squid instead of pork, prawn and bean sprouts. The small version is palm-sized and markedly crisper; the pan version is nearly plate-sized. Close to southern bánh xèo in size, but still squid.

Which area?

Thap Ba and 2 Thang 4 street in the north is what the dish is most associated with, but the three shops listed on this page sit in the north, the centre and the west.

What time?

Afternoon into evening, roughly 15:00–21:00. It fits best after visiting the Ponagar towers.

This page also appears in

More in this category