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14 places for Chè — Sweet Soups Nha Trang

Rating: 4.2 / 5 — Our own score, not an average of guest reviews

Our own score, not an average of guest reviews

Iced sweet soup after a seafood dinner. 15,000₫ a glass

City centre

Illustrative photo · Zxcvasdfqwer888 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2012

Address
A dish rather than an address. Fourteen named shops at the foot of the page
Opening hours
Mostly evenings, roughly 17:00 – 22:00
Price range
15,000 – 30,000₫/dish
Best time to go
After dinner

Overview

Chè is how a Vietnamese meal ends: a glass of crushed ice with beans, tubers, jellies and coconut milk. Sweet and cold. After a salty grilled-seafood dinner and a day in the sun, it's exactly what the body is asking for.

Chè shops open in the evening and cluster in the central district. There's no need to hunt a famous one. Most cook fresh daily. Order chè thập cẩm if you don't know what to pick; it puts a bit of everything in one glass.

On ordering: chè thập cẩm is the safe choice because it puts a bit of everything in one glass. Beans, taro, jelly, coconut cream, crushed ice. For something lighter, ask for mung bean or taro. It costs 15,000–30,000₫, cash.

This is an evening thing, roughly 17:00–22:00, and it comes after a savoury meal: especially after grilled seafood or a plate of snails, when you have been eating salt all night. Most cook their own each day, so quality is fairly even, but if you would rather have an address than go looking, the six shops at the foot of the page are where to start, and the notes say which is worth the trip.

Other sweets and snacks: the evening snack page. For cafés that serve cake, see the café page.

Some shops, with addresses

  • Vivu — Chè Ngon Nha Trang

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    XH01 apartment block, no. 28, south Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.5★ Google · 558 reviews22,000 – 35,000₫

    The busiest chè shop in the city, and it sits in a southern apartment block rather than the tourist strip. A bilingual menu of thirteen: mango chè. The one on its sign, billed a Nha Trang specialty. 35,000₫, pomelo 28,000₫, young coconut and traditional mixed 32,000₫, and cheapest the black-sugar pearl tofu at 22,000₫. Toppings are extra, 3,000–9,000₫. Closes 22:30. The menu prints a 13 Tue Tinh address. There is more than one branch, so use the map button rather than the house number.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Chè Thái WanWan

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    98 Hong Bang, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.7★ Google · 426 reviewsOpen 11:00 – 22:00

    Thai-style chè, a different line from the Vietnamese versions elsewhere here. More jackfruit, durian and coconut cream, fewer beans.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Chè Yến Ding Tou

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    Unit 3I, CT2 block, VCN Phuoc Hai, To Huu, south Nha Trang

    4.8★ Google · 358 reviews35,000 – 55,000₫

    A bird's-nest chè shop. The nest is cooked into the glass, which is why it costs close to double the rest: 45,000–55,000₫. The menu runs in Vietnamese, English and Korean, with coconut-nest jelly, cacao-egg tofu and a Hong Kong mango version. Closes 22:00. Same southern apartment district as Vivu, not the beach.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Tiệm chè cô hai

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    27 Le Quy Don, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    3.5★ Google · 216 reviewsOpen 8:30 – 22:00

    27 Le Quy Don, open 8:30–22:00. The menu is long and the durian chè is what people order most; at around 30,000₫ a glass it sits at the top of this list on price. Quality is uneven: some people eat well, others have had spoiled jackfruit and left the bowl. At midday there is no shade for a parked bike. If you want the modern chain style of chè it works; if you want the Nha Trang glass, Cứu Đói or Cô Tư are closer to it.

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  • Quán Chè Cung Đình Huế

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    75 Van Don, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.4★ Google · 203 reviewsOpen 8:00 – 22:3017,000 – 25,000₫

    Hue-style chè, and the hand-lettered board is the striking part: one flat price, 17,000₫, for seventeen kinds, with lotus seed alone at 25,000₫. The names are Hue's. Imperial Citadel lotus seed, Phuc Trach pomelo, lima bean, tapioca dumpling, stewed banana, taro with green rice. The board dates its prices to 1 June 2025.

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  • Chè Hạt Đác Rim Hằng Minh

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    41 Hoang Hoa Tham, P. Nha Trang (Xuong Huan former), Khanh Hoa

    4.5★ Google · 164 reviews

    A hạt đác specialist. Sugar-palm seed, a Khanh Hoa product, candied with pineapple, passionfruit, strawberry or pandan and spooned into the glass. The shop hangs a board about the seed's nutrition, and carries a Russian menu beside the Vietnamese one. Closes 22:30.

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  • Quán Chè Ngon Nha Trang

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    166 Hoang Van Thu, west Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.0★ Google · 154 reviews

    166 Hoang Van Thu, west Nha Trang. A wide menu with plenty of jellies and easy to mix to taste, and it is less sweet than most, which makes it the right place if sugar is not your thing and the wrong one if it is. The Thai-style chè is lighter and less rich than the Da Nang version. They also sell Da Nang-style noodles with fermented anchovy sauce, and that gets real praise. It prices above the plain shops, and the owners are welcoming.

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  • Chè Số 4 — Quang Trung

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    4 Quang Trung, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    3.9★ Google · 111 reviews

    4 Quang Trung, set inside a housing compound, so it is hard to spot from the street. It has been open more than twenty years, and the house dish is iced mixed chè with hot glutinous dumplings. Rich, chewy, hot and cold at once, and nothing else here does it. The seaweed jelly is worth ordering too. One specific tip: it opens at one in the afternoon but is better after two, once the dumpling dough is hot and soft. The owner is elderly and can be brusque, and in the afternoon there is no bank transfer.

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  • Chè Ngon Hà Nội

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    107 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.1★ Google · 106 reviews

    Northern-style chè, and the latest closing on this list. 23:30. Several shops in town share the name, at Thap Ba and Le Hong Phong; go by 107 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai.

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  • Vivu Chè — VCN Phước Hải

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    CT4 block, unit 47E, Thich Quang Duc, south Nha Trang

    4.7★ Google · 92 reviews

    Block CT4, unit 47E on Thich Quang Duc street in the VCN Phuoc Hai development. Far from the centre, but right on the road and easy to find. A young shop, carefully decorated, and what is worth saying is that the coffee is better than a chè shop needs it to be: the 28,000₫ bạc xỉu gets named repeatedly, and so does the egg-cream coffee. The chè is good and cheap for the area. One note: the young-coconut chè leans on tapioca and jelly, with less coconut than the name promises.

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  • Chè Cứu Đói

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    34 Ngo Duc Ke, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.6★ Google · 45 reviews

    34 Ngo Duc Ke, and the name is the signboard rather than anyone's verdict. This is the cheapest bowl on the list: 8,000₫, and 8,000₫ for years, in a reasonably large glass, with mung bean, black bean and mixed, plus house-made soy milk. The customers are almost entirely students and locals. Low stools, a plain shopfront, and not over-sweetened. If you want to know what chè in Nha Trang actually is, come here before the 30,000₫ places.

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  • Chè Mát Mát

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    3-4 Hung Vuong, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    2.9★ Google · 43 reviewsOpen 6:30 – 22:00

    3-4 Hung Vuong, opposite the night market, open 6:30–22:00. The position is its clearest strength; beyond that I would leave it for last. The 30,000₫ fruit chè carries only a few small pieces of fruit, everything is tipped into one glass so nothing tastes of itself, and staff solicit customers at the gate. It is worth checking the bill. There are better places on this list at lower prices.

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  • Chè Cô Tư

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    24 Luong Dinh Cua, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.6★ Google · 14 reviewsOpen 7:00 – 23:00

    24 Luong Dinh Cua, on the corner, open 7:00–23:00. The longest hours here. The owner has been cooking chè for twenty-five years, and a glass is 7,000₫. The range is wide, but the bean chè is the one to order. This is a neighbourhood chè shop, and along with Chè Cứu Đói one of the two that has kept both the price and the taste of the plain version.

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  • Chè Hương Nắng

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    766a 23 Thang 10 street, Nha Trang

    4.8★ Google · 12 reviewsOpen 11:00 – 22:30

    The furthest out on this list. 766a is at the far end of 23 Thang 10, so it is a ride rather than a walk. In exchange it runs to 22:30 and is the one evening address worth the trip on that whole road, which is why the evening-snacks page points here too.

    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

  • Chè thập cẩm, the order to make when you don't know
  • Banana chè in coconut milk
  • 15,000–30,000₫ a glass

Practical tips

  • Say "ít ngọt" if you don't want it very sweet; the default is
  • Many shops also do hot chè on cooler evenings

Frequently asked

What is chè?

A sweet served in a glass: beans, taro, jelly, coconut cream and crushed ice. Vietnamese eat it after a savoury meal, not instead of one.

Which one should I order?

Chè thập cẩm if you are unsure. A bit of everything in one glass. For something lighter, mung bean or taro.

When is it sold?

Mostly in the evening, roughly 17:00–22:00, in the centre.

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