Out after dark

17:00–23:00 on Trần Phú. What to buy, what to skip, and how to haggle

Waterfront seafood, grill buffets and draught beer. Long tables, late hours

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

Skewers, grilled rice paper, rice-paper salad. 3,000₫ to 25,000₫ a piece

The deck on top of the Havana. The one place in town that sells the view from above

The bridge over the Cái river mouth: a local photo spot, best once the railings light up

Rooftops, a beach bar, cocktail rooms, clubs to 4am, and one lounge selling tables at 1.2–17 million

Rooms by the hour and karaoke bars open until 5am: two different things sharing one word

Twelve places that shut at 23:00 or later, and the four that really run to midnight

The city's real drinking food. 8 places, prices read off their own boards, one open until 3am

Bánh canh at 3am, congee at 1. The places still lit when the city has gone dark

Thirteen stores — five within 900 m of the 2/4 square, three on Hòn Tre — and 24/7 is the chain's claim, not hours posted on a door