Vietnam is increasingly along with many travel listings – here’s where to stay in style from north to south

On the foods front, it’s really worth heading out just a few mls to Phu Quoc’s main town for night market, a cacophonous, compelling mixture of stalls serving great local seafood from the barbecue, clean coconut, ice cream hand-made in front of you and all method of trinkets and goodies.

Phu Quoc has been said to produce the best seafood sauce in Vietnam, no mean task when it represents the soul of the place’s cooking. If you stock up on some to consider home, just remember that many airlines ban you from carrying this anywhere other than the particular hold, such will be its pungency.

It is . a key ingredient within the island’s most famous meal, bun quay. That is a collaborative and interesting dining experience on the Kien Xay string who popularised it. You follow their orders to “Make your sauce”, combining chilis, fish sauce, calamansi, salt, sugars and yes, MSG – the quartet of flavours (sweet, salty, umami and sour) in one.

You then include it into their sizzling bowl of rice flower noodles which contain the selection of seafood and beef, herbs and onions, for a simply sensational bowl.

At the end of the journey, we can certainly empathise with another of Bourdain’s comments: “I’ll come back to Vietnam – consistently. ”