Da Lat classics
Every card says why to go, what to know before you do, and what catches people out.
72 Yersin · 05:00–18:30
10–20k₫
$0.40–0.75
per person · checked
The Da Lat breakfast. Pork meatballs in hot broth with a baguette to dip — it is a bowl, not a sandwich, and it is what the whole city eats at 7am.
Lau Ga La E Tao Ngo must
5 Duong 3/4
~200k₫
~$7.60
pot for two · checked
Chicken hotpot with la e, a basil-like highland herb that grows nowhere else. The original branch, and the correct thing to eat on a cold Da Lat night.
Phan Dinh Phung (several branches) · 11:00–21:00
30–66k₫
$1.15–2.50
per person · approx.
Grilled pork sausage you roll yourself in rice paper with herbs and green banana. They take cards, which is rare for street food at this price.
27/44 Yersin (down an alley) · 07:00–10:30, 15:30–18:00
30–40k₫
$1.15–1.50
per person · checked
Mini rice pancakes cooked with quail egg in clay moulds. The classic address, and the alley location is part of it.
112 Nguyen Van Troi · 12:00–23:00
15–25k₫
$0.55–0.95
each · checked
Grilled rice paper with egg, dried shrimp and spring onion — the so-called Vietnamese pizza, invented here and best eaten standing up.
Sua dau nanh Hoa Sua
Tang Bat Ho, beside the market
10–20k₫
$0.40–0.75
per glass · approx.
Hot soy milk with fried dough sticks, sold from the same corner for forty years. Evenings only, and there is always a queue.
Xuan Huong · 07:00–22:00
30–120k₫
$1.15–4.55
a dish · approx.
A two-floor restaurant where Vietnamese and European dishes share one menu: local food sits next to eggs benedict, thin-crust pizza and cheesecake. It is neither a local-food spot people visit for bánh căn nor a purely European cafe — it works for a group where some want rice and others want breakfast.