Chợ đêm Phú Quốc — Attraction in Phú Quốc

If I could give this monstrosity zero stars, I would. I'm an ordinary girl from the UK, I'm not an animal activist or vegan or even slightly vegetarian. But I do like animals....and as a result, I don't like this place. It's basically a place where sea animals meet a horrific end....as do the people who eat them (it's not hygenic) It's simply awful. I was lured in by there not being an awful lot on the island to do...and some people seem to give this place an ok rating. Let me tell you, honestly! The stalls consist of 5 variations. Pearls. Ice cream. Peanuts. Bad fake items And the awful AWFUL seafood stalls...and this is what bothers me. I don't want to see a grown man, tormenting a lobster before pulling it out of a tiny glass case for its death. And I really mean tormenting. I also don't want want to see 3 sharks forced ALIVE into a glass case the size of a Kallax, going out of their mind with stress. There are kilos of seafood left out in hot temperatures, cooked and then under heat lamps?! What happens to this?! Do people eat it? Is it there purely as decoration, which is a sheer waste of sea life?!

I just don't get this place. We were constantly hassled by vendors, all night, it's not pleasant. There are children begging. There are taxi drivers at each exit claiming to be grab drivers when they're clearly not. Even when we got a grab, we were hassled all the way home to book more trips with the driver (20 photos sent via message the following day asking us to book trips with him)

DO NOT VISIT THIS MARKET. ITS CRAP. ITS CRUEL AND IT NEEDS TOURISTS...

WOW... From the moment we stepped in, the hustle and bustle just grew. The THINK THUMP THUMP of the ice cream makers few use in... Week with checking out, mesmerising... And treat ice cream, to boot.

Then it was on into the market proper. VERY busy, but able to move through easily.

Fish of the highest order and everywhere. A dozen or so restaurants, opened uo to the street, each filled with locals and tourists filling up on delicious looking dishes.

Misfits lives it, but as a non fish eater, she was worried I wouldn't find much to eat if we sat down, so we only ate from the food stalls.

Scallops, hot dogs & chicken got us around the market as we browsed.

Much to buy.. Clothes galore, food & pearls and trinkets.

Easy to get from our hotel, taxi for the return...

Be careful eating at night market. Food is overpriced especially if they call you in and there's loud music. We had some shrimps, which were badly barbecued, tuna stake, which was about to become non-eatable, some ocra and 2 beers - the invoice was 1.200.000 VND, which is normally for 4 meals! In Saigon we had theee sorts of shells, shrimps, noodles, for 230.000VND. We complained but at the end we still paid 800.000. I disn't want to call the police as I'm on holidays, but it was really too much. Night market is overpriced, there are some young couples who do good meal for less or old ladies with street food. I'm attaching cideo and photo of the really tricky and bad restaurant! And - always ask for...