Hải Sản Nina — Restaurant in Nha Trang City

Visited this restaurant for lunch today and ordered a lobster, tiger prawns, clams, fish, squid and fried rice. It was a massive disappointment to say the least. Here are the reasons why.

Lobster was grilled but overcooked at the important bits. Tail was rubbery and head flesh was undercooked.

Tiger prawns. This is my biggest bugbear. We saw only 2 live tiger prawns in the tank and asked if they have more. They explained that they have more in the kitchen. We trusted them and ordered a kg and to have them steamed. The eventual dish was a plate of measly looking tiny shrimps (the size of those dried shrimps you see in the market). They are grey Prawns and are not even fresh as you can see how the flesh pulled away from the shell in my photo. Absolutely terrible. They charged us VND400K for this plate (not even sure it was a kg).

Clams. Ok but rather small. Unmemorable.

Fish. We had the yellow pomfret. Fish is rather chewy. Not sure if our live fish is swapped but will give restaurant the benefit of doubt.

Squid. We ordered a dish off the menu which indicated VND160K per portion. Halfway through the meal, staff came over and informed that kitchen can only serve minimum of 1 kg of squid and per kg costs VND600K. What kind of nonsense is this? I decided not to buy into this and advised staff to cancel the order then. Miraculously, the dish was served up in the end as per order. However, it didn't tasted fresh at all.

We visited this restaurant after reading about the reviews here. Clearly, we have either caught the kitchen on a bad day or perhaps the quality of the restaurant has deteriorated severely after the pandemic.

I will strongly suggest you to head somewhere else if you are looking forward to a memorable (in a positive way) seafood meal...

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