Giang Ghẹ Thuận An — Restaurant in Thuan An City

A Highway to Crustacean Heaven. If you ever find yourself cruising down Đại lộ Bình Dương and suddenly wonder whether you're hallucinating a fresh seafood market in the middle of Vietnam’s answer to the M25 – don’t worry, you’re not. Welcome to Giang Ghẹ Thuận An, the only place where dodging lorries and buying live prawns coexist in perfect harmony.

From the outside, it looks like the kind of place your mum would tell you not to go near — unless you want tetanus, a seafood addiction, or both. But step inside (or more accurately, step just off the tarmac), and you're greeted with tanks of lively prawns and crabs doing laps fresher than a British DJ’s vinyl. The crustaceans are alive. Very alive. One even waved at me. Probably begging me not to make it into dinner. I didn’t listen.

Don’t expect frills or fancy card machines here. This is strictly cash and bank transfer territory. No AMEX. No Apple Pay. Just the warm reassurance of Vietnamese dong and a QR code. And really, that’s part of the charm — it’s refreshingly honest. You buy, you pay, you eat like royalty for the price of a Tesco sandwich.

The staff? Lovely. Helpful, smiley, and not once did they laugh at my attempt to pronounce “ghẹ.” Prices? Let’s just say you'd cry if you knew what this lot would cost at a London fishmonger. It’s practically seafood socialism.

Honestly, I’ll never get over the fact that some of the best prawns I’ve ever had came from a roadside setup that looks like it’s moonlighting as a tyre repair shop. And yet, it delivers. Every. Single. Time.

British seafood scene, take notes: You don’t need chandeliers and white tablecloths. You just need a crab that’s still plotting its escape and a good Wi-Fi signal for the...

Don’t believe all positive reviews. As they basically beg you before you pay to write up a good review for a discount. This is a place where local drunks gather/extremely noisy. Everything from a wet wipe is charged. But they will make it out that it’s part of their “exceptional service” the seafood is NOT fresh! It is basically poaching in small tanks out the front of a busy roadway. Prawns fish etc starved of oxygen. If you want food poisoning go for your life. As half our table had...

Seafood overall is fresh. More to local taste. But is good to try. We came at 8pm ++. At first we order the crab and octopus. But sold out. Change it to lobster and squid. If you grab for seafood will definitely recommend to come. But don’t hope many choice of taste and cook. Service is good also. We unable to talk in local. But the waitress try her best way to...