Winter is coming and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. But, instead of bemoaning beautiful sunny days in the summer, let’s embrace the winter season of year-end festivities and comfort food.

An eatery on Huynh Thuc Khang Street

During the winter or in cold climates, eating more not only keeps you warm but also can keep you happy. Most notably, gatherings of friends or family members in restaurants and cafes to eat or drink something hot are enjoyable experience on cold winter days.

With its rich cuisine, Da Nang offers both locals and tourists a wide variety of delicious dishes during winter.

During cold weather, hot pots, soups and roasts tend to be particularly satisfying. You can enjoy such dishes at sidewalk eateries or luxury restaurants across the city.

Additionally, such specialties of Central Viet Nam as ‘banh xeo’ (Vietnamese sizzling pancakes), ‘nem lui’ (grilled meat roll) and ‘bo nuong la lot’ (grilled beef with piper lolot leaves) are among the best food for cold weather you can get in the city. These delicious dishes are often served with vegetables, plus thin slices of cucumber and green papaya, and special sauce. The sauce is made from ground soybeans or peanuts, ground pork liver, tapioca flour, and other seasonings.

Apart from local specialties, you can try other specialities from the three different regions of Viet Nam in Da Nang. Included are Saigon-style crab soup, Southern-style beef rice vermicelli, goby fish hotpot, Ha Noi-style 'bun oc' (snail noodle soup), and ‘bun cha Ha Noi’ (Ha Noi-style vermicelli with grilled pork).

Winter is also the perfect time for you to try sweet and hot dessert, including hot banana sweet soup, steamed tapioca with coconut, and hot soy milk served with dumplings or sesame hollow donuts.

In Da Nang, you can enjoy these delicious dishes at eateries on such streets as Dong Da, Nguyen Van Linh, Trung Nu Vuong, Hung Vuong, Ly Thai To, Pham Hong Thai, Huynh Thuc Khang, Chau Thi Vinh Te, Phan Dang Luu and Hoang Dieu. Just drop by, you will be overwhelmed by a multitude of options for a delicious and tasty comfort dishes whose prices hover only from 10,000 VND to hundreds of  thousands of VND per dish to fill your empty stomach.

‘banh xeo’ (Vietnamese sizzling pancakes) and ‘nem lui’ (grilled meat roll) are among the best food for cold weather

You can enjoy tasty and delicious grilled dishes in Korean Barbecue restaurants …

…or in pavement eateries across Da Nang

Hotpot is a good choice for long-lasting chilly days. There are different types of hotpots with such various ingredients as seafood, meat and mushrooms.

A bowl of Saigon-style crab soup

A cup of Ha Noi-style egg coffee

Here are some highly-recommended places to try winter comfort foods which will help warm you on chilly days: Ba Duong's 'banh xeo' restaurant (23 Hoang Dieu), Huynh Thuc Khang and Pham Hong Thai specialised nosh catering areas, Tran Pho Mushroom Hotpot (234 Phan Dang Luu), Mama Hotpot (89 Yen Bai), Saigon-style crab soup (48 Dong Da), GogiHouse (Land lot A5 Nguyen Van Linh), Co Hanh’s restaurant (153 Nguyen Du), Nam's House café (15/1 Le Hong Phong), À La café (113/27 Nguyen Chi Thanh), and soymilk store (42 Ly Thuong Kiet).

By PV - Translated by M.D