Bún Quậy – Phú Quốc’s famous noodle bowl in Da Nang, where you mix your own dipping sauce

If you’re in Da Nang and want bún quậy done the Phú Quốc way — stirring your own dipping sauce, boiling broth poured over the bowl at the table — this little shop on Huỳnh Thúc Kháng is the one to note down. You’ll find it at 61 Huỳnh Thúc Kháng, Hải Châu: a tidy room seating about twenty, run by an owner and staff everyone describes as lovely. The bowl follows the island recipe closely. Fresh rice noodles, soft and almost translucent. Hand-pounded shrimp and fish cake laid in the bottom of the bowl, then boiling broth poured over to cook them right there — which is why the cake comes out so tender, and the squid unusually soft and sweet. The broth is built from fried lemongrass, dried shrimp and shrimp shells: light and clean rather than heavily spiced. The best part is the sauce. You’re handed seasoning salt, sugar, ground chilli and calamansi, and you stir hard for a few minutes until it thickens into a red-orange paste. Every regular says the same thing: it’s addictive. ✨ Reasons why you should visit: 🍜 Bún quậy made the Phú Quốc way – fresh noodles and a light shrimp-and-lemongrass broth. 🦐 Hand-pounded shrimp and fish cake cooked in the bowl itself, silky soft, with tender fresh squid. 🍋 The mix-it-yourself calamansi and chilli dipping sauce — the thing people come back for. 🕕 Open from 6am at easy prices, with warm, friendly service — good for breakfast or dinner. 📍 61 Huỳnh Thúc Kháng, Hải Châu, Da Nang 📞 0796 771 187 🕐 06:00 – 21:00 daily (Sundays from 06:30)