Gỏi Cá Thanh Hương – Nam Ô's legendary raw fish salad, served by the water in Da Nang

Gỏi cá Nam Ô is the dish Da Nang's fishing village is famous for, and if you want it made properly, the name locals send you to is Thanh Hương — right in Nam Ô itself. The restaurant sits at 1029 Nguyễn Lương Bằng, Nam Ô 1, Hải Vân, with a large open dining room and tables looking out over the water. The fish — anchovy, sardine or herring — arrives live and is filleted and drained with real care, which is why regulars say the dish here never tastes raw or fishy the way it can elsewhere. You can have it two ways: the dry version, tossed with roasted rice powder, galangal, garlic and ginger, or the wet version marinated in fish sauce. Either comes with a heaping plate of fresh wild herbs and the house dipping sauce, thickened with peanut and sesame into something rich and clinging — the part almost every review singles out. You roll it all up yourself, spring-roll style. Beyond the fish salad there's squid, clams, prawns, oysters and eel, plus noodles, congee and hotpot. ✨ Reasons why you should visit: 🐟 Gỏi cá made the Nam Ô way, from live fish, in both the dry and the fish-sauce-marinated versions. 🥜 A peanut-and-sesame dipping sauce that customers come back for on its own. 🌿 Generous platters of fresh wild herbs to roll with, keeping every bite light. 🌊 A big, airy space with water views, plus a wider seafood menu — squid, clams, prawns, oysters, eel, noodles and hotpot. 📍 1029 Nguyễn Lương Bằng, Nam Ô 1, Hải Vân, Da Nang 📞 0905 170 200 🕐 10:00 – 21:00 daily