Quán Hải Sản Tươi · Hội An

The freshest catch, chosen for the people you love

Every morning at 4:30, while Hội An still sleeps, our chef walks the dawn wet market — choosing line-caught seafood straight off the night boats. Our menu is rewritten daily, by whatever the sea gives.

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08:00 – 22:00 Open daily
24C La Hối Hội An Ancient Town
No fixed menu Rewritten every morning
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Tươi · Fresh

The best dishes begin with what left the sea and the garden only this morning.

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Tâm · Care

Choosing each fish, each bundle of herbs — that is how Vietnamese people say love.

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Chia sẻ · Sharing

A Vietnamese meal is only complete when every dish sits in the middle of the table.

Đi Chợ Hội An at dusk - old town yellow house with lanterns Fresh catch on ice at the Hoi An dawn market
Our Story
4:30 AM

The story begins before the town wakes up

The lanterns went dark hours ago. The old town lies still under a thin mist from the Hoài river. But down by the wharf, the dawn market is already alive – night boats returning from Cù Lao Chàm, baskets of fish still wet with seawater.

There, our chef does the most important work of the day. Not cooking — choosing. A squid still shimmering rainbow means it left the water hours ago. A fish still curved, gills bright red — that one is worth bringing home. Picky, exacting — just like a Vietnamese mother shopping for her own family’s meal.

In Vietnamese, “đi chợ” — going to market — has never meant simply buying. It means choosing the very best, not for yourself, but for the people you love. That is how Đi Chợ runs, every single day.

“The sea never promises — so neither do we. Our menu is rewritten each morning, by whatever is freshest at the market.”
3:00 Bà Lê market — Trà Quế herbs still holding dew
4:00 An Bàng — fishing boats calling home
5:00 Old-town market — slow walkers, long talks
Market Experience

Cook the market. Take Hội An home.

In our kitchen, the market basket becomes your lesson — guided by Head Chef and the artisans of Hội An. Learn to roll “Ram ghẹ Phố Hội”, watch the chef fire a pan of seafood rice, then sit down to the meal you made. Two experiences, morning or sunset — each paired with an old Hội An craft.

Đi Chợ team at Hoi An market — Hoi An Morning Market Tour
Morning · 8:30 – 13:00

Hoi An Morning Market Tour

  • 8:30 Welcome at Đi Chợ: Meet your host at the restaurant.
  • 8:30 – 9:30 Hội An Market Tour: Go to Hội An market and try bargaining for your ingredients.
  • 9:30 – 10:30 Lantern Making Workshop: Make your own lantern with a local artisan.
  • 10:30 – 11:30 Cooking Class: Learn to make Faifo crab spring rolls (Ram ghẹ Phố Hội).
  • 11:30 – 12:15 Cooking Demonstration: Watch our chef performance hand-held seafood fried rice and sea fish soup with pineapple and tomato.
  • 12:15 – 13:00 Lunch: Enjoy the dishes cooked in class.
  • 13:00 Farewell: Take home your lantern, a local specialty gift bag, recipe card, certificate and photos.
You take home Your handmade lantern, a local specialty gift bag, recipe card, certificate and souvenir photos.
1.050.000₫ / person · lunch included · minimum 4 guests · excluding VAT
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Trà Quế vegetable village — Hoi An Afternoon Market Tour
Afternoon · 15:30 – 20:00

Hoi An Afternoon Market Tour

  • 15:30 Welcome at Đi Chợ: Meet your host at the restaurant.
  • 15:30 – 16:30 Trà Quế Vegetable Village: Go to Trà Quế vegetable village and pick vegetables for cooking class.
  • 16:30 – 17:30 Lantern Making Workshop: Make your own lantern with a local artisan.
  • 17:30 – 18:30 Cooking Class: Learn to make Faifo crab spring rolls (Ram ghẹ Phố Hội).
  • 18:30 – 19:15 Cooking Demonstration: Watch our chef perform hand-held seafood fried rice and sea fish soup with pineapple and tomato.
  • 19:15 – 20:00 Dinner: Enjoy the dishes cooked in class.
  • 20:00 Farewell: Take home your lantern, gift bag, recipe card, certificate and photos. * On the full moon and the 1st of each lunar month, you also get a floating lantern for the Thu Bồn River.
You take home Your handmade lantern, a local specialty gift bag, recipe card, certificate and souvenir photos. On the full moon and the 1st of each lunar month, a floating lantern for the Thu Bồn River is also included.
1.250.000₫ / person · dinner included · minimum 4 guests · excluding VAT
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Both experiences are led in English with Vietnamese heart – Korean, Japanese and Chinese materials available. Book at least 1 day ahead.

Note: Prices exclude the 15% holiday surcharge during Christmas (24–25 Dec2026), New Year’s Eve (31 Dec 2026–1 Jan 2027), and Lunar New Year (5–10 Feb 2027). Experience programs will be unavailable during the Lunar New Year holiday.

The Đi Chợ team in front of the restaurant
The People

Chef Thiện – the one who goes to market

Some chefs cook for one family table. Others cook for a thousand guests a night. Chef Thiện has done both — serving heads of state, standing beside two-Michelin-star chefs in France and Vietnam. Yet ask him about the finest dish he knows, and he still names his grandmother’s bún thang.

At three in the morning he is at Bà Lê market. At four, An Bàng. At five, the old-town market — not to buy, but to read the season. Behind him stands a young Hội An team trained to do one thing well: help you “go to market” at your table, and choose the best of today’s catch.

“In Hội An, the seasons are not in books. They are written on the market stalls.”
Faifo Chronicle — Our Journal

Stories from the markets, the shore, and the kitchens of Hội An

A new dispatch every month — about the markets we walk, the fishing villages we buy from, and the people who keep the old town’s fire burning.

The markets of Hoi An
Markets

Những ngôi chợ Hội An

The Markets of Hội An — Where the Day Begins

3AM at Bà Lê, 4AM at An Bàng, 5AM in the old town. Three markets, three tempos — and why our chef walks them all.

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An Bang fishing village
Fishing Villages

An Bàng — làng chài giữ vị mặn của biển

An Bàng — The Village That Keeps the Sea's Original Taste

No trawlers, no freezers. Only basket boats slipping out at midnight — and prawns that lived their whole lives in moving water.

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Faifo old port stories
Heritage

Faifo — thương cảng xưa

Faifo — When Every Silk Road Led to the Thu Bồn

Japanese silk, Ming porcelain, Trà My cinnamon. The old port’s ingredients still live in our kitchen — links in an unbroken story.

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Come hungry. We’ll tell you what the boats brought in.

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