Top 10 Best and Most Famous Affordable Restaurants in Ca Mau 2026

Ca Mau's river cuisine captivates people with the naturally fresh and sweet flavors from sea crabs, river fish, to wild vegetables. For a complete journey exploring Tran Van Thoi and Dat Mui, save these top 10 famous, delicious, nutritious, and affordable restaurants that are always bustling with local diners.

1. A Voi Squid Hu Tieu Ca Mau - Famous delicious breakfast

If you are looking for a high-quality breakfast restaurant with authentic coastal flavors in the center of Ca Mau city, visit A Voi Squid Hu Tieu:

Features: The broth is sweet and clear, cooked from dried squid and pork bones simmered for hours. Chewy hu tieu noodles are eaten with crispy, rich, fresh squid.
Price: Ranging from 40,000đ - 55,000đ per bowl full of squid and minced meat.

Delicious seafood specialties — Fresh seafood cuisine prepared rustically and fragrantly

2. Co Lan Spicy Silkworm Noodle (Banh Tam Cay) - Traditional flavor with intense spiciness

Spicy silkworm noodles with meatballs rich in curry flavor is a unique culinary specialty found only in Ca Mau:

Features: Large, soft silkworm noodles served with rich pork meatballs or shredded chicken, completely covered in a spicy, shiny red, fragrant curry sauce. Eaten with bean sprouts and herbs to balance the spicy and sweet flavors.
Address: Bui Thi Xuan Street, Ward 2, Ca Mau City. Affordable price starting from only 35,000đ per plate.

Specialty steamed roe crab — Red, meaty Nam Can roe crab eaten with delicious lemon pepper salt

3. Quat Mo Seafood Restaurant - Bustling late-night gathering spot

If you want to enjoy high-quality fresh seafood and drinks in the evening in Ca Mau city, Quat Mo is a top familiar name:

Rich menu: Specializes in serving lemongrass steamed Nam Can crab, tamarind roasted crab, crispy spicy chili salt grilled mudskipper, grilled clams with scallion oil, and rich sweet Dat Mui rock oysters.
Address: Bui Thi Truong Street, Ward 5, Ca Mau City. Spacious, airy restaurant space with agile serving staff.

Cozy dinner tray with specialties — Tourists gathering around a rustic, peaceful countryside specialty dining table

4. U Minh Melaleuca Forest Fermented Fish Hotpot - Rich countryside flavor

The flavor of fermented gourami distilled with strong lemongrass and chili, eaten with dozens of wild vegetables is a peak culinary experience:

Features: The rich fermented fish hotpot steaming hot, filled with field snakehead fish, eel, climbing perch, eaten with U Minh melaleuca forest's famous fern shoots, water lilies, sesbania flowers, and bitter herbs.
Suggestion: You can enjoy the authentic original fermented fish hotpot of Lower U Minh right at U Minh eco-restaurant or book a cozy wood-stove cooking at Ba Ngoai Homestay.

Peaceful river landscape — The river system cultivates an endless natural seafood source for Ca Mau

5. Eat authentic local specialties of Tran Van Thoi at Ba Ngoai Homestay

If you are hesitant to travel to crowded, dusty restaurants, Ba Ngoai Homestay in Tran Van Thoi offers an all-inclusive dining experience "from the shrimp pond to the dining table":

Natural Nam Can sea crabs are caught directly from the ecological pond, steamed or roasted with snow salt, sweet, chewy and flavorful.
All green vegetable ingredients are freshly picked from Grandma's garden, prepared on a wood stove filled with fragrant smoke of countryside love.

Tourists visiting Hon Da Bac Ca Mau — Young people having fun and checking in by the beach at Hon Da Bac, Tran Van Thoi

Thatched hut for resting by the brackish water pond — Cool thatched hut by the river - an ideal relaxing resting space

*Ca Mau still has many unique dishes waiting for you to discover. Contact Ba Ngoai Homestay to pre-order the freshest and most delicious specialty meals of crab and sentinel crab!*