Booking seafood in Ho Chi Minh City? 12 places, from buffets to shellfish specialists

ホーチミンの海鮮は、1人10万ドンほどから食べられる巻貝の店と、150万ドンを超えることもあるホテルビュッフェを同じ「海鮮レストラン」で比べるため、目的を決めないと選びにくいジャンルです。まず予算、次に宿からの移動時間、最後にビュッフェ・量り売り・1皿注文のどれが合うかを考えます。

この記事では、AutoReserveに予約ページがある12店を、1区、4区・10区、空港側、タオディエン、巻貝の店に分けました。公式サイト、店舗の公開情報、地図、複数の旅行情報を照合し、支店名や移転情報に食い違いがある店は各欄に注記しています。海鮮の時価やビュッフェ料金は変動しやすいため、掲載額は予約時の最終価格ではありません（2026年9月確認）。

※本記事の予約リンクはアフィリエイトリンク（PR）です。「予約ページがある」ことと「席が確定した」ことは別です。料金の「++」は税・サービス料が別という意味で使われます。量り売りは単価の単位、重さ、調理代を注文前に確認し、予約確認に記載された支店名と住所まで照合してください。

先に結論：予算と注文方法で選ぶ

• 料金が読みやすいごちそう：Chài Village、Saigon Café。ビュッフェは税・サービス料と飲み物の範囲を確認します。
• 家族や会社の集まり：Hàng Dương Sakura、Hải Sản Hoàng Gia、Giang Ghẹ。個室、最低利用額、大型魚介の重さが確認項目です。
• 空港利用日に：Yeebo、Giang Ghẹ。渋滞を見込み、フライト直前には時間の余裕を取ります。
• 気軽に巻貝：Bếp Ốc Sài Gòn、Con Ốc Quán、Ốc Bắc、Ốc 379。最初は少なめに頼み、1皿の量を見て追加します。

Which restaurant is close to where you're staying? 12 restaurants by area

①–⑧ in this article are seafood restaurants, spread across central District 1, Districts 4 and 10, Phu Nhuan and Tan Binh Districts near the airport, and Thao Dien to the east. ⑨–⑫ are snail restaurants. The numbers on the map and table match the restaurant numbers used in this article. Tap a restaurant's name in the table to jump to its section.

District 1 (city center)

This central area includes Nguyen Hue and Dong Khoi streets, where many restaurants are within walking distance of hotels.

Districts 4 and 10

These restaurants are in District 4, south of District 1, and District 10, to the west. ④ is just across the canal from District 1.

Near the airport (Phu Nhuan and Tan Binh Districts)

⑥, in Phu Nhuan District, sits between the airport and District 1, and ⑦, in Tan Binh District, is west of the airport — easy to fit into a meal on your arrival or departure day.

Thao Dien (former District 2)

This area east of the Saigon River has many expat residences and cafés. It's also walkable from Thao Dien Station on Metro Line 1.

Snail (ốc) shops

These are restaurants in Districts 1 and 10 where you order shellfish dishes one plate at a time. ⑪ and ⑫ also serve northern-style river snail dishes.

Addresses and opening hours are summarized with maps in each restaurant's section in the next part.

12 seafood restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City you can book

From here, we introduce each restaurant one by one. Dishes and prices are limited to what could be confirmed through each restaurant's official information and local information sites. Each restaurant's map lets you check its location via “Open in Google Maps,” and you can also copy the address and paste it into a ride-hailing app.

① Chài Village

This seafood buffet is on the 5th floor of the Saigon Garden building on Nguyen Hue Street. Lobster, crab, and oysters take center stage, alongside sushi, sashimi, dim sum, hot pot, and grilled dishes (feature article by Vietnamese payment app Zalopay, July 2024).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Various lobster (tôm hùm) dishes
• Sashimi and sushi
• Dim sum
• Hot pot (lẩu) and grilled dishes (nướng)

The buffet costs 299,000–729,000 dong per person (Zalopay, July 2024), while review site RestaurantGuru lists 700,000–800,000 dong (confirmed September 2026). The restaurant previously operated at 77 Nguyen Hue Street, on the same street, and the phone number hasn't changed since the move.

② Saigon Café – International Seafood Buffet

This buffet restaurant on the ground floor of the Sheraton Saigon Grand Opera Hotel becomes a seafood-focused “Seafood Buffet” at night. It has 7 live cooking stations and serves over 100 dishes each time (official website).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Nha Trang lobster
• Ca Mau crab
• Raw and grilled oysters on ice
• River prawns (tôm càng), sashimi, and sushi

The Seafood Dinner is 1,588,000 dong for adults and 888,000 dong for ages 4–11, with tax and service charge added separately (official website, confirmed September 2026). The dining room is fully glass-fronted, facing Dong Khoi Street, and the dress code is smart casual. At lunch, it becomes an international buffet.

③ The Cajun Cua

This restaurant serves American Louisiana-style Cajun seafood: crawfish, crab, shrimp, and shellfish tossed in sauce and spread out on the table to eat (local information site hcmtoplist, April 2024).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Cajun crawfish
• Snow crab legs (càng cua tuyết)
• Crab stir-fried with garlic (cua rang tỏi)
• Crab fried rice (cơm chiên cua)

Budget is 400,000–600,000 dong per person (Vietnamese travel information site tripi, June 2025). Chicken wings and other meat dishes are also on the menu, so there's something to order even if someone in your group doesn't like seafood.

④ Hàng Dương Sakura (Hàng Dương Quán Quận 4)

This large-fish and seafood restaurant is in District 4, just across the canal from District 1. You choose your fish from freshwater and saltwater tanks and a koi pond, and the hot pot made with large fish is the signature dish (PasGo, local information site ghiensaigon, July 2026).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Hot pot with large fish (lẩu cá)
• King crab (Cua hoàng đế)
• Salt-fried mantis shrimp (tôm tích rang muối)
• Straw-roasted frog (ếch lùi rơm): 159,000 dong (official menu)

The menu ranges widely, from sushi and sashimi to tomahawk steak, and the restaurant has 13 VIP private rooms, rooftop seating, and a kids' area (PasGo, ghiensaigon). Budget varies greatly depending on what you order, with one source citing 400,000–800,000 dong per person for a few dishes (ghiensaigon, July 2026).

⑤ Hải Sản Hoàng Gia CN 608

This is the District 10 branch of “Hải Sản Hoàng Gia” (Royal Seafood), a chain combining imported-seafood retail and dining, which opened in January 2024. You choose seafood from the tanks to have cooked to order, and there are VIP private rooms and outdoor seating (official Instagram opening announcement).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Canadian lobster baked with cheese (tôm hùm Canada nướng phô mai)
• King crab stir-fried with charred garlic (cua hoàng đế rang cháy tỏi)
• Flounder sashimi (cá bơn sashimi)
• Abalone grilled with butter (bào ngư nướng bơ)

Across the chain, live seafood is sold by weight in kilograms and cooked on site (official website). Budget is cited at 800,000–1,000,000 dong per person (local information site TopGo, April 2025).

⑥ Yeebo Seafood Hot Pot Restaurant

This Cantonese restaurant, established in 1990, is signposted “Seafood & Hotpot.” Seafood is one of its pillars alongside Peking duck, hot pot, and dim sum, and the official website describes the Hong Kong–born head chef as having over 40 years of experience.

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Australian lobster sashimi
• Lobster baked with cheese
• Crab and glass noodles simmered in a clay pot
• Fried rice with scallop and egg (cơm chiên trứng sò điệp)

Located between the airport and District 1, with private rooms available (Vietnamese food site Foody). The budget is around 300,000–660,000 dong per person (Foody, publication date not stated), and the bill includes 10% VAT plus a service charge (an article by logistics company Ninja Van, June 2026).

⑦ Giang Ghẹ

A large seafood restaurant near the airport in Tan Binh District, with a site of over 5,000 square meters (official website). Live seafood from the tanks is grilled, steamed, stir-fried, or served hot pot–style; the restaurant seats around 1,500 people and has 9 private rooms (PasGo).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Blue swimming crab (Ghẹ xanh) — the “Ghẹ” in the restaurant's name
• Mangrove crab from Ca Mau (Cua Cà Mau)
• Large razor clams (Ốc móng tay chúa)
• Large clams with two adductor muscles (Ngao 2 cồi)

The budget is around 250,000–300,000 dong per person (PasGo, publication date not stated). It's a chain restaurant with branches in Binh Duong and Dong Nai as well (official website).

⑧ Hải Sản Hoàng Gia Quốc Hương

A branch of the same chain as ⑤, located in the Thao Dien area. It reopened after renovation in April 2025, with a dining room that seats over 140 people and VIP private rooms (official website). There are also tanks of live seafood (local information site thaodien.app).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Cheese-grilled lobster (Tôm hùm nướng phô mai)
• King crab stir-fried Hong Kong–style with salt (Cua hoàng đế rang muối Hongkong)
• Grouper steamed Hong Kong–style (Cá mú hấp Hongkong)
• Abalone sashimi (Sashimi bào ngư)

The budget is reported at around 800,000–1,000,000 dong per person (local information site TopGo, publication date not stated). Cooking fees and wet towel charges are extra, and the restaurant is about 500m from Thao Dien metro station (thaodien.app).

⑨ Bếp Ốc Sài Gòn

A snail (ốc) restaurant tucked down an alley off Hai Ba Trung Street. It has spacious, leafy outdoor garden seating, plus air-conditioned seating as an option (PasGo, Trip.com).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Elongated snails stir-fried with coconut (Ốc len xào dừa)
• Snails stir-fried in butter (Ốc mỡ xào bơ)
• Blood cockles in satay sauce (Sò huyết sốt sa tế)
• Clams steamed with lemongrass (Nghêu hấp xả)

The budget is around 150,000–250,000 dong per person (PasGo, publication date not stated). It's in the heart of District 1, down an alley off Hai Ba Trung Street.

⑩ Con Ốc Quán

A small restaurant down an alley serving Northern-style river snail dishes. Rows of wooden tables give it the feel of a home dining table (Foody).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• River snail hot pot (Lẩu ốc): 300,000–399,000 dong (Foody's menu)
• Stuffed river snails (Ốc bướu nhồi thịt)
• River snail meatballs (Chả ốc)
• River snail noodle soup (Bún ốc)

The budget is around 100,000–200,000 dong per person (an article by Vietnamese payment app Zalopay, July 2025). It gets busy around 6–7pm in the evening. The second floor has no air conditioning, so first-floor seating is better on hot days (tripi, April 2025).

⑪ Ốc Bắc

A restaurant serving Northern-style shellfish dishes. A post on the restaurant's official Facebook page (undated) says it operates two branches — this one in District 1 and another in District 3. It has 60 indoor seats and 10 outdoor seats, and is air-conditioned (PasGo).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Boiled snails (Ốc mít luộc)
• Sea snails stir-fried with corn (Ốc hương xào bắp)
• River snail meatballs steamed in bamboo tubes (Chả ốc hấp ống nứa)
• Razor clams in passion fruit sauce (Ốc móng tay sốt chanh dây)

The budget is around 100,000–200,000 dong per person (PasGo, publication date not stated). Some articles describe the District 3 branch as Northern-style with mild spice (Zalopay, July 2025).

⑫ Quán Ốc 379 Vĩnh Viễn

A restaurant with spacious outdoor seating lined with wooden tables and chairs, well suited to groups of 4–10 (local information site saigonesebaguette, February 2026).

Signature dishes and ingredients

• Snails in salted egg sauce (Ốc sốt trứng muối)
• Snails stir-fried in garlic butter (Ốc xào bơ tỏi)
• Shellfish in tamarind sauce (Sốt me)
• Egg fried rice with shrimp, squid, and scallops (Cơm chiên hoàng bào)

Steamed shellfish runs 80,000–150,000 dong per kg, and crab or blue swimming crab 400,000–700,000 dong per kg; for four people ordering 6–8 dishes, the total comes to roughly 800,000–1,500,000 dong (saigonesebaguette, February 2026). That's on the higher end among the snail restaurants in this article.

Buffets, seafood sold by weight, and snail restaurants — how do ordering and budget differ?

Seafood restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City fall into three types — fixed-price buffets, restaurants that sell seafood by weight, and snail restaurants where you order dish by dish — and how you order and budget differs between them.

A “++” on a buffet price means tax and service charge are extra

Hotel buffets sometimes list “++” after the price. This means tax and a service charge are added on top; ②'s Saigon Café, for example, is listed as “1,588,000 dong++” (official website).

As with ⑥'s Yeebo, some ordinary city restaurants also add VAT and a service charge to the bill (an article by logistics company Ninja Van, June 2026).

For seafood sold by weight, the cost depends on the per-kg price and cooking fee

At restaurants with live tanks, you choose your seafood, it's weighed, and the price is calculated per kilogram. As with ⑧, some restaurants add cooking fees and wet towel charges on top (local information site thaodien.app). Here are the seafood names that appear on menus.

At snail restaurants, order dish by dish

At snail restaurants, you order dish by dish by combining a shellfish name with a cooking method. At Northern-style restaurants like ⑩ and ⑪, there are also dishes that turn river snails into hot pot or meatballs (Foody, PasGo).

If you can't handle spice, adding “không cay” (not spicy) will get the message across.

Five things to check on the bill before paying

Checking the following points on your bill in advance will help you avoid surprises when paying.

• Whether the weight and per-kg price of any seafood sold by weight are listed
• Whether the bill includes dishes or drinks you didn't order
• Whether a wet towel charge or cooking fee has been added
• Whether service charge or VAT is added separately
• Whether cards are accepted

For how to think about tipping, seeour article on tipping in Vietnam: typical amounts and how to hand it over, and for cash on hand, seeour article on how to exchange money in VietnamThis is covered in more detail here. If table manners during the meal are a concern, seeVietnamese dining etiquetteis also worth a look.

Choosing by budget and occasion

Even among seafood restaurants, the right choice depends on your budget and who you're dining with. Here are four examples of how to choose, based on price, private rooms, and menu range.

For a special occasion, take your time at a buffet

For an anniversary or your last night of the trip, a buffet is an easy choice since you don't have to worry about the price of each dish. At ②, tax, service charge, and the free-flow drink option are extra.

• ② Saigon Café: Seafood dinner, 1,588,000 dong++ per adult (official website)
• ① Chài Village: Lobster-centered buffet, 299,000–729,000 dong per person (Zalopay, July 2024)

For large groups with family or coworkers

For a large group, a big restaurant with plenty of private rooms is the more comfortable choice. Be sure to note your group size and private-room preference when you book.

• ⑧ Giang Ghẹ: seats about 1,500, 9 private rooms (PasGo)
• ④ Hàng Dương Sakura: 13 VIP private rooms (PasGo)
• ⑨ Hải Sản Hoàng Gia Quốc Hương: seats over 140, VIP private rooms available (official website)

For days when someone wants something other than seafood

If someone in your group isn't keen on seafood, a restaurant that also offers meat dishes or Chinese food makes things easier.

• ③ The Cajun Cua: also has meat dishes like chicken wings
• ⑥ Yeebo: a Cantonese restaurant that also serves Peking duck and dim sum (official website)
• ④ Hàng Dương Sakura: also serves sushi and even tomahawk steak (PasGo)

For a casual evening at a snail restaurant

Since you can order dish by dish at snail restaurants, they also work well for a small dinner or a second stop of the evening.

• ⑨ Bếp Ốc Sài Gòn: an alley in District 1, 150,000–250,000 dong per person (PasGo)
• ⑪ Ốc Bắc: District 1, 100,000–200,000 dong per person (PasGo)
• ⑩ Con Ốc Quán: Northern-style river snail dishes (Foody)

Ride-hailing apps are convenient for getting around the city. For how to use them, seeour article on how to use ride-hailing apps in Vietnamwhich walks through the steps.

How booking through AutoReserve works

AutoReserve is a service that lets you search for and book restaurants around the world in Japanese. For most restaurants in Vietnam, bookings are made as a “reservation-by-proxy,” where AutoReserve contacts the restaurant on your behalf to secure a table.

The difference between an instant booking and a booking on request

This proxy reservation service takes time while waiting for the restaurant's reply. Once you know the date you want to go, it's safest to submit the request by the day before.

4 steps from booking to your visit

1. Open the restaurant on AutoReserve and request a booking with your date, time, and party size
2. For a booking on request, AutoReserve contacts the restaurant to check availability (not yet confirmed at this point)
3. You'll receive a "booking confirmed" notice by email or app notification
4. Show up at the restaurant on your reserved date and time

A reservation isn't always guaranteed

• A booking may not go through if the restaurant is fully booked, among other reasons
• Due to relocations or multiple branches, the address listed on AutoReserve may differ from the actual one. Please check the address in your booking confirmation
• Business hours and closing days may change, so please check the restaurant's page for the latest information

Frequently asked questions

Summary

ホーチミンの海鮮は、料金が読みやすいビュッフェ、大人数向けの量り売り、1皿ずつ試せる巻貝の店で選び方が変わります。街が広いため、安い店を探して長距離を移動するより、宿や当日の予定に近い店を選ぶ方が時間も総費用も抑えやすい場合があります。

予約後は、確定通知、支店名、住所、税・サービス料、量り売りの単位を確認してください。泊まる場所から決めるならOur article comparing Ho Chi Minh City hotels by area、観光との動線はHo Chi Minh City sightseeing guideis also a helpful reference.