Da Nang has four night markets worth eating at, plus one daytime market that is at its best for snacks in the late afternoon. Son Tra Night Market, at the eastern end of the Dragon Bridge, is the big one: seafood picked from trays of ice and cooked to order. Helio, beside Asia Park, is a food court with a stage and the easiest with children. An Thuong is a short row of stalls in the beach quarter by My Khe, and Le Duan is a student market that works best after an afternoon at Con Market.
None of them charges entry. None of them tells you which stall is good tonight, either.
One market a night, with someone who grew up eating there
Each private tour takes a different market and a different menu, with a Da Nang food guide and a car of your own. Free cancellation up to 3 days before.
★Son Tra Night Market & Seafood Private Food TourSeafood picked from the ice and grilled at the market, then snails and clams by the river. · About 4 hoursSee the tour →Helio Night Market & Da Nang Classics Private Food TourMi Quang, banh xeo and pork rice-paper rolls, then avocado ice cream at Helio. · About 4 hoursSee the tour →The five markets at a glance
Four of these are night markets in the usual sense. The fifth, Con Market, is a daytime market whose snack lanes are worth a late-afternoon visit, and it sits a few minutes from Le Duan, so the two pair naturally. Hours below are the ones the markets keep in practice; individual stalls open and close on their own schedule.
| Market | Where | When | Best for | Our tour there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Son Tra Night Market | Son Tra end of the Dragon Bridge, east bank of the Han River | Early evening until late | Seafood cooked to order; the bridge show on weekend nights | Son Tra and seafood |
| Helio Night Market | 2 Thang 9 street, next to Asia Park, Hai Chau | From about 5 pm, later at weekends | Variety, live music, children | Helio and the Da Nang classics |
| An Thuong | Beach quarter, a block back from My Khe Beach | About 6 pm to 11 pm | Dinner close to the beach hotels | An Thuong and My Khe |
| Con Market | Corner of Hung Vuong and Ong Ich Khiem, city centre | Daytime; snack lanes best in the late afternoon | Rice cakes and sweet soups | Con Market to Le Duan |
| Le Duan Night Market | An alley off Le Duan street, city centre | From about 6 pm | Cheap clothes, student snacks, sugarcane juice | Con Market to Le Duan |
Son Tra Night Market: seafood at the foot of the Dragon Bridge
Son Tra is the market most visitors mean when they say the Da Nang night market. It sits at the Son Tra end of the Dragon Bridge, close to the Love Bridge and the carp-turning-into-a-dragon statue on the riverbank. It is not the market older guides describe: the original five-year pilot on two side streets ended in 2024, and the city leased a larger plot by the bridge approach for the next phase. A May 2026 report in the Vietnamese press counted more than 300 stalls, split between a food section and a souvenir section, and four to six thousand visitors on an ordinary night.
The food section runs on seafood. Prawns, squid, octopus, scallops and crab sit on trays of ice; you point, the stall weighs it, and it comes back grilled with scallion oil, steamed with lemongrass or roasted with salt. Because the price is set by weight, the moment that matters is before anything goes on the grill: agree the weight and the total first, not after the plate arrives.
The Dragon Bridge on weekend nights
On weekend nights the Dragon Bridge breathes fire and then water at 9 pm, and on major holidays the show can run several nights in a row. Traffic on the bridge is stopped shortly before, and the riverbank fills well ahead of time. If the show is part of your evening, eat first and walk to the river by half past eight.
Helio Night Market: the easy one
Helio sits on 2 Thang 9 street next to Asia Park, in Hai Chau on the west side of the river. Helio Night Market is usually open from 5 pm to 10:30 pm, and until about 11 pm at weekends. It is mostly open-air: some stalls have a roof, the aisles between them do not, so heavy rain thins it out fast.
The food is a mix of Vietnamese grills, banh xeo and Mi Quang next to bubble tea and Korean fried chicken, and the quality is uneven from one stall to the next. Walk one full lap before you order. A stage in the middle has music most nights, weekends are the busiest, and the open space makes it the market that works best with small children.
An Thuong: a small food street in the beach quarter
An Thuong is the grid of streets a block back from My Khe Beach where many foreign visitors stay. Its night food stalls set up on the pavement of Tran Bach Dang street from about 6 pm to 11 pm, a scheme the city opened in 2023 alongside a pedestrian zone. It is small. The reason to come is the quarter around it: Vietnamese street kitchens beside Western cafes, and the beach two minutes away once the sun is down.
Con Market and Le Duan: afternoon snacks, then the student market
Con Market, on the corner of Hung Vuong and Ong Ich Khiem, has traded since 1940 and is the place locals send you for snacks: bun mam nem, nem lui, Mi Quang, banh beo and a long row of sweet soups. It is a daytime market, busiest from midday, and its snack lanes wind down in the evening, so it belongs in the late afternoon rather than after dark. A Tuoi Tre report in 2025 put most dishes at 30,000 to 50,000 VND each.
Le Duan Night Market, in an alley off Le Duan street, is where students come for cheap clothes. The food is a handful of snack stalls and sugarcane juice from about 6 pm. On its own it is a thin dinner, which is exactly why our Le Duan evening starts at Con Market and arrives here for grilled rice paper once the lights are on.
Bach Dang walking street and the riverside
Since 2024 the stretch of Bach Dang street on the west bank, from the Dragon Bridge south to the Tran Thi Ly Bridge, has been run as a walking street from 3 pm to midnight, under a pilot that runs to the end of 2028. It has a few kiosks and carts rather than a food market, and it is best used as the walk after dinner: the river, the lit bridges, and on weekend nights the Dragon Bridge show from the opposite bank.
Four nights, four menus, no dish twice
Each of our four private tours belongs to one market and has its own menu, and no dish appears on more than one of them, so you can take one tour a night without eating the same thing twice. The menus below are samples: your guide picks the stalls and kitchens that are open and cooking well that evening.
| Tour | Pickup | Where the night goes | On the menu |
|---|---|---|---|
| Son Tra and seafood | 5:30 pm pickup | Son Tra Night Market, a family snail shop, the Han River | Scallops with scallion oil, charcoal-grilled squid, sea snails in coconut milk, lemongrass clams, coconut jelly |
| Helio and the Da Nang classics | 5:30 pm pickup | Family kitchens, then Helio Night Market | Mi Quang, banh xeo with nem lui, boiled pork rolled in rice paper, avocado ice cream, a fruit smoothie |
| An Thuong and My Khe | 5:30 pm pickup | The beach quarter, An Thuong, My Khe Beach | Bun cha ca, Cau Mong roast veal, vermicelli with roast pork and mam nem, sweet corn pudding |
| Con Market to Le Duan | 4:00 pm pickup | Con Market, a banh can stall, Le Duan Night Market | Banh beo, banh nam and banh loc, che xoa xoa, banh can, grilled rice paper, sugarcane juice |
About 4 hours is the length of every tour, with a private car and driver, hotel pickup and drop-off in Da Nang, every dish at every stop and one drink at each stop. The Con Market evening starts earliest and is home first, which suits families with young children.
What a local guide changes, and what you can change
Your guide is from Da Nang and knows these markets the way locals do. That is the whole point: knowing which seafood stall is cooking well tonight and which to walk past, ordering in Vietnamese, weighing the seafood at the local price, and telling you why a dish is eaten the way it is, rolled, dipped or stirred, before you get it wrong.
The menus on this site are starting points. Tell us what you can’t eat, what you won’t eat and what you would cross town for, and we rebuild the night around you before you arrive. Shellfish allergy on the seafood night becomes fish and grilled meat; a vegetarian table works on the Helio and Con Market evenings and partly on An Thuong; no chilli, no mam nem, no offal, children who only eat rice and noodles, all of that is settled before the car picks you up. The seafood night is the one tour that cannot be made vegetarian.
If you would rather not guess at the stalls
The guide chooses, orders and explains while the car waits. One price per group covers every dish and a drink at each stop.
Son Tra Night Market & Seafood Private Food TourAbout 4 hoursSee the tour →Helio Night Market & Da Nang Classics Private Food TourAbout 4 hoursSee the tour →Questions about Da Nang’s night markets
Which night market in Da Nang is best?
It depends on what you want to eat. Son Tra is the largest and the one for seafood and the Dragon Bridge on weekend nights. Helio has the most variety and the most space for children. An Thuong is the easy choice if you are staying by My Khe Beach, and Con Market is better than any night market for snacks, as long as you go in the late afternoon.
Are the night markets open every night?
Son Tra and An Thuong trade every evening. Helio usually does too, from about 5 pm, though it has gone through weekend-only spells in the past. Le Duan gets going around 6 pm. All of them are at their busiest at weekends.
Do the night markets charge an entrance fee?
No. You walk in free and pay stall by stall. Seafood at Son Tra is priced by weight, so agree the weight and total before it is cooked.
What time is the Dragon Bridge fire show?
At 9 pm on weekend nights, and on major public holidays. Traffic on the bridge stops shortly before and the riverbank fills early, so eat first and find a spot by about half past eight.
Can we do more than one food tour?
Yes. The four tours go to four different markets and no dish repeats across them, so you can book two, three or all four nights in a row. Book each night as its own tour.
What happens if it rains?
Rain does not cancel the night: the car takes you between stops and your guide moves the meal to covered stalls and restaurants, keeping the menu as close as possible. If you prefer, change to another date free of charge.
Start with the seafood night, or the Da Nang classics
Private car and driver, a Da Nang food guide, hotel pickup, every dish and a drink at each stop. The menu is rebuilt around your allergies before you arrive.
★Son Tra Night Market & Seafood Private Food TourSeafood picked from the ice and grilled at the market, then snails and clams by the river. · About 4 hoursfrom$71/ person›
Choose your group size · price is the group totalSolo traveller$175BOOK →2 guests$210BOOK →3 guests$245BOOK →4 guests$285BOOK →See the full tour page →Helio Night Market & Da Nang Classics Private Food TourMi Quang, banh xeo and pork rice-paper rolls, then avocado ice cream at Helio. · About 4 hoursfrom$60/ person›
Choose your group size · price is the group totalSolo traveller$155BOOK →2 guests$180BOOK →3 guests$210BOOK →4 guests$240BOOK →See the full tour page →Market hours, locations and the Dragon Bridge schedule checked 10 November 2026; stalls and schedules change without notice.