Bamboo Bar
(Bamboo Hotel; 018 Muong Hoa street , Tel ; +84 203 871 075)
The first Western-style watering hole to open in Sapa and it's still going strong in the basement of a grand building.
There's a free traditional hill-tribe music-and-dance show here from 8.30pm  on every Friday and Saturday.

Red Dragon Pub
(Tel:  +84 203 872 085; 23 Muong Hoa street)
Downstairs is a tiny little tearoom; upstairs a British pub. They knock out a serious range of beers, as any good pub should, including ginseng flavour.

Tau Bar
(Tel:+84 203 871 322; 42 Cau May street)
Claiming to be 'slightly lounge', Tau brings a different kind of cool to the mountains of the north. A lengthy bar to lean on, great tunes and a pool table suggest this place will prosper.

Victoria Sapa Hotel
(Tel:+84 203 871 522)
Offers two bars or a terrace for a sundowner in style. Drinks cost more than elsewhere in town, but the ambience is alluring on a cold night.

 

 

Its main characteristic is the systematic use of fresh, light products, mainly tropical or temperate fruit and vegetables, and avoidance of fat. It offers a wide variety of foods ranging from meats, crustaceans and fish to delicious vegetarian specialities accompanied with all sorts of vegetables, herbs, spices and sauces. In the salads, always lightly seasoned, the delicate flavours of papaya, green mango or banana flower intermingle with those of herbs. It is this mixture of subtle flavours of almost infinite variety that makes Vietnamese cuisine so original.

Another feature of this cuisine is that the vegetables remain crisp and retain all their flavour, because they are chopped up, mixed with just a little garlic or ground ginger, then briefly sauteed on a brisk fire. As for leafy vegetables, instead of being boiled at length, they are just thrown into simmering water with a little added oil, and therefore stay nice and green.

Dishes are served with several varieties of rice: brown rice, crushed rice, sticky rice, green rice, red rice, black rice, long-grain or round-grain rice... whose discreet, refined flavour can be enjoyed with all dishes. There are also rice vermicelli or rice cakes, and wheat or rice noodles.