# Tiệm Ốc Bên Cồn

> A bamboo-fronted snail stall at the foot of the Ngọc Thảo bridge in western Nha Trang. Pick your shellfish from the iced trays across the counter — sea snails, cockles, clams, oysters, shrimp and crab — and it comes back steamed with lemongrass, grilled over coals, glazed in tamarind or sizzling in garlic butter. Milk tea and crème caramel to finish. Delivery available.

**Address:** 13 Cầu Ngọc Thảo, Cồn Ngọc Thảo, Tây Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa 650000, Vietnam
**City:** Nha Trang, Vietnam
**Phone:** +84 702 180 795
**Menu page:** https://getmenu.duckdns.org/p/tiem-oc-ben-con-nha-trang

## Menu

### Snails

- **Steamed Sea Snails (Hương Biển)** — 70,000 VND
  Steamed plain, the way the stall serves its headline snail — nothing between you and the sweet, firm meat.
- **Ốc Len Snails in Coconut Milk** — 50,000 VND
  The southern classic: small mangrove snails stewed in coconut milk until the sauce clings. You suck the meat straight from the shell.
- **Snail Salad** — 50,000 VND
  Snail meat tossed cold with shredded green mango and herbs, finished with roasted peanuts — the sharp, crunchy plate between rounds of grilled shellfish.
- **Sea Snails (Hương Biển) — Garlic Butter or Tamarind Glaze** — 70,000 VND
- **Steamed Hương Bông Snails** — 80,000 VND
- **Hương Bông Snails — Tamarind, Salt-Roasted or Garlic Butter** — 90,000 VND
  The stall's largest snail, cooked whichever of the three ways you call: tamarind glaze, dry salt-roast, or garlic butter.
- **Grilled Ốc Bưu Snails** — 35,000 VND
- **Ốc Bưu Snails** — 20,000 VND
- **Spiny Snails (Ốc Gai)** — 60,000 VND
- **Ốc Nhảy Conch Snails** — 50,000 VND
- **Ốc Tỏi Snails Grilled with Pepper** — Size 1: 15,000 VND, Size 2: 20,000 VND, Size 3: 30,000 VND, Size 4: 35,000 VND, Size 5: 40,000 VND
  Grilled with garlic and cracked pepper and priced per snail — the bigger the shell, the higher the tier.

### Clams & Cockles

- **Cà Na — Tamarind, Garlic Butter, Salt-Roasted or Steamed** — 50,000 VND
  One shellfish, four ways — call the tamarind glaze, the garlic butter, the dry salt-roast or plain steamed.
- **Sò Móng Clams Steamed with Lemongrass & Tamarind** — 60,000 VND
  Steamed over lemongrass with tamarind in the broth, so the shells open into something sour and fragrant rather than plain.
- **Grilled Sò Móng Clams with Scallion Oil & Peanuts** — 60,000 VND
- **Blood Cockles — Garlic Butter or Tamarind Glaze** — 60,000 VND
- **Blood Cockles Grilled Plain** — 55,000 VND
  Straight onto the coals, no seasoning and no sauce — the shell opens and you eat it with the house dipping salt.
- **Hairy Cockles — Grilled with Scallion Oil or Steamed** — 40,000 VND
- **Clams Steamed Thai-Style** — 30,000 VND
  Steamed in a hot-and-sour Thai broth with lemongrass, chilli and lime — the cheapest plate on the board and the one people order first.

### Oysters

- **Baked Cheese Oysters (7 pieces)** — 60,000 VND
  Seven oysters on the half shell, blanketed in cheese and put over the coals until it blisters.
- **Oysters with Scallion Oil (7 pieces)** — 60,000 VND
  Seven oysters grilled in the shell under hot scallion oil, scattered with roasted peanuts.
- **Oyster Rice Porridge** — 40,000 VND
  Rice simmered down to a loose porridge with oysters stirred through — the warm bowl at the end of a night of shellfish.

### Shrimp, Crab & Octopus

- **Roe Crab — Guaranteed Full** — Size 1: 180,000 VND, Size 2: 200,000 VND, Size 3: 230,000 VND, Size 4: 250,000 VND, Size 5: 280,000 VND, Size 6: 300,000 VND
  Female mud crab sold on the stall's own guarantee that it is packed with roe. Six size tiers, priced per crab.
- **Steamed Shrimp** — 90,000 VND
  A plate of 8–9 shrimp, about 200 g, steamed and served with the house dipping salt.
- **Grilled Shrimp** — 90,000 VND
- **Swimming Crab (Ghẹ)** — Size 1: 20,000 VND, Size 2: 25,000 VND, Size 3: 30,000 VND, Size 4: 40,000 VND
  Priced per crab across four size tiers — pick yours off the tray.
- **Crab Claws — Steamed, Garlic Butter, Tamarind or Salt-Roasted** — 60,000 VND
  Claw meat only, cooked any of the four ways the board lists.
- **Octopus** — 35,000 VND
  Priced per 100 g — order as much as the table wants.

### Sides

- **Bánh Mì Baguette** — 5,000 VND

### Dessert

- **Crème Caramel** — 13,000 VND
- **Crème Caramel with Boba** — 18,000 VND
  The same flan with a spoonful of chewy tapioca pearls on top.

### Milk Tea & Drinks

- **Milk Tea with Boba & Chewy Sweet-Potato Balls** — 25,000 VND
  The stall's own milk tea, doubled up with tapioca pearls and chewy sweet-potato balls.
- **Milk Tea with 3Q Chewy Pearls** — 15,000 VND
- **Soft Drinks — One Price** — 12,000 VND
  Every can on the ice costs the same.
- **Bottled Water** — 7,000 VND

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Prices are what the venue charges for dining in, published by the venue's own page on GETMENU (https://getmenu.duckdns.org).