{"id":555,"date":"2010-02-07T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/555"},"modified":"2010-02-07T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T13:55:00","slug":"seastar-phu-quoc-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Seastar (Phu Quoc, Vietnam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/kennyRating.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/kennyRating.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/kennyRating.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seastarresort.com\/eng\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=blogcategory&amp;id=7&amp;Itemid=8\">Seastar<\/a> is a resort on Long Beach about a 10-minute walk north along the beach from Mai House. They have a beachfront restaurant with open air seating and a good-sized Vietnamese menu. They also serve the best chili lemongrass shrimp I\u2019ve ever had. We discovered it on our first night in Phu Quoc, and returned just almost every day for another hit. Yesterday we discovered you can order it on top of bun noodles instead of rice, which makes the arrangement very much like <a href=\"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/186\">Tamarind Tree<\/a>\u2019s chili-lemongrass chicken bun. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight we squeezed in a second 1\/2-dinner just so that we could savor the chili lemongrass shrimp as our last bite of Phu Quoc (never mind that we had eaten at Seastar today already for lunch).<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the food we had at Seastar was enjoyable, though not as mind-blowing. Salads were very fresh, with a spicy fish-sauce and lime dressing. The Seastar spring rolls were crispy and well-textured, though the seafood inside didn\u2019t have much in the way of additional flavor.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Seastar has a nice view, good prices, friendly wait staff, and chili-lemongrass shrimp to die for. If you\u2019re on Phu Quoc Island, take a stroll along the beach and check it out!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chili lemongrass shrimp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4418952175\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chili lemongrass shrimp\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2556\/4418952175_eb8da14c9c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>Chili lemongrass shrimp from heaven<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Papaya salad with seafood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4419721752\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Papaya salad with seafood\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4419721752_cc246b749e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>Papaya salad with seafood<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Practicing shrimp de-tailing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4418986591\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Practicing shrimp de-tailing\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4055\/4418986591_54a5f102ab.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>I had many chances to practice my shrimp de-tailing technique: spear bottom with fork, hold spoon face down, and wedge under the tail. Pull out tasty morsel. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Beach view\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4419713076\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beach view\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4072\/4419713076_530915cb9c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>View from the restaurant. We never saw anyone actually playing volleyball here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seastarresort.com\/eng\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=blogcategory&amp;id=7&amp;Itemid=8\">Seastar<\/a>     <br \/>Ba Keo, 7 ward, Tran Hung Dao Street     <br \/>Duong Dong town, Phu Quoc, Vietnam     <br \/>+84 (0)77-3982-161<\/p>\n<p>Lunch, Dinner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: Seastar is a resort on Long Beach about a 10-minute walk north along the beach from Mai House. They have a beachfront restaurant with open air seating and a good-sized Vietnamese menu. They also serve the best chili lemongrass shrimp I\u2019ve ever had. We discovered it on our first night in Phu Quoc, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,64,68,84],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-food","tag-phu-quoc","tag-review","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}