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DELICIOSO · AN LA ATLAS OF FOOD ENTRY · CULTURAL-NOTE · PUBLISHED May 8, 2026 ↘ Open in app

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Vietnamese seafood (hải sản) restaurants in LA

None of the listed LA-area Vietnamese seafood restaurants (Crustacean, Newport Seafood, or mariscos-style spots) are explicitly described as featuring the specific regional specialties mentioned (cá kho tộ, sò điệp scallop, ghẹ rang muối).

  • Newport Seafood (Tan Cang Newport Seafood in Santa Ana) is a Chinese-Vietnamese seafood restaurant [3]. Its menu includes many seafood items (lobster, crab, shrimp, scallops, fish) but does not list cá kho tộ (caramelized fish in clay pot), sò điệp (scallop) as a standalone dish, or ghẹ rang muối (salt-pepper crab) by name [4]. It does offer “Salt & Pepper Shrimp” and “Crab Baked with Garlic Salt & Pepper” [4].
  • Crustacean (Beverly Hills, An family) is not mentioned in any of the provided sources.
  • Mariscos-style spots are not mentioned in the provided sources.
  • The sources do mention that LA’s Vietnamese restaurants offer regional specialties from Saigon, Hanoi, and Hue [2], but they do not specifically name the three dishes in the question.

The question cannot be fully answered from the given sources. The sources confirm that Vietnamese seafood restaurants exist in LA and that regional specialties are available, but they do not confirm that the three specific dishes (cá kho tộ, sò điệp, ghẹ rang muối) are featured at the named restaurants.

Sources

  1. https://la.eater.com/venue/54745/s-u-can-tho-vietnamese-kitchen
  2. https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/best-vietnamese-restaurants-in-los-angeles
  3. https://www.tancangnewportseafood.com/
  4. https://www.tancangnewportseafood.com/menu/