The best hot pot in Ho Chi Minh City is lẩu cá kèo at Lẩu Cá Kèo Bà Huyện, in what used to be District 3. Live goby goes into a sour broth at your table, and a small pot is 145,000₫ on its October 2026 Grab menu. It is Saigon’s own hot pot, and nothing a mall chain sells tastes like it.
If you want a different kind of hot pot restaurant, this list covers that too. There is fermented fish lẩu mắm up a spiral staircase in Bình Thạnh, Cantonese and Chongqing pots, Japanese shabu-shabu, Thai tom yum and the mall buffets, each with a price checked this month. Number 1, Somtam ZAAP, is a Saigon Scene partner, which is why it comes first. After that the list runs by style, Vietnamese first.
| Venue | Area | Style | Order this | Price (Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somtam ZAAP (partner, 10% off) | Sài Gòn Ward (old D1) | Thai | Mama tom yum hot pot | 260,000₫ a pot, before VAT |
| Lẩu Cá Kèo Bà Huyện | Xuân Hòa Ward (old D3) | Vietnamese, live goby | Lẩu cá kèo | About 90,000₫ each for two (small pot) |
| Lẩu Mắm Cây Mận | Bình Lợi Trung (old Bình Thạnh) | Vietnamese, fermented fish | Lẩu mắm, the only dish | 150,000₫ each (300,000₫ pot for two) |
| Yeebo | Sài Gòn Ward (old D1) | Cantonese | Yin-yang pot | Broth from 380,000₫ a pot, plus meat |
| Kuai Jie Zhao | Xuân Hòa Ward (old D3) | Chongqing mala | Beef tripe and omasum | About 350,000₫ to 500,000₫ |
| Haidilao | Vincom Center (old D1) | Sichuan-style chain | Tomato and mala split pot | 350,000₫ to 500,000₫ |
| Mameya Saigon | Japan Town (old D1) | Japanese shabu-shabu | Soy milk broth, beef set | 399,000₫ to 999,000₫ |
| Chill Thai | Cầu Ông Lãnh Ward (old D1) | Thai | Tom yum hot pot | 309,000₫ a pot, before VAT |
| Manwah | Saigon Centre, Vincom | Taiwanese buffet | Đài Ngưu Trân tier | 309,000₫ to 559,000₫, before VAT |
| Dragon Hot Pot | Bàn Cờ (old D3), Tân Định | Ma la tang by weight | Ma La Tang | From 22,900₫ per 100g |
How hot pot works in Ho Chi Minh City
Lẩu means hot pot. Nhúng means to dip, so đồ nhúng on a menu is everything you cook in the broth. At a Vietnamese lẩu restaurant you order the pot itself, small (nhỏ) or large (lớn). It arrives with the broth and a first load of fish or meat, and greens (rau) and noodles (bún or mì) are either included or about 15,000₫ to 20,000₫ a plate. Anything extra is thêm.
Southern Vietnamese broths lean sour or funky: goby goes into a broth soured with lá giang leaves, and lẩu mắm is built on fermented fish. Chinese places work the other way round. You choose a broth, often a split pot with fiery mala on one side and something clear on the other, then order plates to cook yourself. Conveyor-belt places such as Kichi-Kichi give each person their own pot.
If you want the Michelin view, the guide’s own explainer on Vietnamese hot pot, published in January 2026, names one restaurant in this city: Nhà Tú, a Bib Gourmand at 129/4 Võ Văn Tần, Xuân Hòa Ward, for its milk oyster hot pot with beef belly. We could not find a published price for that pot, so it sits outside the numbered list for now.
What it costs for two. A Vietnamese lẩu pot for two runs from about 175,000₫ to 300,000₫. A Thai or Cantonese pot is 260,000₫ to 380,000₫ before VAT, plus whatever you add. Two people at Haidilao usually spend 700,000₫ to 1,000,000₫, two Manwah buffets cost 618,000₫ to 1,118,000₫ before VAT, and two Mameya sets start at 798,000₫. Check whether the menu says prices exclude VAT: Somtam ZAAP, Yeebo, Haidilao, Chill Thai and Manwah all quote before VAT.
1. Somtam ZAAP
Somtam ZAAP is an Isan Thai restaurant first, and a hot pot restaurant for exactly one dish. That dish is the reason it is here: Lẩu Mama Tomyum, a brass pot of tom yum set over a burner at the table and loaded with seafood, crispy pork belly, meatballs, egg and Mama instant noodles. It is 260,000₫ before VAT on the menu on its own website.
The kitchen is run by a Thai head chef, so build the rest of the table from the Isan side of the menu. The som tam and the fried chicken wings are what it is known for.
- Address: 136 Pasteur, Sài Gòn Ward (formerly Bến Nghé, District 1). Second branch at 70 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, Xuân Hòa Ward (formerly Võ Thị Sáu, District 3)
- Hours: 11am to 11pm daily
- Price: 260,000₫ a pot, before VAT
- Order: Lẩu Mama Tomyum and a som tam
2. Lẩu Cá Kèo Bà Huyện
The pot to try first. Cá kèo is a small, slim goby from the Mekong Delta, and in this dish the fish traditionally arrive alive and go into the pot at the table. The broth is soured with lá giang leaves, and the greens are the classic southern set: rau đắng (a bitter herb), banana flower, kèo nèo and water lily stems.
On its Grab menu in October 2026 a small pot is 145,000₫ and a large one 230,000₫, with greens and noodles 15,000₫ each on top, so two people eat for about 175,000₫. Prices at the table can differ a little from the delivery menu. Extra live fish is 85,000₫ a portion. The same kitchen does an eel hot pot (lẩu lươn, 285,000₫ large) and a bitter-herb fish congee, cháo cá rau đắng, for the end of the night. There is a second Bà Huyện shop on the same street, at number 18.
- Address: 87 Bà Huyện Thanh Quan, Xuân Hòa Ward (formerly Võ Thị Sáu, District 3)
- Hours: ShopeeFood lists 9am to 9pm, and other listings run later, so aim to arrive before 9
- Price: about 90,000₫ each for two sharing a small pot
- Order: lẩu cá kèo, plus an extra portion of fish
3. Lẩu Mắm Cây Mận
Lẩu mắm is the Mekong Delta’s fermented fish hot pot, and the real thing is up a narrow spiral staircase in Bình Thạnh. Cô Hường, who is nearly 70 and from Sóc Trăng, has been selling it since 1976 and sells nothing else. There is no menu and barely a sign. Regulars call it lẩu mắm cây mận after the plum tree that stood outside when the shop was on the ground floor.
A pot for two is 300,000₫, including bún and greens. The broth is made from cá linh mắm with lemongrass and chilli fried in fish fat, and it already holds cá hú fish and eggplant stir-fried with pork. On the side come pork belly, beef, prawns and squid, with bitter melon, water lily stems, kèo nèo and rau đắng to dunk. Extra toppings are 70,000₫ and extra greens 20,000₫. Ask and they will make it less sweet or hotter. Iced tea and towels are free, which is rarer than it should be.
The broth is seasoned hard on purpose, so the bún and greens can pull the salt back. One fan quoted by Vietbao in February put the learning curve neatly: you complain the first time and you are hooked by the second.
- Address: 316A Nguyễn Văn Đậu, Bình Lợi Trung Ward (formerly Ward 11, Bình Thạnh)
- Hours: 11am to 8pm, closing earlier on busy days. It fills up from about 5pm
- Price: 300,000₫ a pot for two
- Order: the lẩu mắm. It is all they make
4. Yeebo
The grown-up Cantonese choice, and the easiest table in the centre for a mixed group. Broths start at 380,000₫ a pot for the yin-yang (lẩu uyên ương), satay, tom yum or Sichuan, rise to 690,000₫ for pork marrow bone with pear, and top out at 1,050,000₫ for a flaming drunken crab pot. Meat is extra: US beef 330,000₫ a plate, Angus 570,000₫, wagyu 1,090,000₫. All of that is before VAT, from its October 2026 menu.
Order the yin-yang pot if your table disagrees about chilli. For a big group, the 2026 hot pot set menus for ten run 5,556,600₫ to 9,120,600₫, roughly 556,000₫ to 912,000₫ a head. The mutton brisket hot pot has to be ordered ahead. Note the break: Yeebo closes between lunch and dinner.
- Address: 1 Lê Thánh Tôn, Sài Gòn Ward (formerly Bến Nghé, District 1). Yeebo also lists branches at 76 Nguyễn Văn Trỗi in Phú Nhuận and on Tôn Dật Tiên in Phú Mỹ Hưng
- Hours: 9am to 2pm and 5pm to 10pm
- Phone: 028 3823 0368
- Price: broth from 380,000₫ a pot plus meat, before VAT
- Order: the yin-yang pot, or pork marrow bone and pear
5. Kuai Jie Zhao
Proper Chongqing heat, and hot pot at 2am. Kuai Jie Zhao, a Chongqing hot pot brand, opened in Saigon in July 2024 and stays open until 4am. Its signature is beef tripe and the white “thousand-layer” omasum, dipped for 15 to 30 seconds in a mala broth that numbs the lips the way Sichuan pepper should. There are milder broths for the faint-hearted, including a mushroom one added in June 2026.
It publishes no menu online. A January 2026 review put the spend at 350,000₫ to 500,000₫ a head, with broths at 150,000₫ to 200,000₫ a pot. A second branch opened in Phú Mỹ Hưng this year.
- Address: 40 Võ Văn Tần, Xuân Hòa Ward (formerly Võ Thị Sáu, District 3). Second branch at 47 Cao Triều Phát, Tân Hưng Ward (Phú Mỹ Hưng)
- Hours: until 4am. Listings disagree on the opening time, so ring first for an early dinner
- Phone: 028 6686 8860
- Price: about 350,000₫ to 500,000₫ a head
- Order: mala broth with beef tripe and omasum
6. Haidilao
The Chinese chain that turned hot pot into a show, with 20 restaurants in Vietnam by September 2026. The one to head for in the centre is on Level 3 of Vincom Center Đồng Khởi. One pot takes up to four broths, and the plain water sections are free. Tomato is 54,000₫ and mala 75,600₫ a section, the sauce bar is 43,200₫ a head, and the pulled-noodle dance is 20,000₫ a portion. Most people spend 350,000₫ to 500,000₫ each. Those are September 2026 prices, before VAT.
Vincom Center is the closest thing the city has to a hot pot food court. DaHú (Chongqing mala), Manwah and Kichi-Kichi all trade in the same building, and Dookki’s tteokbokki buffet is on the third floor, so a group that cannot decide can walk the floors and pick.
- Address: L3-08, Level 3, Vincom Center, 72 Lê Thánh Tôn, Sài Gòn Ward (formerly Bến Nghé, District 1)
- Phone: 028 6273 1000
- Price: 350,000₫ to 500,000₫ a head, before VAT
- Order: tomato and mala in a split pot, the Haidilao beef, and one noodle dance
7. Mameya Saigon
The newest place on this list, open since 8 August 2026, and the first overseas branch of a Japanese shabu-shabu house with eleven shops in Japan. The tofu is made in the restaurant every day to a Nagoya recipe more than twenty years old, and that is the reason to go.
Every set is 150g of the main plus house tofu, three starters, vegetables, a ramen or udon finish and dessert, and you choose two of six broths. Pork is 399,000₫, beef 499,000₫, Hokkaido pork or Norwegian salmon 699,000₫ and wagyu 999,000₫ a person. Free-flow drinks for 90 minutes add 300,000₫. Order the soy milk broth, which forms a skin of yuba as it simmers. There are private rooms for 2 to 20, which makes it the hot pot for a quiet date or a business dinner. It sits in the middle of Saigon’s Japan Town.
- Address: 2F, 26/4 Lê Thánh Tôn, Sài Gòn Ward (formerly Bến Nghé, District 1)
- Hours: 11am to 11pm, last orders 10pm. Its Poste listing gives Tuesday as the day off, so check before a Tuesday visit
- Phone: 0966 988 849, Japanese spoken
- Price: 399,000₫ to 999,000₫ a person
- Order: the beef set with soy milk and sukiyaki broths
8. Chill Thai
The Thai hot pot specialist. The tom yum hot pot is 309,000₫ small or 499,000₫ large, and there is a vegetarian tom yum pot at 309,000₫, which makes this the easiest hot pot in the city to share with a vegetarian. For the Isan clay-pot style, order the Chim Chum (jim jum) at 279,000₫. Prices are before VAT, from its own online menu in October 2026.
It is Vietnamese-owned, with three branches, and the Cô Giang one is the most central.
- Address: 163 Cô Giang, Cầu Ông Lãnh Ward (formerly Cô Giang, District 1). Also 41 Hồng Hà, Tân Sơn Hòa Ward (formerly Ward 2, Tân Bình) and 17 Đường số 10, Tân Mỹ Ward (formerly Tân Phú, District 7)
- Hours: 11am to 10pm daily
- Phone: 090 536 32 86
- Price: tom yum hot pot from 309,000₫ a pot, before VAT
- Order: tom yum hot pot, or the Chim Chum
9. Manwah
The cheapest proper hot pot buffet in the centre. Manwah is a Taiwanese chain from the Golden Gate group with about thirty branches across the city. Four tiers run from Phong Vân at 309,000₫ to Vạn Giai Kỳ at 559,000₫, and most people take Đài Ngưu Trân at 409,000₫. Prices are before VAT, and children under a metre eat free. Since September 2026 there is also a fresh, hand-sliced beef buffet with two new broths, one of pickled mustard greens (cải chua) and one of mẻ, the fermented rice that gives northern soups their sourness. Manwah tops our guide to buffets in Ho Chi Minh City for the same reason.
Eating alone? Kichi-Kichi, from the same group, runs a conveyor-belt buffet with a pot for each diner, in both of the malls below.
- Address: Level 5, Saigon Centre, 67 Lê Lợi, Sài Gòn Ward (formerly Bến Nghé, District 1), and Basement 3, Vincom Center, 70-72 Lê Thánh Tôn
- Hours: 11am to 10pm
- Phone: hotline 1900 6622
- Price: 309,000₫ to 559,000₫ a head, before VAT
- Order: the Đài Ngưu Trân tier
10. Dragon Hot Pot
The one for eating alone. You fill a bowl from open fridges holding more than 180 ingredients, it is weighed, then you pick a broth and a spice level and it comes back cooked. The price board on its own website charges 22,900₫ per 100g for a broth pot, 29,900₫ per 100g stir-fried, and 39,900₫ per 100g for meat and seafood, so the vegetables are where the value is. That board dates from September 2025 and was still the current one in October 2026.
The signature is the Ma La Tang, in four spice levels up to “Dragon hot”. The collagen bone broth is the no-heat option. The booking page on its website is broken, so just walk in.
- Address: 04 Cao Thắng, Bàn Cờ Ward (formerly Ward 5, District 3), and 71 Bis Trần Quang Khải, Tân Định Ward (formerly Tân Định, District 1)
- Hours: 11am to 10pm, according to Foody listings
- Phone: 1800 255855
- Price: from 22,900₫ per 100g
- Order: Ma La Tang at a middle spice level
Where to go for what
- Your first Saigon hot pot: Lẩu Cá Kèo Bà Huyện
- The real Mekong Delta thing: Lẩu Mắm Cây Mận
- A group that cannot agree on chilli: Yeebo’s yin-yang pot, or a four-way pot at Haidilao
- Hot pot after midnight: Kuai Jie Zhao, open until 4am
- A date or a business dinner: Mameya Saigon, with private rooms
- Eating alone: Dragon Hot Pot, or Kichi-Kichi’s pot-each conveyor
- All you can eat for the least: Manwah’s 309,000₫ tier
- Vegetarians: Chill Thai’s vegetarian tom yum pot, or Ashima’s mushroom hot pots at 35A Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Sài Gòn Ward (formerly Đa Kao, District 1)
- Thai food with a member discount: Somtam ZAAP
- Five choices under one roof: Vincom Center Đồng Khởi
If your group would rather grill than simmer, our guide to the best Korean BBQ in Saigon has the tabletop barbecue. Vegetarian hot pot, lẩu chay, also turns up in our vegetarian restaurants in Saigon, and there is more tom yum in our Thai restaurants in Saigon.
How we picked these hot pot restaurants
Every restaurant here was checked as trading in October 2026. For each one we looked it up in Vietnam’s business registry where it is registered under its trading name, then looked for a current sign of life: its own menu or website, a delivery menu, Michelin’s 2026 guide or a dated 2026 news report. Prices come from the restaurant’s own menu where it publishes one, and from Grab, ShopeeFood or a dated review where it does not, and each entry says which. Addresses use the ward names in force since 1 July 2025, with the old name in brackets.
Four restaurants from the previous version of this guide are gone. We could find no sign that Xi Hotpot is still trading. Rakuen Hotpot’s website domain has expired and we found no registration for it. Happy Lamb is still registered, but we could not confirm it is open, so it stays off until we have. DaHú is trading in Vincom Center, but we could not confirm a single price, so it gets a mention rather than a number. Dragon Hot Pot and Yeebo stayed, with corrected prices and hours.
Somtam ZAAP is a Saigon Scene partner. That is why it is listed first, and why Scene Pass members get 10% off there. No other restaurant on this page is a partner, and none paid to be here.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the best hot pot in Ho Chi Minh City?
For Saigon's own style, Lẩu Cá Kèo Bà Huyện at 87 Bà Huyện Thanh Quan, Xuân Hòa Ward (old District 3): goby in a sour lá giang broth, from 145,000₫ for a small pot on its October 2026 Grab menu. For fermented fish hot pot go to Lẩu Mắm Cây Mận in Bình Thạnh, for Chongqing mala try Kuai Jie Zhao or Haidilao, and for Japanese shabu-shabu go to Mameya Saigon in Japan Town.
How much does hot pot cost in Ho Chi Minh City?
A Vietnamese lẩu pot for two costs about 175,000₫ to 300,000₫ at a local hot pot restaurant. A Thai or Cantonese pot is 260,000₫ to 380,000₫ before VAT, plus extras. Haidilao averages 350,000₫ to 500,000₫ a head, the Manwah buffet is 309,000₫ to 559,000₫ a head before VAT, and shabu-shabu sets at Mameya Saigon are 399,000₫ to 999,000₫. Prices checked October 2026.
What is the difference between Vietnamese hot pot and Chinese hot pot?
Vietnamese hot pot, lẩu, is usually ordered as one shared pot with the fish or meat, greens and noodles already decided, and southern broths lean sour or fermented, such as lá giang leaves with goby or lẩu mắm made with fermented fish. Chinese hot pot is built to order: you choose one or more broths, often a split pot with spicy mala on one side, then order plates of meat, seafood and vegetables to cook yourself.
Where can I get a hot pot buffet in Ho Chi Minh City?
Manwah is the main one: a Taiwanese hot pot buffet with four tiers from 309,000₫ to 559,000₫ a head before VAT, with branches at Saigon Centre and Vincom Center Đồng Khởi among about thirty in the city. Kichi-Kichi, from the same group, runs a conveyor-belt buffet with a pot for each diner, and Dookki does a tteokbokki hot pot buffet.
Which hot pot restaurant is best for a group?
Yeebo at 1 Lê Thánh Tôn sells hot pot set menus for ten at 5,556,600₫ to 9,120,600₫ before VAT, and its yin-yang split pot suits a table that disagrees about chilli. Haidilao's pot takes up to four broths at once, and Mameya Saigon has private rooms for 2 to 20 people. Book ahead for a big table at the weekend.
Is there vegetarian hot pot in Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes. Chill Thai has a vegetarian tom yum hot pot at 309,000₫ before VAT (October 2026), and Ashima specialises in mushroom hot pot, with a vegetarian set on its menu, at 35A Nguyễn Đình Chiểu and 331A Nguyễn Trãi. Traditional vegetarian restaurants also serve lẩu chay, a vegetarian hot pot built on mushrooms and tofu.
