Hoi An
A small old trading town on the central coast, Hoi An is famous for two things: silk lanterns and tailors. The Old Town is a UNESCO site of yellow merchant houses, Chinese assembly halls, and a Japanese covered bridge, and at dusk every alley turns the colour of a paper lampshade. Custom suits and dresses are sewn overnight by a network of family tailors. Eat cao lau (the local noodle, made with water from a specific well), banh mi at the famous corner shop, and white rose dumplings at any restaurant on the riverfront. An Bang beach, ten minutes east, is the post-Old-Town wind-down.
