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Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok. Bangkok Food Tours, Bangkok. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok

We sighed with relief – and salivated too – when a trio of young Thai foodies set up Bangkok Food Tours and started offering foodie walking tours in Bangkok, one of the world’s great eating capitals. We signed up for their food walk through historic Bangrak or Old Bangkok.

We met our culinary guide Jan, from Bangkok Food Tours, at the BTS/Skytrain stop of Saphan Taksin, near the Chao Phraya River, where we began our scrummy stroll along Bangkok’s oldest street, Charoen Krung Road.

Established in 1861, in the city’s most historic area, Charoen Krung Road is home to some of the city’s oldest and most quintessential eateries.

Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok. Bangkok Food Tours, Bangkok. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

In between tastings we visited some of the neighbourhood’s most notable monuments, from one of Bangkok’s most beloved temples, Wat Suan Phlu, dating back to 1797, to the imposing Catholic Assumption Cathedral, built in 1821.

The idea behind punctuating the food stops with some sightseeing is so participants can stretch their legs, allow their food to digest, walk off some calories, and work up an appetite, because there is a lot of eating involved.

Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok. Bangkok Food Tours, Bangkok. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

While our hosts from Bangkok Food Tours insisted we would be served tasting sizes at each stop, a couple of the dishes were close in size to normal meal portions. By the end of the three-hour tour I was struggling to fit the last dish in.

Having said that, I didn’t want to insult anyone and appreciate the challenge of pleasing everyone. And besides: what is large for one eater might be small for another. Dig in!

Bangkok Food Tours – The Culinary Highlights

MR SOONG’S ROAST DUCK AND RICE

Our first tasting – Mr Soong’s khao na phed, Thai-Chinese roast duck and rice – set the tone of the tour. The simple, old-fashioned restaurant is still run by Mr Soong and his son, and it’s all about the food – simple dishes done well. A farmer before opening the eatery 50 years ago, Mr Soong only serves Thai ducks because he swears they have less fat than Chinese poultry.

Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok. Bangkok Food Tours, Bangkok. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

The duck we tried was absolutely delicious. Lean and meaty, and marinated in garlic, coriander root and red onion, it was tasty, succulent and sweet. Mr Soong’s duck feet, liver and intestines are also popular with locals who pack the place out at lunchtime. We had to save room so we’ll be trying those next time.

MUSLIM RESTAURANT, CURRY WITH EGG AND BEEF SATAY

The Muslim Restaurant, our next stop, is a charmingly retro 70-year old restaurant still operated by the third generation of an Indian Muslim family that moved to Bangkok a century ago. The eatery is distinguished by its hearty, flavoursome, pre-cooked Thai-Indian curries on display under glass at the front of the eatery.

Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok. Bangkok Food Tours, Bangkok. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

We tried the speciality, a rustic, complex, hearty curry served with a hard boiled egg, along with a dish of smoky beef satay sticks served with homemade peanut sauce. Most Thais, being Buddhists, prefer pork, as well as chicken, but Muslims, prohibited from eating pork by Islam, use beef for their satay. We love them all. The rotis are also meant to be tasty. Next time.

PAN LEE BAKERY, BBQ PORK AND PANDAN CUSTARD BUNS

Renovated in recent years to incorporate a stylish little café, this traditional bakery in an old shophouse has been producing freshly-baked filled buns since 1955. The fourth generation ancestors of the original owner, who trained as a pastry chef at the historic Oriental Hotel nearby, may have been responsible for the bakery’s modernisation but they have retained the traditional recipes that long ago made the Pan Lee Bakery famous among Thais.

Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok. Bangkok Food Tours, Bangkok. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

We tried their best-selling buns, mu daeng, filled with sweet BBQ pork, and sang kha ya, filled with creamy pandan custard. These are so popular that Bangkok Food Tours have to reserve them the day before as they’re usually sold out by 11am. We washed them down with a refreshing, sweet lemon iced tea.

YEN TA PO WAT KAK, RED NOODLE SOUP

At a crowded, characterful, 50-year old noodle shop near the Hindu Sri Maha Mariamman Temple (known as Wat Kak or Wat Khaek to Thais) we slurped big bowls of yen ta po or yen ta fo, which foreigners frequently call ‘red noodle soup’.

Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok. Bangkok Food Tours, Bangkok. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Packed with fresh shrimp and squid, chewy fish balls and fried tofu, crunchy water chestnuts, flat wide rice noodles, and the pieces of congealed chicken blood beloved by Thais, it’s actually red ketchup that gives the soup the pink-red colour. The duck with rice and pork leg served with rice is said to be good here too, but it’s the soup the locals come for after visiting the temple.

KALAPAPRUEK, GREEN CURRY CHICKEN & ROTI

Our last stop is the local institution Kalapapruek, founded 40 years ago and owned by Thai royals. There is a palace-home just beyond the car park.

Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok. Bangkok Food Tours, Bangkok. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Here, sitting under a shaded dining section in the garden, we tried the signature dish – a thick, complex kaeng khiew wan khai or Royal green chicken curry, served with flaky fried roti to scoop up and mop up the curry. It was absolutely delicious – thick, fragrant, and full of flavour and complexity, it was one of the best curries we’ve tasted outside of Nahm. As was dessert, a simple, traditional, Thai coconut ice cream.

Our Verdict on Bangkok Food Tours

We thoroughly enjoyed the tour and wanted to go back and do it all again. The tour is a must for foodie travellers, for first-timers to Bangkok, as much as expats and frequent Thailand travellers.

We’ve been eating and cooking Thai food for as long as we can remember, travelling to Thailand for years, and have lived in Bangkok over the years for long periods of time, yet the tour still introduced us to a few spots we hadn’t tried before and gave us opportunities to ask questions of Thai-born foodies.

Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok. Bangkok Food Tours, Bangkok. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

For first-timers, for whom ordering food in places without English menus can be daunting, it will give you some tips and boost your confidence. It’s also a terrific introduction to the depth and range of Thai food – yes, there is more to Thai cuisine than Pad Thai.

Our tip: do the tour on your first day in Bangkok and ask lots of questions, so you’re set for the rest of your trip.

Our Tips for Your Bangkok Food Tours Walk

  • These small group tours run daily from 10am-1pm, but numbers are limited (which is a good thing) so we recommend booking this Old Bangkok Food Tour as soon as you have confirmed your travel dates so you don’t miss out.
  • Strongly suggest taking plenty of photos and keeping detailed notes, even if you’re not a writer/blogger — they’ll serve you well for the rest of your trip.
  • You’ll probably walk no more than a couple of kilometres over the course of a few hours, but wear a hat and take a bottle of water, as Bangkok is nearly always hot and humid.
  • Bangkok Food Tours (which now operates as Asia Food Tours by Navatas) offer a handful of other foodie walking tours, so you may also wish to consider their Chinatown Food Tour, as eating in Chinatown can also be daunting for first-time visitors.

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About Lara Dunston

A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

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  1. Corinne says

    May 18, 2013 at 4:36 pm

    Sounds great…makes me hungry. Now I can’t wait to go back to Bangkok and try one of these tours.

  2. Samantha says

    July 24, 2013 at 7:30 am

    You have amazing food pics! They all look so yummy… I’ll definitely have to do one of these tours if I ever go to Thailand one day!

  3. Lara Dunston says

    July 24, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    Thanks, Samantha! Make the tour a priority if you get to Thailand – it’s a great introduction to Thai food. Thanks for dropping by!

  4. Amber says

    January 16, 2014 at 6:41 am

    Glad you had a good tour. I did a similar one in KL with Food Tour Malaysia and despite having traveled in KL so many times, I was still introduced to new foods.

  5. Lara Dunston says

    October 1, 2014 at 1:29 pm

    Hi Amber – don’t you love it when that happens? Like you, we know Bangkok intimately and know Thai food well but local tours such as these provide wonderful opportunities to discover new dishes and tasting new flavours. We try to do them wherever we go.

  6. Rick says

    June 18, 2015 at 10:08 pm

    Woooow.. it just made me so hungry!! I loved this article? Can I repost it on my blog mate? I will most certainly say where it came from!!

  7. Lara Dunston says

    June 21, 2015 at 1:51 pm

    Hi Rick
    Thanks for the kind words. You’re certainly free to mention the post and link to it, but you can’t repost the story, sorry.

  8. Sheila says

    June 26, 2016 at 7:33 am

    Took your advice on “dine with a local” in Cape Town and had a marvelous meal and made new friends..now I’m going to do it again in Bangkok. Thank you for the great details.

  9. Lara Dunston says

    July 7, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    Hi Sheila, do you mean you dined with a local through Coffeebeans Routes or Andulela? Or through one of the social dining websites? Guessing it’s the latter as the tour companies we used only operate in Cape Town. Hopefully you see this, as I would love to know.

  10. Danielle says

    January 4, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    This all sounds so good. I’m really glad I found this blog – I look forward to taking a trip to Thailand as I feel like I have so many tips now! What was your favorite dish out of all the ones you mentioned?

  11. Lara Dunston says

    January 5, 2017 at 11:49 pm

    Hi Danielle – We are huge fans of Thai food so it’s all fantastic, especially in that old part of the city, but if I had to choose one dish it would probably be the Muslim curry with egg. You must put Thailand high on your list. Although you have to come to Cambodia too. You would love it!

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

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This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

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