Foodie Culture Tour

Price includes:

Round trip transfer
Fresh food and drink
Local food expert

Itinerary:

3.30pm : Pick up from your hotel Lobby

4.00 pm : Meet Chef Boonrawd. The generous 60 years old chef who has been cooking his grandfather’s recipe since he was 30 years old. At this generation-to-generation local restaurant. He uses selective ingredients and offers the best meal to the food lovers. Experiment 4 tops menu including: Homemade Padthai with soft shell crab, fermented fish sausage, fried rice with shrimp pastes with special side dishes and Hokkien noodles, a famous pan-fried egg noodle with dark soy sauce topping with runny egg.

4.40pm : Visit the food center and test local foods from the street food vender where the Local people come to enjoy or take away food after picking up their children from school. Try out the longest que shop : Try out “Gai Tod” deep fried chicken with sticky rice and BBQ chicken with turmeric, a secret recipe of the Laila family, Her dad is a Deep fried Chef standing up in front of a huge wok with hot oil continuously for half a day. As well as testing her neighbor Roti Pancake from a very friendly mother and daughter shop. Testing Stew pork knuckle on top of rice served with cabbage pickle from a Thai Chinese family. And end up street food testing at Steamed fish curry in banana leaf shop.

5.10pm : Experience a taste of Traditional Southern Cuisine at a Michelin recommended restaurant.

6.10pm : Visit Iron bridge, A Landmark of Takuapa which was built for tin miner staff to cross Takuapa River during the tin mining period .

6.30pm : Explore old town Takuapa. Visit 100 years old Sino-Portuguese architecture Café. Test signature drinks old style Thai coffee and Thai tea from an expert local barista and take a walk along to enjoy old style building and wall painting

7.30pm: Drive back to the hotel

Remarks: On Sunday of high season (November-April) We will take you to test local foods at walking street at old town instead of food center)

Book This Tour

Depart @ 3:30pm

2,500THB/person (Min 2 People)

Local Food Tasting at Hidden Takua Pa

Come on, food lovers! A local food expert will take you to test more than 10 tasty dishes at the hidden town, Takua Pa. This place used to be a prosperous ancient trade city on the West coast of Thailand and has retained its simple and charming lifestyle to this day.

Let’s explore over 20 different food stalls where the locals come for their dining out. Start with a unique chicken coconut milk curry sauce grill on charcoal, named “Gai Kolae”, then try a yummy tiny Thai sausage with pork and preserved rice. Get surprised by a royal cuisine Thai coconut pancake”, Kanom Krok” that is created right in front of you.

Sit down to sample some Hoi Mok Pla in the banana leaf, a steamed curry fish, Southern style and more. At the end of the tour you will not leave without an incredible volcano roti pancake and “Cha Yen”, our Thai Tea with milk.

End your marvelous day by watching the sunset while you eat some more local dishes along the Takua Pa River. Relax and enjoy the slow life.

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