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Today we arrived in Thailand at 2pm. We met up with friends at 2:45 and headed ashore for an evening food tour of the hidden street and local foods of Bangkok. Bangkok is known for its heavy traffic and busy streets - it took us almost two hours, the ship's bus and two Grab (Uber like) cabs to get to the Shanghai Mansion - where we met our guide.
We had two local guides who took us on a winding tour through the back alleys and streets of Chinatown for a mix of street and "restaurant" food. Many of the places we stopped to try foods had Michelin recognition. Most places we had a place to sit, short stools and often a table. There were 7 of us. It was great fun seeing this side of the sity at night. The alleyways are full of businesses too - great entrepreneurial country.
So much wonderful food - our first stop was for a chive type pancake, followed by slow cooked pork. We also sampled fish cakes, chicken satay, a green local drink of some sort, fish hot pot, fried shrimp, a version of chicken noodle soup, chinese donut with a green (vanilla flavoured) dipping sauce, mango with sticky rice and so much more. We even had a soy flavoured soft ice cream served with more soya sauce on top. We even had an opportunity to try deep fried scorpion, silkworms and other bugs - sadly we were not brave enough!! Funnily enough though - one picky eater in our group, Bill, who wouldn't eat the chicken or the fish - he ate the insects, go figure....
We had two local guides who took us on a winding tour through the back alleys and streets of Chinatown for a mix of street and "restaurant" food. Many of the places we stopped to try foods had Michelin recognition. Most places we had a place to sit, short stools and often a table. There were 7 of us. It was great fun seeing this side of the sity at night. The alleyways are full of businesses too - great entrepreneurial country.
So much wonderful food - our first stop was for a chive type pancake, followed by slow cooked pork. We also sampled fish cakes, chicken satay, a green local drink of some sort, fish hot pot, fried shrimp, a version of chicken noodle soup, chinese donut with a green (vanilla flavoured) dipping sauce, mango with sticky rice and so much more. We even had a soy flavoured soft ice cream served with more soya sauce on top. We even had an opportunity to try deep fried scorpion, silkworms and other bugs - sadly we were not brave enough!! Funnily enough though - one picky eater in our group, Bill, who wouldn't eat the chicken or the fish - he ate the insects, go figure....
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