A Chef's Tour · Yaowarat (Chinatown)
A night walk through the alleys of Yaowarat with A Chef's Tour: 15 or more tastings at eight or nine stops, in a group of eight at most. Pick it if food is the whole point of your evening and you want each dish explained, not just served.
This is the most food-heavy tour on this site. The listing describes three and a half to four hours in the alleys of Yaowarat, built around how Chinese cooking shaped Thai food, from noodles to stir-fries. Dishes it names include crispy chive dumplings with nam jim jaew, charcoal-grilled satay, slow-braised pork, shrimp dumplings and poh taek, a seafood soup. Two or three of the stops are street food venues listed by the Michelin Guide.
A licensed guide leads, and an assistant runs ahead to order, which keeps the pace up. The listing says the tour does not suit vegans, vegetarians or people with food allergies. Pescetarians can join but get two or three fewer tastings. Severe allergies are out because of cross-contamination; mild gluten intolerance is fine, but coeliacs are advised against it, mainly because of soy sauce.
You meet outside the Shanghai Mansion hotel, where staff wear black A Chef's Tour polos, then move to a cafe or bar on a side street before walking. The tour ends back at the start on Yaowarat Road. There is no temple on the route. The listing also mentions hotel pick-up and drop-off without details, so ask before you count on it.
Meet staff in black A Chef's Tour polos outside the hotel, then move to a cafe or bar on a side street.
Crispy chive dumplings with nam jim jaew and charcoal-grilled satay are among the dishes the listing names.
Two or three of the stops are street food venues listed by the Michelin Guide.
Slow-braised pork, shrimp dumplings and poh taek seafood soup.
The walk ends where it started, at Shanghai Mansion.
★★★★★it was great to hear about the history of the foods we were eating and the families who have been making some of these dishes for decades.
★★★★★We were taken to restaurants that we would never have found. The food and guide were exceptional.
★★★★★Jonny was an excellent guide and having an assistant, Gore, to run the food and serve as our forward planner was huge.
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About four hours; the listing's description says three and a half to four.
15 or more, spread over eight or nine stops, two or three of them Michelin-listed street food venues.
The listing says it does not suit vegetarians, vegans or people with food allergies. Pescetarians are welcome with two or three fewer tastings.
Outside the Shanghai Mansion hotel in Chinatown. The group walks from there and finishes back at the same spot.
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Fifteen or more tastings on foot in Yaowarat's alleys, in a group of eight at most.
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