A Fabulous Bangkok Food Tour
Next stop - Incredible Beef Soup!
Our next stop was at T. Chan Pen for an incredible beef soup known as Kuaytiew Naeo. This is a 2nd generation restaurant/street café and has been there for 60 years. This beef soup contained everything that you can imagine from the cow! Even some pieces floating in that I wasn't sure about but having tried them all can verify - all very tasty and the broth delicious!
Our beef soup was followed by a trio of traditional Thai desserts - 1. black bean, 2. banana, 3. tapioca, corn, yam and coconut meat all in coconut milk - I love anything in coconut milk and these 3 were all particularly good.
Cassava Balls - deep fried sweet tapioca being cooked in the Talat Phlu market
Coconut pancakes & Chinese doughnuts
Below Photo: Tasty Chinese doughnuts to dunk in the delicious Thai coffee - Left Photo: Bangkok Food Tour - Our guide Bowie with refreshing pineapple pieces for us to enjoy at Suriya Coffee Shop
A ride on a Longtail Boat through the Thonburi Canals
At a canal side restaurant in Bang Ruang we were served Fresh River Prawns in a Panang Sauce
We walked along the ‘boardwalk’ to visit The Artist House. This is a wooden house which is over 100 years old, built of dark wood open and over 2 floors and with a Stupa (Pagoda) that is over 300 years old in the garden. It was so interesting to see and housed a lot of art, antiques and old puppets. Normally there is a puppet show at 2pm every day there.
Continuing along the boardwalk, we fed the ugly looking river fish with some very brightly coloured fish food, which caused a feeding frenzy and then crossed over the canal by a small steep bridge that could accommodate only pedestrians and motorbikes.
walkway to the Artists House
View from one side of the bridge
View from the other side of the bridge
Mr. Boy
Chinese Noodle Soup - Guayjub
What a great place to enjoy Chinese Noodle Soup
Mango Sticky Rice - Khao Neeo Mamuang
Back onto the LongTail boat for the next part of our tour, the canals are quite busy and we got stuck in a ‘longtail boat traffic jam’ entering a lock. For me this was a pleasure as it allowed time to look around and take in the local sights and sounds of the working canal. About 8 longtail boats were ushered into the lock where we waited and were then taken up with the rising water to join the next part of the river.
After the excitement of being in the lock we continued to the Wang Lang area and disembarked at the Bell Temple.
Hard at work at SomTum Yupin - Photo on the right - An Isaan Feast
Sarim-tubtimkrob - glass noodles made with mung bean flour and coloured pink and green
And then the wonderful tour and eating extravaganza was over so we made our way back to the Tha Chang pier to catch the ferry back over to the Bangkok city side. The tour finished around 2 pm. As we made our way over the river we got some good glimpses of the famous Wat Arun Temple also known as The Temple of Dawn. The temple is on the west bank of the Chao Phraya river in the Thonburi District. It is unique in its design and I think one of the most stunning in Bangkok. The Wat Arun Temple is decorated with colourful china pieces and tiles. It is one of Bangkok’s oldest and most revered temples
I would thoroughly recommend this tour – it really gave a comprehensive overview of the Thonburi District and the canal waterways, a previously unknown area of Bangkok to me. The mixture of foods we tried was just right – although how we ate that much in a few hours I’m not sure! I booked and paid for this tour myself and received no incentive to write this piece. I booked this tour with Bangkok Food Tours
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Wow! So many exotic and beautiful dishes!!! What an adventure! Being pregnant I might not dare trying it out at the moment, but I would LOVE to, when baby is born! Love your pictures!
X Louise
OMG! I’m so jealous right now. Wish I was there!! Kuichai is my favourite. Hope you have a great time in Thailand. 🙂
I absolutely love being in Thailand, so much delicious food in the Land of Smiles. I’m back in Europe now but planning my next trip soon…
Love food tours and this one seems seriously worth it. So many great things to try. yea I had the organ soup in China (your beef soup) I think I recognize some lung in there lol.
It really was a great tour and you’re right there were some unusual parts of the cow in that soup!!
Aroi Man Mak! The Chinese curlers dunked in Black Coffee, Beef Soup and Mango Sticky Rice are my favourites.
Now you’re making me hungry! Can’t wait to travel.
Thanks for a lovely read.
Thank you! this really was a great and such an interesting day out. A wonderful way to see the hidden areas of the city of Bangkok.