Bangkok Backstreets
Award-winning Bangkok food tour through Chinatown's backstreets, uncovering the Thai-Chinese flavours that shaped the city's cuisine.
Hosted by one of our Bangkok tastemakers
Experience hosted by Wit, Annie & other local tastemaker guides
What you can expect
Bangkok food tour - Bangkok's street food story begins in Chinatown. Long before the city became famous for roadside woks and plastic stools, Chinese immigrants settled in Bangkok's neighbourhood Yaowarat, bringing with them recipes, cooking techniques and a trading culture that transformed these narrow streets into Bangkok's original open-air dining room. Many credit Chinatown as the birthplace of the city's street food culture, where hawkers first lined the pavements to feed dockworkers, traders and hungry locals. More than a century later, little has changed.
The essentials
Destination
Bangkok, Thailand
Duration
3.5-4 hours
Tastings
15+ tastings
Language
English
Days of the week
Tue–Sun
Group size
Small group up to 8 guests
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Transport
Walking tour with 7-8 stops
Included
- More tastings than any other Bangkok food tour
- Smallest group size in Bangkok
- Led by Bangkok tastemaker guides
- Bottled water and other drinks included
Excluded
- Alcoholic drinks
- Pick up / drop off from your hotel
Field archive
Route notes
Tours are subject to change depending on vendor opening hours, time of year and other factors.
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Balcony bar for meeting point arranging groups
Fried Chives Jae Noi Yaowarat is a cherished spot in Bangkok's bustling Yaowarat area, celebrated for its perfectly crispy chive dumplings.
You’ll try
Chinese chive pancake
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You’ll try
Braised pork leg
Field notes
Included
More tastings than any other Bangkok food tour, Smallest group size in Bangkok, Led by Bangkok tastemaker guides, and Bottled water and other drinks included.
Not included
Alcoholic drinks and Pick up / drop off from your hotel.
Meeting point
Yaowarat. Your guide will meet you at the exit ten minutes before departure; a WhatsApp thread lands in your inbox within an hour of booking.
Good to know
Rain or shine, this tour still runs. Vegetarians are catered for with substitutions; the route isn't suitable for wheelchairs.
Dietary honesty
Vegetarian works with some substitutions. Gluten-free means several tastings are omitted. Vegan isn't recommended for this particular tour.
Cancellation
Reserve now, pay later. Cancel any time up to 24 hours before departure at no charge; after that, the booking is non-refundable.
Meet your tastemakers
Wit
Prawit C
Wit leads this tour in Bangkok — one of our chef-guides on the ground. Ask them anything: they've spent years finding the counters, kitchens and stalls behind the door.
Meeting point
Where the tour starts (and ends).
Shanghai Mansion Bangkok
479, 481 Yaowarat Rd, Khwaeng Samphanthawong, Khet Samphanthawong, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10100, Thailand
Reviews
Anonymous
Getyourguide
“Great experience testing ”
21/11/25
Guest
Getyourguide
“Amazing, our guide and staff are super nice, lots of food and super yummy.”
21/11/25
Renae F Robinson
Getyourguide
“Ploy was an excellent guide! She was very insightful and gave great anecdotes about the history of the vendors. This was a highlight of our trip in Bangkok - would recommend this tour!!”
20/11/25
Nils Mosch
Getyourguide
“Delicious food, a small group, and a nice guide. All in all, a great tour!”
20/11/25
Emily Dzongowski
“Do this tour! Absolutely amazing food tour! Incredible value for money - we were constantly being asked if we wanted more of anything at each stop. Truly high-quality stops as well - Michelin-guide recommended and local favourites! They even gave us a little souvenir as a honeymoon gift!”
18/11/25
Guest
“Fabulous and filling With only seven guests, we enjoyed all the food and fun facts that our tour guide gave us. There’s no way to know what foods are good because china town is huge! This was a great way to taste it all.”
18/11/25
Guest
“Highlight of our Trip! Absolutely incredible experience! Hands down one of the best tours I’ve ever been been one they have this tour down to a perfect science. Sally, our main guide, gave us so much interesting information about the food and wealth of knowledge on Thailand, while also giving 15 different tastings of food seem seamless. Our guides assistant, Kor, was absolutely incredible!! His job was to go ahead of us and reserve the tables beforehand, order the food, and help serve it while also making sure we had water. We never once had to wait for a table or for food, it was a seamless blend of place to place and course to course. I also must add that they were not skimpy on servings! It was the perfect amount for tasting but if you wanted more of something they would get it to you! At the end they even gave us a small token for our honeymoon trip!! Overall 10/10 experience we could not have asked for anything better!”
18/11/25
Guest
“The perfect way to get the taste of Bangkok First, it's an amazing way to discover the city. But also the way the trip was curated was superb, with small & large dishes, savory or sweet, building up towards a climax. Everything was super tasty and so wonderful not just for the mouth but also for the eyes. And finally, our guide Noah was great - very knowledgeable (also funny...) taking care of every request and making sure everybody has a wonderful experience. I full heartedly recommend this trip !!!”
18/11/25
David Sherman
“Great food introduced to... Great food introduced to us by a knowledgable and friendly guide. Be sure to bring your appetite, and pace yourself with each dish!”
18/11/25
Guest
“This is a Must do This is a must while in Bangkok. Great food and you experience places you would not find yourself, gives you great confidence on what to eat and order. We loved it and would do again. Arrive hungry!”
18/11/25
Maria Sanchez-Grant
Getyourguide
“Hosts / guides were fabulous. Rach and Kin. Food choices were fabulous and have given us more confidence on picking food going forwards”
17/11/25
Guest
“Ao(h)mygod! Left the tour completely stuffed and satisfied. Wow. Oh & Aom were such an amazing duo from start to finish, great at showing us around, keeping us safe through traffic, giving background info on the dishes & restaurants and just making nice small talk in general. There was room to get as much food & water as we wanted at every place we went to, and while many of us started off by bravely ordering seconds, by the end nobody did so anymore. Not because we didn't want to (it was delicious!), but because we just couldn't. If you book this tour, skip your breakfast and don't make dinner reservations, this food is all you can handle for the day!”
17/11/25
Mariya Dvoskina
“Come hungry ! This tour... Come hungry ! This tour will take you to all of the hidden gems including Michelin spots. Very accommodating your guides will make sure you have the best experience !”
17/11/25
Cam McKeigan
Getyourguide
“A terrific way to spend an evening in Bangkok. The tour takes you through Bangkok’s Chinatown, to unassuming but delicious spots that’d be pretty tough to find on your own. Our guides’ (Ant and Peem) were very knowledgeable about the food, locations, and history of the area, and attentive to the group’s needs. Definitely take this tour!”
17/11/25
Andrea Bramow
Getyourguide
“super organized, very tasty food, very friendly guide”
17/11/25
Andrew Sipes
“Good food tour. Worthwhile. Ant and her Friend were excellent I enjoyed the food tour of China Town, the food was interesting even if not to my taste fully (you need to love seafood for the last bit), Ant and her friend ( the man with the money) were brilliant, kept everything in time and explained the locations and food really well. All in all very good.”
17/11/25
Lindsey Coyle
“Amazing experience!! Our... Amazing experience!! Our tour guide was wonderful and super sweet. Food was unreal and great way to see the city/try foods without being overwhelmed by all of the options and people.”
17/11/25
Andrea Kubillus
Getyourguide
“The tour was very interesting. All the food offered by our guide was really delicious. I wouldn't have ordered some of it myself. A great experience. Unfortunately, we could hardly understand our English-speaking guide. But the food was actually self-explanatory.”
17/11/25
Austin Taylor
“(Sp?) Tak and Mikey were incredible. Perfect way to try spots you’d never try or get into. Highly...”
17/11/25
Antti Laine
“Nice but made for masses. Well organized, but lacking personality and variety. Experienced the same tour about 3-4 years ago and it hadn’t changed a bit. Guide very nice, but her English wasn’t very good and the group missed a lot of her stories because of that.”
17/11/25
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