Food And Drink in Thailand

Food-first Thailand is easiest to sample from Bangkok. The evening format is the Chao Phraya dinner cruise: two hours past illuminated temples with live music and a Thai spread on board, several boats to choose from. Day and night belong to street food by tuk-tuk — the driver hops you from stall to stall, three and a half hours in daylight, four after dark.

Pad thai gets a chapter of its own: a three-hour small-group tour of Chinatown traces how the dish was born in the WW2 years and ends with a tasting. To work with your hands, take the Thai carving class — three hours of turning watermelons and vegetables into flowers. Flavours also lead out of town: an 11-hour route strings together a floating market, the Maeklong railway market and the Erawan waterfall. In Chiang Mai there is a two-hour cruise on the Mae Ping river with a stop at a farmer's house.

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