Evening Northern Thai Street Food Tour with 18 tastings

$48/ Adult

Child (Ages 4-11): $38

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August 2026

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Evening Northern Thai Street Food Tour with 18 tastings 1

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We start as the sun goes down over Chiang Mai and we ride a red songthaew, the open pickup truck that works as this city's bus and taxi, from one neighbourhood stop to the next. Eighteen tastings, all of them Northern Thai, most of them things you have never eaten before and half of them things you cannot name yet. Bamboo worms by the bag, beef laab dry fried with a dozen roasted spices, chilli dips scooped with pork crackling, coconut sticky rice steamed inside a tube of bamboo. You join a small group of fellow eaters, never more than ten, and you eat on plastic stools at streetside tables. There is pork, beef and fish in nearly everything, so this one is not for vegetarians. Come hungry, this replaces dinner. HANDS, NOT FORKS Northern Thai food is eaten with the fingers, and by the second stop you will have stopped looking for a fork. SHARE LIKE A THAI FAMILY Nothing is served as your own plate. Everything lands in the middle, and you reach in with a ball of sticky rice like everyone else at the table.

Min of people: 2

Group size: up to 10

Age requirements

None

What you'll do

MEET YOUR GUIDE AT CHANG PHUAK MARKET
We start our food adventure exploring this local market at the sunset
SOM TAM & SUKI, THE THAI WAY
Green papaya salad pounded to your chilli level, plus a sour pork cartilage soup & Thai suki wok fried dry, with glass noodles, egg and pork.
BOARDING A RED SONGTHEAW TRUCK
We travel between stops the way locals do, in the back of a red songthaew, the open pickup truck with a bench down each side that serves as Chiang Mai's bus…
MARKET
We will visit the The-nin market at Sri-Watthana, and we 'll go to meet local producers
BAMBOO WORMS, IF YOU DARE
Sold by the bag and eaten like crisps: salty, nutty, gone in a handful. Half your group will refuse. The other half will finish the bag. Nobody has to try it.
GRASS JELLY (Local Host)
Grass jelly from the bottle, dark, herbal and cold, the drink this city runs on in the heat.
KHAO LAM (Local Host)
Sticky rice with coconut and black beans, steamed inside a bamboo tube and peeled open like a cigar.
SAI UA SAUSAGE
Coils of grilled pork sausage packed with lemongrass, kaffir lime and turmeric, the taste that defines Northern Thailand.
THAI NORTHERN RESTAURANT (Local Host)
Northern beef laab, roasted green chilli dip with crispy pork skin, herb sausage, gaeng hang le curry and sticky rice.
EXPERT FOODIE KNOWLEDGE (Local Host)
Your host knows this food scene by heart, and names, places and explains every dish, so you can order any of it again on your own.
THAI DESSERT SPECIALIST
A spread of small bowls to finish, coconut cream, black sticky rice and fruit.
A THAI DESSERT MASTER (Local Host)
By the last stop you will be too full to move