Food tour of Bangkok.
By Gary Marsh
@garymarsh6 (24028)
United Kingdom
December 10, 2015 6:09am CST
During our recent trip to Bangkok we went on a night food tour by Tuk tuk. A tuk tuk is a kind of taxi that is made like a bit of a go cart powered by a motor bike. It only has three wheels but boy can they duck and dive through the traffic in Bangkok.
We had to meet at a station in central Bangkok at 7PM where we would meet the others going on the food tour. In total there were fourteen people on the tour from different countries around the globe. Hong Kong, San Francisco, South America, Australia, France and us two from the UK.
Once everyone had arrived we were taken down to the waiting tuk tuks and onto the first restaurant. The restaurant cooked chicken. It was mainly boiled and served with rice. There were a couple of dishes here.
We then all got back in our tuk tuks and raced off to another restaurant where we watched them cook chicken in a kind of omelette.
Our next stop was the night flower market where we saw some beautiful exotic flower so many different types of orchids and some unrecognisable flowers. We visited the night fruit and veg market where we tried baby pineapple, Long Kongs which are similar to Longon. We also had pork Satay here.
We all piled into our tuk tuks and headed for Wat Pho where we practically had the whole temple complex to ourselves. It was delightful to walk around minus other tourists.
Our next stop was as ecret bar over looking Bangkoks river. It was up five flights of stairs. We were ready for a drink by time we reached the top I can tell you. It gave great views all over the river towards Wat Arun and back towards Wat Pho.
Finally we stopped off at our last restaurant to eat the Thai famous dish of Pad Thai. This delicious noodle dish is cooked really quickly in a wok. It is then placed on a plate and handed to another cook who has a massive wok. He coats the pan with an egg mixture which is wafer thin. He then plops the Pad Thai inside the micro thin omelette and it is then served to you at the table.
I have made a collection of photos on you tube. It was great fun but of course you do not get the sights sounds and smells of the places you visit.
A mad night tour of Bangkok flying around in Tuk Tuks to different restaurants around the city, Great experience. Great food and great company.
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@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
17 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 I really enjoy watching your videos. For someone who never traveled much and can't now, it's like I am there myself.
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
12 Dec 15
Thank you. It looked quite a lot but in reality it was not over filling.
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
17 Dec 15
@simone10 Thats great and that is what I like to do because my mother was the same although she would have loved to have travelled my father wouldn't. I did prise them to come to Germany and France with me one year but boy that took some organising. I am pleased you enjoyed it Sharon. Thank you!
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
12 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 We have to keep them under our cloth caps to stop them getting soggy.
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
12 Dec 15
Nothing wrong with Jam sandwiches! 
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
12 Dec 15
@Asylum Yes it is yet another wet weekend in the Uk.
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
11 Dec 15
It's so nice that you have a video of that food tour . Was it you who did that or was it just provided for all of you ?
So, what was the bet food at that food tour ?
I also thinking of Bangkok in my bucket list of "to visit " countries when we already can . Are the clothes and bags on sale there nice ?
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
15 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 Thank you for this wonderful information . I will have this in mind . 
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
11 Dec 15
We booked it up before we went there. The best food was right at the end. The Pad Thai it was delicious although the mango and sticky rice was lovely too.
The markets in Bangkok are marvellous you can buy anything there and it is very cheap.
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
11 Dec 15
It was delicious Anna. I love Pad Thai. For my 50th Birthday I hired the whole of a Thai restaurant and we had a Thai banquet. Oh my word you have never seen so much food. It was continuous food that kept coming and coming. All of us were stuffed to the ears. I thought it was really great value for how much they charged for it,
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@LadyDuck (502729)
• Italy
12 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 There is a wonderful Thai Restaurant in Milan, I love to go there, it's not expensive and the food is delicious.
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@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
13 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 I know and its that fear that keeps me from wanting to travel there.
@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
12 Dec 15
Such a shame Lany it is so tasty too.
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@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
10 Dec 15
I have not gone restaurant hopping for many decades. Yours sounds exciting.
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 15
@glenniah OH how lovely I hope that made you happy!
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 15
We did a foodie tour of Lower Manhattan and that was brilliant too!
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
10 Dec 15
That sounds like something I would really enjoy and wow that mango and sticky rice looks delish!!
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
11 Dec 15
Loved the two songs, and Sammi looks like a wonderful tour guide. All that yummy food, the gorgeous lit up buildings, and stunning flowers was a joy to see @garymarsh6 , thank you for taking us on a bit of your trip. :-)
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
12 Dec 15
I love Thailand. The people are so friendly and gracious no wonder it is called the land of smiles.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
12 Dec 15
The food looks delicious and I want to go there now. The temple was amazing , everything so beautiful and the view fabulous. So glad you shared your photo.
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
12 Dec 15
Thank you. It goes back to my mum who would have loved to have travelled but my father never would. I did manage to take them to Germany and France one year though but that was about as far as they ever got. I know my mum would have enjoyed every single minute of it.
@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
11 Dec 15
No they eat pork, beef and wonderful sea food. The Thai diet is lovely and tasty using lots of lemon grass and chillis. It is a taste sensation.
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 15
One couple were French and spoke no English. It was great fun trying to translate for them I can tell you! The guide kept asking me to tell them what she was describing in French to them.
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 I hope your French was better than mine then! In our menus they keep finding and new and exotic names for very ordinary fare. I wonder if they do that in French. I would suspect so as I found it hard to decipher French menus sometimes.
