Eat Like a Local Tour in Hua Hin

This tour is about showcasing local food heroes, where local Thais love to go and eat. On this 3½ hour tour, your guide will take you off the beaten track. You will try some amazing tasting Thai food in humble surrounds. You will be eating with locals, which just backs up the age-old adage that ‘locals always know where to find the best food in town’. For this tour, you will experience venues with a high standard of food hygiene, are family-run with family recipes, yet offer truly 5 star flavours without the 5 star appearance.

You start the tour where locals go to satisfy their appetites to start the day. Under this traditional 2 story Thai house, there are 3 generations working. There is a steady stream of hungry customers dropping by for take away, or sitting at the tables slurping freshly made noodles; all this with fresh Nam Prik Pao • Chilli Jam taking pride of place. It is in no way fancy, but there is a reason for its popularity; super tasty food with fast and friendly service!

At the next stop, you will taste the dishes from the Isaan region, the NorthEast. These dishes are designed to challenge the taste buds a little. The depth of flavour exhibited from this region is astonishing.
On the way to your second last venue, you will stop and try some roadside sweets.

Your penultimate stop is a very local eatery located just opposite the Klai Kangwon Palace. This restaurant serves exclusively Northern Thai cuisine. Here, there is no menu in English. True to the palace’s translated name, Far From Worries, you have no worries to come and try two of the North’s most famous dishes in Khao Soi • Chiang Mai Noodles and Sai Ua • Chiang Mai Sausage.

Your final destination is another very local institution. Its serene garden location serves excellent Thai food. Here you try Gaeng Kiaw Wan • Green Chicken Curry with Roti. Khun Nim’s example is one of the best you will ever taste. You also sample a unique Thai snack Khao Tung which is rice crackers with peanut sauce.
Altogether, the tour includes around 15 food tastings.

Note: Sometimes our regular vendors are closed on the day you have a tour booked however we have other vendors that are equally as good in the event that there is closures.

Highlights

• Free hotel pickup and drop-off included
• Led by a local guide
• Get inside tips from a local

What’s included

• Hotel pickup and drop-off (distance restrictions apply). If you are outside our free pickup zone, which is in the Hua Hin city or Khao Takiab areas, there will be a transportation surcharge
• Up to 15 food tastings stopping at 4 venues & 1 street food vendor
• Slurp and eat noodles within a traditional 2 story Thai house near the railway line
• Sample Thai sweets that will challenge and delight your senses
• Taste the remarkable depth of flavour of North Eastern food
• Sample the sublime tastes of Northern Thai food
• Dine at a restaurant that has such serene garden surroundings as they serve up a remarkable Gaeng Kiaw Wan – Green Chicken Curry with Roti, along with another couple of treats
• English speaking local guide
• All tour transport by local Songtheaws

What’s not included

• Personal expenses
• Gratuities
• Alcohol (may be purchased)
• Hotel pickup and drop-off outside of the Hua Hin City and Khao Takiab areas (distance restrictions apply). If you are staying outside this free pickup zone, there will be a transportation surcharge which will need to be paid at the commencement of the tour.