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Previously I described the food I experienced during the Historic Bangrak Tour during a visit to Bangkok. That same day, I took another tour in the evening – the Midnight Food Tour by Tuk Tuk. I figured that as long as I am in Bangkok, and as long as I greatly enjoy food, instead of trying to find a place to eat for dinner I would do another tour in the evening and experience more flavors.

This time I was on-time to the tour but barely. I had only recently returned to my hotel after getting lost near Wat Pho in the rain, looking for a taxi that would take me back to the hotel (and failing), and ultimately taking the crowded, dark river ferry back down to a metro station I was familiar with. On my way to the meeting point, I walked right past the group and only found them again a few minutes later. I’m just not very good at following certain directions.

The tour included not only food but some tourist activities as well. Our first stop was near the meeting place where there was what seemed like an outdoor Buddhist temple that was teeming with devotees and tourists. There was dancing and music, a shrine in the middle of the square, and some holy water in the corner, which we all got a quick splash of. It was a walled enclosure that led out into a street full of people, noise, and general lively cacophony.

During a recent work trip to Southeast Asia, I partook on a quick weekend jaunt to Bangkok. It’s a fascinating city and a fascinating culture with a wonderful vibrancy. It also has an intimate relationship with food with more than 20,000 food-serving establishments in the city. So when I went to Bangkok I took not one but two food tours.

The tours I took were offered by Bangkok Food Tours. Aside from the food, it was a good opportunity to see parts of the city I would not have explored otherwise.

In the morning, I took the Historic Bangrak Tour. It began inauspiciously as I was late to the meeting point because I came out the wrong exit at the metro station. However, I found the group and soon thereafter we were heading through a sprinkle of rain to the first destination. There, we were served a simple but delicious plate of roasted duck on rice. That was followed by a more adventurous item: duck feet wrapped in pig intestine (looked like bacon) and stuffed with more pig product. The first dish was quite tasty, the second was just an experience.