Lost in Translation: How Food Tours Save Your Tastebuds in Peru & Thailand
In 2025, our adventurous duo prudently skipped blindly munching through Peru and Thailand, instead locking in first-day food tours that doubled as cultural history lessons and spicy containment tests. Peru’s Lima Experience slapped them with chicha morada (purple corn juice so sweet it could drown your sorrows) and a leche de tigre so fiery it perhaps doubles as a secret weapon—compliments of a local guide skilled at dodging tourist traps and bad Spanish. Later, four days of chasing lucuma—the elusive sweet-potato-ish fruit—led them to beefheart skewers in Miraflores, while Thailand's last-day mistake in Chiang Mai taught them that meat sometimes means raw meat and crickets are the future protein snack. Lesson learned: food tours first, because wandering blindly results in Central Thai food monotony and regrets spicier than ceviche's leche de tigre.
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Booking a food tour last day in Chiang Mai is like showing up to Coachella on day three and wondering why everyone's sunburned and exhausted. Spoiler: Northern Thai cuisine isn’t in your hotel mini bar.
Tour guides dropping knowledge bombs and fiery leche de tigre are Peru’s way of saying, 'Sorry your Spanish sucks, but your taste buds don’t have to.'
If you’re not chasing mysterious fruits like lucuma and chewing beef heart skewers in alleyways, are you even vacationing or just playing tourist?
Source: Eater | Published: 10/24/2025 | Author: Annie Harrigan
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