Samui Suppers Food Tour with 15+ Tastings

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US$61.40 per guest

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10 meals

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Experience Details

What You’ll Experience

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Location

Surat Thani

Duration

4 hours

Number of Guests

1 - 8 guests

Language

English

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Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Join the Samui Suppers Food Tour in Nathon, exploring local street food gems and family eateries. Enjoy 15 tastings of traditional dishes rooted in generations of culinary heritage.

For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Hop on our evening Koh Samui food tour as we head northwest to Nathon to eat exactly where the locals live. From street food legends to family-owned eateries that have guarded their recipes for generations, this 15-tasting movable feast connects you to the heritage flavours of Samui’s original port town. It’s a deep-cover unveiling of the island's best-kept culinary secrets. Come hungry.

What You Get

14+ food tastings included, more than any other Koh Samui food tour

Max 8 exclusive guests, smallest group size in Koh Samui (private tour or 9+ guests - contact us)

Bottled water included

Alcoholic drinks excluded

Pick up and drop off from hotel excluded. Easy-to-find meeting point for all guests.

Vegetarians have 3-4 less tastings due to limited alternatives

Good To Know

We recommend comfortable walking shoes. Bring rain gear/umbrella, if rain looks likely. There's lot of tastings to try, come hungry!
See 'What to Expect' section and 'What's Included' for info on dietary restrictions
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Not recommended for pregnant travelers

What You’ll Experience

Ko Samui

Forget the laminated menus of Chaweng. When the sun drops and the sky over the Gulf turns a shade of purple, the tourists are slowly retreating to their resorts. That’s our cue. Head to Nathon, the salty, sun-bleached heartbeat of the island’s northwest, where recipes are measured in generations, not minutes. Your feasting tour of 15+ tastings invites guests on a culinary experience around the backstreets of Koh Samui led by the team of professional foodie guides. Before we get started, our tour reflects the local cuisine, and the limitations of street food vendors means we unfortunately cannot cater for every dietary restriction. Here's an honest appraisal for the tour so no-one is disappointed: ✖️ Vegetarians have 3-4 less tastings due to limited alternatives at some vendors. ✖️ Unsuitable for severe allergies, due to risk of traces and cross-contamination. If you are feeling adventurous for a foodie journey, read on!"

15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Ko Samui

This is a food discovery of Koh Samui’s culinary soul. We’re hitting the backstreets and decades-old counters for 15+ tastings of unadulterated island fare. This foodie mission ignites right by the pier with a bowl of boat noodles - a dark, spice-clotted broth served within earshot of the ferry horns. To understand the history of the people behind the bowls, we’ll take a quick detour into a small museum to see the faces of the pioneers who built this local community.

45 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Ko Samui

We’re invited into a family kitchen for the real deal: deep-fried fish armour-plated in a salty-sweet amber glaze. True to Samui’s legacy as the "Island of Coconuts," we feast on young coconut shoot and shrimp soup, paired with the Southern greens of stir-fried melindjo leaves, and a fragrant chicken banana stalk curry. To wash it down, we’ll slide into an old shophouse for a shot of chiang-chun herbal liquor. It’s botanical, potent, and has been the unofficial fuel of the resident fishermen for over a century.

1 hourAdmission Ticket Free

Nathon Night Food Market

Then, we dive headfirst into the Nathon Night Market, a sensory riot of clanging woks and the perfume of charcoal smoke. We’ll navigate the chaos to snag chewy chive cakes, silky-smooth fish curry custard (hor mok pla) steamed in banana leaves, and the grassy nectar of freshly pressed sugar cane juice. This is the street-side symphony of the night, rounded out at a joint nearby serving herby Northern Thai laap chicken, and a deep-fried remix on the classic papaya salad. It pulls no punches with its fermented funk and offers a total reset of your Thai culinary compass.

1 hourAdmission Ticket Free

Ko Samui

The food expedition reaches its finale at a local seafood haunt where we encounter the Southern specialty of mixed rice salad - a kaleidoscope of colour-tinted rice and enough fresh herbs to cure whatever ails you. Then comes the secret dish: fish cakes with chaiya salted egg. Imagine springy, spiced fish paste wrapped around a rich, buttery yolk that melts like liquid gold. We finish the night with bua loy rice balls in coconut milk - warm pearls of joy floating in a salty-sweet coconut bath. We aren’t looking for sunset cocktails; we’re looking for the heavy-hitting flavours that have powered this island since the first ferries docked decades ago. This isn’t just a "tour"—it’s a nocturnal extraction of Samui’s culinary secrets. This is Koh Samui’s food at its most raw, its most tasty, and its most real.

1 hourAdmission Ticket Free

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

จินตนา กาแฟ, Amphoe Ko Samui Chang Wat Surat Thani, Thailand, TH, 84140

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Meet at Cafe Jintana, it's next to the pier in Nathon, by Koh Samui's ferry terminal. It's located on the northwest side of the island, and is a small local town with authentic Thai food. You can use the Grab taxi app from where-ever you are staying on Koh Samui, it's Asia's version of the Uber.

End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy
Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund.
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Reviews

5.0

based on 9 reviews

(TripAdvisor)

Great informative food tour

July 15, 2026

The tour was great, obviously eating good food but also learning a bit more about when the foods were served and some of the influences on the cuisine from neighbouring countries

(TripAdvisor)

Authentic and Delicious

July 07, 2026

Our whole family enjoyed learning lots about Thailand and Ko Samui as well as eating some delectable dishes. Toni was a great guide and looked after us very very well. Highlight was having a few di...read more

(TripAdvisor)

A glimpse into the old Samui

July 04, 2026

We have done many of the Chef Tours recently, including Bangkok and Hanoi in Vietnam. I had high hopes to learn some new things on this tour as we come to Koh Samui every year. The tour started off...read more

(Viator)

A must do experience in Koh Samui. Escape the tourist traps.

June 14, 2026

Toni was absolutely amazing. A must do experience in Koh Samui. It felt so special to try real authentic Thai food, something we definitely couldn’t have found on our own. Toni was so knowledgeable...read more

(TripAdvisor)

Authentic food tour of Ko Samui

June 11, 2026

Toni took us on a tour of Nathan where we had authentic Ko Samui cooking the kind you don't get in restaurants and only get in people's homes. A must for any foodie

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