Food Testing Tour at Old Dhaka

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Highlights

  • Food tastings - a perfect balance of sweet and savory
  • Visit the bustling Kawran Bazar and food market
  • Learn about a food culture that borders on religion
  • Discover Old Dhaka and back streets with your local guide
  • Way of preparation of the food on demand. 
  • Discover the old Dhaka walking with a local guide. 

You have visited many places of Dhaka like parliament building, Curzon hall, some part of the old Dhaka, now let us take you beyond the tourist attractions of Old Dhaka for a taste of the popular Bangladeshi food with our savory food tour which is one of the top-rated activity recently. 

Travel and Explore BD is passionate about local gastronomy and strives for each and every guest to fall in love with the city and its food. Run by a food-loving team, you will enjoy a wonderfully personal experience where you will tread off the beaten path and eat like a local. We are available for this tour from 6 am to 10 pm. 

The tour consists of 6 to 7 hours depending on your time you allow us as the itinerary is very much adjustable according to your taste and choice this tour might be in the first half of the day or second. 

Most of the time in the tour walking with your local guide who will pick you from your hotel/residence (generally Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara or Uttar) where tourists usually stay. Your tour guide will introduce you to 4 unique tasting locations. You will experience a well-balanced gastronomic tour of many different foods including dessert and a few nonalcoholic drinks. 

At each tasting location on our Food Tour At Old Dhaka, you will taste an important element of the cuisine of Old Dhaka. In between tasting locations, you will hear about the history, architecture, and culture while you walk on the streets of this beautiful city.

Itinerary

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Intro

This travel plan is designed for the food lover and who has got a passion for traditional and authentic local food of a country. It is, in fact, an elaborate full day sightseeing tour at old Dhaka along with the opportunity of photography and having food nearby key tourist places of Dhaka. 

Pick - Up

Our driver and guide will come to pick you up from your hotel and start roughly at 7 o’clock in the morning

Visiting Kawran Bazar, the biggest local distribution points for agricultural product.

To see the morning life and back streets at old Dhaka along with breakfast and lunch our first stop will be at Kawran Bazar, the biggest wholesale market for everything in Dhaka and discovering the activity of buyers and sellers. This market is a true place of unlimited possibilities of photography particularly the fish market and it will give you an experience of the local distribution system of all food items that come from all over Bangladesh. We also will visit the nearby train station to see the local commuting train in Bangladesh if time permits.

Having mouthwatering breakfast at Al Razzak, old Dhaka

Roaming around this market and train station by this time you might feel very hungry and wait!!!!  Something is waiting for you at Al Razzak, one of the rich restaurant menus in the old Dhaka where you will have a traditional breakfast item such as Luchi, Parata, nan Ruti, buna khichuri, vegetable, and special leg roast. Here the number of food items they will serve for you breakfast you cannot have all those, but we will try maximum number if item.

Visiting Sadarghat, Pink Palace

After testing all possible food at Al Razzak we move to Sadharghat and we will have a small boat trip to explore the Sadharghat and shipbuilding yard on the bank of Buriganga river we continue walking to the pink palace and visit the pink palace.

Visiting Hindu Street, Armenian church and star mosque

Then again start walking through Hindu street and we will have milk tea on the route you will discover a lot of people are having the morning tea here. The tea is very sweet but very tasty. We continue walking up to the Armenian church and spending some time there we move to star mosque after visiting star mosque we start walking again and on the route, we will try to have some Bakar Khani which one of the unique and signature food of old Dhaka. 

Royal Hotel and it’s delicious traditional Bangladeshi food

At this point in the tour we will be tired, and our stomach will need some fuel. From the star mosque, we will be reaching another famous old Dhaka restaurant called Royal hotel where you will find the authentic mouth-watering Bangladeshi food. 

Visiting Lalbagh fort and Dhakeshawri Temple

After lunch, we will have a quick visit to Lalbagh fort and Dhakeshwari temple afterward. 

End of the tour

We will drop you at your hotel with an everlasting memory of tour at old Dhaka. 

What's included

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What's included?

Air-conditioned private transport for the full day.

English Speaking Guide. 

Breakfast and lunch in a local restaurant.

All entry fees.

All ride by Rickshaw and boat at Shadarghat. 

Bottle of water as many as you required. 

All tips except guide and driver. 

 

 

What's not Included ?

Personal expenses, gratuities, activities not specifically mentioned in the itinerary.

 

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Special Notes

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Good to know

We have a budget for lunch of 1000 BDT and 300 BDT for breakfast. As this is a unique food tour any food guests want to test out of our menu will be beard by the guest. 

 

What to ware ?

As Bangladesh is a majority Muslim country and has a conservative attitude toward dress. In this regard, a modest dress is always welcomed. In the metropolitan cities western dress will not be any problem but in the rural area better to be a bit modestly dressed to receive respect from the locals.

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Price

Group Size BDT price per person USD price per person
1 15000 $137

Please send a mail or WhatsApp at +8801714085999 for the price.

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