w JEONJU, SOUTH KOREA Korean food is having something of a moment right now, and it’s not only about the kimchi, with barbecued meats, spicy soups, stuffed pancakes and the infamous bibimbap – a huge bowl of rice, meat, chilli and vegetables, topped with an egg – cropping up on menus across the globe. The best spot for sampling it all? Jeonju, according to Neil Coletta, food brand and product manager for Intrepid. “As the largest city in the south west of the country, it’s a bustling area filled with plenty of food stalls and options to try the likes of hotteok (sweet pancake), mandu (dumplings) and makgeolli (a milky alcoholic drink),” he says. Book it: Intrepid Travel visits the city on its eight-day South Korea Real Food Adventure, which starts at £1,715 including some meals, accommodation, transport and a guide.
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w SINGAPORE If there’s one place you think of when you hear the words ‘food’ and ‘Asia’, it’s probably Singapore. Traditional Malay, Chinese, Indian, Thai and Japanese dishes are all found here, with hawker centres scattered across the city selling everything from Hainanese chicken rice (the national dish) to barbecued pork, crispy wontons and nyonya dishes from the city’s Peranakan people. Isango! offers a three-hour
ABOVE: Japanese sushi RIGHT: A hawker stall in Singapore
food tour that visits the wet markets, where unusual delicacies such as ‘black chicken’ and the preserved ‘century egg’ meet row upon row of aromatic, exotic spices – it’s not one for the faint-hearted. Book it: Isango!’s Good Morning Singapore – Tour with Food Tasting costs from £23 per person (available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays).
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w HONG KONG Just as big a gastronomic hit is Hong Kong, where deep-fried fish
balls, crumbling egg tarts and warm, doughy pork buns meet dishes for the more adventurous – chicken feet, snake soup and stinky tofu to name a few. Options span cheap-as-chips
street-food stalls and traditional dim sum joints to fine-dining spots such as three Michelin- starred Lung King Heen, and you’ll find a whole host of international cuisines too. With all that going on, it’s little
wonder the food scene here is soaring. “Over half of all our Hong Kong bookings are for our Kowloon Food Safari,” says Tony
In Hong Kong, crumbling egg tarts and doughy pork buns meet chicken feet and snake soup
Carne, general director of Urban Adventures. “That makes it our best-selling experience in the city – proving more and more travellers are keen to skip the
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