. From exploring Chinatown in Manhattan to combing the streets of Trastevere Rome, I’ve found food walking tours to be a great way to get to know the food culture of a neighborhood.

Sometimes though, there are no already existing food tours- at least not the exact tour I have in mind, so I have to improvise a bit. Recently this culminated in Kim and my DIY tour of Flushing’s Chinatown where we ate some incredibly delicious foods at some great spots despite really knowing nothing of the area. I also did this last month, when Liz from Young Adventuress and I hit up the DC food truck scene to eat like a DC local.

This got me thinking. I mean sure there’s nothing quite like getting shown all of the tastiest spots in town by a local who really knows what they’re doing. But if that’s not an option, couldn’t we all be organizing our own mini food tour wherever we wanted?