Portuguese Table & the Chow Mein Sandwich

A Portuguese-and-Chinese food crawl across two mill cities' immigrant kitchens

You learn more about a city from what it eats than from what it builds. New Bedford has fed a lot of people. Five stops over 26.9 miles, about an hour of driving. Each one starts talking the moment you reach it, so you can keep your eyes on the street instead of a screen.

Of the five MassRoam tours in New Bedford, this is the food-and-drink one. There is no start time to make — walk it in one go, or leave the rest for another afternoon.