Private Food Tour: Hong Kong Island
This private food tour of Hong Kong with a private guide includes five foodie stops where you'll sample authentic Cantonese cuisine. Taste dim sum, wonton noodle soup, traditionally roasted meat, milk tea, and an egg tart, all eaten at local restaurants. Learn about the city's mix of British and Chinese heritage, from Guangzhou influences to Western favorites.
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Private Food Tour - 4hrs
What's included in Private Food Tour: Hong Kong Island
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Meet your private guide in the morning in the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong Island and follow on foot to a nearby restaurant. Arrive hungry, as you'll start the day with a traditional dim sum (yum cha) breakfast in a decades-old teahouse with a lively atmosphere. Find yourself transported back to a bygone era as you sample authentic dumplings still served via trolley.
Your next stop is a family-run wonton noodle shop, established in the 1960s and recommended by the Michelin Guide. Bite into this local specialty, a dish that only a true master can perfect. Then it's time for a cup of milk tea, perhaps the most pervasive legacy of Hong Kong's former British rule.
Next, travel aboard the Ding Ding (the Hong Kong tramway; own expense) to another family-run restaurant, which dates back to the pre-20th century Qing Dynasty and is renowned for its char siu. You're served a mixture of roasted meats, cooked in the traditional style and served with rice and homemade sauces.
Finish at a well-established bakery, a personal favorite of a former Hong Kong governor. Sink your teeth into an egg tart, or dan tat in Cantonese, another Chinese version of an English pastry — the custard tart.
In between visits to these eateries in Sheung Wan, Central, and Wan Chai, stop by a dried seafood shop for a look at ingredients traditionally used in soups, a Chinese medicine shop originating from 1940s, and Hong Kong’s oldest wet market. At the end of your food tour, your guide will explain how to get back to your hotel or give recommendations and directions to another point of interest.
Hotel pick-ups can be arranged.
Inclusions
- Food on the tour include: variety of dim sum, milk tea, wonton noodle, BBQ meat and Egg tart
- Professional guide
- Tasting assorted candies and local snacks
- Drink: Traditional milk tea
- Gratuities
- Please note that if you book a hotel pick-up, it is still a walking tour, not a car tour which means that you will be travelling around using the excellent public transport system.
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off (unless booked a 5 hour with pick up included)
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Do not eat breakfast before the tour, bring your appetite!
- Please bring a camera
- This tour is not suitable for vegetarians or people with seafood allergies
- Please also inform us if you are travelling with children.
- Upon booking you will be sent easy-to-follow directions on how to get to the meeting point in the Sheung Wan district
- Cancellation Policy: If you cancel more than one week (more than 168 hours) in advance we will give you a full refund (excluding credit card processing charges. If you cancel between 7 days and 2 days (between 167 and 48 hours before) we will give you a 50% refund (excluding any service charge). There are no refunds if you cancel less than 48 hours' notice.
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Pickup and Dropoff
You can choose to be picked up from a list of locations, or alternatively, have the choice to make your own way to the meeting points
Please arrive at the pick up point 60 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
We pick up from ALL hotels in Hong Kong. A surcharge applies for airport pick up (layover tour), pick up from airport Hotels/ Disney Hotel/ New Territories including Shatin. Please contact us for details and payment.
Meeting Points
- The information about your tour, including directions to the meeting point and all of the Hello Hong Kong guides pictures and contact details, will be sent along with confirmation email upon booking.
End Points
- We finish the food tour with having a tasty local egg tart as a dessert
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Ticket Redemption
If you have booked the 5-hour tour with a hotel pick up please contact [email protected] with your hotel name and address. If you have booked the 4 hours tour you will be meeting your guide in Sheung Wan outside the IBIS hotel. VERY IMPORTANT: Your tour guide will be communicated to you by message on the Viator messaging system. Please make sure to check your messages. Your guides contact number and picture can be located at this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bY_Pvl9bAB6Nx2VEcGx-5uoLQ2F9TinyEo76o60eKmM/edit?usp=sharing If someone else has booked this tour for you please make sure to email Hello Hong Kong and provide them with your contact phone number. Your tour guide needs it incase you get lost. If you have any questions about your tour please contact Hello Hong Kong at [email protected]
