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Want to try our local snacks but don’t know where to go and what to eat?? Come to join us now, the 2.5 – 3 hours foodie tour include 4 food samplings, our friendly foodie guide will regale you with the history of Wanchai, share funs and tell you more of Hong Kong’s food culture and its’s development. A guided walk also include a visit to a wet market, so you can deeply dig to the grassroots of Hong Kong.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
* If you select the hotel pickup service, our tour guide will meet you in the hotel lobby, near the reception area. After the tour, the guide will accompany you back to the hotel. * We can only provide hotel pick-up service for guests staying in the downtown area. Guests arriving from remote areas or the airport should meet their guide at the MTR station.
Wanchai MTR Station (Exit A, near Hang Seng Bank inside the station concourse area)
Itinerary
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1Wan Chai
At 10:00 a.m, our friendly foodie guide will meet you at your hotel and take MTR together to Wan Chai MTR station. We begin our tour with a tasty sampling brunch at a local “Hong Kong style café” (Cha Chang Teng) for the iconic drinks like milk tea or mixed milk tea and coffee, Hong Kong-style French toast, pineapple bun with fresh butter, breakfast sandwiches and other morning specialties.
45 minutes • Admission ticket included -
2
In between our tastings, we will stop by an iconic wet market that offers a blast to the past. Wet markets are the traditional places that sell poultry, live fish, fresh meat which require frequent “floor washing”, this is how the name of the “wet market” came from. Wet markets are usually wet, smelly and fishy but also the places to get the freshest food with cheapest prices.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3Wan Chai
We will stop at three family-run tasting food stalls featuring Hong Kong’s classic food which may include samples of roast pork belly or Barbecue pork.
15 minutes • Admission ticket included -
4
On our way, we will pay a visit to the “Blue House” which was the original site for the first hospital in the 1870s but was acquired by the government in the 1970s, and the outer walls painted blue and were thus named the “Blue House”. During the 1960’s – 1970’s, Kung Fu Master, Wong Fei Hung, had a student named Lam Sai Wing, who launched a Kung Fu Studio at Blue House with his nephew. The building also houses the “Hong Kong House of Stories” which is open to visitors.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5
Towards the end of the tour, we will make a stop at Pak Tai Temple. The temple is a Taoist temple, built-in 1863, is the biggest of its kind in the city. It consists of three halls with the main hall housing the three-meter tall copper image of Pak Tai with the images of Lung Mo (Dragon Mother) on both sides. The temple is now listed as a “grade 1 historical building by the Antiques Advisory Committee for permanent preservation.
25 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6Wan Chai
The Old Wan Chai Post Office is the oldest surviving post office building in Hong Kong. The building was erected between 1912 and 1913 and opened on 1 March 1915 as the Wan Chai Post Office. The building is now operated by the Environmental Protection Department as an Environmental Resource Centre.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
Wan Chai (Pass by)
Tenement House - is 3 pre-war residential blocks building. They are now a Grade III historical building and have been preserved for wedding-related shop now.
Admission ticket free -
7
Lee Tung Street is known as the Wedding Card Street by locals. The street was famed in Hong Kong and abroad as a center for publishing and for the manufacturing of wedding cards and other similar items. All interests of this street were resumed by and reverted to the Government of Hong Kong since 1 November 2005. Lee Tung Street was demolished in December 2007 as part of an Urban Renewal Authority (URA) project.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
(Pass by)
This four-storey Wan Chai building was previously the famous Woo Cheong Pawn Shop. Now it is a landmark in Wan Chai offering both an exhibition and entertainment. While carefully maintaining many of its original features, the building has been revitalized into a stylish and trendy bar and restaurant.
Admission ticket free -
8Wan Chai
Food tasting - mini egg puff and egg tarts from the local bakery
20 minutes • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- If you have food allergies, please let us know upon making booking, we will try to avoid and make alternative tastings for you
- Vegetarian option is also available, please advise us upon making reservation
- Our tours are "walking tours" and we make use of public transport to travel around. This means that we will be using the MTR (train), buses, ferries, and the trams
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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Cancellation Policy
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
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You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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