San Francisco: Chinatown Food and Culture Tour
ID: GYG998635-1546685
Category:
Country: United States
Duration:
02:00 hours
Description
Experience Chinatown’s sights, sounds, and flavors on this immersive walking tour. It includes dim sum tastings, colorful buildings, backstreets, and stories of resilience and change.
Discover the vibrant heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown on this two-hour walking and tasting tour. Stroll through colorful streets and admire art and architecture as you learn how Chinese immigrants built a vibrant neighborhood filled with striking architecture, great flavors, and a spirit of community.
Visit historic sites like the former city hall, the Instagrammable balconies of Waverly Place’s painted balconies, and a famous fortune cookie factory. Along the way, enjoy fresh pastries from a local bakery, a delicious dim sum spread, and more. Your guide will entertain you with cultural highlights about the food you sample as well as stories of political pioneers, gold rush immigrants, and the rebuilding of Chinatown after the 1906 earthquake.
This tour offers a deep, delicious look into one of the city's most iconic neighborhoods.
Highlights
- Sample pastries, dim sum, fruit and milk teas, and more.
- Admire the colorful “street of painted balconies.”
- Find out which Taoist temple to visit based on your future.
- See where Bruce Lee gave his first kung fu demonstration.
- Walk the back alleys that criminal gangs once ruled.
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This tour covers 1.2 miles at a leisurely pace.
We will provide a variety of included steamed, baked, and fried dumplings at no additional cost to you. If you'd like to purchase food at other stops, we suggest bringing around $20.
The dim sum restaurant can offer vegan dumplings. Please just let your guide know you prefer this option.
Our tours run rain or shine. If there’s extreme weather and we have to cancel, you’ll get a full refund.
Meet your guide at Woh Hei Yuen Park. The park is at the corner of Powell and John streets.
INCLUDED
- 2-hour walking tour of Chinatown
- Hidden gem food recommendations
- Personal storytelling with an expert local guide
- Dim sum dumplings included in price
NOT INCLUDED
- Additional food purchases at other stops
- Gratuities
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.
