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Hong Kong Food Culture: Private Culinary Adventure & Cultural Insights
3.7
35 Ratings
MTR Prince Edward Station
Embark on a private culinary adventure in Hong Kong to discover the city's vibrant food culture. Taste authentic dishes, explore local markets, and learn about the cultural significance of Hong Kong's food traditions.
Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Flower Market Road - See a historic bazaar that has been around for decades
- Fa Yuen Street Market - Visit one of the lesser-known attractions in the neighborhood. See a historic bazaar that has been around for decades
- Ladies Market - Browse through the most famous market in Hong Kong. Try fishballs and Shaomai dumplings - learn about this food and how the locals eat these as a quick meal
- Mong Kok Market - Try a quintessential local favorite: coconut water!
- Tin Hau Temple - Nearby walk into a place which brings back the old tastes of Hong Kong, right in front of us. Have some skewers!
- MacPherson Playground - The night will not complete without a dessert. Nearby you will discover a Michelin-recommended dessert place, and one of the 6 dessert restaurants in the area
- Temple Street Night Market - Have one of these tasty dumplings, and see why Hong Kongers love these so much! Experience how locals spend the evening: In a 10-block area, it has everything that a small town would have
Charcoal-Grilled Skewers - This place brings back the old tastes of Hong Kong, right in front of us. Have some skewers! The night will not complete without a dessert. This is a Michelin-recommended dessert place, and one of the 6 dessert restaurants in the area
What's Included
- Private tour
- This tour is carbon neutral
- 5 tastings
What's Not Included
- Hotel pickup / drop-off
Additional Information
Dive into the vibrant food and culture of Hong Kong, where a specific culinary tradition adds a unique depth of flavor to the city. Are you eager to sample it?
Taste the globally renowned cuisine that defines Hong Kong. Sink your teeth into authentic coconut drinks, dumplings, and more, all prepared traditionally - no room for modifications, it’s authentic as can be!
Your local guide, an expert in food and culture, will lead you to various hotspots in the city that will heighten your cultural experience. Discover the Flower Market, and Temple Street Night Market, where you’ll gain insights into the roots of this culinary tradition and its connection to Hong Kong.
The Withlocals Food & Culture Tour™ is a distinguished tour offered by Withlocals in major cities across the globe. Our passionate local guides earn a just income, and we aid local economies by promoting local products exclusively. We ensure our tours do not contribute to over-tourism by hosting only small, non-obtrusive groups. Our endeavors prioritize carbon-neutrality and avoid typical tourist pathways.
- PRIVATE TOUR: only you & your local guide
- Alternatives offered for those with dietary restrictions
Location
MTR Prince Edward Station
Prince Edward MRT Station, Exit B1 (Street Level)
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.7
(35 Ratings)
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Kallen0637
Mar 22, 2024
Excellent Tastings Tour in Hong Kong with Emcee! - We booked the tastings and night markets tour with Emcee, and were thrilled that we did. Emcee was very flexible with our limited time in Hong Kong, and gave us a great overview of a number of different food spots we never would have found on our own. She also provided us with a number of great recommendations for the rest of our stay in Hong Kong. We cannot recommend Emcee enough!
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Travelover101
Feb 23, 2024
Fantastic experience - My family and I had a great tour, Angel is friendly and her knowledge of Hong Kong and the Mongkok area is second to none. Angel was able to guide us through the area, explain where we were and the history of the area and answer any questions we had on the topic of Hong Kong in general. We tried foods at places we'd have never known about before and gave us information on places to try through the rest of our trip. My 8yo daughter especially took a liking to Angel commented on how friendly Angel was and how Angel could be her teacher at school. Loved every minute of this tour, would do it again in a heartbeat.
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Kerstinkk4943lt
Feb 4, 2024
Great street experience - I booked the tour „Taste of Hongkong“ with street-market and street food experience and my guide was Wing Wing. I had a really good time and so nice tastings. Even though I had touched the area around Tempel Street before, it gave me a complete new view, so many more details and of course great street foot experience, which I would never had experienced on my own. Strolling through the busy streets with Wing Wing was a real pleasure. She explained the best food, the best spots in the area, and I had a really good time. The task 2 1/2 hour and it felt like it was over in no time, because it was so entertaining and delightful. Apart from that, Wing Wing is a very amiable, knowledgeable and sympathic person, with whom I really liked to spend time. She told me so much about the New Year’s tradition, about Hong Kong, about how to have a good time. Great experience, thank you so much!
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Ppatrick123
Jan 29, 2024
Walking and eating around HK - Great food tour , it was excellent showing us around HK. Going to the different sites and trying the foods that are unique to the city
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Nicolasfabricehuber
Jan 24, 2024
Great tour in Hong Kong - The tour with Samuel was great. He led us through various known markets, either tourist or local markets and could explain every little detail about them. He could answer all our questions about Hong Kong and showed us cool places we would have missed without him. Was a thrilling experience.
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Sarah_r
Jan 4, 2024
Walking & Tasting with Cosmo - What a great way to try local food from street vendors while soaking up the markets and atmosphere of Hong Kong. Cosmo was informative and went at the right pace for our multi generational group.
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Jane_l
Mar 9, 2024
Needed More Information in Description - Sam was great but details of this tour needed to be more specific. We did not expect it to be so much walking and 2 of our group had mobility issues. Very expensive for a walking tour and we needed to get our own transportation to get to the tour from the cruise terminal.
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Rebecca_p
May 15, 2024
Not as expected - Our guide Cosmos was lovely and well travelled. We were disappointed that we paid for a Food tour and we had only 4 tastings in total with not much options.
This was not good value for money.
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Momrojas1
Mar 21, 2024
Don’t use this tour! - When we called to find out where our guide was he said that our call had just woken him up! It was a 6 pm food tour! I texted him later for a confirmation of the canceled tour, he said that we canceled on him. This guy is crazy! Looking back on other comments, I see that he has done this before. He should not be allowed to offer tours with Trip Advisor. Ruined our last night in Hong Kong
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Hazelworcestershire
Mar 5, 2024
A Disaster - It’s hard to review something that didn’t take place!
Our guide Samuel did not turn up at the meeting point. We waited for 50 minutes, sent him lots of messages. He replied to only one, stating that he was at the meeting point but couldn’t see us which was absolute rubbish. We’d got photographic evidence that we were at the right place, at the right time.
Fortunately for us, another ‘With locals’ host arrived after 45 minutes and approached us thinking we were his guests. He was therefore able to confirm we were correct and Samuel appeared to have got confused.
I immediately tried to reclaim the extortionate cost of this tour. It took 5 days and several emails to convince With locals that Samuel definitely did not arrive. before the tour was ‘cancelled’ and we got a refund although we were still out of pocket due to differing exchange rates and our travel costs to the meeting point.
I’ve just tried to review this tour on the With locals website but it’s showing that it’s already been reviewed - they obviously don’t want prospective guests to see what a shambles this was.
Perhaps we were just unlucky but I will never book anything with this Company again and would recommend avoiding host Samuel.
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