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Choose your tour option and a morning or afternoon departure when you book. Then, meet your guide in People’s Square in central Shanghai and set off on your 4-hour food tour by subway to Qibao Ancient Town.

Upon arrival, take a stroll along Qibao Old Street, home to many Ming- and Qing-dynasty buildings and architectural styles. Stop for photos on the beautiful stone bridges that span Qibao’s canals, and check out some of the many interesting souvenir shops as you walk.

Continue into the southern part of Old Street, famous for its food shops and street snacks, and stop to taste up to eight different specialities from the following selection:
• Haitang cake (sweet cake)
• Crab-meat dumpling
• Tangyuan soup (sticky rice dumpling sweet soup)
• Fried potato balls
• Cooked mutton with sauce
• Colored steamed buns
• Tofu jelly
• Lotus leaf pork
• Beggar’s Chicken (stuffed, wrapped, and roasted chicken)
• Vegetarian chicken (bean curd roll)After your food tastings, visit a tea house beside a canal and enjoy a cup of Chinese tea, choosing from several varieties such as Green Dragon, Jasmine tea, or Oolong tea.

Then, after your 3-hour tour, head for a massage center and enjoy a relaxing 60-minute Chinese foot massage (if option selected).

Your tour finishes after your tea tasting or foot massage when your guide shows you back to the subway station and provides directions to your hotel from there.

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Included

Food tastings
Tea tasting
Local guide
1-hour foot massage if option is selected
Entry/Admission - Qibao Old Street
Entry/Admission - Shanghai Qibao Town

Not included

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Additional

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Please wear comfortable shoes
This tour offers 1-hour Chinese foot massage option if you wish to relax a bit after your 3-hour walking tour (in this case, your entire tour duration is 4 hours.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers

Features

Tourism

90%

Food

75%

Cultural

65%

Original

50%

Reviews

5.0

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Christina Z

5 | 2019-03-18

The tour was so much fun!! We ate so many different and delicious types of food local to Shanghai and from all over China. Olivia was great about adjusting to what we liked and navigating the crowds to make sure we got all of the food and places to sit down! Also explored the temple, which was very interesting. Then finished up with delicious tea. A five star experience for sure!! Highly recommend to anyone visiting Shanghai for the first time or coming back and wanting to see a different area.

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Nic L

5 | 2019-01-16

Wilson met me with a milk tea in hand before we even reached Qibao - which was a good way to start the tour. While the food was the main point of the tour, it was great to walk around the town and have a leisurely pace to appreciate the different styles of buildings and houses. Wilson gave good insights on the different food stalls we passed by and was easy to talk to when I had questions. We checked out a nearby Buddhist temple and it was very enjoyable for me to learn about the only female Buddha and have help from Wilson on buying incense. Overall this is a tour I would recommend to my friends when they visit Shanghai.

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kelvinly

5 | 2018-12-04

Our tour guide was Wilson. He was very knowledgeable and great to talk to. My sister and I are big foodies and love experiencing the food of the places we travel to so this food tour was perfect for us. During the ride to Qibao, Wilson was great about answering all our questions as it was our first time in Shanghai. Once we got to Qibao, our first stop on the food tour was of course delicious xiao long boa. Wilson then walked us through the streets lined with all types of foods and snacks. What’s great about this private food tour is that it’s catered to you and what you want to try. We were pretty much open to trying most things so as we walked pass the endless food stalls, Wilson would tell us what they were, give us recommendations and asked us if we wanted to try some. We loved that we didn’t have to worry about the language barrier with the vendors, dealing with ordering and paying, and that we could try whatever we wanted. Definitely come hungry for this tour because you will leave stuffed! Wilson also took us to the temple and pagoda, which we enjoyed. Qibao is a great water town to explore and a fun place to try all the different foods Shanghai has to offer. Definitely give this tour a try and we were really happy with our guide, Wilson!

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Laura I

5 | 2018-09-04

Today we did the 3-hour tour of Qibao with Queena who is a very friendly and enthusiastic guide. She took us through the old Qibao and the Temple. We tried lots of traditional foods (our favorites were the Bamboo Rice and Fried Dumplings) and ended the day with a beautiful tea ceremony. I would highly recommend this tour to everyone.

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Anju R

5 | 2018-06-04

Had a lovely experience on the Qibao tour with Alana as our tour guide. She was very patient and helpful and kept coaxing us to try new food. She speaks very good English and was very easy to communicate with.

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Jake Boodski

5 | 2018-04-16

Great tour. Our tour guide, Queena, met us at People's Park @10:30AM. We informed her that we had to get back to our hotel by 3PM because we had to check out. She never rushed us and answered all our questions. This was our 10th and last day in China and we pretty much tasted all the street food that we wanted. She asked us what we were interested to have for lunch and promptly took us to the best place for bao and organ soup in Qibao. My wife and I learned a lot and we really enjoyed this tour. Thank you Queena...

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