Chinatown Tour: Sydney's Culinary Secrets

Embark on a culinary and cultural adventure through Sydney’s Chinatown. Sample delicious street foods, learn about the Chinese-Australian community, and receive a souvenir to remember the experience.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Paddy’s Market - We start the tour outside Paddy’s Markets, an important institution that heralded the beginnings of Sydney’s Chinatown.
  • Chinatown - Walk through Dixon Street, the heart of Sydney’s Chinatown and the largest Chinatown in the Southern Hemisphere. You’ll hear stories of how the area has developed over the decades, and continues…
What's Included
  • Photos shared after the tour
  • Snacks
  • A guide to Chinatown’s best restaurants
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Sydney’s Chinatown is full of secrets and excellent restaurants, and on this experience, you’re going to see and taste a bit of everything!
On this tour you’ll sample a range of street foods and snacks from some of Chinatown’s best restaurants, with a minimum of 4 food samples included. All samples are snacks or street foods that represent different…

Location
17 Hay St
Hay Street
We meet outside Paddy's Markets, directly across from the southern end of Dixon St mall. If you're looking across the light rail tracks and you can see Emperor's Garden restaurant, Covent Garden hotel and the Chinatown red gates, you're in the right spot.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Traceyl012023
Mar 6, 2026
5* for foodies - Had a great experience. Bruce certainly had good knowledge of various Chinese food and gave us recommendations to visit on our own. If you’re a foodie, you’ll enjoy this tour 😋
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H7427kfkimg
Mar 6, 2026
Great tour - Great lots of yummy food and interesting info. Our tour guide Bruce was lots of fun
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H9785horobertl
Mar 3, 2026
Great glimpse into the cuisine of Chinatown. - Excellent tour and the food was amazing. Bruce our tour guide was extremely knowledgeable of the area, history and cuisine. Would highly recommend to others.
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Janemw9048ez
Mar 1, 2026
A very interesting experience for tourists and locals - I really enjoyed the Chinatown Street Food tour with Bruce. He was extremely knowledgeable about the regional cuisines of China as illustrated by the various foods that we sampled. He also gave us plenty of information about the history of Chinatown and the Chinese in Australia.
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Vickieckinder
Feb 27, 2026
Great tour in historic Dixon Street - Our tour guide Justin led us on a historical and culinary tour around Chinatown where we sampled food from different regions around China. This tour could have been a disaster as the heavens opened up and it poured rain. Justin's local knowledge kept the whole tour moving along a good pace and his stories entertained while we were waiting for our food to be prepared. I like Chinese food, but we sampled things I had never eaten before. All good. My favourite was the soup dumplings. Justin did a great job on a very rainy evening. So good, my husband and I would like to do the tour again!
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Regaltourist
Feb 26, 2026
Sydney's Chinatown with an Insider! - Even though we were born and bred in Sydney, this tour introduced us to places that we would never have found without Justin. He was a great guide. Now that we know about these places, we will definitely return. The breakfast roll was something we hadn't experienced before and the dumplings were amazing. All the food and restaurants were great and Justin's commentary was the icing on the cake, so to speak! This is a great tour for a view of Sydney's Chinatown from the inside, with lovely food, a great guide to explain everything to you, and a good dose of local history that is not often told. We had a lot of fun.
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989franm
Feb 23, 2026
Hidden Chinatown - Interesting tour where we had food that I wouldn't normally try. Bruce was a very knowledgeable. Highly recommended.
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726shaunw
Feb 11, 2026
Excellent Authentic Chinese Food w/ Great Guide - We took the Local Sauce food tour through Chinatown during our trip to Sydney. Bruce was our tour guide and he was excellent! He was very enthusiastic about the food, the vendors and the history of Sydney's Chinatown! The tour ended up being about 2.5 hrs, but it was time well spent. Bruce was very friendly and knowledgeable and did his best to interact with each of participants on the tour. If you're in Sydney and looking for a great food tour, I can't recommend Local Sauce highly enough!
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Diana
Feb 8, 2026
Great Chinatown food tour in Sydney - We had an excellent food tour of Chinatown. Our guide Bruce was very nice and a wealth of information about the foods of China, the history of their migration to Sydney. The food selections were very tasty, wish we had more time to go back and enjoy many more meals in Chinatown. We did manage to go back and get more dumplings at Nanjing Dumplings. Thank you Bruce for a great tour. Diana an George, AZ , USA
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Diana_h
Feb 8, 2026
We had a wonderful tour... - We had a wonderful tour of Chinatown with Bruce. His knowledge of the food was fabulous. Bruce was very kind and we thoroughly enjoyed the food selections. We went back the next day to get more dumplings at Najing .
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up to 6 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).