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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Jessabella2014
Sep 25, 2025
Seeing Chinatown with new eyes - Excellent food, company and storytelling. Wonderful to learn something new about Chinatown, an area I’ve worked in most of my life. Can’t wait to work my way through our food bingo list!
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V4369uydianneh
Sep 22, 2025
Terrific tour - Had a great time on the Chinatown tour Justin was very knowledgeable & informative. Tried some great food. Highly recommend this tour
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Frequentflier678114
Sep 22, 2025
Delicious trek through Sydney’s Chinatown - This was an amazing and unique tour that I highly recommend! Justin was incredibly knowledgeable and had great history to share. Chinatown in Sydney comes with lots of history (both good and bad) and experiencing it through the food was amazing.
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Sharolyna242
Sep 17, 2025
Chinatown tour - excellent - I would thoroughly recommend this tour. Not only was the food we sampled so good, but also learning about the history of the area was really interesting. Justin our tour guide was excellent.
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Grahamwu1688ok
Sep 16, 2025
Great time out - Had a great time exploring small shops, restaurants that we didn’t know about. Got a good grounding in the background different regions of the cuisine.
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Muki
Aug 29, 2025
History and delicious food - Justin was amazing. He was able to swap a couple of items for my husband who doesn’t eat pork. The historical aspects of Sydney that he discussed were truly eye opening. The food he introduced to was delicious.
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Patty_w
Aug 29, 2025
A wonderful tour of Chinatown - This Chinatown walking tour was fantastic. Our guide, Justin shared his knowledge of the area and his love for the food. We loved that he encourages supporting the small family owned businesses. The food we tried was all tasty and we had a great group of people.
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Maryann_v
Aug 16, 2025
Informative about Chinese heritage and food - After some confusion on the exact meeting spot, the tour went well. It's a walking tour through Chinatown with some easy hills, but plenty of stops and opportunities to sit for a few minutes. The foods offered were an interesting assortment and Justin was an excellent guide.
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Natalie_m
Aug 15, 2025
Loved this tour! - I’ve been to Chinatown many times before but never knew any of the history or places to find great food!!! I loved this tour and can’t wait to revisit and try all the extra recommended places!
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Hopingfortravel
Jul 29, 2025
Good food tour with a good raconteur - A wonderful tour. It was a small group of about ten including my teenage grandchildren, and couples from interstate and New Zealand. The stories were lively and well-told, the food was wonderful with terrific background stories for each food stop. Justin was enthusiastic and knowledgeable and great at answering questions. The Chinatown food tour was a great holiday excursion for the granny and the teenagers, and we look forward to doing other Local Sauce tours in Sydney next holidays!!
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From $52
up to 6 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).