Shanghai Food Tour: Discover Local Flavors

Discover Shanghai’s authentic flavors on a local food tour. Taste unique dishes, explore vibrant nightlife, and experience the city’s soul through its cuisine.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Haagen-Dazs - The meeting point is centrally located in the city. From there, the journey will proceed to Huanghe Road food street. The first stop is a local eatery renowned for serving the finest soup dumplings in town. Guests can sit among locals and discuss the flavors and techniques involved in crafting and enjoying dumplings with delicate…
What's Included
  • English-speaking Guide
What's Not Included
  • Food and Drink-Costs about 80yuan(10usd/euro)
  • Gratuties For Guide
Meal Options
  • Fried Dumpling - Savor authentic local Freid Dumpling in a local eatery since 1980
  • Scallion oil Noodle - Local Noodle Eatery sinec 1987
  • Soup Dumpling(Xiaolongbao) - Taste the signature Shanghai soup dumpling
  • Sticky Rice Dessert
Additional Information

This tour operates on a tip-based system. The payment made during booking is solely to secure your spots. At the conclusion of the tour, each participant is encouraged to tip the guide an amount they deem appropriate. Recommended tips range from 150-300 yuan (20-40 USD/Euro) per person, based on your satisfaction with the tour (and we are confident you…

Location
Haagen-Dazs
南京西路
We will meet at Exit 9, People's Square Station(Line 1/2/8),right by The Haggen-Daz store.Taxi instruction:人民广场地铁站9号口
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Suzie_s
Jan 9, 2026
Shanghai Evening Food Tour with Bill - We were dropped off at People’s Square, and it absolutely blew us away. The area was huge — easily four times the size of Chadstone in Melbourne, with stunning lights, towering buildings and multi-level shopping complexes. We wandered around for a couple of hours just soaking in the energy of central Shanghai before meeting up with Bill again for our evening food tour. We were joined by some fellow Melburnians — two sisters from Bentleigh and a guy from Carlton named Alex, which made the night feel relaxed and social right from the start. The food tour itself was an unforgettable journey through local Shanghai flavours. First stop: A dumpling shop where everything was made fresh right in front of us. We watched the dumplings being rolled and steamed, and they were juicy, soft and absolutely delicious. Second stop: A small local restaurant where we had fried rice with no eggs and fried dumplings. Simple, authentic and packed with flavour. Third stop: This was the most adventurous part of the night. We were served a spread of noodles, spiced pork, pork liver, pork intestines, pickles, and tofu with vegetables. Bill cleverly didn’t tell us what everything was until we’d already tasted it — and surprisingly, many of us ended up loving dishes we never thought we would try! Final stop – dessert: We finished with traditional warm desserts including sticky black rice pudding, a sweet hot rice drink, and another hot rice drink with tamarind mixed in. It was the perfect comforting way to wrap up the evening. After dessert, we jumped into a DiDi and headed back to our hotel, full, happy, and still talking about all the incredible food we had just experienced. If anyone is looking for a food tour in Shanghai, Bill is your man.
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Diana_s
Mar 25, 2025
Excellent way to try local cuisine at small family restaurants. - I had a great time. Bill has excellent English and a very understandable accent. The places he brought me to were spots I would definitely would never have found on my own. The food was completely delicious. I tried several things I would never have thought or known to try even if I had stumble upon the . He was able to share a lot about the food culture as well as Shanghai’s history. I am a woman who is traveling in Shanghai alone, and I actually ended up doing the tour alone with him because the other people who were supposed to come this evening had canceled. For any other women who are traveling alone, I felt very safe and comfortable with him even though it was just the two of us.
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Marlly_d
Nov 9, 2024
This was such an amazing... - This was such an amazing tour! Bill took us to some great restaurants, the food was authentic & delicious.. some of the best I had my entire time in Shanghai. Bill was also very kind & funny. 10/10 would recommend this tour!
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up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).