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NYC Chinatown Hidden Gem Dumplings & Buns Tour 20% OFF
$52
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Overview
The NYC Chinatown Hidden Gem Dumplings & Buns Tour reveals the culinary treasures of Chinatown, where local secrets become your delicious discoveries. Guided by an expert, this tour takes you to the best hole-in-the-wall restaurants that only locals frequent.
- 🥟 Indulge in over ten dumplings and buns across at least four different local restaurants that are hidden gems, from storefronts to eateries in mostly abandoned malls.
- 👥 Want to try more dumplings? Bring friends along! The larger the group, the more dumplings and stops you’ll savor together.
- 🌶️ Learn about various styles of Chinese cuisine, including spicy Sichuanese dishes, juicy Fujianese buns, and Shanghai-style soup dumplings.
- 📜 Discover Chinatown’s 150-year history, visiting statues that highlight the immigrant experience and significant labor movements in the neighborhood.
- 🍽️ This tour is 70% food and 30% history, making it perfect for those who love both culinary delights and cultural stories.
- 🍜 Come hungry — there’s more than enough food to satisfy your appetite throughout the tour.
- 🗺️ After the tour, receive a digital map filled with local recommendations from your guide to continue your culinary journey.
- 🚶♂️ The tour is led by a local licensed expert foodie guide who will share their passion for the vibrant culinary scene.
- ♿ Wheelchair accessible and pram/stroller friendly, ensuring everyone can join in the delicious adventure.
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NYC Chinatown Hidden Gem Dumplings & Buns Tour
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Two extra dumpling and bun tastings when more guests book
- Tour led by a local licensed expert foodie guide
- Receive a digital map, full of recommendations from your local foodie guide
- Four tastings from hole-in-the-wall dumpling and bun restaurants
- Historical tour of Chinatown
- Stories of the residents and movements that shaped Chinatown
- Gratuities
Meeting point
Meet your guide outside Cafe Grumpy on 13 Essex Street.
Return details
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Meet your guide for your first dumpling stop of the day, a tasty fried bite from Fujian.
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Lower East SideExplore the historic Lower East Side, learning how the area has became a part of Greater Chinatown.
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Enter the basement of a nearly abandoned mall and sample pork buns from the city's best hidden gem eatery.
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Kimlau SquareLearn the history of Chinatown as you stand in Kimlau Square, the neighborhood's heart.
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Step onto one of New York's strangest looking streets to hear the origins of the nickname "The Bloody Angle" — and why that title isn't accurate to the street's history.
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Visit your next dumpling stop of the day, indulging in Shanghai-style soup dumplings — complete with guide instruction about the best way to eat the brothy bites.
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Visit the former home of the Five Points, New York's most infamous mafia hangout, and hear how resident-driven labor movements have reclaimed the area as a site of neighborhood resistance.
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Visit your fourth dumpling stop of the day to try some Sichuan style dumplings, made with an extra spicy, numbing pepper.
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ChinatownWant more dumplings? Bring friends along! With bigger groups, we go to two more restaurants: a traditional Fujianese steamed dumpling house, and a bakery that specializes in delectable pumpkin buns.
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NYC Chinatown Hidden Gem Dumplings & Buns Tour 20% OFF
$52
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!