Private Walking Foodie Tour: The Best Bites of Hong Kong Island

At 10:00 a.m, our friendly foodie guide will meet you at your hotel and take MTR together to Wan Chai MTR station. We begin our tour with a tasty sampling brunch at a local “Hong Kong style café” (Cha Chang Teng) for the iconic drinks like milk tea or mixed milk tea and coffee, Hong Kong-style French toast, pineapple bun with fresh butter, breakfast sandwiches and other morning specialties.

In between our tastings, we will stop by an iconic wet market that offers a blast to the past. Wet markets are the traditional places that sell poultry, live fish, fresh meat which require frequent “floor washing”, this is how the name of the “wet market” came from. Wet markets are usually wet, smelly and fishy but also the places to get the freshest food with cheapest prices.

We will stop at three family-run tasting food stalls featuring Hong Kong’s classic food which may include samples of roast pork belly or Barbecue pork.

On our way, we will pay a visit to the “Blue House” which was the original site for the first hospital in the 1870s but was acquired by the government in the 1970s, and the outer walls painted blue and were thus named the “Blue House”. During the 1960’s – 1970’s, Kung Fu Master, Wong Fei Hung, had a student named Lam Sai Wing, who launched a Kung Fu Studio at Blue House with his nephew. The building also houses the “Hong Kong House of Stories” which is open to visitors.

Towards the end of the tour, we will make a stop at Pak Tai Temple. The temple is a Taoist temple, built-in 1863, is the biggest of its kind in the city. It consists of three halls with the main hall housing the three-meter tall copper image of Pak Tai with the images of Lung Mo (Dragon Mother) on both sides. The temple is now listed as a “grade 1 historical building by the Antiques Advisory Committee for permanent preservation.

The Old Wan Chai Post Office is the oldest surviving post office building in Hong Kong. The building was erected between 1912 and 1913 and opened on 1 March 1915 as the Wan Chai Post Office. The building is now operated by the Environmental Protection Department as an Environmental Resource Centre.

Tenement House - is 3 pre-war residential blocks building. They are now a Grade III historical building and have been preserved for wedding-related shop now.

Lee Tung Street is known as the Wedding Card Street by locals. The street was famed in Hong Kong and abroad as a center for publishing and for the manufacturing of wedding cards and other similar items. All interests of this street were resumed by and reverted to the Government of Hong Kong since 1 November 2005. Lee Tung Street was demolished in December 2007 as part of an Urban Renewal Authority (URA) project.

This four-storey Wan Chai building was previously the famous Woo Cheong Pawn Shop. Now it is a landmark in Wan Chai offering both an exhibition and entertainment. While carefully maintaining many of its original features, the building has been revitalized into a stylish and trendy bar and restaurant.

Food tasting - mini egg puff and egg tarts from the local bakery