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Sowcarpet Street Food Tour: Taste Chennai's Best Bites
5.0
38 Ratings
Chennai
Embark on a 2-hour street food tour in Sowcarpet, Chennai, and indulge in a multisensorial experience through delectable dishes. Explore frenetic streets, narrow alleys, and legendary food stalls while tasting signature dishes.
Embark on a 2-hour street food tour in Sowcarpet, Chennai, and indulge in a multisensorial experience through delectable dishes. Explore frenetic streets, narrow alleys, and legendary food stalls while tasting signature dishes.
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- C1 Flower Bazaar Police Station - Our food connoisseur will meet you at the entrance of the Police Station.
- Sowcarpet - We will visit a local food joint which serves the iconic “Murukku Sandwich”, most famous dish of Sowcarpet.
- ANMOL LASSI - We move to Anmol Lassi centre, a place run by an ex professional wrestler, Dinesh Soni. He has…
- C1 Flower Bazaar Police Station - Our food connoisseur will meet you at the entrance of the Police Station.
- Sowcarpet - We will visit a local food joint which serves the iconic “Murukku Sandwich”, most famous dish of Sowcarpet.
- ANMOL LASSI - We move to Anmol Lassi centre, a place run by an ex professional wrestler, Dinesh Soni. He has been quenching the thirst of visitors to Sowcarpet for the last 30 years. The signature offering is Kesar lassi which is a sweet and creamy drink made with non-sour curd. I Saffron and sugar top up the ingredients. Served chilled in large glasses, the lassi also get a few drops of dried cream.
- Kakada Ramprasad Sweets and Chaats - The food walk ends at the most famous chat shop of Sowcarpet called Kakada Ramprasad. Six decades since the classic Kakada jalebi was first fried in the quaint corners of Mint Street, the legacy of Kakada Ramprasad has come a long way. We will savor Aloo Tikki which is a magic of the blend of mashed potatoes and the traditional Indian spices. This will be followed by Jalebi, the dessert for all seasons.
- Shree Vada Pav - Vada pav is the state dish of Maharashtra and the best place to savour it in Chennai is at Shree Vada Pav. It is a fast food dish which consists of a deep fried potato dumpling placed inside a bread bun sliced in half through the middle.
What's Included
- Snacks
- Snacks
Additional Information
Sowcarpet Street Food is a culinary walking tour in Chennai designed to excite your taste buds. This Street Food Tour offers a fantastic way to explore Chennai through its delicious street food. Over the course of 2 hours, participants will enjoy a multi-sensory experience, sampling signature dishes from renowned food stalls while navigating bustling…
Sowcarpet Street Food is a culinary walking tour in Chennai designed to excite your taste buds. This Street Food Tour offers a fantastic way to explore Chennai through its delicious street food. Over the course of 2 hours, participants will enjoy a multi-sensory experience, sampling signature dishes from renowned food stalls while navigating bustling streets and narrow alleys filled with food vendors and vibrant shops.
Organized by Five Senses Tours, a private limited company recognized by the Ministry of Tourism and a member of the Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO), this tour aims to support local livelihoods. It employs local guides and supports local businesses, aligning with the company’s mission to ensure that travel expenditures benefit the local community.
Location
Khadi Craft
Our contact number as well as GPS location of meeting point would be shared the previous day.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(38 Ratings)
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Getaway37012823969
Dec 11, 2024
A truly local immersive experience - Our tour certainly delivered on five senses and more! Our guide Jainath was excellent. We enjoyed his company, knowledge, thoughtfulness and crowd navigation skills. This is truly immersive, local knowledge filled, one of a kind experience in Chennai. Absolutely worth doing.
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Lyno158
Dec 6, 2024
Vibrant Chennai - Sowcarpet Street Food Walking Tour Chennai was an extraordinary experience. You really do use all your five senses as you take in daily Chennai street life by weaving in and out of foot and road traffic by vibrant street stalls. Our guide, Jainath, confidently guided us into places we'd never try on our own to taste eight different types of local street food. Jainath also kindly organised tuk tuks to take us back to our hotels at the end. I highly recommend this tour.
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Louisefd1843rc
Dec 5, 2024
Fat & happy! - Great tour.. highly recommend!!! Our guide gave us a very comprehensive tour, all the while making sure we were comfortable, safe and happy. We tried some of the most delicious food Chennai has to offer. So much so, I'll have to sleep on my back.. I'm so full!!! Thank you for your kind hospitality 🙏🙏🙏
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Matthew
Nov 28, 2024
Enjoyable Food Tour with Jainath - We had a good time on our food tour in Chennai with Jainath. He took us to try a variety of local dishes, including pani puris, samosas, jalebi, shree vada pavs, and more. He explained each dish and its background, which added to the experience.
A heads up - the food is all vegetarian and some of the food is quite spicy, so be prepared! Overall, it was an enjoyable way to explore the food in Chennai.
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594chasitym
Oct 4, 2024
Best Food Tour in Chennai - I could not have asked for a better host than Nivi. She was wonderful, patient, knowledgeable and professional. On top of explaining each food dish and all the ingredients, she spoke of the culture and life in India. I learned so much more than expected! We went to multiple delicious food places. Each were clean and very popular among the locals. I felt comfortable eating and drinking at every stop. I loved everything, but my favorites were the Dhahi Poori and vada pav! She patiently passed through different shops and encouraged me to take my time if I wanted to look around. I will ask for Nivi every time now. I highly recommend this tour if you want to experience Chennai as a local!
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Travel13968655297
Sep 11, 2024
Chennai afternoon walking degustation - Best food tour I've ever been on, guide was extremely passionate about sharing his favourites places to eat and the dishes plus full of knowledge of every street, stall and surrounds. Even was kind enough to get me back to my train station on the chennai metro which I wouldn't have even attempted by myself... Absolute legend.
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214pers
Sep 1, 2024
An adventure you wouldn't dare to do on your own - If you're into authentic Indian street food, then search no more. With Neeshanth as a guide you can relax in a vibrant environment as he navigates you to the best food stalls and stands in Georgetown. Be prepared that it may take longer than the planned 2h and come hungry. But you will be rewarded with miniature sandwich bites, Indian burgers as well as everything on the way that may spark your eye!
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998carenz
Sep 1, 2024
A calm guide in a busy environment - The tour was adapted to your previous experiences with Indian cuisine and when you saw something you were interested in, there was always time to stop for that. Our guide, Neeshanth, would always pick the best quality for us. Amongst my favourite foods were the ginger-cardamome brew coffee, saffron lassi, and samosa. Would highly recommend to go with Neeshanth as he was not stressing about the time frame, gave also general Indian culture advice and information as well as he safely guided us through this vibrant and maybe for Europeans rather busy narrow streets.
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Davidap4489ex
Sep 1, 2024
Super food, Super guide, Super experience - We had an amazing time getting to experience the street food in Sowcarpet. Neeshanth was a great guide that helped us navigate the busy streets, adapted the tour to our wishes, and selected great places for us to eat along the way. He even helped us find our way home on the metro after the tour was over. Would definitely recommend this tour to others who would like to experience the unique street food in Chennai.
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Katemma1991
Nov 28, 2024
Street Eats with the Chennai hustle and bustle - The tour offered a number of street eats including some popular spots that many locals enjoy a chat and a nibble at. The food was delicious but was also very spicy! The tour guide was very kind though and did mix up the food between spicy and less spicy/no spice to try ease the burn. The guide was knowledgeable and very lovely to spend the tour/evening with, he showed us and spoke of the longest market street in Asia which was located in this bazaar and is 3km in length. What I loved about this tour is that we were able to weave in and out of the bazaar, be amongst the hustle and bustle whilst not needing to worry if we’re going in the right direction etc. Thank you for having us Jainath! It was wonderful meeting you 😊
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