Beijing Hutong Breakfast Food Tour: Experience Scenic Backstreets and Local Morning Dishes

Embark on a Beijing Hutong Breakfast Food Tour and explore the scenic backstreets while indulging in delicious local morning dishes. Join us to experience the hidden gems of the city’s bustling morning rush hour.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • UnTour Beijing Food Tours - Our walking culinary tours are designed to get visitors off the beaten path and into authentic local shops where they can eat shoulder to shoulder with locals. Since 2010, UnTour Food Tours has taken thousands of guests to our favorite mom-and-pop-owned shops. On this tour, we’ll wake up early and explore the culinary…
What's Included
  • Expert guide services
  • Comprehensive post-tour welcome packet with local recommendations
  • Complimentary bottled water
  • Included breakfast
  • Free soft drinks
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

Visitors to the capital are encouraged to take a walk through Beijing’s Hutongs. However, city dwellers are aware that these lanes are as numerous as ‘an ox’s hairs’ across the city. The optimal means of acquainting oneself with the most picturesque snaking alleys, which are locally viewed as home, is by phenomenally dining through them. This is…

Location
Subway the Lama Temple C Kouzhan Bike Rental Station
东南口
> Meeting location: Yonghegong (Lama Temple) Metro (Exit C - street level) on Line 2/5. The metro exit is located by the SE corner of the intersection of Yonghegong Street and Andingmen East Street. 雍和宫地铁站C号出口: 雍和宫大街和安定门东大街路口(东南角).
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Q8813ixcrystalb
Dec 1, 2024
Delicious food and super interesting tour! - This is such a superb food tour! Garth is a welcoming and knowledgeable guide to his neighbourhood hutong. It's so evident how much thought has gone into the choosing of all the stops on the tour, not always because something is the most delicious, but because it is an important or staple Beijing breakfast food. That said, we visited a very diverse range of food shops, markets and restaurants and just about everything was incredibly delicious. I especially enjoyed being able to compare homemade versions of certain treats with those produced for restaurants, as well as a number of different versions of the classic breakfast bing. I'm vegetarian and Garth was easily able to accommodate me. He also has so much knowledge about the roots of different Beijing food traditions and so you feel like you're getting a much richer understanding of how these breakfast foods connect to Chinese culture—not only a tour of delicious and interesting foods, but a cultural history lesson too! Hugely recommended
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Bianca
Nov 30, 2024
Interested and mega delicious - The tour was great. The guide accompanied the really delicious food with beautiful, funny and interesting stories about the city and food. I felt in good hands and had a lot of fun. The food was abundantly varied ... I can only recommend the tour.
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Stevesu8055ww
Nov 28, 2024
Highly recommended - Highly recommend the breakfast tour Garth was very informative and the food was amazing an my partner being vegetarian was not left out .
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Brandonhb5976et
Oct 27, 2024
A "must try" food tour - If you're hesitant or just looking for a great tour of some local breakfast locations this is absolutely the one to choose. Garth is truly a one of a kind tour guide The variety of foods paired with outstanding background stories on each is a real treat.
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Marvy2
Oct 5, 2024
Best Experience - Went on the Breakfast Tour this morning with Garth. Did this same tour in April 2017 - and can’t believe the difference, so much improved. We had 10 different food stops, Garth’s knowledge of not only the food and its origins but the history of the Hutong area as well was truly enlightening . An interesting variety of food, and we enjoyed the company of the other participants . Keep up the great work Garth!
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Jeancl3263hp
Sep 28, 2024
Delicious and Educational breakfast tour - This tour was so much fun! Garth is so knowledgeable and it is clear he has known all of the shop owners for a long time. We learned about the Hutong neighborhoods, but also a lot of general history about China. Highly recommend
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Redi4anotheradventur
Sep 16, 2024
Eat Everything and Enjoy - The Hutong breakfast tour was a great introduction to Beijing life and food. Gareth is an excellent guide / host, who has a wealth of information not just about the food, but also Beijing life. The food on the tour was excellent, which gave me the confidence to try a range of different street foods after the tour. Eat everything, you won't be disappointed.
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406gianlucal
Aug 18, 2024
WONDERFUL HUTONG TOUR FOR BREAKFAST - The tour was exceptional thanks to our Guide Garth. He was always kind and helpful and gave us a lot of information. At the end of the tour he also forwarded us an email with some extra tips on some places in Beijing. Grazie Garth
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R3993qqmattl
Aug 2, 2024
10/10 Must Do! - A BRILLIANT TOUR, do not hesitate! This is a food but with a local history tour built in and lead by a fantastic tour guide in Garth. Garth is so knowledgeable, friendly and so well prepared for everything. He knows many locals who all wave, smile and say hello to him and it was so good we booked the dinner tour for the next evening as soon as this one had finished (with a 10% discount as returning guests). He followed up with an email showing all the places we had visited and all the foods in case we wanted to go back anywhere on our own. My wife and I are both vegetarians which Garth knew and asked what we didn’t like too so we could avoid. We’ve done a few tours in different countries and this was the best by a mile. Highly recommend. I would do this same tour again it was so good and could listen to Garth talking about Beijing for hours!
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Elizabethfv7279ve
Jun 27, 2024
Unforgettable (and Delicious) Tour! - Can't say enough good things about this tour. The company was so accommodating when we had to reschedule our tour and we were so grateful. Garth, our guide, was extremely friendly, knowledgeable, and went the extra mile. We were able to explore spots we never would have found on our own. Everything was so delicious and learning about the local history along the way added so much to the experience. Thank you so much, Garth and UnTour! You made our time in Beijing so memorable.
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