Chinatown and Little Italy Food Tour

The Chinatown and Little Italy Food Tour is a walking tour through Manhattan. During this tour, you’ll explore the two neighbourhoods and enjoy local delicacies such as Italian cannoli and mozzarella, Chinese dumplings and dim sum and many other specialities. The guide will show you places where local Italian and Chinese New Yorkers do their groceries. Start this tour on an empty stomach and enjoy the tasty food.

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Chinatown Food Tour New York

The tour starts with exploring Chinatown. You’ll notice the atmosphere right away when you hear Chinese people talking loudly on their phones. You will visit a dim sum restaurant, for example. Here you’ll enjoy a sit-down dim sum tasting among locals.

Dumplings and dim sum in Chinatown

You’ll also head to a place that sells dumplings and where you’ll get the chance to taste this Chinese speciality. During the short walk to this place, the guide will tell you all about this neighbourhood’s shocking history.

If you want to enjoy more dumplings after the tour, it’s good to know this place sells dumplings for a very cheap price!

Little Italy Food Tour

It’s time to leave Chinatown and head to Little Italy. Visit Ferrera Bakery and Cafe (known for its Italian pastries), sit down and relax while the guide tells you more about the history and food culture of the neighbourhood.

You’ll get the chance to taste their world-famous cannoli: a tube-shaped shell filled with ricotta. Fun fact: did you know that bakers used to use a broomstick to form these pastries?

The best food in Little Italy New York

What’s a food tour through an Italian neighbourhood without cheese? The guide will take you to the oldest cheese store in New York, where you’ll taste real Italian mozzarella. You’ll then head to the neighbours’, where you can try several special pasta dishes with homemade sauce. In the kitchen at the back of the store, you can see how these pastas and sauces are made.

You’ll also walk to Di Palo’s Fine Foods, one of my favourite places! If you visit this shop on your own, you’ll have to take a number and wait for your turn. The employees will treat you as if you were a member of the family. At Di Palo’s, you’ll get the chance to taste cheese and olives.

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Eric’s Tip: “During this tour, you’ll eat a lot! So make sure you only have a light breakfast. You won’t have time to shop at the places you visit, but you can of course head back to your favourite shops and restaurants once the tour has finished. The guide provides you with a map where you can find all the places you visited so you can easily find them on your own.”

Practical information

After purchasing you will receive a voucher that you can print and use as your ticket for the tour, or show as a mobile ticket on your phone.

• Duration: 3 hours
• Departure point: Chinatown
• Departure time: various options
• Returning point: Little Italy (close to Chinatown)
• Accessibility: The tour is not wheelchair accessible
• Notes: When I went on this tour, we visited the shops and restaurants I mentioned above. Every tour is different, though, and you might visit other places than I did.

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