We are not a tasting tour, we provide much more than a full meal’s worth of food so we recommend you come prepared to eat.

At the teahouse there will be some snacks to accompany the tea, and there will be food to try and ingredients to sample at the market, plus a selection of local snacks during the walks between stops. At the hot pot restaurant you will get more than enough to eat! 

Our tours have been designed to accommodate as many diets as possible, including vegetarian, while still remaining stupid delicious, but please let us know prior to your tour date as same day requests cannot be guaranteed.

Due to the nature of hotpot, the soups typically have meat broths and oils and are shared. Meat is a common dipping ingredient as well. We have had vegetarian guests who don’t mind sharing the soup and dipping only vegetarian ingredients, but we cannot accommodate a 100% vegetarian experience.

When booking online, you’ll have the opportunity to let us know if you have any dietary restrictions or special requests. Please use this field to let us know about your requests and we will follow up if there are any problems or questions.

This is a walking tour that wanders through the market areas to see this very local neighborhood. Total walking is about 30 minutes with many breaks, which is generally the perfect amount to graze on street eats and see this neighborhood the best way possible: on foot.

Our child pricing is valid for ages 4 through 15. Children ages 3 and under are free.

The tour starts at 2pm at the Kuanzhaixiangzi (Narrow Wide Alley) subway station which services subway line 4. You’ll get the exact address, directions, and transportation details immediately after booking.

The tour ends approx. a 10 minute walk from the start location. Your guide will point you in the right direction for wherever you need to go next!

Our minimum is 2 and maximum is 12. There’s no flag to follow, or megaphone, or tacky uniforms. It’s small enough to be intimate, but big enough to get away with trying several dishes at each stop. You’ll get plenty of face-time with the experts. Bottom line is, you’ll follow the guide through a super-local experience and make friends along the way.

The tour lasts roughly 3.5 hours at a leisurely pace, which we find is the perfect amount of time to spend relaxing in the tea garden, wandering through a market, and then going absolutely bananas on hot pot.

All of our tours are rain-or-shine, so we suggest you dress for the weather. In rare cases of extreme weather, your guide will cancel the tour and provide a full refund.

Yes we do! If you would like to book a special tour for your organization or group, just contact us and we’ll take care of you.

We have many happy customers who do more than one of our tours in Beijing and across China! We have designed our tours to focus only on food from each city. This means that each dish, story, and vibe is unique to each tour and there aren’t any repeats.

Most people are very surprised how much the cuisine changes as they travel throughout China, and our tours are a good way to discover those differences. We encourage you to pick the tours that best fit your itinerary and we offer a 10% discount if booking more than one tour.

We sure do! If you decide to do more than one tour with us we are happy to offer you a 10% discount off your total amount. It doesn’t matter if the tour is in the same city or a different city, we want to keep feeding you as long as you let us. Our online booking system will automatically deduct the discount from your total if booking online at the same time. If you decide to add more tours later, your original confirmation email will include a promo code to use on those bookings. Also, children ages 4-15 receive a discount on all tours (3 & under are free).

Bookings cancelled 2 days (48 hours) or more before your tour are fully refundable (100% refund). Bookings cancelled within 48 hours notice are not refundable. Cancellations must be communicated by email to info@lostplate.com or by phone. If you would like to reschedule your tour with less than 48 hours notice, we will need to charge 50% of your total since we are unable to fill your spots at short notice.