"Top 10 Food Experience in the World"
TripAdvisor’s Travelers Choice Awards ranked our Beijing Hutong Evening Food Tour a top 10 food experience in the World. Our Xian Evening Tour is also ranked in the top 10 in Asia.
With over 900 5-star reviews, Lost Plate’s Beijing Evening Hutong Food Tour by Tuktuk is often referred to as a “Must-Have During Your Beijing Trip.”
“The problem is obvious: Beijing is full of delicious food, representing thousands of years of culinary history. Beijing is also an immense city of some 21 million people, and most visitors are not up to the task of finding the good restaurants among the subpar ones…”
"Delving into the hutongs of Beijing, chopsticks at the ready"
“The fun of tonight has been in the adventure: the lost-then-found feeling of a night spent blasting through the unknown, punctuated with homey, unpretentious meals. Tomorrow, we’ll go back to being clueless foreigners in an unfamiliar city, but tonight the curtain was pulled back, and we lived in Beijing, even if it was just for a few hours.”
"Discovering Anthony Bourdain's Lost Shanghai"
“In a tiny shop just off the main shopping street noodles come topped with caramelized green onions harboring a tiny piece of pork which are then mixed. The experience is all about the food, Bourdain would have loved it.”
“Shanghai for the late Anthony Bourdain meant two culinary obsessions, namely soup dumplings (xiaolongbao) and noodles. Unfortunately the famous Nanxiang version featured in Parts Unknown has succumbed to the tourist hordes. Instead Lost Plate takes you to a shop off Changle lu…”
“I hope you’re hungry,” Evon Chua of Lost Plate Food Tours says with a laugh that sweeps away any suggestion the tour will be a formal affair. “Because we have a lot to get through tonight. A lot…”
"A city guide to the cooler side of Beijing"
“From factories turned into galleries to a burgeoning crop of sci-fi skyscrapers, the Chinese capital is shrugging off its dynastic past and revealing a cool side.”
