Best Walking Tours to Explore Chinatown NYC

New York City's Chinatown is a vibrant, bustling neighborhood filled with unique stores, food and culture you won't be able to find anywhere else in the city. It's a no-frills neighborhood that offers amazing value and experiences -- if you know where to get it. It's not always easy to navigate the narrow streets, pick the right market or order the best food. Here are five ways to approach this loud and energetic part of town.

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  Shop & Cook: Chinatown for Fish

  Camaje Cooking

  Learn how to buy and cook great fish, Chinese-style. In every Chinese household, there is a great cook; whether it's the mother, the father, the child or an actual cook is irrelevant. This great cook doesn't go to Whole Foods, but to Chinatown. Here, there are fair prices and good quality produce. To know Chinatown is to know how to shop in Chinatown and we're not talking about bargaining for fake prada wallets (or PLADA as some read). Luckily, there is a cooking class in NYC where you can learn the secrets, brave the fish markets (while plugging your nose), understand how to pick the freshest top quality fish and make a drool-worthy dish at home.

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  Soho / Little Italy / Chinatown Lunch Food Tour

  Walking Tours Manhattan

  The way to anyone's heart is through their stomach. And Walking Tours Manhattan will surely win you over with this lunch food tour of some of NYC?s most delicious neighborhoods! During this 2-hour tour, you?ll venture to SoHo, Little Italy, and Chinatown in search of mouthwatering samples. You?ll warm up with a mouth-watering slice of thin-crust pizza, made with fresh tomato sauce and cheese.

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  Tasting Food Tour of Chinatown

  Home Cooking NY

  Manhattan's Chinatown is full of edible treasures that are hidden from the beaten path. Join Home Cooking NY for a tasting tour of NYC's most jam-packed neighborhood -- Chinatown. You'll see how to properly eat your soup dumplings, where to find delicious Malaysian beef jerky, Vietnamese bahn mi sandwiches, fresh and chewy hand-pulled noodles, and cups of black sesame ice cream. Along the way, you?ll decode all the vegetable and fish stands and restaurant equipment stores that line the streets.

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  Chinatown and Little Italy Food Fest

  Ahoy NY Tours and Tasting

  Score big and try the best of two worlds. People say that Little Italy is getting eaten up by Chinatown, but I think we're looking at this the wrong way. What's so bad about having two of the greatest cuisines only blocks away from each other? Alana know's what I'm talking about and has created the perfect food tour to help you navigate and enjoy Chinatown and Little Italy's best. She'l take you to restaurants, stores and cafes in these two neighborhoods and provide fun stories and tips as you nibble on samples along the way. Think of how heavenly it would be munching on the tangy, salty and savory and then polishing it off with the creamy, cheesy and dreamy?

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  Chinatown Food Tour

  Foods of New York Tours

  Chinatown Food Tour. If you have ever sat down at a Chinese restaurant and been totally dumbfounded as to how to eat a dish? Maybe you got an entire fish and had the head facing you (creepy), or Peking Duck and were not sure why there were ten other components to the dish. Not all of us are lucky enough to have that insider, a Chinese, Taiwanese, or regular customer of any sort to show you the ropes which is why Foods of New York created this Chinatown food tour. This tour will take you to three exquisite regional restaurants and guide you through the etiquette for all the dishes tried there--useful AND tasty? Yes please!

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