Gourmet Food Tour to China
Overview
Taste the famous dishes and local speciality foods while traveling through the landmark sites in Beijing & Shanghai! This is a trip for those who have limited time but want to see, experience and eat more in the middle kingdom, especially perfect for foodies! You will dine at Michelin-starred restaurants and local neighbourhood, and also visit some popular scenic spots like Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City, Mutianyu Great Wall, Summer Palace, hutong, the Bund, Yu Garden, Shanghai Museum, French Concession, etc.
Duration: 7 days & 6 nights
Destinations: Beijing - Shanghai
Starting Point: Beijing
Ending Point: Shanghai
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After breakfast, enjoy private escorted tour to over 500 years' historical Temple of Heaven. The temple is basically a huge communications terminal which the Emperor used to communicate directly with Heaven and included in the World Heritage List in 1998. At this ancient sacred site, many local Beijingers start their every new day by doing morning exercises (e.g. practicing Taichi) in the park.
So it is the lunch time! Enjoy yourself a big bowl of Beijing Bean Sauce noodle at Old Beijing Zhajiangmian DaWang - a local restaurant listed at Michelin Guide Beijing.
Then go to the Forbidden City. It was nominated as World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 1987 and recognized as one of the most important five palaces in the world. At night, a delicious Peking duck dinner is prepared at Huajia Yiyuan, where you’ll not only learn to eat the crispy roasted duck in the right way, but also you can savor up traditional Chinese cultural and art performances, such as beautiful fork music, wonderful sliced noodles show, Kung Fu tea ceremony, cooking show, etc.
OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Authentic local street breakfast (instead of breakfast at hotel) of fermented Soya-bean Milk, deep-fried dough stick, pickles, huoshao (sweetened baked wheaten cake), pea cake, etc.
Meal: B, L, D
Private escorted tour to Mutianyu Great Wall (round-way cable car included). It has the largest construction scale and best quality among all sections of Great Wall which is less crowded and has better architecture than at Badaling. After Great Wall visit, go to Hutong and have a pedicab tour winding through the long narrow alleyways lined with traditional courtyard houses, into the old town of Beijing. Hutong is Beijing's traditional alleyway with rich history and culture of Beijing. "Encyclopedia of Beijing" is its feature. In the evening, your local guide lead you to enjoy gourmet--imperial dinner at Fangshan Restaurant.
Meal: B, L, D
This morning, visit Summer Palace, a palace which sets northwest of Beijing and is said to be the best preserved imperial garden in the world, and the largest of its kind still in existence in China. It was listed on the World Heritage List by the UNESCO in 1998. Then free time for wandering and shopping at Wangfujing Avenue-- a shopper's paradise, filled with shops selling paintings and traditional Chinese arts and crafts, trendy boutiques and upscale chain stores as well as restaurants serving everything from traditional Chinese cuisines to international ones.
Meal: B, L
Take a morning high speed train from Beijing to Shanghai. Be met and transfer to visit the sparkling Bund, with tens of colonial buildings, located along the Huangpu River, and facing directly the ornately decorated high-rises (such as Shanghai Tower, the Oriental Pearl Tower) in the Pudong New District. The Bund is a must-see place while enjoying your Shanghai Tours. Nanjing Road is the next place not far away from the Bund and enjoys a history of over 100 years--owns the reputation as China No. 1 shopping street. Try famous Cantonese dim sum foods or Shanghai local foods at a Michelin-starred restaurant for dinner tonight.
Meal: B, D
Today's first stop is at Yu Garden with ingeniously mingling pavilions and corridors, small hills and carefully selected and well-placed rocks, lotus ponds, bridges, winding paths, and trees and shrubs, which is the only fully restored classical Chinese garden in Shanghai. Then have a visit of Town God Temple area, the old district of Shanghai, where traditional markets and old streets can be found.
Thereafter, visit Shanghai Museum, a treasure trove of Chinese arts and cultural relics. See many invaluable bronze wares, paintings, calligraphy works, potteries… followed with a brisk stroll at Xintiandi that will let you define the prosperous of Shanghai, meanwhile glimpsing into the city’s historic side.
By the evening, it is time to discover Shanghai’s secret treasured restaurants at French Concession. Walk around to have a better understanding of Shanghai's history, and more importantly, to taste the authentic shanghai foods and snacks favored by local Shanghainese for generations.
Meal: B, L, D
Hopefully you’ve enjoyed a happy and wonderful Beijing Shanghai tour with food delights. See you next time in other Chinese cities. Transfer to airport and fly back home safely.
Meal: B
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