Beijing Night Food Markets Tour

Tour Type: Private tour

Dates and Times: (5:00pm - 9:00pm ) Available any day

Activities: Xianyukou Food Street, Snack Street, Houhai Bar Area

Pick-up point and time: Your Hotel around 5:00pm

Finishing point and time: Your Hotel around 9:00pm

Tour Highlights

This Beijing night food market tour lasts about 4 hours from 5:00pm to 9:00pm including the time for hotel and market transfers. It is a private food walks designed for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your traveling party. This food market walks offer you the chance to get a sense of the food areas including Wangfujing Snack Streetand Houhai Bar Area. At the end of your tour, you either return to your hotel with your tour guide or remain in Houhai Bar Area for more happy time in the evening on your own.

Xianyukou Food Street

Xianyukou is a 600-year old street that gathers various time-honored restaurants. Xianyukou Food Street branches off Qianmen Street. Antique plaques and couplets hung on the restaurants liningthe street make much more elegant and highlight atmosphere of Beijing food culture.Visiting the area is a nice way to experience a part of old China, and it's something different for those who have already been to the more popular tourist destinations.

Wangfujing Snack Street

Wangfujing Snack Street is set on a narrow alley off the main walking street - Wangfujing Traffic-free Street. The snack street is packed with food vendors, souveniors stands, and candy shops. There are also the arrays of weird food on offer, scorpions, bugs with legs, bugs without legs. The skewered scorpions, sea horses and star fishes attract passing visitors to take pictures. Few people would stop and taste the weird food.

Yandai Byway

Walk along Yandai Byway ( Tobacco Pipe Lean Street ), a quaint 800-year-old hutong located between Yinding Bridge and the south of the Drum Tower, used to be well-known for sellers of long-stemmed pipes in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), hence the name. Many featured stores and restaurants are located on Yandai Byway. Try the local snacks here.

Houhai Bar Area

As a fastest-growing spot for late-night drinking, Houhai Bar Area is crowed by a few fashionable bars. Several dance clubs are in the works, but for now this remains the finest place in the city for a quiet drink.

Return to your hotel or remain in Houhai Bar Area for more happy time in the evening on your own.

Travel Tips

This tour is designed for your own traveling party and no other tourists will join you. So you have much flexibility and freedom. If you have any questions, or want more time for taking photos, just feel free to let your tour guide know. With your personal tour guide, you will have more interaction with the locals which will enrich your travel experience in Beijing. It is a non-shopping private tour and no Hidden Fee!

On the late afternoon of your tour departure date, our tour guide will go to your hotel ahead of your pick-up time in the lobby, holding a sign with your name. When you come down to the hotel lobby, just look around for the sign to meet our tour guide.

You will have the narratives of local history and culture by your tour guide while you are comfortably sitting in the air-conditioned vehicle of your exclusive use and enjoying the views passing by.

Rush hours in Beijing can cause serious traffic jam. We try our best to manage the traffic and keep your schedule.