Morning Market & Breakfast Tour - Beijing Food Walks

Activities: Early Morning Market and Breafast stalls and restaurant

Pick-up point and time: Your Hotel around 6:30am

Finishing point and time: Your Hotel around 9:30:am

Price from: US$50 per person

Local Market Tour

Pick up from your downtown hotel in Beijing around 6:30am and go to a local market for a 20-minute market tour. This short market tour offers you a glimpse of Chinese condiments and various ingredients for Chinese food recipes; cooking oil, light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, white vinegar & dark vinegar, cooking wine and Shaoxin wine, fresh root ginger, garlic, chillies, scallion, salt and MSG; various ingredients are available in local food and vegetable markets. The common ingrediens are Chinese cabbage, turnips, radish, carrot, spinach, rape, celery, Chinese chive (leek), mustard and many more. For meat, we have chicken, pork, lamb, beef, duck, fish etc.

30 Minutes morning sightseeing walk

Before experiencing the local breakfast, you will be escorted to have a half hour walk from the market to the snack restaurant for your breakfast today. First you will pass by Beijing's Bell Tower and Drum Tower. They are visibly prominent constructions and represent the symbol of this old city. They were originally built in 1272. You will have outside visits to the two high towers.

Then walking along the Yandai Xiejie ( Tobacco Pipe Lean Street ), a quaint 800-year-old hutong located directly north of Yinding Bridge between Qianhai and Houhai and the south of the Drum Tower, used to be well-known for sellers of long-stemmed pipes, hence the name.

Before reaching your breakfast restaurant, you continue to have a sightseeing walk along the picturesque Shichahai Lake, a lake in downtown Beijing. The greatest point of interest in Shichahai Lake area today is its residences, hutongs and Courtyards.

A la carte breakfast

There are many "small eats" in the famous traditional Beijing snacks chain restaurant. You will have a la carte breakfast here. Just name some the most famous snacks here. Lvdaguan is made of glutinous millet flour and soybean flour. Nian Gao (glutinous rice cake), Dou Bao (steamed buns with smashed red bean stuffing), Xi Zi Bing (a cake with the Chinese character for "happiness" on it) and Mian Yu'er (cake shaped like a fish) are some of the most popular foods at the store during big holiday shopping. Ai Wo Wo, a white glutinous rice cake with a variety of stuffing, Wan Dou Huang, a smooth tasting yellow pea cake, and Jiao Quan, deep-fried crispy flour ring and many more.