Morning Market & Breakfast Tour ( Closed )
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Tour Description
Local Market TourPick 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.
Price List for this tour (Price per person in US dollars)
Travelling Party | Tour Cost Per Person |
1 person | $ 95 |
2 persons | $ 55 |
3-5 persons | $ 50 |
Price inclusion: 1.Private air conditioned vehicle 2.Food market and breakfast at a snack restaurant. 3.Half hour walking tour 4.Englsih Speaking tour guide 5.The above private transfer is customized for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your group. |
Price exclusion: 1.Gratuities to drivers and guides. 2.Dinner |
Travel Tips:
Wear casually with comfortable sports shoes and pay attention to the climate in Beijing
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