Victoria Chinatown Tours and Tickets - page 3

Great way to find spots you might otherwise miss. Erik has great background stories for each establishment we visited. It is a good amount of food, so come hungry!

If you are going to do a food tour in Victoria, this is the one to do! We stopped at 7 different locations and had a variety of different foods with great stories about the restaurants chosen. Come hungry as you will leave full!

Great food tour with a lot of information and food packed into a short amount of time! We did not feel overly full at the end and appreciated all the different types of food to try. Eric is knowledgeable and obviously has good rapport with the restaurants.

An easy walk, fun & informative, with a great sampling of foods (don’t eat beforehand). As it was our first day in Victoria, we got a little bit oriented, found a few places to circle back to and met some lovely folks! Erik our guide, was funny, knowledgeable, and passionate about food, the city - and featuring small businesses. We loved it!

Erik was great, knowledgeable about food and local stories of the stops on our tasty adventure ,we recommend this tour!

Erik is a super fun and knowledgeable guide. I had such a great time that I brought my sister and friends to do it again on my next trip to BC!

The four of us in our group hit the jackpot when we went on the hidden Victoria food tour with our guide, Erik. As a former chef, Erik was full of insights into all of the places he took us and obviously had close relationships with all of the chef/owners and employees of the establishments. Somehow, we lucked into having a tour with just the four of us, and never were at a loss for words with Erik’s stories, tales of the restaurant business, and vignettes about the history of Victoria. We sampled cuisines from Mexico, India, China, Thailand, sipped carrot sour ale at a brewery while enjoying Nanaimo bars, and finished our tour at Block with delicious bites and cocktails. (Everything was included but the cocktails.) We skipped lunch, took the 3 PM tour, and skipped dinner as we had enough to satisfy us for the rest of the evening. Ask for Erik! He made the experience extra special. Recommend without hesitation.

We spent a wonderful afternoon exploring Victoria on a private food tour with Brenda from Off The Eaten Track, and she was absolutely fantastic. She took us through the hidden corners of Chinatown and Old Town, blending seven delicious tasting stops with stories that made the city’s rich, layered history feel vivid and alive. It felt like so much more than a food tour — it was a real introduction to Victoria through its flavours, streets, and past. A few stops really stayed with us. Malabar was a highlight, with the bright, vibrant flavours of Kerala’s Malabar Coast, while Maiiz Nixtamal completely impressed us with its fresh volcanic-stone-ground masa and organic-corn tortillas — honestly some of the best we’ve had. We also loved Dumpling Drop, a cozy Chinatown gem where we tried their Thai-inspired dumplings, including a rich pork belly version that was especially memorable. One of the most fascinating moments was wandering down Fan Tan Alley with Brenda and stepping into a tiny Chinese museum hidden behind one of the narrowest passageways in Canada. The whole afternoon was such a perfect mix of food, culture, and storytelling, and Brenda’s warmth and knowledge made it truly unforgettable.