Victoria Chinatown Tours and Tickets

This was an excellent tour including exploring the neighborhood and learning about the history from a very fun tour guide! All of the food was delicious with great variety and culture, and kept me wanting more!

This was a great food forward experience! Wonderful food, great stories about the owners and chefs, great guide. Pretty easy walk, very nice variety and plenty of food!! Have a very very light breakfast if you take a morning tour, you’ll need room for everything!!!

There's a LOT of good food sampled during the tour and you won't come away hungry. Eric did a great job helping us appreciate the Entrepreneurs and their passion for food. I had never had most of the treats before and am not really a foodie, but they were all delicious, especially the purple yam Philippino Ube.

This was a great taste of the many different types of foods in Victoria. Brenda was a knowledgeable and entertaining guide!

Erik was a great guide. Knowledgeable, personable, enthusiastic. His connection with vendors was obvious as we were welcomed into every business.

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!

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.