Vancouver Chinatown Tour and Dumpling-Making Cooking Class
Recommended by 93% of travelers
Vancouver, Canada
- 3 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Sample Menu
Main
Handmade dumplings
Cumin lamb, ground chicken with truffles, beef, seafood or vegetarian
What's Included
- Authentic Vancouver cooking class with a local expert
- Guided heritage walking tour of Chinatown
- Alcoholic BeveragesBYOB! Feel free to bring your own beverages
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Propaganda coffee209 E Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1T8, Canada
Meet Judy at Propaganda Coffee located at 209 E Pender Street.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.What To Expect
1
Vancouver
2
Chinatown
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Alcohol is available for purchase or you’re welcome to BYOB.
- Judy is happy to accommodate dietary restrictions and allergies including lactose-free, gluten-free, vegetarian or vegan - just let her know if you have any dietary preferences when making your booking.
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Featured review
Very fun and informative of history and chinese culture. Judy was inviting, engaging and a pleasure to spend time with. Making the dumplings was fun but eating them was awesome!
Reviews
4.7
based on 14 reviews
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This was a great experience! We toured Chinatown, went to a local tea shop to sample teas then went back to the meeting place to make the dumplings. Judy knows so much about the history and was really interesting. The dumplings tasted great and were easier than I thought to make!
This was an outstanding experience, we learned so much about the history of China Towns across the world along with a comprehensive history of local Chinese Culture and history. The biggest highlight was making dumplings for a fabulous dinner! We highly recommend it! Bill & Karen from New Jersey
Judy was a great tour guide and an excellent teacher for the dumpling making part of the experience. Highly recommend this tour and activity!
Casual stroll through historic Chinatown with all the good and bad. Great facility, food and instruction.
The description is inaccurate - it was a 2.5 hour tour followed by a 30 minute dumpling session where all we did was fold 5 dumpling each. We were looking for a full hands-on cooking class (as the description promises), and this experience failed to deliver.
If you want a tour and a light-touch food experience, this might be a good fit. But it's not a cooking class and shouldn't be advertised as such. Viator refuses to do anything about situations like this, so it's hard to trust anything this site offers after being so misled with this particular tour.
Response from Host, Sep 2026
Dear Talia,
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re sorry that the experience did not match your expectations of a full hands-on cooking class.
We spoke with your host in detail following your experience. The Chinatown portion is typically approximately one hour and includes historical and cultural insights as well as food stops, followed by a hands-on dumpling-making session where guests learn to fill and fold dumplings. The host then cooks the dumplings and serves them as part of a full meal.
That said, we understand from your feedback that you expected a more extensive cooking class with greater hands-on involvement. We have since clarified the description to make the format and level of participation more explicit so future guests can better understand what to expect before booking.
We appreciate you bringing this to our attention and are sorry the experience was not what you had envisioned.
Judy was amazing, so knowledgeable and sensitive to who we are and what we care about so that our experience was truly personalized! We learned and experienced a great deal about the history and the current life of Chinatown. It was a wonderful (and tasty) experience as a family.
Julie is a brilliant guide and cook. She has a wealth of knowledge about China Towns across the world and she took us on a trip around them on her iPad. The walking tour round the local China Town was eye opening and we learned so much and very much enjoyed the amazing spring rolls she picked up from the best bakery outside of Hong Kong.
The dumplings we made were also delicious and fun to make.
This isn’t a cheap experience but Julie puts money back into the community and we can see she is highly respected and liked by all so well worth it. Thoroughly recommended.
Was so pleasantly surprised by the experience! We had a wonderful time and the instructor is amazing! We toured China Town then returned to a closed for the day coffee shop to make the dumplings. Everything was so well done and organized. The dumplings were delicious. I would absolutely recommend this victor activity.
You learn a lot about the history of the area. Judy was extremely knowledgeable, friendly , and caring. After learning about the "neighborhood" we ended up learning how to make dumplings and got to eat them!
Response from Host, Jun 2026
Thank you for your lovely review! We're so happy to hear that you enjoyed exploring the neighborhood with Judy and learning about its history. It's wonderful to know that her knowledge, friendliness, and genuine care made the experience so memorable. We're also glad you had fun making dumplings from scratch and, of course, enjoying them afterward! We'll be sure to share your kind words with Judy. Thank you for choosing Traveling Spoon, and we hope to welcome you to another authentic culinary experience in the future!
This is a fantastic hidden gem. Judy has a fantastic knowledge of and a commitment to the chinese community. Vast amount of historical facts of the area given during a walking tour of Chinatown. She knows everyone. She taught us to make dumplings (vegetable, chicken and lamb), which we ate. Highly recommend this event and would take it again.
Very fun and informative of history and chinese culture. Judy was inviting, engaging and a pleasure to spend time with. Making the dumplings was fun but eating them was awesome!
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