SF's Chinatown: Tea & Dim Sum Food Tour - Includes full meal, 3hr
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San Francisco, USA
- 3 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
What's Included
- Beverages
- Afternoon tea
- Food tasting
- Snacks
- Local guide
- All activities
- Lunch
- Drinks
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- House of Dim Sum735 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
Meet your guide outside and look for the Stretchy Pants logo.
End point
- Grant AvenueGrant Ave, San Francisco, CA, USA
We end about 5 blocks from our starting location.
Start time.11:30 am
Itinerary
1
Chinatown
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
2
Golden Gate Fortune Cookies Co
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
3
Chinatown Taiwan Fruit Tea
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
4
AA Bakery & Cafe
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral (Pass By)
5
Portsmouth Square
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
6
Vital Tea Leaf
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Not recommended for limited mobility
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 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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Reviews
4.8
based on 175 reviews
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Really great tour of China Town, learned a great deal about San Francisco and got to eat some great food, drink some good tea. Great tour guide very knowledgeable about China Town and San Francisco
This was a fantastic walking tour -- even for someone with mobility issues. Our guide, Robert, took that into consideration and made sure that I and everyone in our group was comfortable. All of the food we ate was delicious! The tea tasting was very interesting and the final touch of freshly made mango mochi was icing on the cake. The hills of San Francisco were challenging for me (many orthopedic issues) but, like I said, Robert took care of me. He's a doll and I told him that I'd do it all over again because it was such a great experience. He's the reason for that.
Great way to experience Chinatown, especially if a little overwhelmed with the choice of places to try! Had a great variety of food, Jacob was a great guide, food was incredible!
We had such a wonderful experience. Robert was a fantastic guide. Delicious food and great history lesson. Highly recommend!
Dale had many great anecdotes about this cultural area. How it evolved, its colorful characters, back alleys. It came alive. He made sure food portions were ample and we were comfortable. We were a large group but what do you expect in August. Highly recommend.
Marcy was great. Fun and informative. We enjoyed all the food and the tea tasting experience. We know so much more about Chinatown now.
The history was fascinating. The food was unbelievable. Though the terrain was challenging because it my mobility issues Robert did his best to minimize any problems. A truly relaxing tour.
Tour was overall enjoyable and food was good, even our kids (10-14yo) found new things that they loved out of the Dim Sum, Peking duck, Szechuan green beans, and the Chinese tea store. Fortune cookie factory was fun, but very brief, since there's a line out the door. Boba tea was good, and egg tarts were novel but not universally loved.
Our primary disappointment was that the tour guide had limited stories to share about the area & stores we visited. She tended to repeat information or defer questions until later and then not come back to them. Much of the info centered around the early gold rush period, which was interesting, but I would have loved more information about the Chinese Americans and their experiences over the last 150 years in San Francisco. Perhaps a lot of that information is negative, but as an outsider white American, I had hoped to understand more of their experience. I felt like that aspect was lacking, and our family really only took away the experience of the food.
Response from Host, Jul 2025
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback—we’re glad to hear your family enjoyed the food and discovered some new favorites, especially across such a wide range of flavors!
We also appreciate your honest notes about the storytelling portion of the experience. Each of our guides brings their own personality and style to the tour, but all are fully trained in the rich and layered history of Chinatown, including the experiences of Chinese Americans over the past 150+ years. That said, we completely understand your desire for a deeper exploration of those stories, and we’re always striving to strike the right balance between culinary fun and meaningful cultural context.
Your feedback is incredibly helpful and will be shared with our team to ensure we’re offering a well-rounded experience that resonates with all guests. We’d love the chance to welcome you back again in the future and show you another side of the neighborhood.
Warm regards,
Kara & The Stretchy Pants Team
Come hungry and willing to try new things! Lots of different flavors and interesting facts about Chinatown.
There was so much I didn’t know about Chinatown and I’ve lived in the Bay Area for 50+years! And the food was fabulous and plentiful. Stretch Pants Tours was fantastic and so accommodating for my GF/pescatarian diet. I highly recommend taking this tour. Be sure to wear your stretchy pants!
Really great history and yummy food
I loved the mix of food history tea and dessert
I am a local and enjoyed.
We did this tour on our last day in San Francisco, what a fantastic way to end our trip. Our tour guide Jacob was so friendly and knowledgeable. We ate some of the best dim sum and the tour ended with a fascinating tea tasting experience. I don’t want to give any spoilers away but the tea tasting was so entertaining! Along the tour we learned so much about China Town, it’s an area of San Francisco steeped in history. I personally love dim sum so this was the perfect tour. Special shout out to Jacob who made the day extra special, we didn’t have to worry about a thing, just eat, drink and enjoy!
We had the most amazing experience. Robert shared his passion for Chinatown, the culture, the history and of course the food. I have taken several food tours, this was by far the best!
This dim sum food tour was fantastic! Jacob was an excellent guide and shared many interesting facts about the area. I don't think I've ever had so much food on any other food tour - you will not leave hungry!
This was a great chance to try food I had never eaten before. Jacob was a great guide with historical tidbits and funny jokes. My favorite part was the “Uncle” at the tea house. Such a wonderful man and a memorable experience
The tea tasting and Robert’s knowledge of the area. Fun that the harvest moon festival was the same day as tour.
The dim sum luncheon was excellent! Robin, our guide, was early a d rounded us all up. Our tour group was 9 people. We saw hand folded fortune cookies, which were tasty, got some Bobo tea, and visited a tea shop. Had some Peking duck and finished with a pastry. Along the way, we learned the history of the area an got a serenade from a Chinese lady.
Nice experience. Definitely recommend. Tea tasting was excellent. The optional free aerial view of San Francisco at the end was special.
We really enjoyed the tour, hearing about Chinatown’s history, and sampling the food and drink! There was a nice variety of high quality food and our guide was excellent.
Robert was a great tour guide and provided a nice perspective on the historical significance of Chinatown. The food was excellent and we tried a few things we have not tasted before. It was interesting to learn about some of the Chinese culture that came to America during the Gold Rush. I really enjoyed the tea shop and presentation given on the varieties and brewing of tea for our drinking pleasure. Who would know we’ve been doing it all wrong! Good job Stretchy Pants tours!!!
This was such a great experience! Robert has deep knowledge of the area and the history, which he was happy to share. I feel like he was really able to give a lot of context about Chinatown that brought the area to life and made it feel very real.
He selected fantastic food that took into account my food, allergies, and preferences. I feel like every place we went I exclaimed “this is the bite of the night!” in particular, I really loved hearing about different types of cuisines in the area and the different pieces of history.
I highly recommend this tour! You’ll get lots of great food, great company, incredible history, and you might even get your fortune read.
Wonderful Day! Jacob was very informative.
Highly recommend! We learned so many thing that we would never have known about.
This was a thoroughly enjoyable way to spend a few hours hearing about SF's vibrant Chinatown and sampling some good Chinese food. Jacob was a great guide and really enhanced the experience. Recommended!
We enjoyed the food a lot. Our guide was fun and knowledgeable. The tea tasting was the highlight of the entire tour.
Casey was our tour guide. While being I’m sure a very nice person was not meant to be a tour guide. He was awkward, uninteresting, and not engaging. He was just boring and left us sitting there staring at each other. It was a small group and thankfully we were all able to entertain each other. We almost left in the middle of the tour :(
Response from Host, May 2023
Kara, the owner of Stretchy Pants here. I have issued you a full refund for your group. I am sorry you did not enjoy the tour; we never want that for our guests. Kasey only gives a tour for us every 6-8 weeks, and this seems to be a personality clash. Kasey is a local Chinese person who lives in Chinatown filled with a wealth of knowledge. However, he can be more soft-spoken. It seems he wasn't the right match for your group. I will make a note of it in the future.
Fun tour. Great food. Fun historical facts. The tea experience was the best! Our guide Robin was easy going, smart, and fun.
Great your.perfect experience. Even our 20 year old autistic kid was engaged and interested. Definitely recommend
Jacob was great. Dim sum and egg tart were amazing. Uncle G is the best at the tea place. Bought some teas.
What a wonderful experience we had with Jacob as our guide. We enjoyed the dim sum, the pastry, the sights and sounds of San Francisco’s Chinatown and learned about its rich history. We spent a few hours on our tour and ended it with a tea tasting experience unlike any other. We learned about tea and the culture from Ming who was knowledgeable and experienced in sharing the Chinese passion for tea.
I don’t know what I expected on this tour but I feel like we got more than we expected. I would recommend this tour to anyone visiting SF.
Thank you Jacob.
Jacob was great. Really enjoyed learning about Chinatown and experiencing its food like a local. Highly recommend.
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