Eat Like a Local: Street Breakfast Tour in Shanghai

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Offered in: English

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Overview

Get a taste for Shanghai’s startlingly diverse food culture and its culinary specialties on this small-group tasting tour that focuses on breakfast. With your guide in the lead, look forward to trying everything from dumplings and hand-pulled noodles to bubble waffles and more. Along the way, observe tai chi practitioners and water calligraphers in Xiangyang Park, stroll the atmospheric French Concession, and see other highlights.

Enjoy a different kind of food tour on this Shanghai breakfast stroll
Sample a wide range of classic dishes, all included in the tour cost
Head to locals-loved street-food vendors you might otherwise miss
Small-group tour limited to eight for a personalized experience

What's Included

Professional guide
Coffee and/or Tea
Post-tour welcome packet with helpful restaurant recommendations, local travel tips & so much more to help make your stay in Shanghai easy & fun
Breakfast

Tasting stops add up to a very large meal, and you will most likely not need to schedule a meal for several hours after the tour

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Alcoholic beverages
Gratuities

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Xiangyang Park （South Gate）
1008 Huai Hai Zhong Lu, 淮海路西段 Xu Hui Qu, Shang Hai Shi, China, 200041
Meeting Point: Xiangyang Park, South Gate, 1008 Huaihai Middle Rd. 襄阳公园-南门，在淮海中路1008号。

End point

Wantiguan, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China, 200031
The tour ends at the corner of Nanchang Rd and Shaanxi South Rd, a two minute walk from Line 1/10/12 to South Shaanxi Road station. 南昌路和襄阳南路.

Itinerary

Meet your guide and small group in the morning at Xiangyang Park. Observe tai chi masters and water calligraphers going about their daily rituals, learning about these cultural practices from your guide.

Then get ready to start your food adventure. Drop by local street-food vendors to try a range of classic dishes, from dumplings to hand-pulled noodles.

Continue next to a nearby wet market, where you can see vendors hawking fresh produce, fish, meat, and more. Make sure to stay hungry, because your tour takes you next to several additional eateries, where you can try everything from xiao long bao soup dumplings to sweet treats.

After several hours of tasting and exploring, say goodbye to your guide and group near South Shaanxi Road station.

UnTour Shanghai Food Tours

3 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Former French Concession

3 hours • Admission Ticket Free

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Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation
Infants must sit on laps

Most travelers can participate
Please advise any specific dietary requirement at time of booking - 72 hours advanced notice is required to be able to cater to any dietary restrictions.
Wear comfortable shoes and come hungry
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 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

Michael_W

Great food tour led by Li. Great experience sampling local and authentic delights and an engaging and interesting tour. Li was great in his explanations and navigation and made the whole tour entertaining

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A morning well spent

Simone_P, Mar 2026

This tour is definitely worth getting out of bed early for. Hope was fantastic. She accommodated the whole group, had many insights on Shanghai and managed to show us a variety of different local foods.

Response from Host, Apr 2026

Wahoo! Early bird gets the best food when it comes to Shanghai breakfast! Thanks for joining us.

Great fun tour with delicious food

Michael_W, May 2025

Response from Host, May 2025

Hi, thank you for the fantastic review! We’re so glad you enjoyed our stops and had a great time with your guide. Hope to see you on another adventure!

Topher was a great guide and the food...

anjkeith, Sep 2018

Topher was a great guide and the food was yummy and plentiful. I realized when I got home and told people about my trip that I learned more interesting facts, non-food related, from him than I did on my previous all-day Shanghai tour!

We went on this tour last week with...

Sally_A, May 2018

We went on this tour last week with Logan. She was a great guide - full of interesting and informative information about the food and the places we walked through. We got to see places, see food being prepared and eat food we wouldn't otherwise have seen or eaten. The food tastings were fabulous - very varied and all tasty. The tour gave us the confidence to identify and order the same food during the rest of our time in Shanghai. We waddled away at the end of the tour nursing our very full bellies. I highly recommend this tour - it is a great and very filling way to spend a morning.

This tour was excellent and I'm so...

Alison R, Oct 2017

This tour was excellent and I'm so glad we did it! We went to several places and there was a lot of food to try. All the food was excellent and there was a good variety of food. We had noodles, dumpling, soup dumplings, jianbing which is a Chinese breakfast crepe, and egg tarts. We were able to see people making the food in most of the places that we visited. The tour guide was very knowledgeable about the food and about Shanghai. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone who wants to try local food in Shanghai.

It's worth dragging yourself out of...

Geoff G, Sep 2017

It's worth dragging yourself out of bed at 7am to savour dumplings in brooth and all that follows. If you are staying in or near the French Concession this is a must-do tour. It gives you the confidence to take on the daunting prospect of ordering from a local food place with only Chinese language menus. My guide was Maggie and she was full of enthusiasm for the food and for SHanghai.

What a treat! It's great to be able...

John M, Jan 2017

What a treat! It's great to be able to safely choose great foods of the street. Our guide was very knowledgeable and friendly. Highly recommend to take the tour.

Jamie made the entire experience...

Ralph_D, Sep 2016

Jamie made the entire experience fun, informative and 100 delicious!!! We had a friendly and diverse group, including Maggie, whom I believe as also part of the Glutton Guide team, and she had a lot of great additional information to offer regarding living and eating in Shanghai. She was also kind enough to help me out navigating the Metro after the tour. Thanks for a great morning in Shanghai, Jamie and Maggie!!!