Top Northwest China Culinary Tours

Xian comes alive at night and with this guided tour, you’ll witness it and hear all the local stories, plus have lots of food along the way. Xian has a long history, which your guide will share with you. It is also the start of the Silk Road, which brings a special kind of cuisine to the region. Dinner is included, as well as public transportation costs by tuk tuk and other vehicles.

Indulge your craving for authentic Chinese cuisine and taste your way through Xi’an on a half-day walking and tuk-tuk tour. With an English-speaking guide, get off the beaten path and travel to the city’s ancient Muslim Quarter. Sample street food carts, try local specialties like the “Chinese hamburger” and pita bread-lamp soup, watch the preparation of dumplings and noodles, and get an insider’s view of the region’s rich food culture.

Explore below the surface of Xian’s night food culture in a way that’s only possible with a guide on this foodie tour. Focusing on Yongxing Fang, sample more than 15 dishes washed down with beer or soda, experience a rice wine drinking ritual, and close the night with a shot of local spirits in a bar. Along the way, watch chefs crafting dishes from hand-cut noodles to tofu pudding.

Explore Xi'an with a private guide with a choice of morning or evening tour. Visit the bustling Muslim Quarter to see some traditional architecture and taste some typical street food snacks. See Drum Tower Square and watch the Fountain Show. You'll sample delicious delicacies such as steamed mutton, dumplings, and kebabs as you begin to get a feel for Xi'an culture. Conveniently, transport tickets and food tastings are included.

Experience the Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Show, the pride of Xian and one of the most popular entertainment excursions for tourists visiting the city. Hosted at the legendary Tang Dynasty Palace, this 4-hour evening performance offers exotic Chinese entertainment and Cantonese delicacies. Learn about the historical culture of ancient Xian while indulging in a dumpling banquet. Hotel pickup and public transportation ticket included.

Immerse yourself in the cultural and culinary delights of Xi’an during a Tang Dynasty Show and Dumpling Banquet. Pleasure your palate with a sumptuous selection of filled dumplings then sit back and be mesmerized by the colorful costumes, incredible choreography and exuberant music of a Tang Dynasty Show. Marvel at the entertaining extravagance of the performance and enjoy convenient round-trip transportation from your Xi’an hotel on this tour.  

This 2.5-hours small group tour collects those foodies together to explore the most authentic and famous Xian local food at the best-known Muslim Quarter with an expert guide. Stroll at the busy street selling all kinds of water-mouthing snacks and crafts, listening the stories of the street and foods from tour guide, stop to feast your stomach at stalls...Plus a surprise when you turn and walk to the peaceful and beautiful Great Mosque which just is hidden in the bustling market.

Indulge your inner foodie on this guided excursion in Xi’an. After a convenient hotel pickup, learn about the region’s cuisine from a knowledgeable local guide and fill your stomach with complimentary dishes like bread wraps and crispy chicken, sweet and sour fish, barbecue and Mongolian ice cream. Drink up with unlimited beer, tea, and Chinese liquor.

Instead of scouring your guidebooks for hints and tips about where and what to eat, get a local’s perspective and follow your guide around a handful of lower-profile local restaurants and street vendors. Discover some of local hidden culinary gems on this downtown walking tour in Xian. Enjoy a delectable range of barbecue and Shaanxi cuisine as you explore the city’s Muslim Quarter and the surrounding area. Visit the Great Mosque hidden in the Muslim Quarter Discover the local hidden culinary gems in ancient Xian Enjoy a delectable range of barbecue and Shaanxi cuisine Your choice of morning and afternoon tour departures Walking tour starts at the convenient meeting point

Shun cookie-cutter group tours and the language challenges of Chinese public transport by building your dream Xian itinerary with your personal private guide. Simply pick the attractions that suit your travel style, perhaps the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, Xian City Wall, the Muslim Quarter, or Huaqing Hot Springs, then let your guide take care of the rest. Please note: Entrance fees and transportation are at your own expense.

Discover the charms of Xi’an at night on a 3-hour food and walking tour with a local guide. Start from the famous Bell and Drum Tower, then head over to the Muslim quarter for samples of at least five delectable dishes, enough food to make up a meal. Walk through atmospheric old streets lined with small restaurants and shops, and have time to pick up some gifts in the local market. Wrap up at a lively street for nightlife where you enjoy a complimentary drink in a favorite bar.

Being a city with a history as log as 3,100 years and an ancient capital as long as 1,200 years, Xi'an is not only famed with its rich cultural heritages but also a city with amazing foods. An ancient wall divides the city into two different parts with shanty area within and new district outside and restaurants fill up every corner of the city with a great variety of food styles. People who come to China always ask whether can they find proper food since Chinese eat almost everything. Yes, our food could be really complicated but it also can be really simple yet tasty. There are not only foods for meat lovers but also foods for vegetarians. Walking or travelling by feet and public transportation both inside and outside of the wall will allow you to see more of the city, and sampling and tasting in different eateries at different corners of the city without missing seeing the most characteristic parts of Xi'an will be quite satisfying and appetizing.

Guide will pick you up from hotel at 17:30am. Try the restaurants specialty, rou jia mo, succulent grilled bread stuffed with minced pork, and sip a refreshing rice wine before wandering past the Drum Tower to Muslim Street, an enclave famed for its cosmopolitan community of Chinese Muslims. Enjoy the colorful sights and enticing aromas of street food stalls and sip a bottle of sweet plum juice as you watch candies being made. Next head to Jia San Restaurant to pleasure your palate with guantang baozi, steamed buns bursting with flavorful gravy. Savor the flavor of succulent barbecue at another street stall and wash it down with a palate cleansing drink of bingfeng, similar to orange soda. Devour shredded pancaked and sesame fillets at another esteemed eatery and then return to Muslim Street to conclude your tour with a delectable persimmon pancake. After 3 hours of feasting, bid your guide and group farewell at a central Xi'an location and make your own way back to your hotel

This tour will give a yo a chance to try the most popular foods in the most characteristic areas in Xi'an downtown. Different with other food tours which only spend all their times on one short foodie street or which will soak their guests throughly with beer in bars, our food tour is based on a fully understanding of local peoples life and dinning habits in Xi'an city and aims on providing the best foods in this ancient town, and at the same time you will get to know some interesting facts and stories of the city.

Enjoy awesome HaiDiLao Hot Pot, a very popular traditional food introduced from Sichuan province. HaiDiLao offers an extensive sauce dipping bar, and you can mix your own sauce to dip with beef, lamb, mutton, shrimp skewers or veggies, mushroom, sliced lotus, spinach or potatoes.Come and join a lovely private dinner time with your fun foodie guide!

Indulge your inner foodie and beer buff on this late night tour of Xi’an’s Muslim Quarter. Head out with a private guide and learn about Chinese Muslim culture. Sample delicious dishes like lamb barbecue, steamed rice noodle with sesame butter, and cumin spicy fried noodles (included in the tour price) and taste local beers along the way.

Xi’an is the heart of China, it’s the start point of silk road also it’s the center of one belt one road. It’s the food heaven, for the night life we will offer you a hot pot tour pls eat like locals and after dinner you will visit the famous Muslim street for free shopping. Pls welcome to join us, our professional guide will accompany you to understand the food and the culture. Tonight you can choose one bottle of coke or one bottle of Local beer as you wish.

Enjoy the delectable bites and cultural highlights of Xian on a 3-hour gourmet walking tour. Appease an appetite for authenticity as you sample different types of local delicacy and gain fascinating insight into China’s rich culinary culture with a knowledgeable guide. Visit authentic street vendors and rustic local restaurants in order to immerse yourself in the electric atmosphere of the city by night on this enriching epicurean tour of Xi'an.

This tour will take you to enjoy the fabulous water stage performance that adapted from Tang poet Baijuyi's renowned poem: Song of Everlasting Sorrow. The performance shows vicissitudes of life between Emperor Xuanzong and his concubine Lady Yang, who is regarded as one of the Four Beauties in ancient China. Before the show, you will appreciate and taste delicate set meal with different cultural meaning in a Qin style restaurant while listening the beautiful traditional music. You will also have a chance to dress like Qin Dynasty people and take pictures, absorbing yourselves in the atmosphere as if back to Qin period.

Foodies won’t want to miss this private tour of Yuanjiacun Village, a small town about an hour’s drive from downtown Xian. The tourist bus has an erratic schedule, so take it easy with private transfers direct from your door to your door. If you don’t speak Chinese, your guide will help you communicate with vendors, recommend snacks for you to try, and show you fascinating demonstrations of traditional crafts.

Evening is actually the golden period throughout a day. After a whole day’s work or business, people more tend to relax and seek fun to truly show themselves at this time. Therefore, night life and scenery is much more real and more colorful. This service will lead you to wander freely in the most bustling and agreeable sites of Xian in the night, and pull you to get access to deeply feel the thick cultural atmosphere and local life. You will also have a taste of delicious hot pot to buffer your body.

• No more queue in line to buy the tickets to the Terracotta Warriors • Don't waste time in the van/hotel waiting for other members to arrive • Options to explore the bustling food street or to be navigated to sample a variety of local delicacies

This tour is ideal choice for tourists who have enough time for Xi’an sightseeing and have interest in local food. No tour activities will be arranged on days 1 and day 5 when you arrive and depart Xi’an. In the other 3 days you will visit the classic attractions and especially you will be escorted to visit several food street where you will meet and try some authentic local food. Our guide will be also happy to recommend some restaurants and dishes upon your request.