Top Chengdu Food & Drink

Spend a day expanding your food knowledge and tasting delicious Chengdu cuisine on this exciting foodie experience. You’ll explore a local spice market with a guide to navigate, so you won’t have to worry about getting lost. Learn about local ingredients, and then visit a Sichuan courtyard restaurant for a cooking class. A professional chef will teach you how to make multiple dishes, and at the end of your class, you can eat the dishes you’ve prepared with beverages included too.

Set out in the evening with an expert guide and your own tuk-tuk driver to find the best dinner dishes in Chengdu on this tour. Explore pedestrian alleyways, hidden parks, and small temples where you visit favorite local eateries. Experience Chengdu's cuisine and culture by eating at the same places that local people do.

Uncover the secrets behind delectable Chinese cuisine on a 4-hour cooking class in Chengdu. Under the guidance of a professional chef, learn the techniques required to cook sumptuous Sichuan meals; make delicious delicacies like Kung Pao chicken and soft steamed dumplings while gaining insight into the complex flavors of Sichuan food. After cooking up a storm in the kitchen, sit down to feast upon the fruits of your labor with your fellow food lovers. Return home with recipe cards to impress friends and family with your new found knowledge.

Spicy and satisfying, Sichuan cooking is one of China’s eight great cuisines. Discover its secrets with the help of a professional chef in this hands-on, small-group cooking class. Start with a tour of an authentic wet market, including a taste of rice wine. Then learn the art of the chef’s knife and the wok as you prepare four separate dishes and savor them. Leave with recipes to take home.

Sichuan food is one of China’s great cuisines. Feast like a local at some of Chengdu’s finest family-style restaurants on this evening food tour that brings you to eateries other visitors rarely access. Savor at least 12 different local delicacies, from dumplings and pancakes to classics like “mapo doufu” tofu and kung pao chicken, as you visit four or five separate food stops by tuk-tuk three-wheeler.

Enrich your knowledge and pleasure your palate on a private full-day tour of a tea plantation from Chengdu. Venture to the verdant splendor of Mt Mengding (Mengdingshan) and greet a local farmer to begin learning about the entire tea-making process. Listen as your knowledgeable guide translates ancient tea-making techniques and absorb the tranquil ambience and enticing aromas of the plantation. Feast upon a traditional Chinese lunch at a rustic restaurant and take home some fresh tealeaves to make your own beautiful brews. 

Focus on Sichuan cooking during this culinary tour in Chengdu. With a guide in the lead, you’ll visit some of the city’s back alleys to find the best street food in places you might not find on your own. Then meet a local chef for a cooking class where you’ll learn some traditional Sichuan dishes. Sit down with your small group of 15 to feast on the dishes, chatting to the chef about China’s culinary culture.

This tour combines two amazing experiences—visiting Chengdu’s Panda Base, and learning authentic Sichuan cooking skills. You’ll save time organizing transport by having hotel pickup, drop-off, and transfers between sites included. Avoid long lines at Chengdu Panda Base by having entry tickets provided. A delicious local lunch is included, and you’ll also enjoy a Sichuan cooking class with a chance to eat the dishes you create.

Sichuan food is one of China’s great cuisines. Experience it in depth on a small-group tour with a guide at the Sichuan Cuisine Museum, complete with free-flow beer, wine, and soft drinks and a glass of champagne. First, tour the museum, including hands-on displays, tastings, a raffle, and a garden. Next, learn to cook three different Sichuan dishes alongside an experienced chef, then feast on the fruits of your labors.

Explore Chengdu’s hidden market with a local insider on this excursion. After meeting up with your guide, taste your way through the city’s back alley market, stopping for complimentary traditional wines, a variety of pickles, and other snacks. Learn to prepare Sichuan pork wontons, learn about vital seasoning ingredients, and savor delicious noodles at your guide’s favorite restaurant.

Combine a traditional Chinese tea ceremony with a walking tour of Chengdu during this half-day private tour. During your walking tour, visit highlights such as Huanhuaxi Park, the Qingyang Gong monastery, and the banks of the Funan River. Entrance fees, snacks, and tea included. This private tour ensures a flexible itinerary and personal attention from your dedicated guide.

Learn how to make Sichuan-style mapo tofu, a popular Chinese dish, during a cooking class in Chengdu. You’ll start with a visit to a spice market to see all the different ingredients that can be used in Chinese cuisine, and then head to the cooking location for tea and your lesson with a professional chef. Finally, sit down to enjoy your mapo tofu along with beer or other beverage. Booking in advance ensures you won’t risk a sold-out activity.

During this 4-5 hours unique Chinese bun (Bao Zi) making workshop, you’ll be taken into an authentic local spice market to explore it with fun challenges to complete and learn different species of Sichuan spices and ingredients that will be used in the following cooking class. The class will be carried out in a traditional Sichuan style courtyard. You’ll be treated with Sichuan local tea as it’s local’s custom to treat friends and visitors. After that, you then will be guide to start the cooking process by a professional chef in a cozy kitchen. Finally, you can enjoy the Bao Zi, a kind of famous traditional steamed bun with filling, made by yourself along with some beers or beverages. For it’s really informative, interesting and fun, this class will be an unforgettable experience in your lifetime.

Prepare Dan Dan noodles like a pro with this half-day cooking workshop. After a convenient hotel pickup, travel with a guide to shop for spices at a local market. Then, head to a professional kitchen, where you’ll sip Jasmine tea and learn the secret sauce of Dan Dan noodles from an experienced chef. Savor your expertly-prepared meal and enjoy a complimentary beer before being returned to your hotel.

Discover Chengdu's cuisine and culture on a 3-hour walking tour. Explore the lanes and courtyards of the Wide and Narrow Alleys quarter, and sample local tea and snacks, plus some popular street foods. Visit a wet market to peruse the ingredients favored in Sichuan cuisine, and savor a traditional local hotpot before finishing with a glass of fruit wine. Four to five food stops, hotpot, plus unlimited beers and sodas included.

Spend one day experiencing volunteering work in Dujiangyan or Wolong Panda Base, Guided by the panda keeper to make panda food, clean the enclosures, and feed the pandas snacks. Move to the nearby tea hill to have one hour soft walk in the tea plantation, and gain a wonderful bird view of Chengdu Plain, and relax yourself by sipping a cup of green tea in an elegant tea house before going back to downtown Chengdu.

Itinerary： We pick you up from your hotel and brings you to the adorable pandas, and more! Pandas are more then good-looking and cute, they are special! Join us to find out a full story of how do they live, why are they here and even funny things about these precious neighbour and treasure of human being! After lunch we start the cooking class. In preparation of the cooking class, a drive takes us to a local market for ingredients and general understanding of Chinese cuisines when our lovely chef will join. Once back to the beautiful private garden restaurant, it will be your show time! There’s great learning about Chinese cuisine culture and hands-on experience to prepare delicious dishes. Enjoying and sharing with each other what you have prepared for dinner is a perfect ending for the day!

This activity is a combination of the lifestyle between traditions and fashions about Chengdu. As Wenshu Monastery is a place where you can not only learn about the Buddhism religion, but also a living quarter for the locals. You will see the buildings with traditional style, elegant tea houses, local snack restaurants, etc. While Taiguli area is the center of Chendu, a newly fashionable business center, the landmark of Chengdu.

1 Discovery Tibetan village on Himalaya Village by day trip Duration 6-7hour that get far away from crowded tourists sites 2 visit Grandma family to be one of family member cooking mountain which all the meat and vegetable from wild mountain 3 learning there lost civilization through thousands years lost city and fortress survive on Himalaya 4 Majestic mountain and cultures similar as Ma-chu-pichu

• A friendly, knowledgeable and passionate English-speaking tour guide • Stroll through hidden alleyways and away from visitors • Eat like a local, with a guide for added insight and to avoid getting lost • Learn more about Chengdu unique food culture

Let's meet at the People's Park Metro Stop(Line 1), we will go to a great coffee to have coffee or tea, and learn the commonly used Tourism Chinese. It doesn't matter that you can't speak Chinese at all. After an hour's class, everyone will have the confidence to speak Chinese. First of all, we practice introducing ourselves in Chinese. Then I introduce some Chinese greetings, such as " 不好意思(excuse me)" "谢谢(thank you)".Then we practice more about how to order food or how to take a taxi and more. After about 1 hour to 1.5 hours of Chinese class, we will go out and eat a small Gourmet Tour! Let's go to the nearby Local wet market first, and then take a look at the scenic spots near the park. For example, People's park, 'Heming' Tea House, Dating corners, etc. At last, we will go to a great local dinner restaurant, you will have a real test here to order the food with all the Chinese you learned (You don't need to pay, it is included)

Join the city on its way home by foot. This 3 hour city walk will take you to "off the beaten track" living quarter in downtown Chengdu, to uncover the real laid back life of Chengdu people. On this 3 hours' city walk activity, you will taste all kinds of local snacks, step into the lanes to see the locals' life, pass by a food market , stop for a glass of craft beer in a beer shop at the corner, even more taste the different Chinese fruit alcohol in a popular restaurant.

Enjoy an alternative sightseeing experience on a half-day bike tour of Chengdu, led by a knowledgeable local guide. Immerse yourself in the traditional culture of the city as you visit the favorite haunts of locals to see how they pursue daily leisure activities. Visit legendary landmarks like the Wenshu Temple and the Qingyang Palace and cycle between impressive monuments at a leisurely pace tailored to your ability. Gain fascinating insight into the rich heritage of Chengdu as you absorb its unique ambience on this energizing and enriching excursion.

Join in a day exploring the most authentic places to eat local cuisine in the foodie heaven of Chengdu - one of China's food capitals. Working you way through narrow city streets in a tuktuk, you'll discover the local way of life and find the best food which has been serving locals for centuries. On this four hour tour you'll stop at some of the best family run restaurants in town sampling some of Chengdu's famed spicy delights at off the beaten track restaurants away from the tourist trail. Between stops you can also ask your private English speaking local guide about the food culture of this wonderful city, and learn more about Sichuan cuisine. During the tour you'll visit around five food stops, each offering something unique with many dishes prepared fresh right before your eyes. This trip is a must do for serious foodies in Chengdu!