Please note that for health reasons I do NOT do organised food tours of any kind in Hong Kong, however my friends listed below do - please contact them directly

These companies offer fabulous private and group food tours in Hong Kong | Eat like a local on a food tour in the company of real and very passionate food experts | A real culturally immersive experience | These food tours are a perfect introduction to Hong Kong’s famous food culture.

The company owners are my friends and you will not find more passionate foodies dedicated to giving the best possible food tour to visitors to Hong Kong.

Hong Konger’s are not for the most part Vegetarians or Vegans, pork and chicken are a staple food here however Amy at Hong Kong Greeters caters to guests that are Vegetarians or Vegans as well as offering more traditional food tours.

….. and yes unfortunately my love of food over the years has had a nasty impact on my health.

This does NOT mean however that I stay away from food, far from it, I am more than happy to stop for lunch or a snack, it can be Chinese Food, Asian Food or Western Food, you can let me know by ticking the appropriate box on my booking form… please bear in mind that I can be pretty blunt when people ask my opinion of food (particularly when it comes to dodgy restaurants and street food) I am NOT a foodie but I have eaten in well over 1,200 Restaurants in Hong Kong in the 51 years I have lived in Hong Kong so I have an opinion | but what’s the old cliche… “one man’s meat is another man’s poison” food can be a touchy subject in Hong Kong, many people will take the middle ground and tell you what you want to hear, with me, you get my good | bad | ugly opinion.

Let me be clear, I am not a chef, food critic, blogger or journalist, I really cannot deconstruct a bowl of wonton noodles (and why would you do that?), I am a Private Tour Guide and proud of it and quite often I am completely flummoxed by the above mentioned people and how they write about food, to me it is either great, good, poor or awful, so you have guessed it, I do not deconstruct a dish but I love great food and as a reminder - since I was a kid I have eaten in over 1,200 + Chinese Restaurants in Hong Kong and I have tried just about every Chinese dish imaginable and honestly most of it is pretty darn good but some food just makes you want to gag and I will NEVER suck out the eyeballs of a fish in an effort to improve my eyesight!. I have eaten in three Michelin 3 Star Restaurants plus many 2 stars and 1 stars and yes, the 3 star establishments were awesome but then again I was not paying the bill (!) and in these places it is not just about the food. I have had great food in decidedly dodgy Chinese Restaurants but most of time you have forgotten the meal 30 minutes after leaving the restaurant | this is why you need to book a food tour with people who are real foodies!

…. and on this one I risk been burned at the stake for daring to call a pineapple bun bland… for the life of me I have no idea why people rave about this “dessert style” product. I have a sweet tooth and I am a dessert guy so I can be pretty hard to please, but the pineapple bun… gosh, so bland and really messy to eat and NO trace of pineapple in the bun but it is an iconic Hong Kong food product so I guess you need to try one!… on the other hand I can eat 6 Hong Kong egg tarts from the Tai Cheong Bakery in one sitting… go figure.

Hong Kong is famous for so called street food (but there are only roughly 25 legal licenses in Hong Kong for street food) personally I give it a wide berth, it is cheap and cheerful and most of the time pretty average but that is just my opinion - millions of younger people would say the opposite, Bubble Tea is a bit of a thing here as well… I don’t drink tea and have never had tea so I have no opinion on this drink and yes I am a Brit and I simply prefer coffee, I have offended thousands of lovely Chinese people in Hong Kong by refusing to drink tea which is served at the drop of a hat, it is not my thing and that is that, I do not subscribe to this nonsense that you should eat or drink something that is offered just to please someone and fit in - you should ask me about the true story of the Norwegian Consul General, his wife and a Hong Kong Government Banquet and the small matter of Pigs Lung Soup.

I am always happy to visit street markets which most people find quite fascinating as they get to see how Hong Konger’s shop for food and I know a bit about Chinese Medicine and the connection to food products.

….. and I am pretty sure we do not eat fried scorpions, worms, slugs, gecko’s and such in Hong Kong but a friend of mine does a tour where you sample a frogs vagina ( I am not joking ) and a snake’s penis! which is an absolute 10 | 10 on the disgustingly yucky factor scale.

And one final point, the 3 main talking points about local restaurants and food

1. Lets look at the facts

• Hong Kong has 15,000 to 30,000 restaurants which includes many unlicensed ones, even the Government is clueless about the number of restaurants in Hong Kong

• spread over 426 sq. miles

• 95% of our population of 7.41 (ish) million people is Chinese, 4.2% Ethnic Minorities and 0.8% white and such and “ish”

• oh and we get on average and pre Covid 19 - 60+ million visitors a year to Hong Kong, 80% of them from Mainland China.

This is the main reason you never see foreigners in Chinese Restaurants in Hong Kong, it has nothing to do with the restaurant being a hidden gem or a place that only locals would eat at! it is everything to do with population and visitor statistics.

2. The best restaurants, Chinese or otherwise are actually in our great hotels, in most cities around the world this is simply not the case

3. Many of the guests I have had over the past decade + have always mentioned that Chinese food tastes quite different to what it does at home and that is true, simply put the food is made for Western tastes, in Hong Kong food takes into account the medicinal point of view when it comes to food preparation and ingredients, ie does eating it have health benefits and as such sometimes it tastes truly awful, that is the way of things here.

Anyway if you want to book a food tour please do contact my friends, you will have a fantastic experience.

Important | If you have food allergies you must inform the foodie guide when you book a food tour

.. and the final word