This “menu” is a history lesson in itself – pivoting around the infamous Five-Points District – this tour offers a conglomerate of cooking and life styles from Canton, Shanghai, Fujian, and more. Eat your way into Chinatown and discover the ways and manners of this historic neighborhood.

Follow Chef Kwan on a stroll around Bloody Elbow to a favorite bakery, a no-nonsense roast-meat master or his very own childhood snack corner. You will glimpse what was once a brothel, a mahjong parlor or an opium den and hear the sound of Cantonese opera drifting from a club house. Let your imagination run free as you sample sticky rice and yam cake and ponder the turf wars that went on so many years ago. Visit a noodle-making factory and a dumpling shop and watch and taste each artisan at his craft passed down from generations before. Proceed round the corner and drop in on the gossip as you discover the best coffee and cha-siu bow (roast pork bun) and the giant siu mai (steamed meat & mushroom dumplings). Then browse the live frogs, crabs and lobsters and learn to pick out lotus root and bok choy or any variety of dried mushrooms, scallops and oysters. Continue your journey to an unassuming tea specialist where you’ll cleanse the system with a selection of teas and learn the intricacies of the Chinese tea ceremony. Stop next to chat with a Chinese herbalist and receive the wisdom of Eastern medicine. Finally, if we are still Hungry the tour will culminate in an ordered-in-Chinese banquet fit for the emperor at local favorite restaurant.