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an authentic Chinatown experience
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“Travelers’ Choice” Award Winner
Also featured in Kayak’s Boston Travel Guide
Become a Chinatown Super-fan!
Travelers and locals alike have fun touring Chinatown with me. Leave understanding more, and feeling like this is your Chinatown! Go deeper with the one tour that covers all the bases from history, culture, immigrants’ resilience and joy. You’ll discover the diversity of cuisines, favorite legacy restaurants and my latest discoveries.
I can’t wait to share it all with you!
Student/school Tours
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Fun, cross-cultural experience to introduce your students to sights, tastes, fables of this rich, historic immigrant enclave.
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Please email for details and fee information. With proper certification, no tax is added for school groups.
Private Tours
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Private & Corporate Groups - Customizable itineraries, team- building, girls’ night out. Light dinner and adult beverages, we can do that, too!
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Please call for details and cost.
The original chinatown tour
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By far our most popular tour. Tasting, shopping, history, visiting an herbalist. Sampling sweet and savory treats, as the tour ends we sit down to enjoy dim sum. Standard tours run on Saturdays.
3+ Hours
(Additional tours available)
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Email me or use the contact form for more info.
Our Tours
Go beyond the gate with an expert guide, you’re in good hands with me. New England Travel said, “Jacqueline has an insider/outsider perspective that makes her a great teacher and savvy guide…giving you a foundation to build on, while always leaving you hungry for more.”
We’ll learn about the rich history, the challenges overcome by our early Chinese immigrants, and the resilience of our current residents. We’ll cover the food, fun, and fables that make this neighborhood so unique.
We’ll explore Chin Park, and learn about the paifang, and design features of the park. We’ll enjoy gold ginkgo in the fall, cherry blossoms in spring, and maybe a lion dance if we’re near a lunar holiday. Learn how Yin and Yang are expressed in everything from food to architecture to medicine as we visit a traditional Chinese herbalist's shop.
We’ll nosh on treats while we get our bearings, and explore your take-home guide filled with facts and enough tips to build your own adventure the next time. Then we’ll explore and nibble our way through traditional pastries, and savory BBQ pork at a Cha Chaan Teng, and visit Tom our favorite fruit vendor on Beach Street.
We’ll see what’s live and seasonal at the grocery store, and get shopping tips and cooking advice. After your tour we sit down to enjoy dim sum, savor dumplings, learn etiquette, ordering, and more.
additional tours!
From time to time I’ll offer special private tours. Sign up today if you want to be notified when these are available.
For example, go behind the scenes with a Lion Dance/Kung Fu studio demo. Or take a bao safari, enjoying steamed buns from several restaurants and bakeries. A shop and cook tour.
These are limited and first come, first served.
Meet your guide
I’m grateful to be a bridge between cultures. Drawing on continued study and personal experience, I share insights to help you navigate Chinatown successfully.
My tours bring many passions together: cross-cultural learning, immigrant history, culinary delights. Imparting a bit of history and culture along with some fun stories and delicious treats, I host guests from all walks of life, different neighborhoods and countries. Everyone discovers something new and wonderful here in Chinatown.
What will you experience?
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Masks help with pollen, and wildfire smoke from Canada. Guests should be vaccinated and boosted. We don’t want to be the asymptomatic carrier that puts one of our friends out of commission.
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Standard tours can be booked up to 24 hours prior.
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We’ll cover a little over a mile, including a secluded park, dramatic murals, secret food court, street vendors and more.
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