Discover Binondo's Chinatown by Walking and Tasting – Half-Day Tour

Explore on foot and eat your way through Chinatown on your own two feet!

Binondo is primarily populated by ethnic Chinese living in the Philippines, and is referred to as the local Chinatown, and the oldest in the world outside mainland China. Binondo’s Chinatown is also listed as one of the top National Geographic’s food journey of a lifetime.

Your first stop for culinary taste of Binondo starts at Café Mezzanine also known as the Volunteer Fireman’s Coffeeshop wherein parts of their proceeds are donated to the volunteer fire fighters of Binondo. Here you will get to taste the Chinese alltime favourites like machang and kiampong – a salted fried rice mixed with pieces of pork, chicken, dried shrimp and mushroom served in a small bowl topped with peanuts.

Afterwards head to Dong Bei Dumplings, a small restaurant located in Yuchengco Street that serves the best fresh dumpling in Binondo and get to witness how they are prepared. Next stop is a small stall selling fried ‘Siopao’ or hot bun, a popular food in the Philippines that have different varieties depending on the stuffing and may be consumed on the go. Along the way you will pass different local food stores, Chinese pharmacies, fruit stalls...

The walking tour ends at New Po Heng Lumpia House where they serve fresh Chinese lumpia, a mixture of carrots, cabbage, tofu, shrimp and grounded pork, topped with crushed peanuts, garlic, seaweed, hot sauce and rolled in leaves of lettuce wrapped in paper-thin rice crepes. Return to the hotel at the end of the tour.