Cooking and Food tour in Panda’s hometown

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2 days Free CancellationMin 2 participantsPickup availableInstant confirmationMin age 5+Guided by U2Panda Tour

Why we love it?

This two-day tour in Chengdu offers an immersive experience combining wildlife and culinary culture. You’ll visit the Chengdu Panda Center in the morning to learn about the lives and behaviors of these iconic animals, followed by a foodie lunch delivered by tuk-tuk. The itinerary includes visits to local food and ingredient markets, where you can participate in a cooking class led by an experienced English-speaking guide and chef, using fresh local ingredients. Alongside hands-on lessons, you’ll enjoy local tea, a beverage of your choice, and receive recipes and souvenirs to take home, making this a well-rounded introduction to Chengdu’s rich food heritage and natural treasures.

Inclusions

  • Dinner
  • Lunch
  • Experienced English-speaking tour guide / chef
  • Cooking classes and all the ingredents
  • Local Tea and 1 free beer or beverages
  • Recipes and Souvenirs
  • Sichuan cuision museum
  • Entrance fee of Panda Center
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Experienced local guide
  • 12+ Types of local snacks/delicacies
  • Tuk-tuk experience in the food tour for lunch on day 2

Exclusions

  • Gratuities (recommended)

Itinerary

Day 1

food and ingredients market visiting and cooking class

  • We will pick you up at your hotel and then head to the Sichuan Cuisine Museum. In this Special museum, we will get chance to learn the food cuture and history of Sichuan Food , to try some local snacks and most important point is we can check the Douban Jiang Making process which is the soul of Sichuan Cuisine.

  • when we finish the museum visit , we will go back to the city and have lunch in the Most Famous Mapo Tofu restaurant-Chen Mapo to have lunch.

    After that you’ll be taken into an authentic local spice market to explore it and learn different species of Sichuan spices and ingredients that will be used in the Sichuan cuisine.

  • The tour will be guided to start the cooking process by a professional chef in a cozy kitchen.

    Take the knowledge about the Sichuan sauce from the market, and we gonna try some chilli sauce making by yourself at cooking school. The sauce will be used for the food we shall cook tonight.
    Finally, you can enjoy the dishes 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.

  • local food restaurant

  • the food you made from cooking school

Day 2

Chengdu Panda Center Morning Tour and foodie lunch by tuk-tuk

  • Our guide will greet you at your hotel lobby and a short drive to Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding – be sure to fully charge you devices, they are what we called film/battery killer!
    We come here earlier in the morning so as to see them in their breakfast time and play time!
    It’s a beautiful park where we will the Giant Pandas, red pandas and if we are lucky we could even see the baby pandas in the Panda Nursery.

  • And after panda visiting, we will have our lunch on a tuk tuk riding tour.

    Great food is the very important thing in Chengdu, so let’s start to find some local insane good food like the real local Chengdu people.

    We will take tuk-tuk going through the streets, and we will go to the most famous and delicious food vendors. For the local people, we are very clear that there are a lot of delicious food restaurants hidden inside some apartments where nobody can know form the Internet.

    Today will go to visit 4-5 different favorite places of local people.

    there are 10-12 different tasty snacks we will try. Sweet, chilly and other flavor. All of theplaces we are going to have a history of more 20 years even 100 years business or brand. We can not only experience the characteristic Sichuan food which one dish one flavor, one hundred dishes one hundred styles, but also learn connections among the food restaurants, the development of the local buildings and local people.

    this is not just a food tour but it's a great way to explore this city, to deep explore the local life.

  • the snacks in the different area, we shall take you around to look for the real local food by tuk tuk.

Please Note

  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Not stroller accessible
  • Not suitable for pets
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Infant seats unavailable we pickup from your hotel, please offer us your hotel address when you book this trip,thanks

Know Before You Go

  • Public transportation nearby

Cancellation Policy

Fully refundable until 1 day before start

Non-refundable after 1 day before start

From $576 Per 2 adults