Food Highlights
🏆 Favorite Bite
Handmade Chive and Pork fried dumplings
🌟 Most Unique Dish
Pineapple Pork Bun
What to Expect
🥟 Chinatown Favorites
Eat your way through Chinatown with stops featuring handmade dumplings, noodles, and other incredible neighborhood favorites.
🇮🇹 A Taste of Little Italy
Continue the culinary adventure into Little Italy with pizza, arancini, cannoli, and more classic New York flavors.
🚶 Explore Two Neighborhoods
Walk through Chinatown and Little Italy while experiencing the streets, businesses, and communities that give each neighborhood its identity.
📖 More Than a Food Tour
The history and stories behind the neighborhoods add another dimension to the experience far beyond simply moving from one tasting to the next.
🌟 Fantastic Guide
Our guide, Renee, was fantastic and brought both neighborhoods to life through the stories and history she shared along the way.
🍴 Come Hungry!
With dumplings, noodles, pork buns, pizza, arancini, cannoli, and cheesecake on our tour, you definitely won't leave hungry.
Our Experience - Secret Food Tours: NYC - Chinatown & Little Italy
Secret Food Tours NYC was everything we want from a great food tour. Yes, we ate an incredible amount of delicious food, but the experience went far beyond simply walking between restaurants and collecting samples. Our guide, Renee, was fantastic, using the history and stories of Chinatown and Little Italy to bring both neighborhoods to life as we explored them on foot.
And then there was the food. Our culinary adventure included handmade chive and pork fried dumplings from Tasty Dumpling, Dan Dan noodles from Mrs. Fish, and a pineapple pork bun from Mei Lai Wah as we explored Chinatown. Each stop introduced another flavor and another piece of the neighborhood's food culture, making the walking tour feel like a progression rather than simply a collection of unrelated tastings.
Crossing into Little Italy certainly didn't mean slowing down. We continued with fresh burrata pizza from Sofia's and arancini from Parm before somehow finding enough room for dessert: cannoli from Caffè Palermo and cheesecake from Eileen's. Needless to say, this is one tour where we'd recommend arriving hungry.
What really elevated the experience, though, was everything we learned between bites. Renee shared stories about the neighborhoods, their communities, and their history as we walked, giving us a much better understanding of the places we were exploring. That's what turned an excellent culinary experience into an excellent New York experience.
If you're a foodie visiting NYC, this is exactly the kind of tour we love recommending. You get to explore two iconic neighborhoods, discover restaurants and dishes you might otherwise walk right past, learn about the history around you, and eat exceptionally well along the way. For us, Secret Food Tours delivered on both sides of the equation: the culinary adventure was tantalizing, and the tour itself made Chinatown and Little Italy feel much more alive.
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