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Chinatown – Street Food and Stories
Highlights
- Explore the vibrant laneways of Dixon Street, indulging in delicious street food from top local restaurants.
- Engage with knowledgeable guides who share captivating stories of Sydney's Chinese community from the 1920s.
- Savour snacks designed for on-the-go enjoyment, catering to vegetarian and vegan diets with prior notice.
- Receive a handy map and guide to Haymarket's best eateries, ensuring you know exactly what to order.
Local Sauce Tours is well-known for its fun, interactive Sydney tours, and the Chinatown Street Food and Stories tour is one of the most popular. Over two and a half hours, you’ll explore the maze of roads and laneways around Dixon Street, sampling street food from some of the best restaurants in the area. It’s an active tour, with snacks designed to be eaten on the go. Vegetarian, vegan and other diets can be catered for with advance notice.
Knowledgeable guides will show you the history of an area that came into its own as the heart of Sydney’s Chinese community in the 1920s, and they’ll mix in pub trivia-style games to keep the session social and entertaining. Come with your curiosity and leave with a map and guide to Chinatown covering Haymarket’s best places to eat and what to order when you get there.
Tour details
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Available from 10 April 2025 to 31 March 2026
Features
Service facilities
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
Allergies and intolerances
Caters for people with allergies and intolerances.
- Modify their cooking and cleaning practices to cater for people with food allergies or chemical intolerances (could include menus with meals free from: nuts, dairy, seafood, eggs, gluten etc).
Operation information
Local Sauce Tours – Sydney
Local Sauce Tours is an award-winning Sydney-based tour company focused on bringing locals and guests from all over the world together on small-group walking tours.
Tours include food tours “secret bar crawls”, street art tours and history walks. Their guides are passionate and knowledgeable locals who love to show visitors the hidden gems of their cities through fun half-day or evening experiences.
Tours are perfect for solo travellers, couples or small groups. On each tour, there is a maximum of 12 guests, so you’ll make new friends while discovering Sydney’s secrets!
Accreditations
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Quality Tourism Accreditation
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
Memberships
- Australian Tourism Export Council
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