Afternoon Tea and Dessert Tour on the Huaihai Road in Shanghai

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Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
Where to Meet
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Duration
3 hours
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Number of Guests
2 - 15 guests
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Language
Chinese, English
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Join our Shanghai tour to explore Chinese afternoon tea traditions! Savor local desserts, aromatic teas on Huaihai Road, and enjoy a classic tea ceremony. Delight in mango puree and mousse cakes.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Ever wonder what Chinese people have for afternoon tea? Is it like British style or what? Come and join this unique food tour to discover the secret of Chinese afternoon tea. Indulging yourself with various local traditional desserts and aromatic green or black tea. Walk around some of the best local dessert shops on famous Huaihai Road. Sit down at a popular Shanghai tea house to taste Pu'er, Ginseng Oolong, Jasmine and black tea during your classic tea ceremony session. In addition, you will also enjoy mango puree, jellied mousse cake and some other icy desserts during the tour.

What You Get

Local guide
Afternoon tea/tea ceremony
Desserts
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Gratuities

Good To Know

  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible

What You’ll Experience

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Huaihai Road Commercial Street

Meet your guide at the 2:00pm, and start your relaxing afternoon tea food tour from Huaihua Road, Shanghai. You will firstly try out some tasty mooncake at two local pastry shops. Mooncake is a typical pastry that Chinese people have during the Mid-autumn Festival, which is symbolized the reunion for the entire family like a harmonious circle. Then you will sit down at a tea house next to the dessert shops to start your tea ceremony. China is with a long history of tea culture, and people here do believe that drinking tea keeps your doctor way. Have a taste of some green tea from Hangzhou as well as some black tea from Fujian province. Through the classic tea ceremony, you will get a better understanding of the functions of different size of the tea cups and the temperature of water to use for different tea leaves. You will also learn the original birth places for different tea as well as how tea culture has been changing the world since the Anglo-Chinese War in 1839. Your final stop for the tour is at a Cantonese dessert restaurant where you will enjoy a different sweet flavor through various icy deserts, such as milk pudding with purple sticky rice, papaya, sago, mango puree and amazing almond tofu. By attending this tasty afternoon tea and desert tour, you surely will have a "sweet" memory from Shanghai.
45 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
2

Xintiandi

Then you will sit down at a tea house next to the dessert shops to start your tea ceremony. China is with a long history of tea culture, and people here do believe that drinking tea keeps your doctor way. Have a taste of some green tea from Hangzhou as well as some black tea from Fujian province. Through the classic tea ceremony, you will get a better understanding of the functions of different size of the tea cups and the temperature of water to use for different tea leaves. You will also learn the original birth places for different tea as well as how tea culture has been changing the world since the Anglo-Chinese War in 1839.
1 hourAdmission Ticket Free
3

Former French Concession

Your final stop for the tour is at a Cantonese dessert restaurant where you will enjoy a different sweet flavor through various icy deserts, such as milk pudding with purple sticky rice, papaya, sago, mango puree and amazing almond tofu. By attending this tasty afternoon tea and desert tour, you surely will have a "sweet" memory from Shanghai.
45 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

淮海中路333号, 淮海中路, Shang Hai Shi, China, CN, 200021

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Please meet up at Exit 2, South Huangpi Road-site of the First CPC National Congress station(Shanghai metro line 1) or No333 Huaihai Road. Directions: Take Shanghai Metro Station Line 1, and get off at South Huangpi Road Station. Your guide will be waiting for you at Exit 2. 你好,请带我去上海地铁1号线黄陂南路站2号口
End Point

French Concession, Shanghai, China, CN, 200031

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Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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