Delicious Food Trail: Explore Sowcarpet Market's Culinary Delight

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2 hours 30 minutes
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1 - 15 guests
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Uncover Chennai's street flavors on a guided Sowcarpet Market food tour. Savor popular dishes, learn the culinary heritage, and navigate bustling stalls effortlessly. Limited group ensures intimacy.

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10 meals

Experience Details

This is a food walk in the Sowcarpet, to introduce you to the traditional cuisine of south India.Chennai’s tourist menus won’t give you a true perspective on the everyday foods enjoyed by locals. Step forward this small-group walking tour of the Sowcarpet Market: where a multitude of stalls serve the staples that keep Chennaites sustained. Let a guide navigate the market so you don’t get lost, taste popular foods at tried-and-trusted stands, and get the full lowdown on local delicacies that you wouldn’t hear on your own.


Discover Chennai’s street foods on a Sowcarpet Market food walking tour


Find and hear about dishes with a guide for insight, tips, and navigation


Taste snacks such as savory chaats, and hear food trivia you’d miss alone


All-you-can-eat street food tour, limited to 10 for personalized feel


What You Get

Food tasting
Snacks Beverages
Local guide
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Gratuities

Good To Know

  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers

What You’ll Experience

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Chennai District

Meet your guide outside of Joonus Sait and Sons at 4pm and start this 2.5-hour walking tour. The streets of Sowcarpet teem with shops selling food - from the exotic to the everyday. Walk through the market sampling some of the best local street food on offer - savory 'chaats', sweets and refreshing cold beverages. 'Murukku' sandwich, 'Thattu Idli' and 'Pal Kova' are some of the foods you might encounter on the trail. Learn about local food habits, customs, and superstitions, and take back home some fascinating trivia related to the origins and varieties of popular local foods. The food trail through the busy streets of Sowcarpet is guaranteed to be an assault on your senses. So come, if you are a complete foodie, obsessively adventurous and very, very hungry. The tour price includes all the street food you can eat on this trail. The tour ends at the same place where it started.
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Sowcarpet

Sowcarpet is a neighborhood in the northern part of Chennai, India. Sowcarpet is one of the oldest neighborhoods of the city with narrow streets and vintage buildings. It is a bustling commercial area of the city, and a range of wholesale markets are
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Joonus Sait & Sons, Rattan Bazaar Road, Chennai Tamil Nadu, India, IN, 600003

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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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Wonderful insight to Chennai street food
May 03, 2025
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Amazing tour of Sowcarpet - Rajesh was a great guide, who introduced us to loads of new foods and explained all of the different things that we saw. The food was all amazing, and gave us a real ins...read more

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A very enjoyable and...
February 05, 2025
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A very enjoyable and informative tour. Rajesh knew all the places to get the best examples of street food in the market. My only complaint is minor…it seemed as if most of the tour was focused on s...read more

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Great for the family and even fussy eaters. The
December 06, 2024
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Rajesh accommodated our son’s no-spice requirements and made sure he had enough to experience as well. The food was delicious, didn’t make us sick (this was day 1 of India for us) and his communica...read more

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Amazing food tour!
October 26, 2024
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We had the best time with our guide Rajesh.Walking through the narrow streets which makes us different experience and street foods are tasty.

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Festival Day Food Tour
September 08, 2024
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The guide was very helpful. The market was very crowded because of a festival. It was the end of the day so the streets were full of garbage. This made the food very unappealing. The guide was very...read more

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