| Rating |
Date Attended [v] |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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This was an amazing walk through history.
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| Sat, Apr 4 9:30 AM |
JKaufman |
Female |
50-59 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| This was an amazing walk through history. We thoroughly enjoyed our tour of Chinatown. Our guide was a wealth of knowledge. The tour was both educational and fun. The materials he passed out to the group will be very helpful when I go back to Chinatown for a visit. |
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Overall, A Positive Tour
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| Sat, Apr 4 9:30 AM |
ecreef |
Female |
20-29 |
Combination |
Group of Friends |
| I thought that the tour was very informative and would be helpful for a target Western audience. As a Chinese-American I already had a lot of the knowledge that was being articulated by the guide. However, it was very interesting and insightful to hear about Chinatown from a Western perspective. The guide was very engaging and had a great knowledge of the different types of food and cooking techniques. The historic part at the beginning of the tour was very helpful as well. Overall, I thought that the tour was a positive experience and was impressed that there wasn't a "slanting" of the presentation of Chinatown. |
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Best experience in Boston
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| Sat, Feb 14 9:30 AM |
judysuggs |
Female |
60-69 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Individual |
| I highly recommend this tour. Our guide, Jim, had lived in China, spoke the language, and was also a chef, so he was the perfect guide for this culinary tour of Chinatown. I wish I had had a tape recorder because I will never remember all of the information he shared with us about the history, the people and their customs, the wide variety of foods we sampled. We toured and sampled food and drink in two bakeries, a pharmacy, a candy store, a grocery store, and finished the tour with a Chinese brunch. The three and a half hours literally flew by. Of all of the places in Boston we visited, this experience was my favorite, and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat! |
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Fantastic
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| Sat, Feb 14 9:30 AM |
nickmori |
Male |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| A great overview of Chinatown, basic Chinese culture, and a lot of fun stops with food and drink samples. Dim sum was excellent too. The tour was a great primer for our upcoming trip to Hong Kong and we highly recommend it to anyone up for a culinary adventure. Thanks! |
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Fascinating, FUN tour!!!
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| Sat, Jan 31 9:30 AM |
jbwiley |
Female |
30-39 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| Wow! this was a great tour! My out of town guests and I were blown away by Jim's knowledge and the fascinating culture of chinatown. i would highly recommend it to anyone. We are still talking about what a great time we had in chinatown! Thanks, Jim! |
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Great Chinatown Tour!
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| Sat, Jan 10 9:30 AM |
lynnvhewes |
Female |
50-59 |
Local |
Family Without Children |
| Fascinating history and colorful anecdotes on Boston's Chinatown, with excellent visits to local bakeries, traditional Chinese pharmacy, BBQ, and grocery. Dim Sum was super!
We would love a tour dedicated to just Chinese groceries -- how to shop for and prepare simple traditional foods. |
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We loved the tour but we were so cold!
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| Sat, Dec 13, 08 9:30 AM |
azimmon |
Female |
30-39 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| Jim is a fascinating and knowledgeable guide. We all very much appreciated his expertise and his enthusiasm! The only suggestion our group has for Jim is that he should be willing to change the format of the tour in response to inclement weather. The day of our tour was extremely cold and we spent the first hour outside sitting on an ice cold stone wall listening to Jim's introduction to the tour. While the information he presented was interesting, it did not make up for the extreme conditions we were forced to endure. It would have been smarter to immediately take us in and out of the shops and present the information later on while we were all comfortably indoors at the dim sum restaurant. |
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see chinatown with an expert
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| Sat, Dec 13, 08 9:30 AM |
zborowski |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| This was such a fun informative tour!!! Jim, the tour guide is so knowledgable. The local shop visitations were a great experience. (The herbalist and the supermarket were my faves)The dim sum lunch was so great--without the tour guide we would have been too intimidated and wouldn't even know where to begin or what to eat.
After Jim described wonderful Asian spring rolls, I was a bit disapointed when we didn't get to sample one. |
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The Best Boston Tour
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| Sat, Dec 6, 08 9:30 AM |
Lynsmith |
Female |
50-59 |
International Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| What a morning!!! From the time we started our tour until Jim wished us all farewell the day was everything we had hoped for. Jim has an excellent understanding of the area and the people. He made our trip interesting with his knowledge of the food and culture. I would highly recommend this trip to anyone going to Boston. |
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Rich with information and fun
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| Sat, Dec 6, 08 9:30 AM |
Christmas |
Female |
60-69 |
Local |
Family Without Children |
| I so appreciated the rich background of Jim Becker, our guide who could speak with shop keepers, the pharmacist, the bakers, etc. in Cantonese, thus opening doors to so many pleasant encounters. His knowledge, his enthusiasm, his guiding us to be culturally sensitive as we ate at the Restaurant , e.g. showing us how to place our chop sticks; the introduction to places where I am looking forward to return . These are just a few random thoughts .
This was a gift for a few members in the family, and now my sister hinted at a gift for the trip for her and her husband as we discuss Christmas gifts.
Thanks so much.
Maureen |
