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Seller: MicheleTopor
(Michele Topor, Inc.)
Seller Description:
Michele Topor, Inc has offered culinary walking tours in Boston’s “Little Italy” since 1994. Trained as a professional chef, Michele has taught cooking, catered, and consulted on Italian food since 1979. Her cooking classes, market tours, and culinary trips to Italy have been featured on television, on the radio, and in various national and international publications.
In 2006, Jim Becker joined the Michele Topor team. Also trained as a professional chef, Jim speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese and developed the Asian component for a local professional Chef Degree Program. He has worked in many well known Boston restaurants, and was owner of Rauxa Restaurant and Cava Bar, featuring Catalan cuisine, for two years. Jim's knowledge and passion for Asian cuisine enabled the birth of this brand new Boston Chinatown Market Tour.
The tours offered by Michele Topor, Inc are designed to be like cooking classes on foot, helping our guests to discover a vibrant ethnic neighborhood, learn about an ethnic food culture, glean insider cooking tips, and gain the resources and knowledge necessary to identify the very best authentic ingredients!
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Activity Information:
Activity Description
Are you intrigued, yet a little intimidated by the fascinating, colorful neighborhood of Chinatown? Are you wild about Chinese food, but easily confused by the huge variety of unfamiliar ingredients in markets?
Then join us as we step through the Chinatown Gate to uncover the mysteries that lie beyond! Allow one of our knowledgeable guides to lead you through this vibrant, energetic village so you can experience the culinary and cultural traditions of China, right in the heart of downtown Boston.
On this 3.5 hour guided tour, you will:
- Learn the differences between the many regional cuisines of China
- Find out where to buy and how to select the finest authentic Chinese ingredients
- Discover a bakery offering the best Chinese sweets and learn the origin of Chinese Moon Cakes
- Visit a barbecue shop and savor the tastes and smells of traditional Cantonese roasted meats
- Slip into an authentic Chinese Herbal Pharmacy, and explore the concept of Yin and Yang
- Delight in the phenomenon known as “Bubble Tea”
- Tour a market with exotic produce, fabulous seafood, and an endless array of spices
Complete your stroll with a delicious Dim Sum lunch hosted by your guide, where you'll learn the ins and outs of ordering from the roaming carts and stationary stalls, as well as the unique rules of Dim Sum etiquette.
Meeting Location:
Near Beach St and Hudson St in Chinatown (Boston, MA)
(Exact meeting location details will be provided immediately upon purchase of tickets.)
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