Private Xi'an Foodie Tour by Tuktuk

I took the Tuk Tuk food tour with the wonderful Michael Chang, and it was so much fun!
He really knows his way around the markets and the city and knows the best places to try some for the food that Xi’an is famous for. The places that we went were not tourists places, which was really great.

I really enjoyed trying different things that maybe I wouldn’t know/ or try on my own.

I highly recommended to take this tour and going back home with a full and happy tummy like I did :)

I recommend this food tour, and guide Michael, to anyone visiting Xi'an! The tour was customizable if there are specific places you want to go or things to eat. We started at the Hilton, visited a few areas and ended in the Muslim quarter at the bell tower. Michael helped us get a car back to our hotel AND he stayed in touch with us after the tour. He gave us recommendations on what to visit and where else to eat on the rest of our trip. Any tour you book with Michael will not disappoint!

Michael took us on a food tour and it was absolutely great. We tried lots of delicious food we'd never had before, and that we would have had trouble finding without Michael. We were completely stuffed after the tour and loved all the foods we tried. Michael was a great guide- super informative, fun to talk to. We wish we'd gone to the Terra Cotta warriors with him instead of the tour guide we booked through our hotel. Overall one of the highlights of our trip!

We have been on a number of food tours throughout our travels. I have to say this one was the best one We have ever done. Our guide Michael made the experience accommodate, both our tastes. One of us being a meat eater and the other being a vegetarian. The whole experience from start to finish was a true wonderful evening.

Michael is an excellent guide. He is friendly, kind, and speaks fluent English. He went above and beyond to insure that our food tour in Xian was perfect. He is knowledgeable regarding the local cuisine and takes you to canteens and tiny out of the way restaurants that a traveler would never find on their own. We had so much fun while on our night food tour… from eating the local fare, zooming around in a Tuk Tuk and enjoying the company of Michael. We can’t thank Michael enough for taking us on a great food tour while we were in Xian.

My favorite thing we did in Xi'an - this is a very thorough introduction to Xi'an food. You will visit a variety of places, from canteens to restaurants to food stalls : this tour crisscrosses central Xi'an to not just get you Xi'an specialty foods, but to seek out the best place for each. I consider myself a fairly independent traveler, but this tour both brought me to places I would never have found on my own and dishes I would never have figured out how to order on my own.

Our guide Michael was particularly excellent- enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the different food, helped us understand what we were seeing, and personalized the tour (when we were asking a bunch of questions about different produce, he stopped at a market and got us a few different kinds of fruits we'd never seen before).

If you can, do this tour early in your time in Xi'an - we wanted to go back to everywhere for lunch the next day!

Although you will try rice wine, this is primarily a tour for people who love food - it's less alcohol-focused than some.

Come hungry!

Just returned from two weeks in China. Enjoyed good food and tours throughout the country, but this tour was my favorite! MOST of my favorite foods from the entire two weeks were from this tour.
On a different food tour in China, I felt the food quality was secondary to atmosphere, novelty or pricing, but on this tour....the FOOD was absolutely FABULOUS at every stop! Not only did we try lots of different foods, but Michael made sure we tried each food at super high quality restaurants. We tried soup noodles elsewhere, for example, but didn't find ones as delicious as those at the restaurant Michael took us to. The bread in the Xian burgers at the place Michael took us to was just tastier than at another place we tried.
Michael gave us advice for the rest of our trip as well. Highly recommended!

This is not my first time in Xi'an, but this food tour gave me a new world. All the food are tasty and special. The meeting point is very easy to find, and leader Michael is a great guide, very knowledgeable and welcomed everyone in the group well.
The tuk-tuk is great fun. Go through the small allies to try the local food, we are totally lost in the foodie paradise.
My personal favorite food is the Chinese Bread and The Soup Dumplings, SO SO SO good!
i will definitely do this again if i have a second chance.

We thoroughly enjoyed this food tour of Xi'An. We highly recommend this tour and our guide was Michael, and his warm personality and hospitality made us feel like visiting guests. The tuk tuk transport added excitement and enabled us to visit more areas without worrying about navigating crowds, or which places to pick. We visited multiple areas of Xi'An, culminating with the Moslem quarter. All of the food was interesting, delicious and plentiful. We loved seeing the colorful venues and Michael's commentary about the food and local life really helped us appreciate Xi'An and the local people even more. Michael speaks excellent English, and communicated in advance to verify our plans, but he was also flexible with timing and making sure our needs were met. Thanks again Michael for this fun and wonderful tour!

I don't remember the last time I wrote a review on here, but I just had to for this.

This was my first ever solo International trip. Couldn't think of a better way to learn about Xi'an than eating like the locals. So I did my research, read all the reviews and finally picked Lily's Private Tours.

Even before I left for China, Lily sent multiple confirmation emails. So I always knew who was picking me up from my hotel, what time and what to expect. That alone for a single traveler put me at such an ease.

On the day of the tour,Lily picked me up from my hotel as scheduled, even earlier than expected. Our tour wasnt strictly food based, we walked around and she told me all the history about the different sites and even took pictures for me. The best thing I enjoyed about this tour was that it didn't feel like one. It felt more like you were having dinner with one of your close friends. Lily's personality is really the selling point of the tour, she put me at ease. Oh and the food! There was so much food. I feel like I tried a little bit of everything and I must tell you come to this tour with an appetite. My favorite dish would be a toss up between the noodles and the dumplings with soup in them ( I can't seem to remember the name of the dishes now).

When Lily brought me back to my hotel, I felt like I just did a 2 day tour with all the information she gave me. I ended up staying 3 days in Xi'an. I did a tour on each day with different tour guides and let me tell you Lily was the best one! The only regret I have is not booking with Lily for all my tours. I won't make that same mistake again!

Even after I left Xi'an, Lily kept in contact with me to see if I was enjoying the rest of my stay.

Did this fantastic food tour with Michael on the night we arrived in Xian. He brought us to some many hidden gems, mostly away from the touristy Muslim Food Street. My son was allergy to nuts and could not take spicy food which was a big challenge for most food tour guide specially in Xian. But Michael did a great job. My son actually have a craving for Xian food so much that we booked a second food tour with Michael on the last day of our stay in Xian. Strongly recommend to do this food tour with Michael as he is a adventurous foodie like me.