The 3 Best Market Tours in Beijing

1.Private Beijing Markets Tour with Tea Tasting at Hongqiao Pearl Market

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 18 reviews · from $88Our pick

Shop Beijing’s Panjiayuan and Hongqiao markets, learn to bargain, enjoy a tea tasting, and ride back to your hotel with a private guide.

“Lily took us on this tour and it is with her expertise and guidance that it was a magnificent day. The Beijing markets have something for everyone. We began with the Flea Market. We highly recommend this area as a place to buy original art wRead more”

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2.Dumpling-Making Class with wet Market visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 9 reviews · 5 hours · from $50

Make dumplings with a Beijing family, shop a local wet market, taste tea, and cook classic Chinese dishes in a five-hour food tour.

“Peter was GREAT! He was friendly, knowledgeable, and engaging. He is extremely well traveled and easily draws cross cultural comparisons. The visit to the wet market was fun. Our dumpling teacher was engaging and informative. With that said, a tour that was listed as approximately 5 hours lasted under 3. It was certainly long enough but, had we known the true duration, we would have made other plans for the rest of the day.”

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3.Vegan Home Cooking & Local Market Tour with Sanxia

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 4 reviews · 4 hours · from $47Best value

Cook vegan Chinese food, shop a Beijing market, sip tea, and share a homemade meal with Sanxia in her Tongzhou home.

“This was amazing! I did this cooking class back in September and it was such a great experience! I was the only person booking it that day, so we met a little earlier, went to the market together and bought all the vegetables fresh from there! Then, we went to Sanxia‘s apartment and cooked a lot of different dishes! It was really fun!! We all ate together and talked a lot. I actually ended up spending my whole day with Sanxia, her boyfriend Jürgen and their friends. It was my favorite day of my whole solo trip to Beijing, China ^^”

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