Cooking and Food tour in Panda's hometown 2 days trip

2 Days Round trip from your hotel lobby Easy pace

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The journey

Trip highlights

01 Visit the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in the morning
02 Explore the Sichuan Cuisine Museum and learn about local food culture
03 Browse a local spice market for Sichuan ingredients and seasonings
04 Join a hands-on cooking class with a professional chef
05 Make chilli sauce and enjoy the dishes you cook for dinner
06 Ride by tuk-tuk to hidden local food spots around Chengdu
07 Taste 10–12 different Sichuan snacks across 4–5 favorite local places
08 See giant pandas, red pandas, and possibly baby pandas in the nursery

Discover two of Chengdu’s greatest passions in one immersive 2-day experience: giant pandas and Sichuan cuisine. Visit the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding to watch these beloved animals during their most active morning hours, then dive into the city’s food culture through a museum visit, a local spice market, a hands-on cooking class, and a tuk-tuk street food adventure.

Along the way, learn about the history and flavors behind Sichuan cooking, see how key ingredients such as Douban Jiang are made, and taste a wide variety of local dishes and snacks. From cooking your own dinner with a professional chef to exploring hidden neighborhood food spots loved by locals, this trip offers a fun and flavorful way to experience Chengdu.

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 2 Days

Tour type Shared

Activity level Easy

Accommodation Included

Transport Not included

Wheelchair access Not applicable

City Chengdu

Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

Day 01

food and ingredients market visiting and cooking class

We will pick you up at your hotel and then head to the Sichuan Cuisine Museum. In this Special museum, we will get chance to learn the food cuture and history of Sichuan Food , to try some local snacks and most important point is we can check the Douban Jiang

Making process which is the soul of Sichuan Cuisine. when we finish the museum visit , we will go back to the city and have lunch in the Most Famous Mapo Tofu restaurant-Chen Mapo to have lunch. After that you’ll be taken into an authentic local spice market to explore it and learn different species of Sichuan spices and ingredients that will be used in the Sichuan cuisine.

The tour will be guided to start the cooking process by a professional chef in a cozy kitchen. Take the knowledge about the Sichuan sauce from the market, and we gonna try some chilli sauce making by yourself at cooking school. The sauce will be used for the food we shall cook tonight. Finally, you can enjoy the dishes made by yourself along with some beers or beverages. For it’s really informative, interesting and fun, this class will be an unforgettable experience in your lifetime.

Meals included:

Lunch: local food restaurant

Dinner: the food you made from cooking school

Day 02

Chengdu Panda Center Morning Tour and foodie lunch by tuk-tuk

Our guide will greet you at your hotel lobby and a short drive to Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding – be sure to fully charge you devices, they are what we called film/battery killer! We come here earlier in the morning so as to see them in their breakfast time and play time! It’s a beautiful park where we will the Giant Pandas, red pandas and if we are lucky we could even see the baby pandas in the Panda Nursery.

After panda visiting, we will have our lunch on a tuk tuk riding tour. Great food is the very important thing in Chengdu, so let’s start to find some local insane good food like the real local Chengdu people.

We will take tuk-tuk going through the streets, and we will go to the most famous and delicious food vendors. For the local people, we are very clear that there are a lot of delicious food restaurants hidden inside some apartments where nobody can know form the Internet.

Today will go to visit 4-5 different favorite places of local people. there are 10-12 different tasty snacks we will try. Sweet, chilly and other flavor. All of theplaces we are going to have a history of more 20 years even 100 years business or brand. We can not only experience the characteristic Sichuan food which one dish one flavor, one hundred dishes one hundred styles, but also learn connections among the food restaurants, the development of the local buildings and local people. this is not just a food tour but it's a great way to explore this city, to deep explore the local life.

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map — Round trip from your hotel lobby 1 city · 2 Days

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

Day1's dinner
Experienced English-speaking tour guide / chef Cooking classes and all the ingredents
Local Tea and 1 free beer or beverages
Recipes and Souvenirs
Sichuan cuision museum Entrance
Panda Center
Air-conditioned vehicle Experienced local guide
12+ Types of local snacks/delicacies
Tuk-tuk experience in the food tour for lunch on day 2
Lunch on day 1