Street Eats Breakfast Food Tour with UnTour Shanghai

While traveling to China we wanted to try every kind of food possible.  So I was really excited when I stumbled across an article on TimeOut Shanghai about alternative Shanghai tours, which included a write up on culinary tours with UnTour Shanghai.  Looking back I am very thankful we planned food tours in both Beijing and Shanghai, because they introduced us to so many different foods and experiences I don’t think we would have had otherwise. 

UnTour Shanghai offers a variety of Shanghai food tours, including Oodles of Noodles, Street Eats Breakfast, Dumpling Delights, Street Eats Night Markets, Vegetarian Voyage, and Hands-On Dumpling Delights.  The first task was figuring out which of these tours we wanted to try.  We opted for Street Eats Breakfast.  It meant waking up early, but I just knew it was going to be worth it, and it was.

Beijing Street Food at Wangfujing Snack Street (Or the Day I Ate Scorpions)

Fried scorpion at Wangfujing Snack Street.

I love food.  I love street food.  We practically lived off of Bangkok street food when we traveled to Thailand, so I was excited to try street food in China.  We had begun our Chinese food education the evening before on our Beijing food tour, but our education needed to be rounded out with some street food.  Plus I had heard tale of fried scorpions.  While in Thailand I saw fried bugs but didn’t try any, which was a mistake I did not intend to repeat.  So we headed to Wangfujing Snack Street for lunch.