Experience of Sheung Wan tour

We went for a culinary tour to Sheung Wan in order to be better prepared for our project of planning a walking tour in Hong Kong.

The tour in Sheung Wan took us about 3 hours to walk through the streets in Sheung Wan and to be exposed to cultural heritage of this area.

Sheung Wan is to some extent known for the dried food and seafood stores opened there. Before the land reclamation, some streets in this area were just next to the sea and people sold the seafood they fished just on the street. That is the origin of so many dried food stores there today. Many stores there have been open for more than a century.

We had also walked into several stores and talked with the storekeeper. They not only introduced to us different functions of different kinds of food, but also tell the history of this area that they had witnessed for the past many years. The storekeepers were all warm-hearted, talkative and willing to help us even they knew we would not buy anything.

The experience enabled us to think more deeply about the tour organized by ourselves. We acknowledged much from the culinary tour about the food as well as the history and culture. And what we want the people joining our tour to get from taking tour? The tasty food, the beautiful scenery, or something may have deeper impression on them? We thought this should be the problem to be worked out.