Foodie Tour Hong Kong
 

Can anyone recommend a English speaking private guide for food and market tours in Hong Kong. First trip to HK and the food options seem daunting. Thanks.

I know tons of experience & RELIABLE English speaking freelance guides in Hongkong.

It is not proper to expose their names & contacts in a public forum.

Is there a web site for listing guides?

can i ask why you wouldn't? if they are guides and someone has asked for them why not? its not advertising its a recommendation? just curious

No common sense!

it seems to me "no common sense" not to list them here...

rhkkmk,
Smartie

You want to list your home phone on internet?

Then you really don't know of one, do you, Cat?

It's a time-honored tradition on Fodors to recommend one's personal favorites - restaurants, trains, tour guides, etc. etc. etc.

It's much of the fun of being a part of this travel community.

...and spare us your snarky comments.

easytraveler

Talk is cheap!

Why don't you enjoy the fun to list your home phone now?

Wow, I have asked for guide referrals for Bangkok and South Africa and received lots of suggestions. Usually a web site or email was given for contact.I am asking for a referral for someone who is in business so having their contact information on the internet would be a good thing and they are probably paying someone somewhere else for the advertising. So, if anyone has a guide to refer in Hong Kong that could provide a food centric tour for a day and earn some money it would be appreciated.

scfphoto, I don't know of a guide in HK. I'd contact the HKTA and ask them if they can recommend a guide. THey are always helpful, I'd asked for information about serviced appartments and they had a list to hand out, from there I contacted these companies. I'm sure they'd have some information that would be helpful to you.

Go to the chowhound web site and search under China..it looks like you may have found it
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/633703

I spent a day at Martha Sherpa's Cooking School in Mong Kok in April of '08. It was fantastic --- we cooked three dishes and then had a demonstration from Martha of three more. After the cooking classes, she took us for a walk through the Mong Kok wet market for over an hour. I learned not only how to cook Cantonese dishes, but a great deal about Hong Kong Chinese culture. Her web site is: http://www.cookery.com.hk

The only thing daunting about food on Hong Kong are the number of restaurants, but even then I would not let that worry you, as you can eliminate some by location, price, cuisine type, view or no view, etc.

I agree that a tour of the markets would be quite interesting. Jason Wordie could probably tailor make a private tour for you, see www.jasonswalks.com.for information. He offers wet market tours for other groups here, I have not taken his wet market tours, but have taken many of his other tours and highly recommend him. (He is not a cook, he is a historian, but has tons of knowledge and speaks Cantonese.) The cooking school listed above certainly seems interesting, I have not taken any classes there. The YWCA on MacDonnell Road offers a lot of different type of classes. See http://www.esmdywca.org.hk and click on “Classes” to see their cooking classes; and also see their “Local Culture” section where they offer a local wet market tour and a tour of Chinese medicine shops linked to medicinal soups, either could be interesting. The wet market tour is offered by Jason Wordie, so you might ask him to set up something similar for a private tour.

I have taken cooking courses through the American Women’s Association here, principally taught by Lavinia Hemandas and Seema Bhatia. I believe Seema also teaches classes at the YWCA. Lavina can be reached at 852-2838- 2199; I am not sure that she does private lessons but it is certainly worth asking her or you could join her next class offering. Lavina does a lot of Indian and SE Asian and also Chinese, Seema does a lot of Thai and other SE Asian.

Some language I used above was rude.
My apology to the offended parties.