Manila Food Tour

Manila's food scene is one of Southeast Asia's most underrated — and this walking tour through Binondo (the world's oldest Chinatown, established 1594) and the surrounding streets makes the case for Filipino-Chinese cuisine as a serious culinary tradition. You eat 8–10 stops over 4 hours.

Highlights: siopao at a 100-year-old bakery, freshly made tikoy (sticky rice cake), goto (rice porridge) at a street corner, deep-fried kikiam, dim sum at a temple, halo-halo at a classic lunch counter. The guide explains the Chinese-Filipino influences behind each dish and the history of the communities that created them.