I am so looking forward to our WOK 'N WALK TOUR OF CHINATOWN As seen on "The Tonight Show," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"
& TV Food Network's " 
My husband & I will have an insider's tour of this vibrant community and learn about the history, culture and food of Chinatown. with Chef Joseph Poon and his team who will serve us a full lunch . Our tour will include a Tai Chi demonstration, a Chinese vegetable carving lesson and walking tour of the chef's community; including stops at a fortune cookie factory, Chinese herbal medicine shop, Chinese place of worship, a Chinese bakery, Asian grocery store, fish market and more.
We are going on the April 11th Spring Time Tour.
Our tour will include a four-course meal Soup
Phillip's Kennett Square Mushrooms with Hong Kong Shrimp Pork Wonton in Chicken Ginger Consommé
Salad Spring Mixed Salad with Red Capers and Ginger Sesame Dressing
Appetizers Thai Bourbon Grilled Chicken Skewer in Peanut Sauce Shang Hai Crispy Mini Vegetarian Spring Roll
Entrée Chef Poon's Famous Healthy General Joe Chicken in Tangy Chili and Fresh Ginger Essence served with Stir Fried Fresh Garden Vegetables and Asian Fusion Rice
Dessert Ginger Carrot Cake or Oreo Cookie Cheesecake with Fresh Fruit
Our tour will meet at Chef Kitchen, 1010 Cherry Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia Chinatown.
I can hardly wait!!!!!
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I wish I was going with you, it sounds like a good time, and I am properly jealous.
Have fun!
Chung May Market is on Race Street between 10th nd 11th. You can buy Chinese groceries and kitchen items there. Harder to find is the underground mall. Go across Race from Chung May, towards 11th. You'll see a door to go in and down a long flight of stairs. The market is huge, very economical, and loaded with good stuff! Check out the fresh fish, so fresh it's still swimming in glass tanks waiting for you to choose and have killed, scalled, gutted, whatever you like, such as fileted. Find the aisle of very pretty tins of loose tea in all the China tea varieties! (But Chung May has a greater selection of teas.) Check out the array of kitchenware!
For dinner, go back up to Race St. Head towards 9th. If you want to spend on an elegant meal, go to Joy Tsin Lau. Ocean Harbor is more moderately priced and still good, a frequent choice of one of my Chinese friends. (who also loves Joy Tsin Lau when she feels a little more flush!) These are on the south side of Race. On the north side, near 10th, is a hole in the wall that just does hand pulled noodle dishes. Extremely cheap and a wonderful show!!! You simply go in and order one of the small list of noodle soup bowls. Sit at your table drinking tea and watch the man take a lump of noodle dough from the large pile on his workbench. Watch him pull, turn and slap it until suddenly, you see all those narrow noodles appear in his hands! He drops them into a pot of boiling soup, and in a couple of minutes his wife brings your bowl. Delicious!!! Continue on the north side of Race towards 9th, and almost at the corner, opposite the Bell Tel building, is a Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant, with the most amazing dishes, including several preparations of pork or shrimp grilled on sugar cane!
Before you get there, though, you will pass my favorite Chinese bakery, near Golden Phoenix (which does magnificent dim sum every day at lunch). A good place to go in for a snack or to buy both sweet and savory pastries to take home, and Asian fruit drinks made to order when you ask.
Or if you want something more unusual, go down 9th St. southbound, and on the west side, before you reach Arch, you will see Rangoon, a Burmese restaurant. Be sure to order the tea leaf salad!!!
For interesting souvenirs, (not tourist trap stuff, but more on the order of the Chinese dime store sort of thing) check out 10th St. between Arch and Race.
Have a wonderful day!
And please join my group Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley and post this there! As well as your report after the trip!
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