Hello Hong Kong Tours - Private + Group Tours of Hong Kong Going Into 2027
Women run companies, charismatic founders and a team that notices the small things
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Hello Hong Kong Tours - Private + Group Tours of Hong Kong Going Into 2027
Foreword by Jamie
Women run companies, charismatic founders and a team that notices the small things
I have been meaning to sit down and rewrite my notes on Hello Hong Kong Tours for some time. The two earlier posts on my site did a decent job of introducing Laura and the company, but they have not aged well. Review counts have moved on, the team has grown, the websites have been tightened, and the old paragraphs still talk about the industry as if we were just climbing out of the Covid years. We are not. Guests are back, cruise ships are back, and the companies that kept their standards through the quiet years are the ones people are booking now.
I first wrote to Laura on 1st January 2014. There were only 4 or 5 of us then offering proper private tours of Hong Kong, and there was more than enough work if you were any good. I had been watching her start-up and decided she was someone I needed to know. We have been great friends ever since. I have met her many times and this year had the pleasure of meeting her husband and 2 daughters. We get along. That is not a small thing in this trade. What follows is a full refresh, written the way I actually talk about a company I respect, with the detail I would want if I were sending a guest her way tomorrow morning.
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Hello Hong Kong Tours - My First email to Laura 1.1.2024
The email of 1st January 2014
I still have the first note. New Year's Day, a quiet morning, and a company I had been watching climb the Tripadvisor rankings in 2013. I sent it because I like to be on decent terms with the people I might have to send a guest to when the diary is full. I also sent it because I had spotted a typo. Twelve years on I still glance at her pages when they change. Old habits.
She did not ignore it, which tells you most of what you need to know. The word on the About page is principal now. The friendship stuck. The company kept rising. I still send the odd note when I see a typo. That is how this trade works when it is working.
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Hello Hong Kong Tours - Private + Group Tours of Hong Kong Going Into 2027
Why this piece needed rewriting
Old blog posts have a habit of sitting there looking confident while the facts underneath them quietly go off. The earlier versions quoted Tripadvisor numbers that are now well out of date. They talked about Tokyo as if it were still a new experiment. They also spent too many lines explaining who I am, which is not what a reader coming for Hello Hong Kong Tours needs. This version is about Laura, the team she built, the tours they actually run, and the simple reason guests keep writing the same sentence in different words: they felt looked after.
I should also say this plainly. I do not do food tours and I do not do car tours. That is a choice, not a judgement. Hello Hong Kong Tours does both, and does them well, alongside the walking work that is still the backbone of the business. They also run proper small group days, especially on the food side, so this is not a private tour only business. If a guest wants a Michelin rated street food crawl in Kowloon, a small group walk, or a private car because someone in the party cannot manage a long stretch on foot, this is one of the first names I think of.
Laura, and how the company actually started
Laura Blackhall is the founder. She is English, she first came to Hong Kong on a two week holiday with her parents after finishing a project in Japan, and she did what a lot of first-time visitors do. She rode the Peak Tram up to Victoria Peak, she went to the markets, she ate in restaurants with English menus, she took the cable car to the Big Buddha, and she caught a ferry to an outlying island. She ticked the list. A while later, when work offered her a relocation from England, she packed up her life and moved within 6 weeks. That is the sort of decision people make when a city has already got under their skin, even if they do not yet know why.
The important bit comes after she had been living here. She realised that the two week holiday had shown her almost nothing. She had seen the attractions. She had not seen the back streets, the family restaurants without English menus, the small parks tucked behind towers, or the way ordinary people actually move through the city. In 2011 she left the corporate job she had relocated for and set up Hello Hong Kong as a walking tour company built around culturally immersive private and small group tours. That is not long after I started doing this full time myself. We were both early. The difference is that Laura then did something I never wanted to do. She built a guide team.
She has said it better than I can, so here is Laura in her own words, which still sit on the About page and still sound like a person rather than a marketing department.
“What I now realise, having lived in Hong Kong for 5+ years, is that during those 2 weeks I spent here on holiday, I didn’t see anything. I ticked off most of the attractions in the guidebook, but I didn’t understand Hong Kong. I saw it as a tourist. Now I keep clear of the main roads and only travel by back streets, waving at the small business owners as I pass. Let us introduce you to the REAL Hong Kong, a city where East truly does meet West like in no other. Let us introduce you to Hong Kong, a place we call home.”
That last line is the whole product, really. Not a circuit of photo stops. A city they actually live in, explained properly.
The Hello that arrived before the campaign
I cannot resist this observation, because it still makes me smile. Hello Hong Kong Tours was already more than a decade old when the Hong Kong Tourism Board launched its Hello Hong Kong campaign in 2023 to coax the world back after the long Covid induced shutdown. Laura had the name, the tone and the website long before the official slogan writers got there. I am sure it has not done her any harm. If anything it made the brand look as if it had been waiting for the rest of the city to catch up.
There is a lesson in that for anyone still naming a company after a mood rather than a promise. Hello is a greeting. It is also a method. You meet the guest, you talk to them, you adjust the day, and you go. It is not complicated. It is just rarely done with this much consistency.
A thought I keep coming back to: so many of the great tour companies are run by women
I have said this to colleagues over coffee more than once, and I may as well put it in writing. If you look at the private and small group companies in Hong Kong that guests actually remember, an awful lot of them are founded and run by women. Laura at Hello Hong Kong Tours. Cecilia at Hong Kong Foodie Tours. Amy at Hong Kong Greeters. Alexandra and Stephanie of Hong Kong A La Carte, Sabrina at Hong Kong Trails and Tours., Ashley of Ashley M Tours. There are quite a few others. This is not a slogan and I am not trying to turn it into one. It is simply what the last 16 years have looked like from where I sit
Why? I have a few guesses and I will leave them as guesses. Attention to the guest as a person rather than a headcount. Patience with the unglamorous work of training guides and answering emails at 11 at night. A reluctance to let the product get sloppy just because the diary is full, but mainly it comes back to the fact that I just think women are much smarter than men and there is always a deeper level of trust.
Laura's particular gift, as I have watched it, is choosing people. The company is no longer Laura walking every tour. It does not need to be. The standard survives the founder living in another country, which is the real test of whether you built a company or just built a diary.
Where Laura is now, and the rest of the Hello Group
Laura now lives in Japan with her husband, a lovely Japanese chap, and their 2 young daughters. That is not a rumour and it is not a retirement. From Japan she operates Hello Tokyo Tours and a Yokohama programme, and she still sits behind Hello Singapore Tours as well. The Hong Kong company continues with an in-house team on the ground. Bookings, training and the tone of the product still have her fingerprints all over them.
The sequence is worth spelling out, because it is unusual in this industry.
2011 - relocates from London to Hong Kong with a corporate job, then leaves that job and starts Hello Hong Kong.
A few years later - the Hong Kong operation is strong enough that she relocates to Singapore and starts Hello Singapore Tours.
Then Japan - Hello Tokyo Tours, with Yokohama added as its own private tour, not an afterthought day trip.
She identified Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo early as the 3 Asian cities that cruise guests and independent travellers keep linking together. That reading of the market was correct and every now and then we have also discussed the Hello Bali option!
I have always thought that last point was the clever bit. A couple coming off a ship in Hong Kong very often has Singapore or Tokyo already on the same ticket. If they have a good day with Hello here, the next booking in the next city is sitting there waiting. Most operators never get past their own harbour. Laura built a small network instead of a single ;ocation.
Hello Hong Kong. Hello Singapore. Hello Japan. Start here. Keep going. That is the whole map in four short lines.
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Keko, Hong Kong, August 2016 - Chief Operations Officer then and now.
Keko, Hong Kong, August 2016. Then living on a boat in Aberdeen Harbour, and already of the opinion that the operation reported to him. I have met this cat more than once.
And because I cannot resist the out of left field note, and because I have been asked more than once whether the cat is a marketing joke: Keko is very real. I have met said cat quite a number of times. Keko has lived with Laura since 2012, is credited on the About page as Chief Operations Officer, and is enjoying Japan. I have seen stranger origin stories in this business, but not many funnier ones, and none I can confirm by personal acquaintance.
What tours does the Hello Group actually specialise in
The public face of the company is simple. Private customised tours and small group tours. Walking first, car when it makes sense. Food is a genuine speciality, not a garnish. Lantau, including the Big Buddha and the Tai O Fishing Village, is a full product rather than a rushed add on. Shore Excursions for cruise ship passengers and airport layovers are treated as real work, not leftovers. There is even sailing and a helicopter option if someone wants the luxury experience.
The walking product is built around neighbourhoods, not a rigid loop. You can spend 1 hour on a short overview or 2.5 hours going into a district properly. A full private day is typically 4 to 8 hours, starting from a hotel, the airport, a cruise terminal or a place the guest names. Public transport is included on the walking tours - MTR (Subway), bus, the street tram, the Star Ferry - which is how you actually get about if you live here.
Neighbourhoods and themes they work with, from their own itinerary notes:
Central - Tai Kwun, the Mid-Levels escalator, feng shui around the banks, Graham Street market, a street tram ride, Star Ferry across the harbour.
Sheung Wan - dried seafood street and traditional medicine, PoHo ( I had to look that one up!), Man Mo Temple from 1847, Hollywood Road and Cat Street, dim sum in a restaurant that has been at it for decades.
Victoria Peak - the view, the colonial story, a nature stroll. Peak Tram is usually at the guest's own expense, which is honest.
South side of the Island - Aberdeen and the fishing harbour, Repulse Bay, Stanley Market, with the older stories of piracy and wartime still attached to the coastline.
Tsim Sha Tsui - The Peninsula, the Clock Tower, 1881 Heritage, the harbour from the Kowloon side, Chungking Mansions if the guest can handle the truth of it.
Sham Shui Po - daily life rather than postcard Hong Kong, electronics and jade markets, wet markets, a serious food crawl.
Kowloon Walled City Park - the slum that was not supposed to exist, and the ordinary lives that went on inside it all part of an exhibition in the Park
Wong Tai Sin - temple, fortune sticks if wanted, Lion Rock in the background, a look at how a district grew around belief and public housing.
Cheung Chau - a full island day, pirates and buns and the quieter western tip, best of all if you can catch the Bun Festival in April or May.
Happy Valley - an evening on horse racing nights from September to July, colonial sporting history with enough street food to keep everyone civil.
That list is not a menu you have to swallow whole. The day is built around what the guest actually cares about. History people get more granite and less shopping. Food people get the opposite. Families get a different pace from couples on a 6 hour layover. The great operators all say that. The difference is whether the guide in front of you can do it without glancing at a script.
Food, Lantau Island, cars, ships and the extras
Food is where Hello Hong Kong Tours has always punched above its weight. There is a private Hong Kong Island food tour and a Kowloon version that leans into Michelin-rated street food and the culture around it. There are also small group food and Kowloon walks at a lower per-person price, which is how a lot of first-time visitors dip a toe in. I do not run food tours myself. I have read enough of their reviews, and spoken to enough guests who have done both my kind of day and theirs, to know the kitchens and stalls are chosen with the same stubbornness Laura brings to everything else.
Lantau is the other pillar. Private full days covering the Big Buddha and the Tai O Fishing Village, and a small group Lantau day for people who want the same arc without a private price. Anyone who has tried to wrangle the Ngong Ping cable car, the monastery crowds and the Tai O Fishing Village into one coherent day knows this is not a casual itinerary. It needs a guide who can hold a timetable without making the day feel like a military exercise.
Car tours exist for the guests who need them: limited mobility, small children, a lot of ground and not much time, or simply a preference for air-conditioning between stops. I have never driven or owned a car in Hong Kong so I will not pretend to be an authority on car tours which I do not do. I will say the reviews of the car days keep mentioning the same guides by name, which is the only statistic that matters.
Cruise and layover work is treated as a specialism. Meet at the terminal or the airport, build a day that respects the sailing time or the next flight, and get people back without drama. There is also a private sailing charter and a helicopter flight for the days when someone wants the luxury experience. Those are extras. The core remains the walk, whether the booking is private or a small group.
The VoiceMap app for Victoria Peak
Very few companies in this city bother with a proper DIY audio tour. Laura does. On VoiceMap you will find Victoria Peak Unveiled: A Secret Summit Away From the Crowds. I worked on that project with her. It is not a substitute for a guide on a full day. It is a different product altogether: you put the earphones in, you walk the upper paths yourself, and the story comes with you.
I like it for the guests who have already done a guided day and still want Victoria Peak without joining the zoo at the Peak Tower. I like it even more because almost nobody else in Hong Kong has taken the trouble to build this kind of thing properly. If you want a live guide, book the live guide. If you want to go up on your own timetable, the VoiceMap is sitting there waiting.
The guide team, which is the real product
Sat on the outside looking in, I do not see the great private tour companies in this city hiring good guides. They hire great ones. There are about 15 of those companies I am friends with, and the pattern is the same. They watch the standard. If it falls, the guide gets canned. That sounds harsh until you remember there is always another great guide ready to plug the gap. The guest never needs to know there was a gap. They only need the day in front of them to be right.
Laura's success sits in that habit. She hires for character, then holds people to her standard. Quality watched, excellence rewarded, and no long sentimental stay if the work slips. I have never wanted a guide team of my own. That is my history and my temperament. Watching her do it well has been one of the more instructive parts of knowing her.
A word on how this city actually works, because the marketing pages are tidier than the pavement. Some of Laura's guides also take days with other private tour companies. That is not a knock. Hong Kong is a small pond and the great guides get asked more than once. What matters is the day the guest paid for. When they book Hello Hong Kong Tours they get a Hello briefing, a Hello itinerary and a guide who knows what Laura expects. The fact that the same person might be out under another flag later in the week does not cancel that. If anything it makes the consistency more impressive.
The names that keep coming up, on the website and in the reviews, are worth putting on the page so a guest knows who they might meet.
Mel - third-generation Hong Kong, family from Shantou and Dongguan in Mainland China, engineering degree from Birmingham, a long career before guiding. Guests talk about kindness and a brain that can hold history and lunch in the same sentence.
Sinclair - born in Cambodia, raised here in Hong Kong from the age of 6, hospitality background, the sort of social ease you cannot teach from a manual.
Ivy - musician and actor as well as a guide, which shows in the way she reads a group. Live like a tourist is her line, and she means it.
Alex - native Hongkonger from trading and logistics, good on the East-West tangle that most visitors only see as skyline.
Kiyo - born here in the 1980s, a storyteller, often praised for looking after families and guests who need the day adjusted without fuss.
Alfred - Hong Kong born, Chaozhou at home, time in Toronto, hiking and cycling in his spare hours, fluent in the practical city as well as the pretty one.
Andy - Hong Kong born, 14 years in San Francisco, civil engineer by training. Reviewers keep using the word jackpot, which is not a word I throw around.
Robert - the classic example of what I mean by great rather than good. I have only met him twice. That was enough. I recommended him to Laura immediately. He is a lot like me, a little younger, with a southern English accent that stopped me in my tracks. He is a native speaker in 3 languages, English, Dutch and German. In this city that is like unearthing the Cullinan diamond. Netherlands and East Sussex in the background, here since the early 1990s, export life before guiding, dry humour and a long memory for Hong Kong. Laura took him on, which tells you she still listens when a colleague says, this one is great.
Raymond - 25+ years helping international brands sell into China and Hong Kong, now spending that eye for detail on alleys and lunch counters.
Allen, also Annalyn - from the Philippines, first here in 2011. Her status has changed. She now lives in the Philippines and works remotely, which is a perfectly modern way to hold a bookings desk together across a time zone.
A note on language, fluent and native and how it relates to Tours
This gets blurred on too many websites in Hong Kong, so I will say it in plain English.
I am a native English speaker. English was the language of the house. I did not learn it as a subject. I think in it, I argue in it, and I hear when a sentence is off before I can explain why. That is all native means. It is not a medal. It does not make you a great guide. It does not even make you clear. Plenty of native speakers are sloppy, dull or both.
Fluent is a different claim. Fluent means you can do the work of the day in English without the guest having to help you. The history comes out in proper sentences. The question gets answered. A joke can land. You can change the plan at the ferry pier without groping for the words. That is a high bar and it is the bar that matters on a tour.
What fluent does not mean, and this is where Hong Kong gets messy, is perfect English. After 54 years here I can tell you that fluency comes in degrees. Some people are so fluent you forget English is their second language. Some are fluent enough for a hotel lobby and not fluent enough for a 6 hour walk through Sheung Wan. Some are brave, and I respect the bravery, but they are not fluent yet. The word still goes on the website.
Local Chinese friends of mine sit all the way along that line. Many speak very fluent English, the sort you could take to a boardroom or a wet market and not worry. Some do not, and still say they do. That is not unique to Hong Kong. It is what happens when a city uses English as a tool and then starts using the word fluent as a sales line.
Laura’s Hong Kong Chinese guides, in the main, are not native English speakers, I have met some of them but not all of them - they are, as I have been told very fluent, and that is the honest description. I will not pin native on a team that has not asked for it. Robert is the exception on that bench. He is a native speaker in English, Dutch and German.
For a guest, the test is simple. After 10 minutes, are you working to understand the guide, or is the guide doing the work so you can look at the city? If it is the second, you have fluency good enough for the day. Native is a separate fact about how someone grew up. It is not a promise that the afternoon will be better.
Across the wider group the languages on offer include fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin, with French, Dutch and German depending on the guide. That mix is useful. A lot of tour companies in this city still behave as if the only guest is an American on a 4 hour loop. Hello Hong Kong Tours has always been a bit more grown-up than that.
A note from the other side of the language line
I should be honest about my own Cantonese fluency, or this whole lecture starts to sound like a man with a red pen. After 54 years here it is not up to snuff. I make no claim to even 2% fluency. I am, in that department, just another Brit who never did the work properly. I can hear the difference, though. Native Cantonese. Fluent Cantonese. The handful of phrases you need for a market stall. And bad Cantonese. Those are not the same thing, any more than native English and website-fluent English are the same thing.
Instagram is full of young foreign visitors walking the streets of Hong Kong with a phone out, greeting people in Cantonese for the camera. Some of it is charming. Some of it is a few sentences learned for the reel. I am not sneering at the effort. I am saying a greeting is not a language. You cannot run a family argument, a taxi detour or a funeral on a greeting. I know that because I still cannot do those things in Cantonese, and I live here.
That is why I will not call Laura’s Hong Kong Chinese guides native English speakers. I will call them fluent when they are fluent. I know what the words cost, because I never paid them on the other side.
What the numbers look like now
I prefer digits to adjectives, so here is the picture as it stood while I was writing this in early September 2026. These figures move every week. Treat them as a snapshot, not carved in stone.
Hong Kong Tripadvisor listing: around 2,250 reviews, sitting at 5.0 or 4.9 depending on the page you land on, and ranked about #3 among hundreds of tours and activities in the city.
Singapore, Hello Singapore Tours: around 1,340 to 1,350 reviews, 5.0, routinely near the top of that city's tour list.
Tokyo, Hello Tokyo Tours: around 300 reviews, 5.0, and #1 in its Minato listing at the time of writing. Yokohama is listed as its own private tour.
Hong Kong Tripadvisor presence since December 2013, which means the score has survived a decade, a pandemic, and every fashion the industry has thrown at itself since.
Private walking tour pricing published on the Hong Kong site, total price not per person: 4 hours for 1 to 2 people at HK$2,850 (about US$365). 8 hours for 1 to 2 people at HK$4,250 (about US$545).
Same 4 hour walk for 4 people at HK$3,750 (about US$480). 8 hours for 4 people at HK$5,150 (about US$660).
Private food tour from HK$3,300 (about US$423). Private Lantau from HK$4,790 (about US$614). Small group food or Kowloon walks from HK$800 per person (about US$103).
Car tours sit higher, as they must, because you are paying for a vehicle and a driver as well as a guide.
All prices will be confirmed by the Hello company before you book. Web pages go stale. Emails do not. Ask them for the figure that applies to your date, your group size and your itinerary, then pay that.
Those review counts would be impressive in a good year. They are more impressive when you remember that Hong Kong was closed to visitors for 3 full years because of Covid. A company that comes out of that still sitting at 5 stars, with guests still naming individual guides, has done something more than buy advertising.
How a day with them tends to feel
Read 20 recent reviews and a pattern appears. It is not we saw the sights. It is our guide asked what we cared about, then changed the day when the timing slipped. Andy, Mel, Kiyo, Sinclair, Ivy, Alfred - the names rotate, the sentence does not. People mention dim sum in rooms full of locals. They mention being taken on the tram and the Star Ferry instead of being sat in traffic. They mention a guide who noticed a broken elbow, a disabled son, a short fuse after a long flight, and adjusted without making a speech about it.
That is the work. Anyone can stand outside the HSBC lions and talk about feng shui. The job is noticing that the youngest child has had enough, that the father wants 10 more minutes with the harbour, and that the booking said 6 hours but the ship will not wait. Hello Hong Kong Tours has built a team that seems to notice those things as a matter of habit.
I will add one caution, because I would add it for any company I like. Tours in this city live and die on the briefing before the tour. Tell them who is walking, who is not, what you have already seen, whether you care about temples or lunch or both. The customised promise only works if the guest does a little of the customising in the email in advance or a conversation on the day. Their team is set up for that conversation. Use it.
Book direct. The OTAs like Viator will survive without you
Like every serious tour company I know, Laura would much rather you booked through her own websites than through an OTA such as Viator or GetYourGuide. I will be blunt about why, because guests deserve the unvarnished version.
An OTA takes a thick slice of the fee, often 20% to 30% and sometimes more, then sits between you and the operator when a flight changes at midnight. The company still has to pay the guide, still has to do the work, and has less room to be generous when you need the start time moved by an hour. Direct booking means your money goes to the people standing in the street with you. It also means your email lands on a desk that can actually change the plan.
I am not going to pretend the big platforms are evil. They are shops with a shop's incentives. If you already trust Hello Hong Kong Tours - and after 2,250 reviews you have plenty of reasons to - go to the website, write to the bookings address, and sort it there. You will get a better conversation and the company will get a fairer day. That is the whole argument.
Full contact details
Hello Hong Kong Tours
Website: www.hellohongkong.com.hk
Bookings: bookings@hellohongkong.com.hk
Laura: laura@hellohongkong.com.hk
Telephone: +852 9704 4108
Facebook: Hello Hong Kong / hellohongkongtours
Registered address published with the Hong Kong Tourism Board: A350, 3/F Oxford Industrial Building, 42-46 Wang Lung Street, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong
Hours published on Tripadvisor: 8:00am to 8:30pm, 7 days.
The rest of the Hello group
Hello Singapore Tours - www.hellosingaporetours.com
Hello Tokyo Tours, including Yokohama - www.hellotokyotours.com
VoiceMap audio tour, Victoria Peak Unveiled: A Secret Summit Away From the Crowds | link on website
The Hong Kong site is still the sensible front door. The other cities are linked from there.
A few thoughts from the sidelines
Charismatic founders are not optional in this trade. Guests may never meet Laura on the day, but they feel the company she decided to be. She is organised, ambitious without being noisy, and unusually good at letting other people become the face of the product. That last quality is rarer than talent. Plenty of founders can do a brilliant tour. Far fewer can bear to watch someone else do it equally well.
I also think training still matters more than the employment contract. The platforms are full of faces who appeared last Tuesday with a lanyard and a rented van. Guests can smell that. A great guide who has been chosen and briefed by Laura, even if that same guide also works for other private companies in the same week, still feels different on the pavement from someone who learned the city off a laminated card. Hello Hong Kong Tours has been making that bet for well over a decade. The review count is the receipt.
If I were sending a first time couple with one spare day, I would point them at a 6 or 8 hour private walk and tell them to mention Sheung Wan and the Star Ferry in the first email. If I were sending a family with tired legs, I would tell them to ask about the car. If I were sending people who travel to eat, I would send them to a Kowloon food day, private or small group, and stay out of the way. If they wanted Victoria Peak on their own clock, I would point them at the VoiceMap. If they were continuing to Singapore or Tokyo, I would tell them to stay inside the same family of companies. Continuity is an underrated luxury.
Closing
I have known Laura for 12 years and I have never had a reason to stop recommending the company. That is a longer run than most industry friendships manage. The tours have stayed great, the guides have stayed great, and the founder has kept building instead of sitting on the original idea. Hong Kong is not short of people who will walk you to Victoria Peak and call it a day. It is much shorter of people who will walk you through Sheung Wan, explain why the dried seafood is hanging there, get you onto a street tram, and still have the wit to change the plan when the weather turns.
If you want the city rather than the postcard, Hello Hong Kong Tours is still one of the surest ways I know to get it. Write to them direct. Tell them what you care about. Then put your phone away and go.
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I do not do Food Tours in Hong Kong but I know people that do!
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The information above can be shown to restaurant managers in Hong Kong if you are intolerant to gluten and nuts,
I do not do food tours as mentioned above, I have very specific reasons and part of it is that I do not speak Cantonese or write Chinese, I am from Yorkshire in England and I lack the language gene and it is not through lack of trying and yes a lot of restaurants do not have English menu’s or staff who speak conversational English.
.. and yet I have eaten at close to 1,400 restaurants in Hong Kong since January 2nd 1972, my wife was born in Hong Kong and we have been together over 40 years and her first language is Cantonese and a lot of her family are Chinese or half Chinese so I have never had much of an issue!
This does not translate to doing food tours though, yes, I could do them, no problem there but they would never ever be as good as the food tours done by my friends (see the 3 links above) most of their awesome guides are locally born Hong Kong Chinese and obviously food culture is part of their DNA, it is impossible for me to compete with that!
So please feel free to contact them for food tours
I do not do Hiking Tours in Hong Kong but I know someone that does!
I do not do Hiking Tours, never have and never will even though I used to go Hiking a lot when I was a lot younger, The Hong Kong Government is promoting hiking tours so I urge you to contact my friend Sabrina at Hong Kong Trails and Tours, she is a long time Hong Kong resident and and a very experienced hiker with close to 700 Hikes in 15+ years under her belt, please click on the link below
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