The 10 Best Coffee & Tea Tours in Shanghai Region, Shanghai Region

Experience an authentic Chinese tradition during this private tea ceremony in Shanghai. Led by a tea master, you’ll sip rare tea, listen to soothing music, and enjoy fragrant incense while learning about the importance of tea in Chinese culture with the help of your English-speaking guide. Discover how to smell, taste and drink tea properly and learn about the evolution of tea, including its unique medicinal and spiritual properties. After sampling a variety of green tea, oolong tea, black tea and Pu-erh tea, you’ll perform the tea ritual you’ve just learned to show your tea master your new skills!

Inclusions: Private tea ceremony, Local English-speaking guide, All-you-can-drink tea

Exclusions: Hotel pickup and drop-off, Gratuities

Ever wonder what Chinese people have for afternoon tea? Is it like British style or what? Come and join this unique food tour to discover the secret of Chinese afternoon tea. Indulging yourself with various local traditional desserts and aromatic green or black tea. Walk around some of the best local dessert shops on famous Huaihai Road. Sit down at a popular Shanghai tea house to taste Pu'er, Ginseng Oolong, Jasmine and black tea during your classic tea ceremony session. In addition, you will also enjoy mango puree, jellied mousse cake and some other icy desserts during the tour.

Inclusions: Local guide, Food tour, Desserts, Afternoon tea/tea ceremony

Exclusions: Hotel pickup and drop-off, Gratuities

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited, it will calm you! What tea is best in hot summer? How many times can the green tea be brewed in a cup? How much tea is appropriate a day? How can i judge the tea quality when i am buying tea? Lift the lid of tea cup, let the tea aroma relax your mind and soul, Immerse yourself in the tea arts, Taste the six different types of authenti​c teas namely white tea, green tea, yellow tea, oolong tea, black tea, dark tea under the guidance of our sweet tea master. Appreciate arts of tea ceremony, hands on making your tea by Gaiwan, glass cup, making your own tea ceremony. Learn how judge quality tea, tea sets and tea ware, which teas can improve your health and lifestyle. Afterwards you can shop at the famous Tianshan Tea Complex with your new knowledge of tea and tea wares to bring your tea experience and a Tea Book from us back home with you.

Inclusions: Tea class with Certified Tea Master , Learning and tasting 6 different teas with tea snacks, Calligraphy of tea poetry personalized with your name , Light lunch of authentic Chinese dumplings, Book about tea to take home to continue learning about tea

Exclusions: Gratuities

• Visit a beautiful local Chinese park • Meet performers, artists, and martial arts performers inside the park • Take photo of people doing Tai Chi, ballroom dancing, calisthenics, and music performances • Visit the biggest wholesale tea market in Shanghai • Understand tea’s history and health benefits • Learn how experts judge good quality tea • Enjoy drinking different tea

Inclusions: Private Tour, Local English-speaking guide, All-you-can-drink tea, Coffee and/or Tea

Exclusions: Hotel pickup and drop-off, Gratuities

This half day private Shanghai city tour will not only allow you to discover the city highlights but also take you to a very unique tea house to taste modern Chinese Tea and special desserts that extremely popular among the young people today. The itinerary of the city tour is 100% customized based on your interests. Whether you want to enjoy a city sightseeing to top attractions or would like to learn about a wide range of Shanghai history, culture, art and etc., your friendly guide will give your a wonderful showcase of this amazing city.

Inclusions: Private professional guide, Private transfer (only if Tour with Private Car Tour Option is selected), Tea and dessert, Hotel pickup and drop-off, Bottled water

Exclusions: All Entrance fees, Transportation (if Tour Only Option is selected), Personal expense, Additional food and drinks, Gratuities

Find yourself the most authentic and delicious local food in Shanghai. By joining this private food tour, you can taste all different kinds of local cuisine like noodles, wanton, soup dumpling, Chinese rice cake, hairy crab dumpling, fried dishes, etc, based on your preference. Your private gourmet guide will take you to the restaurants known only by locals and share with you the local food culture. Moreover, you will have a unique tea tasting at a cocktail bar of tea version in Former French Concession area. Other than food delicacies and tea, you will also take away the great history of Shanghai. Lunch and dinner tour options are available.

Inclusions: Private professional guide, Hotel pickup and drop-off, Food and drinking, Transfer by Taxi

Exclusions: Personal expense, Gratuities

1,700 years old water village Zhujiajiao has endowed with another elegant name "Pearl Stream". It not only retains the ecology and style of the ancient town of the millennium, but also the "contemporary Jiangnan" that represents the new style and living conditions of the ancient town in south of the Yangtze River region of the 21st century. 36 different style and shaped old bridges across bubbling streams, small rivers shaded by willow trees, and small brick & wooden houses with courtyards attached, Zhujiajiao water village is full of antiquity, leisure and tranquility especially in the sunset. Taste the local food and snacks with set menu in the No 1.Jiangnan Tea House located by the main river Caogang to enjoy the sunset in different seasonality when you travel. Transfer back to city after 7pm in summertime(MAY-SEP) and after 6pm in rest of the year.

Inclusions: Professional English Tour Guide, Enterance Fees, Boat Ride Ticket, Local Afternoon Tea / Snacks, Air-conditioned Minivan / Minbus, Small Group of 2-12 people

Exclusions: Hotel pick up and drop off, Optional Gratuities, Personal Expenses

It's a common saying that in order taste the true flavor of a place, do what locals do. In Shanghai, it's the early morning breakfast market. If you are an early riser or you have flown in from overseas and are waking early because of the time change, this is the perfect way to get out and do a little walking while getting to know more about the local Shanghai breakfast culture. Your guide Cindy, will get off the beaten path to explore neighborhoods while enjoying the tasty food shoulder to shoulder with locals. We will also see the Wet Markets. Named because the floor tends to be wet, thanks to the live fish flopping around and the vendors' habit of throwing water on the ground to keep the area clean. Along the way, you will wander through some of the urban alleys that many locals call home. It is fascinating to see what it is like for Cindy to live in this incredibly densely populated area. You end at your guide's home for a Gong-Fu Tea ceremony. You will leave with a new friend.

Inclusions: Guide meet up and drop back off at train station, Traditional Chinese Tea Ceremony

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Visit the 1000-year-old ancient water town Qibao and get yourself a meditation retreat by local tea tasting and calligraphy experience, explore the colorful local streets in the old alley lanes and enjoy the beautiful township scenery, travel with your own personal guide ensure a more exclusive experience.

Inclusions: Great English guide, Local transportation fare, Tea tasting, Calligraphy

Exclusions: Gratuities

The former French Concession is the most visited part of Shanghai, which is not difficult to understand why Shanghai is called “the Oriental Paris” when you look at its beautiful streets, great architecture and historic sites. Wheely takes you to the Western part of the French Concession and goes back in time to when the French really lived in this part of Shanghai. And also visit one Lilong which hidden in Shanghai’s back alleys, to see the Shikumen architecture and feel local people’s lifestyle. The whole tour you’ll be cycling through the beautiful, leafy streets of the former French Concession and you’ll get a great idea of the life in Shanghai now and then.

Inclusions: Use of bicycle, Helmet and Raincoat, Coffee/Tea/Alcoholic beverages/Fresh juice/Soft drinks, Bottled water, Snacks

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