West City

West City Food Tour
The West City Food Tour celebrates Joburg’s Asian migrant cuisines. We explore First Chinatown and Fordsburg on the western edge of the inner-city, tantalizing your taste buds with many delicacies. We shop along the way and enjoy everything together as a feast meal in Fordsburg.

The western edge of the inner-city has a long history of migration from India and China, dating as far back as the goldrush of the 1880s, with more waves of migration during the 20th century, including the more recent arrivals from Pakistan and Bangladesh. The result is a melting pot of cuisines and cultures. A smorgasbord not to be missed!

Typical stops include Sui Hing Hong supermarket and Swallows Inn in First China Town, as well as the famous Juice Den in Fordsburg (simply delicious mango lassi!). The tour culminates with shopping up a storm at the Fordsburg market, where we devour it all together. A feast to cherish!

This 4-hour tour provides the best way in which to learn fascinating migrant history of the city, while literally tasting the stories along the way.

We offer this tour as a private tour at R3000 for up to 4 guests. Or R750 per person if you are more than 4.  Note that we do NOT provide transport but walk and hop between the places with Uber (cost for the guest’s own account). We start at JSE Newtown and walk to First China Town, before taking Uber to Fordsburg market. We uber back from there to JSE Newtown. Guests therefore need to pay for two Uber trips along the way. 

If you prefer, we can also book transport for you with hotel pickup and drop off and drive you for the entire tour. The additional cost for transport and driver is R2300 (transport cost to be confirmed when booking). 

BOOK NOW:
To book your tour, send an email to gerald@localplaces.co.za or a WhatsApp to +27 82 894 5216

Please do not phone as we are mostly busy hosting guests.
Send a message and we will contact you as soon as is possible.

We will respond to your booking request and provide an online payment link for you to pay by bank card to secure the booking.

TERMS & CONDITIONS
Guests participate in all LocalPlaces tours at their own risk. Neither LocalPlaces, nor its guides, accept any responsibility whatsoever for any injury, accident or death that may occur while participating in a LocalPlaces tour, whether in a public or a private space.

A tour booking is only secured upon payment.

Provisional bookings will automatically be cancelled if not paid within 48 hours from making a booking.

Bookings cannot be cancelled once paid for any reason whatsoever and no refunds will be offered for cancelled bookings.

Bookings can be postponed to another date if postponed more than 30 days in advance of the booked date. However, bookings cannot be postponed for any reason whatsoever within 30 days of the tour date, as we would lose the opportunity to take another booking for that slot.

STARTING POINT
For driving tours pick up and drop off from your hotel or accommodation (one address) is included as long as it is within the northern suburbs of the city or at the airport.

JOIN OUR GROUP:
If you urgently want to know about already scheduled open tours in a current week, which you could join, please WhatsApp us directly on +27 82 894 5216. We also run a WhatsApp Group where we post news on upcoming quick encounters, tours and events. send a message to us requesting to join this group.

WhatsApp us on +27 82 894 5216 or email us on gerald@localplaces.co.za to check availability.