What Do Ghosts Eat? Wan Chai Ghosts & Food Tour

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Wickedly fun tour to explore Hong Kong’s traditional beliefs and delicious treats

Uncover Wan Chai’s haunted legends and cultural rituals on Hong Kong’s most captivating ghost tour. Explore the district’s historic streets, learn how deities and spirits are honoured, and taste local treats once offered to ghosts—an immersive journey blending myth, history, and flavour.

Tour overview

The city’s biggest concentration of haunted tales
Urban picnic with soothing tea and fresh-off-the-oven pastries
The vast range of Chinese gods catering to all your needs and desires
Businesses that cater to all the ghost pleasing rituals
A top haunted house, hipster hangouts, the muffled peal of church bells, forgotten temples, and more!

The BEST ghost tour in town, because there’s so much more than ghosts…

Amid the skyscrapers of Hong Kong lies a labyrinth of haunted tales. Hungry ghosts? Haunted loos? Seaside spirits? Take your pick. In fact, locals believe that the universes of deities, humans, and ghosts intertwine. The souls of the dead linger and bless their descendants. There are elaborate rituals that local Chinese perform to feed, pacify, entertain, or even bribe the ghosts. Modern ghosts have modern tastes too – with next of kin offering everything from Gucci gowns to Ferraris.

To heighten your sensory experiences, we will be tasting 3 delicious local treats. Some of them may be offering for the deities or ghosts too!

Wan Chai is the best neighborhood to showcase Hong Kong’s ghosts. Wan Chai, literally “Little Bay” in Cantonese, is one of the first settlements that the British developed after they took Hong Kong in 1841. The original shoreline got marooned inland generations ago, but the deep layers of history anchored along Queen’s Road East have conspired with the swirl of 21st-century urban redevelopment to make Wan Chai a fertile ground of merry ghost/myth-making.

And did we say that the ghosts sometimes come out from the underworld and move among the living? So you better watch your back!

What Do Ghosts Eat? Wan Chai Ghosts and Food Tour is endorsed and recommended by the Hong Kong Tourism Board.

Selected highlights

Some of the points of interest include:

Three Pacific Place Lobby

The area used to be called Big Buddha's Mouth. What gave rise to this name and is the Buddha still around today?

Wing Fung Street

A spot so haunted that it needs to be guarded by an Earth God. What sits behind this God?

Haunted spots on Ship Street

Find out the mysteries behind this magnificent mansion on Ship Street and its tumultuous past

Hung Shing Temple

A quaint temple perched on a rock along the original shoreline, inside which reside two goddesses who bless rather different crowds

Spring Garden Lane

Plenty of street food to salivate over, some of which double up as offerings to gods/ghosts

Hopewell Centre

The cylindrical building is a marvelous engineering fete of its time. Yet it is dotted with feng shui features thanks to its superstitious owner

Three Pacific Place Lobby

The area used to be called Big Buddha's Mouth. What gave rise to this name and is the Buddha still around today?

Wing Fung Street

A spot so haunted that it needs to be guarded by an Earth God. What sits behind this God?

Haunted spots on Ship Street

Find out the mysteries behind this magnificent mansion on Ship Street and its tumultuous past

Hung Shing Temple

A quaint temple perched on a rock along the original shoreline, inside which reside two goddesses who bless rather different crowds

Spring Garden Lane

Plenty of street food to salivate over, some of which double up as offerings to gods/ghosts

Hopewell Centre

The cylindrical building is a marvelous engineering fete of its time. Yet it is dotted with feng shui features thanks to its superstitious owner

Tour Information

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Bad Weather Policy

If Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above, or a Red/Black Rainstorm Warning is issued three hours before the tour starts, the tour will be canceled.
If Typhoon Signal No. 8 or a Red/Black Rainstorm Warning is issued during the tour, the tour will be canceled immediately.
If the tour needs to be canceled due to other adverse weather conditions, we will contact you by phone at least 2.5 hours before the tour. (If there is no response, we will follow up with an SMS or email.)
If the tour is canceled due to adverse weather on the day, we will work with you to reschedule a new date within six months from the original tour date.

Tour Reminder

Please wear comfortable clothing and shoes for the walk. Bring an umbrella, a bottle of water and some snacks just in case.
Each participant may bring their own 3.5mm plug headphone if they have one for the wireless transmitter/receiver system which will be used on the tour. The guide will provide them a new one otherwise, but for hygienic and environmental reasons participants are strongly suggested to bring their own earphones if possible.
There is a possibility that our organization may take photographs or videos during the guided tour, and these captured images or footage may be used for future promotion and publicity. If participants do not agree with this arrangement, please inform the tour guide or organizer during registration and on the day of the event.

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What Do Ghosts Eat? Wan Chai Ghosts & Food Tour

Wickedly fun tour to explore Hong Kong’s traditional beliefs and delicious treats

Tour overview

Selected highlights

Three Pacific Place Lobby

Wing Fung Street

Haunted spots on Ship Street

Hung Shing Temple

Spring Garden Lane

Hopewell Centre

Tour Information

Bad Weather Policy

Tour Reminder

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