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Your tour guide / Culinary Historian Shirley Lum.


Famous meeting place for Kensington Foodies Roots Walks and also Haunted Kensington, Chinatown and Grange walks.


Celebrating Chinese New Year on Second Chinatown Foodies walk is extra fun & lucky when the Lion Dancers comes to your dim sum table! Copyright © 2009 by Ruth Lor Malloy. All rights reserved. See additional images at personal web-site: http://www.china-travel-
guide.com as well as the web-site for the Toronto Chinatown story http://www.VisualTravel
Tours.com


Not your tour guide!
One of Toronto's famous literary visitors, Charles Dickens.

 

 

YOUR DOORWAY TO TORONTO'S OFF-BEAT
HAUNTS, LOCAL LEGENDS, AND CUISINE

Exercise your mind, body and spirit while awakening all your senses!

Since July 1993, A Taste of the World has been offering intimate, educational yet interactive and entertaining walks in Toronto's various multi-cultural neighbourhoods. We specialize in tours for the passionate Foodies, Literary Detectives and Ghost Hunters!

If you're a long-time Torontonian - Come! Don't wait until you have guests in town to book a tour. Walk with us!

If you just moved to Toronto - Welcome! Come along for a wonderful orientation of our ever-rapidly growing and evolving city of diverse neighbourhoods. Explore with us!

If you're a seasoned visitor to Toronto - Welcome back! You'll love rubbing shoulders with locals while discovering the quirkier side of Toronto. Unearth some best-kept local secrets with us!

"Walk and be happy.
Walk and be healthy."
- Charles Dickens, American Notes, 1842

"Life is a feast! Come celebrate with us as together
we unearth Toronto's hidden delights! Experience Toronto
with new eyes, but also a new palate and refreshed senses."
- Shirley Lum, Founder, Culinary Historian, Guide & Foodie

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HOT TIPS!
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For Foodies…

16th Annual Chinese Lunar New Year in Toronto's 2nd Chinatown Tours
Feb. 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 2013 NEW Fridays!

6th Annual Chinese New Year’s Eve 11-Course Banquet
Sat. Feb. 9th, 2013

First Annual Chinese New Year's Lantern Festival 9-Course Banquet
Sat. Feb. 23, 2013

Multi-Ethnic Spring Bounty in Kensington Market
March to June TBA

Qing Ming Festival in Toronto’s 2nd Chinatown
April 7, 2013

Dragon Boat Festival: Toronto’s Lost First Chinatown + Second Chinatown
June TBA

Multi-Ethnic Summer Bounty: Kensington Market
July – Sept. TBA

Lotus Festival: Toronto’s Lost First Chinatown + Second Chinatown
July TBA

Harvest Moon Festival: Toronto’s Lost First Chinatown + Second Chinatown + Broadview Gateway
Aug. – Sept. TBA

Multi-Ethnic Harvest Season: Toronto’s Kensington Market
Sept. – Nov. TBA

Celebrate All The Winter Holidays in Kensington Market
Dec. TBA

For Literary Detectives…

78th Anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s last home!
Sat. March 9, 2013

Charles Dickens' Toronto 1842 Visit
Sat. May 4, 2013

Happy 138th Birthday, Lucy Maud Montgomery!
Sat. Nov. 30, 2013

For Ghost Hunters …

Ghostly March Break Walks
Fri. March 8 – 15, 2013

May Equinox Ghost Festival
April 26 – May 3, 2013

Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival
Aug. TBA

Halloween Week Special
Oct. 25 – Nov. 2, 2013
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