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Your tour guide, 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

2010 - Year of the Tiger - is associated with dramatic changes and intense activity, and guests will see no less with Shirley!  The year kicks off with the popular Chinese New Year tours. This is followed by an invitation to speak on Ontario Today on CBC Radio with Rita Celli, a news and phone-in program linking radio listeners across this province. Then Shirley hosts the Third Annual Chinese New Year’s Eve Banquet. Before February ends, she conducts the Marmalade with Asian Twists workshop at the Third Annual Mad For Marmalade, Crazy For Citrus presented by Culinary Historians of Ontario and Fort York National Historic Site.

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Featured on Toronto.com
One of the Top 25 things to do in Toronto!
 


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For Foodies…

Chinese Lunar New Year in Toronto's 2nd Chinatown Tours
February 6, 7, 13*, 14*, 20, 21, 2010

Third Annual Chinese New Year’s Eve 10-Course Banquet
Sat. February 13, 2010

Marmalades With Asian Twist Hands-on workshop @ Mad For Marmalade, Crazy For Citrus hosted by CHO & Fort York
Sat. February 27, 2010

Multi-Ethnic Spring Bounty in Kensington Market
March 20 – June 19, 2010

Qing Ming Festival in Toronto’s 2nd Chinatown
April 4, 2010

Dragon Boat Festival: Toronto’s Lost First Chinatown + Second Chinatown
June 13, 20, 2010

Multi-Ethnic Summer Bounty: Kensington Market
June 19 – Sept. 4, 2010

Lotus Festival: Toronto’s Lost First Chinatown + Second Chinatown
July 11 & 18, 2010

Harvest Moon Festival: Toronto’s Lost First Chinatown + Second Chinatown + Broadview Gateway
August 29 - September 26, 2010

Multi-Ethnic Harvest Season: Toronto’s Kensington Market September 18 – October 9, 2010

Gaslight Stroll: Autumn Flavours in Rosedale & Yorkville Village
Sept. 11 & Oct. 16, 2010

Multi-Ethnic Fall Flavours along Broadview Gateway
Sept. 27 & Oct. 3, 2009

Celebrate All the Winter Holidays in Kensington Market
Dec. 4, 11, 2010

For Literary Detectives…

Happy 98th Birthday, Charles Dickens!
Fri. February 12, 2010

75th Anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s last home!
Mon. March 15, 2010

168th Anniversary of Charles Dickens' Toronto 1842 Visit
Sat. May 1, 2010

Happy 136th Birthday, Lucy Maud Montgomery!
Sat. November 27, 2010

For Ghost Hunters…

Ghostly March Break Walks
Tues. March 16 – Fri. March 19, 2010

Qing Ming – Chinese Ghost Festival
April 4, 2010

May Equinox Ghost Festival
April 27 – May 7, 2010

Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival
August 11-18, 2010

Halloween Week Special
October 22– October 31, 2010

 
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