Heritage Soy-Sauce Factory

Red cooking or hongshao is the word for Shanghai cuisine. For centuries, the city's culinary culture has been stewed, simmered, sauteed and braised in soy sauce, a brownish-red condiment with a rich fragrance. We are proud to say this will be the only tour in China that takes you to a hand-crafted soy sauce factory which has a history of over 130 years. Much of today's soy sauce is artificially hydrolyzed, commercially produced and fermented under machine-controlled environments within only 20 days. This factory, however, makes soy sauce that is brewed from natural bacterial and fungal cultures in big vats for more than six months. The natural brewing process involves blending salted water, wheat, soybeans and a mold, letting it ferment for months, then refining and bottling the sauce. No chemicals are added. It is believed to be one of few in the world that still make soy sauce the traditional, old fashioned way. We will meet the soy sauce master who has been making soy sauce for nearly 30 years, in fact, the way he makes soy sauce today hasn't changed since the days of his forefathers. Their soy sauce-making process was listed as one of China's Intangible Cultural Heritages - the only one in the industry. During this tour, we will understand about about traditional soy sauce making, have a chance for soy sauce tasting and visit the fatcory plant. We may get an opportunity to buy soy sauce, cash only. In the end we will visit the factory's restaurant and enjoy local Chinese food which are cooked with this special soy sauce.

Price: RMB1800 for groups of 1-2 guests
For each additional guest add RMB500
For a group of more than 10 people, please contact us for larger group offer.

Tour is around 4hrs, guide will meet at your hotel by 9:30am, finish the tour and back to your hotel around 1:30pm. Price includes the transport of a private van (RMB800) and all tickets admission to all sites listed. Kindly note, food is not included in this price (these costs are usually