We loved this tour! Having never been to New York before and not knowing the local culture, it would have been difficult to get a handle on the nature of these neighbourhoods without this tour. One always hears of Chinatown and Little Italy but we never realized that it's so much more than that and also, how integrated these communities are. Olivia was our tour guide and her obvious love for her job contributed to the excitement that we felt during the tour. Everyone fell in love with her. She was full of information and had answers to all our questions. The other thing that impressed me was the appreciation and respect that she had for these neighbourhoods and for the people who worked there. As for the food, we sampled items from the different cultural ethnicities... dumplings in Chinatown, Knish in the Jewish quarter, cheese and deli meat in Little Italy, and pretzels in the German neighbourhood along with the beer we ordered.