# Walk With Alvin

> Walk With Alvin runs small-group, off-the-beaten-track walking tours of Singapore on Chinatown’s Chinese heritage and its gang past, led by Alvin Chiong, a licensed Singapore Tourism Board tourist guide who grew up in Chinatown and ran with its gangs as a young man before turning his life around. Four walks: Chinatown Unmasked (secret-society and gang history, 2.5 h, S$65), Chinatown, One Bite at a Time (food tour, 3 h, S$120), A Dream of Nanyang (heritage walk, 3.5 h, S$120) and Singapore, Off the Beaten Track (Clementi Forest or Bukit Brown, 3 h, S$80). Minimum two people per walk. Book by WhatsApp on +65 8438 8443.

## Key facts
- Guide: Alvin Chiong, licensed Singapore tourist guide; STB Innovative Award 2025; guides at the Chinatown Heritage Centre; previously led Triad Trails walks.
- Booking: WhatsApp +65 8438 8443 or email alvin.chiong17@gmail.com. Alvin replies himself and confirms the time and meeting point.
- Prices are per person in Singapore dollars. Every walk needs at least 2 people; A Dream of Nanyang takes up to 18.
- Good for: visitors staying in city-centre hotels or new to Singapore who want an off-the-beaten-track side of the city; the three Chinatown walks start at central MRT stations (Telok Ayer, Chinatown, Raffles Place).
- Self-guided option: Chinatown: Uncensored on Fever (Alvin guides by video over WhatsApp; starts at KELE, 2 Smith Street).
- Website: https://walkwithalvin.sg/ (last updated 2026-11-03)

## Walks
- [Chinatown Unmasked](https://walkwithalvin.sg/tours/chinatown-unmasked): 2.5 hours, S$65 per person, minimum 2 people. Meet: Telok Ayer MRT Station, by the Control Room. Chinatown Unmasked is a 2.5-hour walking tour of Singapore’s Chinatown that looks beyond today’s shopfronts at the stories beneath its streets: early migrants, secret societies, gangs, hardship, and the social conditions that shaped the district and, in the end, modern Singapore.
- [Chinatown, One Bite at a Time](https://walkwithalvin.sg/tours/chinatown-food-tour): 3 hours, S$120 per person, minimum 2 people. Meet: Chinatown MRT Station, Exit A, ground level. Chinatown, One Bite at a Time is a three-hour food walking tour of Singapore’s Chinatown. You taste Chinatown through its flavours and meet the people, traditions and stories behind what Singapore eats.
- [A Dream of Nanyang](https://walkwithalvin.sg/tours/dream-of-nanyang): 3.5 hours, S$120 per person, 2 to 18 people. Meet: Raffles Place MRT Station, Exit H, ground level. Ends: Pagoda Street, Chinatown. A Dream of Nanyang (梦牵南洋) is a 3.5-hour cultural walking tour of Singapore, where old voyages meet the modern city. It tells a story of migration, fusion and home through the people who came to Nanyang, stayed, and built a nation.
- [Singapore, Off the Beaten Track](https://walkwithalvin.sg/tours/off-the-beaten-track): 3 hours, S$80 per person, minimum 2 people. Meet: Depends on the route; Alvin sends it when he confirms your booking. Singapore, Off the Beaten Track is a three-hour guided walk that leaves the manicured city behind to show another side of Singapore, through some of its less conventional landscapes where nature, forgotten histories and human stories meet.

## Press and video
- [CNA Insider: Ex-Gang Member Shows You The REAL Chinatown (Aug 2025)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrX7lEK5-eE)
- [CNA Lifestyle: The former gang member who now leads Chinatown tours around his old haunts (13 Oct 2024)](https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/living/alvin-chiong-ex-gangster-offender-triad-trails-411601)
- [CNA video (Oct 2024)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmPSIwMNGUE)
- [MS News (17 Oct 2025)](https://mustsharenews.com/alvin-chiong-ex-drug-abuser/)
- [TTG Asia: Triad Trails (9 Jul 2021)](https://www.ttgasia.com/2021/07/09/triad-trails/)

## Social
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/alvinchiong1688/)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/alvin.chiong.2025/)
- [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@alvin.chiong)
- [Linkedin](https://sg.linkedin.com/in/alvin-chiong-6978b82a2)

## For hotels and travel agents
- [Cards, print sheets, brochures and trade fact sheet](https://walkwithalvin.sg/partners): free downloads; guests book directly with Alvin on WhatsApp or email.

## Optional
- [Frequently asked questions](https://walkwithalvin.sg/#faq)