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2017-02-20
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Like many others, I've been wanting to try Little Bao for a while to see what the hype is about.My friend and I went on a Sunday night at 7 pm, and we had about a half hour wait, which is to be expected. You can put down your name and number and go off while in queue so fairly reasonable.We started off with the famed pork belly bao and fried chicken bao.The pork belly was worthy off its sterling reputation, and was close to perfection. The braising spices gave it subtle depth of flavour, beautif
My friend and I went on a Sunday night at 7 pm, and we had about a half hour wait, which is to be expected. You can put down your name and number and go off while in queue so fairly reasonable.
We started off with the famed pork belly bao and fried chicken bao.
The pork belly was worthy off its sterling reputation, and was close to perfection. The braising spices gave it subtle depth of flavour, beautifully balanced by the pickled vegetables and sauce.
The fried chicken was also very tasty and well executed, with a distinctive tasty Sichuan mayo, but it's not winning any awards.
We also had the shortrib pan fried dumpling (gyoza) style that was very nicely executed. Their talents definitely lie in the slow cooking department.
At this point we were still not full, so ordered the vegetarian Sloppy Chan, which we'd read good things about. The best way to describe the filling is it's very similar to a mushroom duxelle, usually found in a beef Wellington. A paste of shiitake mushrooms paired with truffle mayo will probably not be too everyone's taste. Not bad, but the pickled vegetables weren't enough to lift the earthy base.
At this point my friend was full, but I went ahead with the dessert bao. This was smaller sized and deep fried with a filing of salt ice cream and caramel. Oh golly, this was an absolute decadent treat.
I also had the yuzu leaf cocktail. Pleasant enough, but it tasted more lemon than yuzu (which has a very distinctive flavour).
For the price and the setting (it's a very small, casual counter style venue), I think it's overpriced. Wouldn't hurry to go back, but wouldn't object either, now that I've pinpointed things on the menu I like.
To me, this is very good comfort food, but priced at 50% more than it's worth. But you can judge for yourself.
Fried chicken bao and pork belly bao
$88
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Sloppy Chan
$88
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Salt ice cream dessert bao
$48
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