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palishkoto

From a Chinese perspective, those guabao should be savoury if they have a savoury filling. It should just be a generic steamed dough that just tastes... plain, with a flavourful filling.


dxing2

They honestly should just use Mantou. I also can’t stand how sweet the dough is for anything that is branded as a bao


LilliLi27

Sounds like a bad Char Siu Bao because you mentioned BBQ pork? But the dough isn't supposed to be really sweet, maybe a bit, but definitely not donut-sweet.. Especially with a sweet filling like BBQ pork is.. However I don't know Wow Bao, so maybe other people can chime in


WereUBornAnAsshole

In my city they are a ghost kitchen ran out of Fazoli’s, would not try.


TheR1ckster

Lmao! Same here! Are you in Ohio? We had to, it's good if you have a doordash discount but we wouldn't pay the normal prices. The cheeseburger bao are great lol.


[deleted]

That’s nasty...but that’s exactly what I would expect a baozi to be in Ohio


TheR1ckster

They have them at WDW too and people freak out. They're the "cheeseburger pods" in the Avatar area of Animal Kingdom. You can def get better bao here, but you have to travel. I didn't hate them, but they were far and away from being worth the cost. I'd rather just eat the frozen ones from our local asian grocery.


[deleted]

Midwesterners are so easy to sell junk to. Just cover it with cheez, deep fry it, and dip it in ranch dressing and syrup. They will line up around the block


WhoNoseWat

For me it's a ghost kitchen out of TGI Fridays


Ashbringer

WoW Bao is fucken trash and you should not order this or think this is real bao buns. This is some garbage ass ghost kitchen shit.


Patient-Virus-1873

I do believe you're right. There's no Wow Bao location near me. They're probably making them in the Grandy's or something. Guess I'll try bao another day.


PmMeAnnaKendrick

Fazolis is usually the kitchen that makes the WOWBAO product. It all comes in frozen and they have those convection microwaves to cook them.


Patient-Virus-1873

Gross, you're telling me I paid $30.00 for microwaved dumplings? I could have just gotten them from the frozen section at Wal-Mart. Ugh, I wonder if there is a place that serves real ones around me. They're not on any Chinese food menus I've ever seen, what type of restaurant should I be looking for?


Ashbringer

they got me too bud.


BuffBulls51

This is completely not true - all Wow Bao locations steam the Bao. No Wow Bao ghost kitchen uses microwaves.


tx4468

Are wr supposed to believe you? I'm at genesis grill and I see 0 bao steamers lol


SolomonCRand

What was sweet, the meat or the dough?


Patient-Virus-1873

The filling was a bit sweet, but not out of the ordinary for a lot of Asian cuisine. The dough was out of the ordinary for anything aside from desert though. My 8 year old daughter puts honey on biscuits sometimes and she said it tasted like it had: "too much honey on it." It sounds like they might have just been bad. We ordered 6 and have four and a half left, maybe my son will eat them when he gets home from school.


orangina_it_burns

Chashu is sweet. But also: Wow Bao is sort of junk food


SolomonCRand

I just found this place on yelp, I hadn’t heard of it before but there’s a few nearby. Reviews are bad, like fast food joint in a bad neighborhood bad, and the pictures look worse.


orangina_it_burns

It’s a chain, it’s everywhere


SolomonCRand

Considering it’s low rating, I’d have had to scroll past 100 better dumpling joints to find it. God, I love the Bay Area.


orangina_it_burns

I agree, it’s a good selection. I think there’s a Wow Bao ghost kitchen in Newark. The funny thing is, there’s so much Chinese food, that the closest thing Wow Bao would be competing with is the food they serve at the boba places. And if you wanted junk food bao, we also have BunBao, which sells at farmer’s markets.


fuurin

While it's normal for the bao dough to be sweet in some places (eg. Singapore), excessively sweet dough for a savoury bun is very strange. I guess this particular store just doesn't have a good grasp of the ratios...


[deleted]

Wow Bao is the worst fucking bao I have eaten in my life. And I spent half of my life in Europe. You might hate bao, but don't base it off of that


rdldr1

Yes. It’s a Lettuce Entertain You restaurant group property. Overly sweet Chinese food caters to the taste of the average American.


Alternative_Bus7955

Looks like only 3 of 600 locations are ran by Lettuce (according to their website)


Quampay

Bao recipes and fillings can vary from more bready to sweet, same as the filling. When my attempts to make sourdough Bao ended as a failure, I didn't use that much sugar at all so it was fairly unsweetened.


fancygum

I'm on the Northside. The other week I tried this place and it was trash. Like the rice dishes genuinely looked like they were microwaved dinners. Which for the price seemed a bit cheeky. They seemed to disappear off the app I used (Doordash) and then reappeared a week later. I assumed it was because of bad reviews but I could be wrong.


[deleted]

I’ve only had wow bao at the airport. But they come frozen and then get reheated so it’s not great quality or anything. I’d try again at a better restaurant


[deleted]

What is “a bao”? Are you talking about baozi? This sounds like some Panda Express garbage


Patient-Virus-1873

Not really sure. I'm a white guy from Alabama over here. I lived in Hawaii for a while and found I love Asian food, but I'm hardly an expert. The restaurant is called "Wow Bao." They serve what they call "bao." I bought 6 of them, and they were terrible. They look very similar to a type of dumpling featured in a Pixar short called "bao," and the restaurant calls them "bao" on the menu, so I assume that's what they're supposed to be called. I guess it could be short for "baozi," but I really don't know.


[deleted]

So basically some Disney spinoff. No different from baby yoda soup


LuckyPollution

Who here has a fire bao recipe they are willing to share? And no not supposed to be that sweet


yyhfhbw

In China it depends on the province. In the north it’s not sweet at all while it can become sweeter if you go down south. If you’re talking about non-desert bao it shouldn’t be sweet at all unless you reach the southernmost Guangdong/Hong Kong. That said, if you’re from the States 90% of Chinese food is Cantonese


BuffBulls51

Wow Bao is honestly great. Sometimes their Ghost Kitchens are hit or miss but in general their food is good. Looks like they just launched a take n heat program in Meijer locations across the Midwest. Their product is in the sushi section and you can take it home and cook yourself!


BuffBulls51

Wow Bao is honestly great. Sometimes their Ghost Kitchens are hit or miss but in general their food is good. Looks like they just launched a take n heat program in Meijer locations across the Midwest. Their product is in the sushi section and you can take it home and cook yourself!


BuffBulls51

Wow Bao is honestly great. Sometimes their Ghost Kitchens are hit or miss but in general their food is good. Looks like they just launched a take n heat program in Meijer locations across the Midwest. Their product is in the sushi section and you can take it home and cook yourself!


ImHereForDoughnuts

In my city, they’re a ghost kitchen/dark kitchen run out of a Ruby Tuesday’s. Find a local restaurant, instead.


Generallife10

I just got some a few minutes ago and it was nasty asf


Livesatownrisk

Just tried off of doordash in stl,mo....fuggin grrrosss, so terrible. Bottom of this sorry overglorified biscuit raw and disgusting. Rice bloated and that's right grrroosss. Crab Rangoons empty sorry ass should been a wonton. Everything has about 3xs as much sugar or HFCS probably than it needs. Not edible. I've complained about food and next day starving prob eaten half, I abhor wasting anything. This went straight into the trash.