Mr Bao

Mr Bao is a Taiwanese restaurant in Peckham, London, serving steamed bao buns and other Asian cuisine.

Mr Bao - 包先生 | Taiwanese restaurant in Peckham

http://www.mrbao.co.uk

Daddy Bao - 爹爹飽 - Taiwanese restaurant in Tooting

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Mr Bao, Peckham Rye - Restaurant Review - Methods Unsound

You could not have escaped the bubbling excitement surrounding the opening of a little Taiwanese restaurant in Peckham Rye, serving up delicious steamed bao buns and cocktails.

Bao buns have been taking London by storm, and it’s no surprise really given how goddam delicious they are (just check out our review of Beer & Buns for a start.)

Of course I had to try their namesake, the Mr Bao, which was a perfectly soft, fluffy bun with hunks of pork belly, a ton of sauce, pickles and coriander.

Very tasty and as good as any pork bun I have had in London so far, although it was probably not my favourite bun of the night… The Bo Diddley is Mr Bao’s fried chicken bun and is really, really f-ing good.

A delicious, warm, crisp little half moon of a doughnut with a good splodge of lovely dark chocolate sauce and then a firm in the middle but melty on the outside marshmallow.

Peckham's Mr Bao Honours Owner's Father in Name of New Tooting ...

The owners of Peckham Taiwanese restaurant, Mr Bao, will open a second site — called Daddy Bao — on Mitcham Road in Tooting, in February.

Mr Bao’s owners wrote on its website: “People of SW17, we hope you like your buns soft, fluffy and milky white, because that’s what you can look forward to when our new restaurant opens mere weeks from now.”

Daddy Bao is named after Joe Yeung, the father of Frank Yeung — Mr Bao’s owner.

Yeung jr writes that “Joe, a former restaurateur of 31 years himself, has been instrumental to the success of our first restaurant, advising on everything from recipes to service (and leaving little, um, ‘inspirational’ notes all over the place), so we thought it only right we put his name above the door of our new Tooting venture.”

There will be a number of similarities on the menu at Daddy Bao, including what they call “Mr Bao’s greatest hits,” as well as a number of special Tooting-only dishes and drinks, including a house beer brewed — a lychee pale ale — for the restaurant by Old Kent Brewery.

Mr Bao review – New York, Taipei, Peckham | The Picky Glutton

It’s so small, I suspect it may once have been a run-of-the-mill anglicised Chinese takeaway – many of which are still Mr Bao’s neighbours.

Served in a thin and tangy sauce dotted with crisp spring onion pieces, it’s by no means bad but it’s not as viscerally pleasing as a good wind-dried Cantonese lap cheong sausage in my book.

Taiwanese beef noodle soup is another of the island’s best dishes, but it gets far less attention over here compared to gua bao.

While Mr Bao doesn’t serve this iconic dish, there is a mild echo in the noodle-less beef soup.

The same fried chicken is used in Bao Diddley, but an excess of very mild wasabi mayo and kimchi caused both the batter and the lower half of the excellent quality rice flour bun to become very soggy, very quickly.

Daddy Bao is a Tooting follow-up from Mr Bao | Latest news ...

Summing it all up: From the people behind Taiwanese Peckham success, Mr Bao, comes the next restaurant Daddy Bao - with bao buns aplenty.

If you just can't get enough bao bun goodness, then there's another place to check out.

The people behind popular Peckham bao spot, Mr Bao, are opening a follow-up called Daddy Bao.

So you can expect buns stuffed with pork, pickles and peanut powder or beer marinated prawns, pickled mooli and spiced spring onion.

It's to honour the father of the owner, Frank Yeung, whose restaurateur father Joe Yeung was instrumental in the success of Mr Bao - so he gets top billing this time around.

Mr Bao | Restaurants in Nunhead, London

Anyone with a social media account knows what a bao is by now: these fluffy white pseudo-sandwiches occupy more collective screen space than the aubergine emoji.

The tipping point came last spring when street food trader Bao opened a dedicated restaurant in Soho and created the sort of queue you’d associate with Alton Towers.

Twelve months on, Taiwanese snacks are now a full-on London food trend, and first to the punch in south-east London is Mr Bao, a pocket-sized restaurant from one of the owners of Miss Tapas, which serves better-than-solid Spanish food on nearby Choumert Road.

There are five to try, plus a selection of sides and gooey bao s’more for dessert.

Offering a slice of Soho in SE15, Mr Bao delivers great value, modish Taiwanese cuisine and – like it or not – the slightly stifling buzz that comes with it.