Bambao

FOOD 10/10

First time here and in Baltimore. This was a nice pot stop and there’s also seating. Drinks and Food was delicious, try the milk teas and xiao long bao, you’ll love it! And the bulgogi bowl was filling!

Good food. Particularly friendly and helpful staff

Cultural appropriation at its absolute worst. Ironically, the logo just means “white” in Chinese, which is apt because this place is so obviously 100% white-owned (google it). Food was gross and the staff looked miserable. Plus the white owners just took a bunch of random Asian motifs with no respect to food or community and butchered them together to create the biggest insult to Baltimore. Look, there are several other American-style Chinese joints with better food. Please go support those immigrant-run family businesses, not here. When this restaurant opened, the owners did an interview where they proudly claimed they consulted “Chinese nationals”. Whoever helped them must’ve not liked em very much. It’s hilarious that their logo means “white” (nothing poetic or food-related), as if a warning sign to avoid this place for its racism.

Disappointing

Pad Thai and Bubble tea was really good.