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Guardian Review of BAO

Bao Noodle Shop review – the best noodle soup you’ve never heard of

Giles Coren: Then came the bao. The soft milky buns were as plump and warm as my son’s buttocks

AA Gill, Table Talk: I don’t know of any other mouthful that potentially delivers a hit of such intense, pit-of-the-stomach, synapse-electrifying pleasure as the steamed bun

Giles Cores, Sunday Times: ‘One of the new dishes, the beef short-rib bao, is all you ever need to eat for the rest of your life’

Jimi Famurewa: ‘I think only of their crispy tripe: thin, wrinkled, golden-brown strips of the stuff in a sweet, spice-hammered crumb, served beside a cool spring onion dip’

Michelin Guide: There are some things in life worth queueing for

Marina O'Loughlin tries Bao's classic bun kit

Lisa Markwell, The Independent: Bao, restaurant review: 'Street-food-turned-Soho Taiwanese place deserves a standing ovation'

Molly Codyre speaks to Erchen Chang about rediscovering traditional bao in Taiwan, bringing it back to London and working with an ‘incredibly organised and powerful’ team of women

BAO’s debut cookbook reveals their deepest, darkest cooking secrets

The independent: You’ve seen BAO’s famous Taipei butter rice on Instagram – here’s how to make it at home

This Taiwanese fried chicken recipe is a closely guarded secret

The Independent: When they started a bao food stall in 2012, Erchen Chang, Shing Tat Chung and Wai Ting Chung couldn’t have predicted the cult following it would amass

Kinfolk on Erchen Chang

Semaine Tastemaker: Meet Erchen Chang, creative director and co-founder of Bao ...

The Foodie’s Guide To Taipei, By BAO Founder Erchen Chang

Design Anthology: Bao has built an immersive visual world around its restaurants, from its interiors to its logo and online graphics. As two further outposts open, its co-founder explains how her memories of Asian eateries get filtered and translated in to something new

Evening Standard: The fact is, bao are hummus 25 years ago. Their emergence marks a moment of culinary progress in Britain

Bao have released merch designed with Simone Rocha, Carhartt WIP and more

Esquire: Take a Bao: The Founders of the Hip Restaurant Group Write Their First Cookbook

Vogue: Inside My Quest To Find London’s Most Perfect Spicy Marg

Guardian: Bao out: Wai Ting Chung’s final meal

Financial Times: Bao London’s Erchen Chang: ‘I’m happiest at home listening to music and drawing, while drinking whisky’

Financial Times; Bao’s Erchen Chang hosts a dinner party — recipes and tips

Financial Times: Karaoke means booze – but what food really sings?

Conde Naste: Best restaurants in London: Our editors' favourites right now

Olive Magazine: Erchen Chang

Delicious Magazine: Bao buns with braised shortrib and pickled daikon

Milk Decoration Magazine: Erchen Chang, artistic director of BAO restaurants in London, shares her delicious bao recipe with us.

Its Nice That: The delicious design history of Bao, from its iconic Lonely Man logo to its pixelated Rice Error delivery menu

Creative Review: Forget the metaverse, the Baoverse is open for business

Bloomberg: Bao Brings Karaoke Rooms, Fried Chicken Buckets and a Whisky Cabinet to City of London

Monocle Magazine: How Taiwanese Bao restaurants became a hit in London

The Gentlewoman: Erchen Chang

Timeout: Bao? Wow. This slick former street food operation brings Taiwanese cuisine in from the cold, with plenty of hit dishes and a great tea selection.

Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Soho

Evening Standard: Cheap eats in London: 83 of the best dishes for under £15

SquareMeal Review of BAO Soho

Suitcase Magazine: Boom, Boom, Bao

Apartamento Cookbook #6

House & garden: Chef Erchen Chang on how she likes to shop, cook and eat

Hypebeast: BAO

Modern House: The Modern Menu: Erchen Chang makes prawn shia song rice with soy cured egg at BAO Borough

Table Magazine: BAO Noodle Shop - An interview with Erchen Chang

Toast Magazine: The Lonely Man & The Art of BAO

Anima Magazine: The secret recipe behind designing BAO London

Great British Menu: Wai Ting Chung, Erchen Chang, and Shing Tat Chung

Vogue: 3 Lunar New Year Recipes Designed To Bring Good Fortune, Courtesy Of Bao Founder Erchen Chang

The Nudge: BAO’s Erchen Chang Shares Her Favourite London Spots

Barbican Centre: Noguchi TV

Apollo Magazine: How three art students built London’s best bao restaurants