Heard a lot of good about this place and had pretty high expectations. Unfortunately a bit to high. The pork bun was mediocre — when you see a modern pork bun on a menu you’ll always compare to momofuku — and it was not even close to it. The bun itself was a bit dry and also pretty big. The chicken one was the best while the veggie one was ok.
Dylan A.
Classificação do local: 1 Williamsburg, NY
This place is a joke – a pretentious overpriced waste of money where they give you sample sized portions at best. I’m sure they pat themselves on the back for the«high art» they think they are parading as food but it’s pretentious slop and I want my money back. Don’t go here.
J G.
Classificação do local: 2 El Cerrito, CA
On the day I went, they were serving two kinds of buns: shredded pork in hoisin sauce and mushroom with mayonnaise. The pork was way too salty and the idea of putting mayonnaise on mushrooms was repelling. The cabbage/broccoli/cauliflower slaw, however, was delicious. I’d try it again on a different day with different bun fillings.
Oliver J.
Classificação do local: 3 Stockholm, Sweden
Barobao serves Asian fusion cuisine with a focus on the popular Taiwanese steamed bun or ambiguously known as gua bao. The restaurant is top modern and wooden minimalistic furnished. The menu is created in a way that you probably should order around 3 dishes, as well as a few sides to the table, to satisfy the hunger. I chose today’s catch, which was Swedish tuna served with caviar, ponzu gel, cauliflower purée & moss. Of course I also had to try their gua bao. I ate their porkbelly version, which was a bit to sweet for my liking, but some sriracha made the trick. Additionally, I had to try their vegetarian korean sub. The food tasted good, but something that was a letdown for me though was the sloppy service, which probably should run through their routines.
Sunday M.
Classificação do local: 2 Stockholm, Sweden
Ate lunch there today. It kind of felt like the owners had eaten at momofuku and then decided to come back to Stockholm and replicate the flavors… but then forgotten how. The pork belly in the buns was very dry and tasteless. This is quite an achievement given how fatty pork belly is. Maybe they use a different cut of pork but call it belly? They added roasted onions and hoisin sauce to add the flavor back… but then it just tastes like hoisin sauce. The sticky rice was just white rice with sticky texture with sriracha sauce drizzled over the top. No peanuts, spice, shrimp, Chinese sausage, mushroom… nothing at all like the Chinese sticky rice I know and love. I really want to love this place but you guys really need to work on getting flavor into the food. Especially at these prices…
Erik S.
Classificação do local: 3 Stockholm, Sweden
It is fine. It is expensive for what it is, i had two chicken baos and that was basically pulled dry chicken drenched in hoisin in a bun.
David S.
Classificação do local: 2 Stockholm, Sweden
tl;dr — Tastes ok, looks like McDonalds, is expensive. Bao is a white bread that tastes kind of sweet(lot of sugar). It opens like a pita bread almost and in this place you’ll find a couple of bao dishes to choose from with different things inside. They tasted ok, but wasn’t enough food. Not enough protein at all in these baos and they’ll run you 50SEKish each — you easily need 3 to get anything close to full. The place looks as if McDonalds was a bit more eco. Nothing wrong with that though. Staff was friendly. They usually have cool semi-local beers but they were out when I was there… It’s tricky though because the baos are almost like a work of art — and the ppl working here clearly know their craft. The price is really my main issue, it’s not foody enough for me to ever consider it worth going here again. Unless they cut the price in half — then it’d be 4 stars.
Karin P.
Classificação do local: 4 Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
Interesting, innovative & tasty describes my experience of this modern, funky and kind of kindergarden inspired restaurant. It´s the wooden furniture made for shorter people, posters of plants and the funny loo that makes me associate the environment with a preschool. The bao’s were tasty, I especially enjoyed the one with kimchi & chicken! The was a dish with salmon, almonds, amarillo and some kind of mayo that was really delicious as well! The green tea & gingerbeer was served in a jar & tickled that tastebuds in all the right ways. It´s not a place I´d spend a whole night however it´s a fresh alternative to other«fast food». Come and enjoy a taiwanese classic!