Foodie Experiences
Shared Plates at Bao Bei
Chinatown's buzziest small-plates room, where shao bing and cocktails you can't pronounce will do the talking for you.
Chinatown, Keefer St
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Chinatown's buzziest small-plates room, where shao bing and cocktails you can't pronounce will do the talking for you.
Chinatown, Keefer St
More infoBao Bei is where you take someone to seem like a person who knows things, the things being shao bing, mantou with pork belly, and a cocktail nobody can pronounce without checking twice. The room is dim, the music is right, and the plates land between Shanghai, Taiwan and pure invention. Just reaching across a small table to steal each other's food. Go early or flirt in the queue.
Go early or be ready to flirt through the no-reservations wait, then dive into the shao bing, the pork-belly mantou, and the sticky rice cake, with a cocktail you can't pronounce to start. Split everything straight down the middle so you keep reaching across the table, budget about 90 minutes in the low light. When you surface, you're in the thick of Chinatown's Keefer Street, perfectly placed for a nightcap nearby.
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