BaoHaus

New York, United States

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20 reviews

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Telephone:
+1 646-669-8889
Website:
www.baohausnyc.com
Address:
238 E 14th St, New York, NY, 10003
b/t 2nd Ave & 3rd Ave
East Village
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
510 ft3rd Avenue (L)
970 ft1st Avenue (L)
0.3 mi14th Street-Union Square (4,5,6)
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Takes Reservations
No
Delivery
Yes
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Good For
Late Night
Parking
Street
Bike Parking
Yes
Good for Kids
No
Good for Groups
No
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Hipster
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
No
Outdoor Seating
No
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
No
Dogs Allowed
No
Waiter Service
No
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 11:30 am – 5:00 pm
5:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Open now
Local time (New York) 18:37 Thursday, 28 November 2024

Business hours

Monday 11:30 am – 5:00 pm
5:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Tuesday 11:30 am – 5:00 pm
5:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Wednesday 11:30 am – 5:00 pm
5:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Thursday 11:30 am – 5:00 pm
5:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Friday 11:30 am – 5:00 pm
5:30 pm – 3:30 am
Saturday 11:30 am – 5:00 pm
5:30 pm – 3:30 am
Sunday 11:30 am – 5:00 pm
5:30 pm – 11:30 pm

Description

Specialties

I’m a 3rd Generation Baozi/​Mantou maker. My grandpa used to sell baozi and mantou in Taiwan so we’ve come full circle. Except, this time around, I wanted to improve on the old prototype. Gone are the MSG and «color treated» meats you see in Chinatown. I use all-​natural antibiotic– and hormone-​free pork and skirt steak. Our Guerilla Cooking Methods are also 90% energy efficient and remove a lot of barriers to entry for young, independent, small-​businesses. Hopefully you all appreciate the effort to do our part for the environment while still delivering the tastiest gua bao around!

History

Established in 2009.

Winter 2009 — Fall 2011 LES Location (R.I.P)

Summer 2011 and beyond — East Village BaoHaus takes over

Meet the Business Owner

Eddie H.

Business Owner

Learn more about Eddie Huang on our website, where you’ll find the link to Eddie’s blog!

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20 reviews of BaoHaus

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Place rating: 5
Brooklyn, NY
Can I just say that I fell in love with this place from the moment I walked in? Not because it smelled like fried goodness but because the staff was so god damn sweet. Literally joking with me and just being so funny. They are great.
Now it was my first time trying bao and I was unsure what to get. My boyfriend got pork. I got chicken and then we shared the bigger chicken dish and got taro fries. To say it was amazing is an understatement. I can’t wait to go back.
Place rating: 3
Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NY
If you had one day to have an epic foodie day throughout New York with your best friend, where would you go? I started here. Some of the other reviewers are correct and the place itself looks a little sketchy. Being of weak fortitude and avid pacifists, my friend and I huddled together while waiting for our order and then booked it as soon as the sandwich was in hand.
As put by my friend in his best Bourdain impression «Like I enjoy it but it doesn’t fascinate me.» It was a good option to start our day at and I certainly enjoyed The Birdhaus Bao with spicy sauce, I would not want to fill up on it exclusively. It reminded me of a better KFC. I know some of you may interpret that as an insult but it wasn’t, maybe. I think I would appreciate the sandwiches more after a night of drinking. Maybe that’s the trick.
Place rating: 5
New York, NY
YUM I love these lil morsels of heaven. The fish bao was my favorite, with the chicken coming in a close second. Both were golden fried to perfection, and crispy crunchy to the last bite. They were rather small, and possibly a bit pricey for the size, but it’s NYC, so we accept and move on. Not gonna keep me from returning!
Place rating: 5
New London, CT
One of my favorite places in NYC. Super cool interior, staff always cool. Chicken Bao is killer & the buns are legit.
Inside is small so don’t expect a table, one may not be available.
Place rating: 5
Los Angeles, CA
Omg YES the chicken bao is AMAZING so crispy, crunchy, yet tender and juicy and so, so flavorful. The buns themselves are super fluffy and awesome. The fish bao scores second place. Nice and fish&chipsy. And frankly I thought the pork bao (which should be the center and pillar of a place called house of baos) did not live up to the hype.
Its a tiny restaurant with cool urban hole in the wall vibes. Just screams ‘come eat me when youre drunk at 2am’. Love it.
Place rating: 5
Irvington, NJ
This is the second time I’ve had steamed buns and it was delicious. My only issue (has nothing to do with the establishment) is this place is very tiny, so if someone comes here and wants to sit and eat, I wouldn’t recommend it. Its a dope place to go to during the nicer months since you can just grab your food and go outside and walk around and eat. The character of the place is dope. Classic NY train look.
I had the fried fish buns with fries and it was good. They served it with their mayo, chili paste sauce (dont remember the name right now). I would definitely go back, for sure.
Place rating: 3
Queens, NY
I tried the Chairman Bao and the Sweet Bao Fries in the green sauce Pandan. The chairman Bao was ok but it was kind of small and in my opinion wasn’t worth the price. It’s overhyped. But the sweet Bao fries wasn’t what I expected but it tasted good. It’s more of a dessert. It’s a piece of bread with pandan sauce on it.
Also my sister and I went there in the afternoon so it was very quiet. However, we could only do take out because it looked like the workers were too lazy to set up the place. There were stacks of chairs and they were just talking, I didn’t understand why they couldn’t just set up.
Place rating: 4
Las Vegas, NV
So I’m guessing that NYC has a thing for Chinese buns?!?
We dined at momofuku for dinner but still left there hungry. :(So with this place just around the corner, it was a no brainer to stop in and check out Eddie’s Baos.
The first impression of this place is that it’s a janky-​ass hole-​in-​the-​wall neighborhood misfit. Walking inside I’m taken back to memories of years ago with the sights and sounds of chilling in a hip-​hop shop. The place was jamming with old-​school hip hop and littered with tons of underground slaps (brand stickers) all over the place.
We ordered the full compliment of bao’s available on the menu Chairman Boa, Birdhaus Bao & Fried Fish Bao…
The Chairman Bao was ok. The pork was super fatty (but tasty), usually it’s a good thing but not in this instance. Out of the 5 places in NYC that we ate Baos at, this pork bun ranks right in the middle.
The fried fish and chicken was just like the salt +pepper fried dish (one of my favs) that you would order at a Chinese restaurant.
The Birdhaus Bao was decent in its served state however was much improved with a splash of the house hot sauce.
Fish Bao was my favorite of the 3 buns. We ended up ordering another pair of these.
This place is great cheap eat and I’d say a noteworthy bookmark for NYC travellers to check out.
Place rating: 4
Clapham, London, United Kingdom
I randomly found this place and stopped in for lunch. i LOVE LOVE LOVE bao and they were delicious but i found them a bit over priced, they were tiny. Its definitely good for a snack but don’t go expecting to have lunch there for a cheap amount. Unless you get the lunch special which i saw after i ordered my meal.
I would still recommend the place though. The interior is pretty cool and they play good music but its really small inside so probably best to get it takeaway.
Place rating: 3
Edgewater, NJ
It’s been two and a half years so it’s an appropriate amount of time to update the last review.
The prices have slightly gone up but the bao quality has gone slightly down. Where is the awesome pork belly that I remember? The flavors of the Chairman Bao have changed as well. I appreciate that they add a lot of crushed peanuts now but there was no cilantro in the bao. There was also this weird, red sticky sauce that I don’t remember being in the bao. Was that supposed to be the «Taiwanese red sugar?»
I don’t want «Taiwanese red sugar» IN my bao dammit. I want the flavor to be seeped into the marinated pork belly.
C’mon BaoHaus. Get it together. Crying for you guys.
Place rating: 4
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Baohaus is kinda like the Brandy Melville of food. It’s super hyped up, boasting celebrity clientele, overpriced at times, and although the quality isn’t the greatest, it’s not bad either. Nonetheless, you still want to buy (or eat) everything your wallet can afford.
Eddie Huang’s East Village storefront, although pretty cramped, is filled to the top with hip hop culture. I’ve never seen a restaurant bathroom that reminded me so much of a Latino gangsta, tatted to the brim, but with stickers instead of ink. 90s rap music bumping through the speakers and Baohaus merch (including some fancy schmancy kicks) hanging on the walls.
I only ordered one thing, which was the Chairman Bao bun with fatty pork belly. The actual bun part of it was quite excellent, really fluffy and not chewy at all. The sauce, which tasted like a nutty hoisin mixture, was also delicious. The pork belly was a bit too fatty for me, and the braised beef meat to fat ratio was a little off. Nonetheless, still yummy! The thing that caught me off guard, however, was the relish. I’ve never tasted anything like that in typical Chinese cooking, and it was a bit too pungent for my taste. I think it would taste much better without it.
The reason I’m giving Baohaus 4 stars is not so much for the food (good, but not excellent, especially for $ 4 per bun?!), but for what influencers like Eddie are doing for the Asian American community. Our demographic is quite often an under represented one, and it’s unusual to see Asians playing significant roles in mainstream media. So with «Fresh Off the Boat» and Baohaus shedding a positive light on our culture, I find something to be grateful for there, not just in the food.
Place rating: 3
Brooklyn, NY
The baos are delicious, but the place is terrible…
We came here after discovering a very good Bao place in Astoria (The Bao Shoppe) and were trying to find something similar in Manhattan.
+: The Chairman Bao and the Birdhaus Bao were divine. I’m literally daydreaming about their baos since I tried them.
-: The sad thing is that the restaurant (if we can really call it like that) is pretty bad: the staff style is laid back guys in their 20s that look high and who are working here because they can enjoy their music and sell food as if they were with their friends.
We like cool attitude places, but this one is sadly too much.
Besides, if you eat there the place has a dirty-​bar style which is not very enjoyable unless you are a college student that loves beer.
Place rating: 3
Thousand Oaks, CA
Tried the Chairman Bao (pork belly) and the Birdhaus Bao (fried chicken), and they’re were really delicious. My favorite was the Chairman Bao. The pork belly was very tender and savory, and the carmelized fat on the pork belly gave the Bao a sweet texture that balanced out the dish’s savory aspect. The Birdhaus was also moist and had a good crispy texture. For food, I’d give this place 4⁄5 stars. The food is really good, but I do think that it is a little pricey. A Bao is almost 4 $, and I didn’t think that they were that big.
With regards to staff and dining area, the staff was really nice, but the dining area was quite small and not the cleanest. Also, I didn’t like how the free water they give you is just straight up tap water from their sink, and is not even served chilled.
Overall, I think that Baohaus is a great place for baos. 3.5÷5 stars
Place rating: 3
JACKSON HTS, NY
Your Hipster BaoBow
It has been a while since I ate at Baohaus so I’ll keep it brief for once.
Overall: 3.25 Stars
The Bao’s are pretty good. The Birdhaus and Fried Fish are excellent.
Surprisingly 3 Bao’s are enough to squelch your appetite and should be enough for a good lunch or dinner.
Price range is about right, slightly above average for your typical Bao’s (buns), then again you are in the heart of hipsterland!
If you have a peanut allergy, I highly don’t recommend because every Bao has crushed peanuts. The staff will (maybe) likely accommodate your allergy, however since everything is surrounded by peanuts, I recommend caution.
While I recommend BaoHaus overall, I don’t recommend coming here past 7:00pm as it will get crowded rather quickly. I thankfully came here shortly after 6:00pm before the hipsters came in to enjoy their meal.
Did I mention hipsters? If I didn’t HIPSTER! Bao Bao Bao!
Place rating: 3
San Francisco, CA
So overhyped :(
We passed by this after already eating, but we split a chairman bao just to try it. It was decent but small for the price, and I feel like you can get better ones anywhere in Asia or Chinatowns across the country.
Place rating: 4
Albertson, NY
I have followed Chang’s restaurants for a while and this is my 5th or 6th time at the BaoHaus. Most people don’t know what steamed buns are but once you try them, like my girlfriend, you are hooked for life. We had two chairs mans (Pork belly) and two birds (fried chicken with crush peanuts). We wanted to have the taro fries but they were out so we opted for the sweet buns and I forget what the sauce was called, but it was green and came recommended.
Steam buns and everything else at the BaoHaus is a great budget dinner. We had four steam buns, two waters, and the sweet fried dough for a bit over $ 20. If you in the area, of if your not get here, try this little place out.
Place rating: 4
Smithtown, NY
I’m going to cut to the chase and say this place has amazing food! I can eat steamed buns all day now. Came here with my boyfriend and we ordered 4 baos. We got 2 of the chairmans and I believe 2 of the Birdhaus. They were steamed buns stuffed with pork belly and fried chicken in that order. I wish we ordered more because they were one of the best things I’ve had. We then had the sweet Bao fries which tasted like zeppoles and was a nice finish to out meal.
Open late so if you’re at a bar nearby and want something to eat, this is the place!
Place rating: 4
Boston, MA
BaoHaus had been on my to-​try list for quite some time, so I was excited when it finally worked out.
BaoHaus serves up a few varieties of Baos, savory Taiwanese steamed buns.
We ordered two Chairman Baos with pork belly and two Birdhaus Baos with fried chicken and split a side of Taro Fries which come with a great dipping sauce! Yum!
This place is very small, but there is some seating in the back, past the narrow counter where you order. Also it’s open late nights.
Plus, you may have heard of it since it’s been featured on Anthony Bourdain’s show and the owner is the creator of Fresh Of The Boat.
The food was very tasty. This is definitely a fun late night bite spot, and I’m pretty sure it’s BYOB, and if not officially, it’s definitely not the type of place that would be bothered. It’s not incredibly cheap, but it is tasty! We each had two baos and shared a portion of fries which was an adequate amount to eat and that ran about $ 13/​person.
Just for reference, they apparently do a lunch special where you get 3 baos and a side of taro friends for $ 15, which seems like a great deal and a hefty portion of food!
They have also recently added a few noodle dishes to the menu, but we didn’t try that when we were in. However, the patrons next to us were digging into them and they looked good.
Place rating: 4
Austin, TX
The famous BaoHaus by Eddie Huang. Forget the typical New York attractions, this is the sight I want to see! No one was here when we walked in, which is great since there aren’t very many seats. We ordered the Chairman Bao and the Coffin Bao with Fried Chicken. Oh boy.
First impression was the size. For the price, the baos weren’t very big, but don’t think too much of it. Shake it off, get over it, close your eyes, and dig in. The Chairman Bao is a huge reason why BaoHaus is famous and rightly so. The pork belly was one of the most tender pieces of meat I’ve ever had. 80% fat on the pork belly gives so much flavor in every single bite. Every ingredient plays a role and I could taste all of them. This is one of the times when you really get lost in the moment. Take your sweet time savoring each bite, because there won’t be much left. Every trip to New York equals a trip to BaoHaus.
The Coffin Bao with Fried Chicken was a much bigger bao, in terms of size, flavor, and heaviness. There’s no right way to each this bao; you just need to minimize the damage. Try as you might to eat this with a fork and knife, your fingers will get sticky. And by sticky I mean lickin good. Just imagine a doughnut covered in syrup and topped with a piece of fried chicken. My taste buds quickly became overwhelmed, so I’m glad I’m sharing this. The fried chicken itself wasn’t very impressive, but paired well with sweetness.
4 stars is being objective, but believe me when I say I’m already itching to come back here.
Place rating: 5
Campbell, CA
The infamous BaoHaus by Eddie Huang.
Ordered the chairman bao and the fried chicken bao. Both were pretty good. The taro fries we ordered were not so good. The sauce that is served with the fries is not bad. I do wish they had Regular soda instead of the FOB sodas but I guess that’s part of the theme.
What gives this place a 5 star is that the ambiance is what I like. Hip hop music is blasting through the shop with cool stickers and art everywhere.
Overall: will return.