Bao Bang Bang

Excellent !! Such an amazing place and atmosphere. The staff is delightful the chef is really friendly! And what could I say about the food.. Wow, so much flavours and so much fineness in it. The bao s are sensational and the sides dishes as well. Good selections of beers. I do not have enough space and words to describe the wonderful experience of eating here , I could just recommend you to rush in and sit at a table !

I recently visited this place and I must say for such I hidden place it makes some really tasty food. I found that the food was a great Asian fusion style. The rice dough they use was very tasty and fluffy. The service was really good and the staff was friendly. I would totally recommend giving this place a go!

Simply delicious and fresh! We had the lunch (12€ for soup of the day and 2 baos) and shared 3 sides (kimchi, sweet potato fries, and the salad). Absolutely everything was flavorful!

Great food! Menu for 12€ includes a soup (changed for veggies and hummus during the summer) + 2 bao. The restaurant is really cute. The music was too loud though...

It's a cosy bistro-ish place, ideal for couples or small groups, with a range of refined Japan inspired dishes and bao-burgers. Meat options prevail but veggie options are sufficient. Drinks offer fine gin & Tonic versions and organic wine. They also have deserts that mostly look good 👌

Very yum bites, these bao. The pork one is amazing and make sure to grab a side or two. I recommend sharing the latter so you can try more :) For a normal sized hunger have 2 bao and one side!

I had the lunch menu, soup and 3 bao for €16. The butterbut bao was good, but the fish bao and tofu bao were not that great in my opinion. The staff however was very friendly and the interior was very cute.

Delicious selection of Bao and exquisite sides such as the mushroom soup and sweet potato fries. The atmosphere is very comfortable and staff is friendly. This is a must try in Ixelles!

Lunch special - one soup and two buns for 13 € - is a pretty good deal. The soup was great. And everyone loved their buns - beef, chicken, salmon, and duck (though the curry sauce made that one fall apart). Nothing on draft, I got Boulevard IPA from Kansas City - now Moortgat owned - in the bottle.

Having my roots and family in Asia (whom I regularly visit), I had high hopes for this place. However, this hope was dashed (by quite a lot) when I read the menu and realized that other than the pork bun, all the other types of buns are stuffed with Korean, Japanese, Thai, or Western flavours. Given I was there already, my friends and I ordered the pork, chicken, beef, duck, and tofu buns; as sides we took the kimchi and spiral potato. The bun itself was puffy and soft, as it should be, but other than this, I was rather disappointed. Everything erred on the side of sweet and was a bit messy to eat. The kimchi was not spicy at all and the spiral potato was just one potato probably.... The only bun I thought was nice and had the perfect balance of flavours was actually the tofu one! Perhaps my Asian roots is making me more harsh than I need to be. My friends all thought the food was good and I certainly think the ingredients that went into the stuffing were fresh and nice. I remain unconvinced though, and for the price of 6euros per bun, I don't think it is worth the price-value ratio.

I've been there only once in 2017, but it was extremely good. Good flavours, varied choices, refreshing drinks and mochi. Would like to go back Update: just ate there today (5/02/2019), and it was nothing like two years ago! The flavours have changed, it's no longer refined at all. The ingredients are bland and it's really too expensive for what it is. For example, I had the tofu bao in 2017: I could taste five different flavours, it was delicious and just perfect. It had mushrooms and some sort of garlic-y mayonnaise. I tried the tofu bao today, and it was just some fried tofu with cheap and tasteless guacamole. I tried the apple gyozas for dessert: only 4 small raviolis sur 6€? Dough and applesauce should be that expensive... Very disappointing

- Duck Bao : " Peking style " duck, ponzu sauce, vegetable chips, leek sprouts. - Beef Bao : bulgogi beef, Sriracha mayonnaise, radish and carrot salad. - Chicken Bao : fried chicken coated with ginger and garlic, kochujiang sauce, salted plum cucumber, scallions, daikon and sesame seeds. - Kimchi Ball : a deep fried ball made with rice, Kimchi, green beans, shiitake mushrooms and covered with Sriracha Mayonnaise ! ______________ Taste : 2/5 Service : 3/5 Price : 2/5 The lunch consist of 1 soup + 2 buns for 12,5 € or 1 soup + 3 buns for 16 € 6 € for the kimchi ball @baobangbang ___________ Filled, the gua bao means "tiger bites pig". In Taïwan, it's a famous street food shaped like a tiger jaw and it usually comes with pork belly, coriander, crushed peanuts, lemongrass and cabbage. When I was a child, I've been eating this in China and gosh it was just so tasty. __________ We arrived quite late (1:30PM) that day and the top choice (pork bao) was already sold out :( We had to order what is left. We got the lunch of 3 buns. The soup was like an asian gazpacho but they put soya sprouts in that (which was a bit weird). The Duck was too dried for me, my least favourite of 3. The chicken was pretty good while the bulgogi beef was okay. They have different fillings and I loved the concept. The staff and the interior was lovely ! I'm so sorry but I'm not really convinced by the taste, nor my mother... Maybe you can tell me to go back and try the pork one

Nice "mono" snack/resto with a choice of Buns and local drinks (beers from "the Brussels Project"). I tried the pork-bun and the rice-burger. Both tasty with a preference for the pork one, yummily crispy. Prices are on the high side if you consider that you need at least two buns for a meal. But ingredients are of first choice, so it makes the balance. I added a salad: a fresh bowl of well seasoned asiatic salad did the trick to complete the meal.