Noodlemania Goes To Bao

San Francisco CA

09 March, 2022

7:05 PM

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By Annika Hom, Mission Local March 8, 2022 Dear Mark, I know the pedantic "back in my day" attitude is more common among your, er, demographic, but I'll admit I was a bit "get off my lawn" when Bao opened on Valencia Street at first. You see, the dim sum of my childhood was more of a "Chinese elders and one white waiter pushing carts of tantalizing delicacies around your table" kinda deal. They'd peddle har gow and siu mai, or and my grandma would cajole them to cut a piece of chashu with scissors. But like the soda-fountain pharmacy days of your past, Mark, that's gotten less common. By the time I was a sarcastic teen, this practice had changed even among my family's favorite restaurants. Now, one checks off items on a menu, and they arrive on an uncovered plate. At Bao, the plate will be prettily and pricily assembled. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.