Bao Bao Chinese Bistro

From my cashew chicken trail series of reviews. This was the best tasting sauce so far! My biggest gripe, was the price.
For what I paid, five chunks of chicken is not enough.
I’ve heard complaints about some restaurants, but this is worse in value to those.
Just crab rangoon for your side.
Chicken and rice were slightly above average.
It’s been a while since I’ve cleaned a plate and still left hungry.

Update: The duck is absolutely fantastic 💫 The Chinese 5 Spice shine through with extraordinary colors!!!!! Get ya some ;) Highly recommend the egg drop soup 🍜 You can definitely tell it is made in house.
It is so light and airy with the perfect texture.
The owners are from Vietnam and give a great authentic spin. Do you like a Cherry limeade without all the calories???? Try the Cherry 🍒 Lime soda water, super yummy! Everything else was good for the price.
We had the Szechuan Chicken “traditional style” had amazing bites of fresh ginger which I love! We had the Egg Foo Young with Chicken which was good, next time I would do sauce on the side so it stays crispy.
The Hot & Sour Soup was good, but I am spoiled to the flavor of Leong’s Asian Dinner Hot & Sour Soup, but it was still much better than your standard run of the mill Chinese places here in Springfield. We had the Salt & Pepper Jalapeño Pork and my wife loved it.
I thought the breading was a little thick, but for the price of only $9.95 how can I complain??? The crab Rangoon was what you would expect and the potstickers were super delicious.
We wanted the duck but they were out tonight, I get that because it is a specialty dish.
Can’t wait to go back again and try it. They also do steamed buns from time to time so it is hit and miss.
I will keep checking! All in all I would recommend trying this little spot out.
They do not serve any type of alcohol, but I imagined they would let you bring in your own beer or wine. My highest recommendation…….get the “Egg Drop Soup”!!!!

Well, wow.
Never expected this tiny out of the way restaurant to be serving some of the very best Chinese food (in Missouri?!) of all time.
Three of us shared Sweet and Sour Pork, Bourbon Steak and Chicken and Broccoli.
(I took an order of egg foo yung to go as well and it was also delicious.) Every dish was delicious but the Bourbon Steak! Oh my! I could eat an old shoe if it was drenched in that sauce.
We were slightly disappointed in the Crab Rangoon as it appeared to have no crab at all.
The service was disjointed as our waitress couldn't seem to remember anything we ordered, but aside from that, I highly recommend for the food.