The service here was very good but the food was food was good but not great. Busy place . The portion on the noodle was good but apps were small portions read more

Had the Wonton soup. Holy cow. Extremely flavorful. Just the right amount of heat (spice). Must have had at least ten Wonton. Definitely will be going back. read more

I am a Chinese student studying at UC Merced. I have went here twice now within 2 weeks, one time by myself and one time with my friends. Now I would start by saying this place is pretty authentic, the price is expensive for what it is, the portions are SUPER AWKWARD for a single diner. If you want to try everything you would really wish there's a half size option for all the dumplings. However, the quality and taste is certainly on par if not better than big chain restaurants like Ding Tai Feng. When I first went I ordered the red chili oil Wong ton and the pork xiaolongbao, I am going to start with the WongTon, the rich flavor of the chill oil PERFECTLY compliments the meat and the juiciness of the dumplings, I am certainly no spice eater but the spiciness and richness feeling of the dumplings is pretty much on the dot, there's no complaints besides the chili oil gets, well, too oily sometimes and it choke on it a little bit. (5/5) is my rating still The Pork XiaolongBao wasn't slacking either, there's so much juice/soup inside, although the soup isn't as rich and delicious as some of the better dumplings I've tasted, the meat inside certain makes up for it. There's a rich ginger scent while not having any ginger flakes in them which I hate. The skin of xiaolongbao is a little bit on the thin side, it brakes very easily and it gets stuck on the baking sheet, while that's common, the skin and soup will break lose when you try to pick it up. (4.5/5) I also tried the Pork Buns when I went there the second time. The pork buns follows the same characteristics as far as the meat goes compared to the XiaoLongbao, they don't taste exactly the same but the meat's seasoning and flavor is directly on the spot as you can easily over do a pork bun with too much soy inside or whatever you plan on to put in there. The skin is perfect, it reminds me of what my grandma used to make. (5/5) The service is alright. The staff are all very welcoming, the store is small, they did forget to put chopsticks or any utensils in my take out order. Not a big deal but I would prefer have some chopsticks inside. (4/5) Overall I recommend this restaurant on the premises that they don't mess up as some of my co-workers and friends says sometimes it's bad, also note I haven't tried any fried rice chaomian or any ramen yet read more

88 Bao Bao - Pork Xiaolongbao - Asian Fusion Near Me - Merced, California

Service is horrible. Came in was told we needed to order at our table. Couldn't find orange chicken option. Servers couldn't find it either told me to come back to the counter to order. I ordered our food including the orange chicken. Apparently never added to my order and waited 30 minutes to never receive it. read more

Finally! So glad to have a dim sum spot in Merced! And a great one too! Little order at the counter spot but fantastic! Service was great, the young lady was so patient. Ambiance is cute and cozy. Food 10/10! Put this place on your bookmark locations and come visit! read more

I was sooo excited to see this place about to open up, honestly thinking this would be my new favorite spot. The first day I could go in and order without a line out the door I did. The service was fast, I will give them that. The actual place is called 88 Bao Bao Ramen and dumplings I ordered Ramen, pork buns, lumpia, chow mein and fried rice so my husband and I could try a little bit of everything. The chow mein was barely a step above panda. The pork buns were highly disappointing once you got to the pork, the flavor was like BbQ sauce rather than the flavor should be. The Ramen broth lacked flavor, minus sodium...it really...really was disappointing. The lumpia wasn't bad so that at least was a snack but not worth going back for. The best thing we had was the rice, but they loaded the rice down with onions, I mean a whole onion was probably chopped up and put in it, half would have been perfect. We have not gone back due to the price vs. food. read more

Traveling North on Hwy 99 and 45 minutes out of Merced decided to YELP restaurant choices. -88 Bao Bao popped up first -menu looked good, so got off the freeway and made our way through town - very busy at 3pm -friendly - efficient ordering at counter -Shared Lumpia, pork dumplings and the best Mushroom and Bamboo sticky buns. Enjoyed all the dishes. - each dish came out quickly and were delivered to our table -plenty of condiment choices on table - well run quick service restaurant. -see this restaurant has multiple locations -enjoy read more

The orange chicken was very delicious probably best one I have ever tried from Merced including panda you can tell it was well made and thought out and natural taste not all processed like panda . The ramen as well was delicious. I hope in the future they can get spring egg rolls that would be just perfect. Service was fast and quality of price is perfect read more

88 Bao Bao - Orange chicken is. Anew option in the menu - Asian Fusion Near Me - Merced, California

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88 Bao Bao is my new go to place in Merced. The food is fresh and delicious. My favorite so far are the black garlic Pho and tempura shrimp. Epic ! read more

88 Bao Bao - This is the #8 with shrimp, pork and rice ! Delicious - Asian Fusion Near Me - Merced, California

Finally, somewhere I can order some of my favorite dim sum dishes in Merced! I tried the beef roll, chili oil wontons, fried rice, and black garlic ramen. Chili oil wontons were the favorite - they had good texture and were very flavorful. I also really enjoyed the beef roll, the beef was tender and the flavor was on point. Fried rice was pretty standard. Ramen was solid for Merced and the pork was very good (the broth, however, does not compare to what you can get in LA or the Bay). I will definitely come back to try the XLB and red bean bao! read more

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I got home & realized they got my order wrong. The manager or owner on duty offered a replacement right away. She was very sweet & the food is amazing. Will come back read more

Came to Merced after our Yosemite hike, we wanted to some dinner that was close by so we seen this on Yelp. Looked promising. The chicken chowmein and rice was very bland, the chicken was gooey texture not sure if it was boiled or out of a can. Ordered a cucumber salad for $7 which was legit just a whole cucumber cut up that tasted like nothing other than cucumber not seasonings or oils as other places normally put. The pan fried pork buns were so hard at the bottom. The lumpia was probably the best thing we ordered. The dumplings tasted frozen out of a bag for sure. Service was quick. There was no wait time. The shop was empty. Prices were too much for the quality. Would not go back. read more

88 Bao Bao - Asian Fusion Near Me - Merced, California

Absolutely horrible. Fried rice was so gross I threw it away after a few bites. The chicken was slimy and grey with no flavor. Will never go back read more

I'm here in Merced California for work and thought this place looked interesting. I'm by myself so it was difficult to know how to order. I wish they had an assorted dim sum so I could have tried a few different things. Instead I ended up ordering way too much food. I got shaomai, buns and the black and gold buns because that was something I've never seen before. To be honest I felt like the things I ordered were just ok. Nothing wrong, but nothing special. (I did love the garlic dipping sauce for the shaomai). I see a lot of other dishes going to other tables that look better than what I had so perhaps I just didn't make the best choices. I thought the black and gold buns were smaller, like mochi size but they were huge. I also thought it would be more like a custard inside but the egg was liquidy and squirted all over my pants! They were also not as sweet as I expected. You have to order and pay first and then they bring the food to your table. I would have preferred to order a little at a time and pay at the end. It was hard to know how much to order. I will be back in Merced again next week so I may come back and try some different dishes. The noodles look really good! read more

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Very impressed with the quick service, hospitality, food, and the vibes of this spot!! We got our food within 7 mins! Every plate tasted great and fresh. Will definitely return :) read more

Haven't had anything i dont like. My 5 year old daughter loves going here also. Tried multiple dishes all are good.

The service was fast, but it was our first time and we were sat and never told we had to go to the register to order. My chicken ramen had no actual meat it was all chicken fat and was gross. The broth had a good flavor aside from the nasty chicken fat. The rangoons were 10/10. The pork in the lumpia had a strange flavor, almost as if it was not fresh. The dumplings had good flavor, but had a lot of strange hard things within the meat. read more

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I phoned in my order and when I got there to pick it up the restaurant was clean and the staff was friendly. That was the best part of my experience! Now to the food, I ordered the Tonkotsu ramen. Which is one of my favorite ramens. I did like that the broth came separately but that's it, the roasted pork was sliced so thin and was extremely dry and lacked flavor. The broth was very very light on flavor. For the price I was disappointed I tried to give the ramen to my kids and they also didn't want it. I also ordered the crab and pork dumplings and the pork dumplings. These are also some of my favorites they were juicy but the flavor was not there either. I was so excited to try this place but I was let down and my order total was a few bucks shy of $50.00 which in this economy was hard to give away and not enjoy. read more

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Me and my boyfriend went to this place for the first time and everything was delicious! We got our food quickly, the portions were huge. Overall just a great atmosphere. The service was great as well. We will definitely be back! Would recommend to anyone. read more

Horrible service, waiter threw food on table basically, waited for 40 mins for food that didn't come because they forgot about our table. Table in front of us got sat down, got their food, ate, and left and we didn't receive our food. Every time we have came to this establishment it's always met with horrible service, zero check ups with our table to make sure everything good. Horrible service wouldn't recommend going here. read more

This is 100% a scam. I was excited for Merced to finally have a dumpling and bao spot, but was wildly disappointed when I ordered delivery from them. I got their bbq pork buns and noodles in chili oil. I immediately recognized the buns they were using, as I've bought them and microwaved them at home before. The exact taste, texture, and look. They are also massively overcharging for these, being that they are from the frozen bag. 7.99 for 3 of these when the bag they buy is 9.99 for about 10 on Wee! Also the noodles in chili oil was bland and the noodles were overcooked. I can understand the need to buy things frozen for efficiency at a place where you want other things to be the focus, but to charge almost 3 times the cost when I could pop these in the microwave at home is actually insane. Probably never gonna buy here again, just gonna buy these from Wee! again lol read more

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terrible. Food service is good and they are nice people the food is just not good at all. place looks nice. food just not good. but it's okay. try it for yourself read more

Everything we had was great but the chow main was exceptional! Great fried shrimp and hand made wontons too! Try it! You'll love this place!

Finally Merced gets a ramen/dumpling place! The wait was long, but that's to be expected for a new place on opening day. The staff was friendly and it was easy to order online. The food had great flavor and great for vegetarians. I ordered for pickup, but next I'd like to eat at the establishment. I used 88baobao.menu11.com to order read more

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Ordered online. Got there and place was slammed. Staff did very well controlling the tide. The food took a bit to get but understandable with how busy they were and being new. Food was better than average. We got lumpia, beef app, dumplings, fried bao buns and won ton chili soup. Flavors were good and provided sauces gave us good options for heat and flavor. We will be back. Hope the town supports. read more

Food was Fantastic, service was great. As far as I know this place is new to the 209 but definitely worth the visit. We will be back! read more

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Sadly since the employee change the food is going down hill and last two times I went they made my order wrong Before the food was awesome the service was great but now it's really falling short read more

We had some Chinese guests staying with us & decided to try 88 Bao Bao for authenticity and taste. We tried a variety of dim sum and ramen items...all were unanimously delicious! Service was quick, and the restaurant was packed...so we did takeout! Very impressed & we hope they maintain their high quality standard. Will definitely go back...and I suggest you do too! read more

Food was great. Next time I go I'll be trying the chow mein. Service was good and fast. read more

88 Bao Bao - Ramen and dumpling - Asian Fusion Near Me - Merced, California

The food was plentiful and delicious! We ordered Lo Mein, popcorn chicken, chicken fried rice and potstickers, and enjoyed them all. Planning to go back with friends to try more dishes. read more

Ordered the tonkatsu ramen and pulled a 5 inch strand of HAIR out of my mouth . Female staff have hair in ponytails but it does not help if they all have long hair and are working in the kitchen, put it in a bun! Staff couldn't even offer a discount to after I found the hair. If you want to pay for food with hair at full price this place is for you! Terrible costumer service, never coming here again. read more

Me & my niece wanted some dumplings, which they had great choices. We also got their shrimp fried rice & orange chicken. Good food, good portions & price was good too. Would definitely be back weather to dine in or take out. read more

I really like the food (specially the pan fried pork buns) and the service. However I would say it is overpriced.

We ordered Pork XiaoLongBao Steamed Soup dumplings, Pork & Shrimp Shaomai, Pork Pot Stickers! And we ordered the Black Garlic Ramen Extra Spicy ! Don't be intimidated by the "extra spicy" it's not spicy at all but not in a bad way but in order to be able to get a kick of spice we had to add a couple of teaspoons of chili oil which topped off the flavor ! All of the food was 10/10 Pork pot stickers I'd say 7/10! Service was 10/10 food came out super quick especially with the amount of people that were in there eating. I would've wished the place was a bit bigger with tables a bit more spread out but other than that I believe it has been a hit in merced and will be coming back again ! I hope we get a Pho place next ! read more

88 Bao Bao - Black Garlic Ramen - Asian Fusion Near Me - Merced, California

SOOO good. The dumplings were so juicy. I got extra spicy on my ramen but it wasn't spicy at all so don't be scared about the spice read more

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Customer service was amazing the ladies are so kind and patient and efficient and the service is great and so Are all the staff. And it's super clean and very pretty inside my favorite part also is they have a self service water and to go items that's awesome helps not having to wait for someone to come give them to you I think that's very smart and efficient of them it's always so packed but very worth the wait food was great! read more

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I love the food every time I come here. Could never go wrong with it. Only thing I'd note is the Indian lady up at the front register has no clue on customer service and does not feel welcoming at all. All the other workers are nice though, she's the only miserable one :) read more

While this place has always been good in the past, tonight, they seemed to be slacking in the cleanliness department. I had ordered my food and chosen a table to sit, but didn't realize that the table hadn't been wiped down. Only under the light shining on the table just right, could you CLEARLY see the spots that hadn't been wiped properly or at all. The spots were sticky in places. I let one of the staff know, and she seemed to understand what I was saying, until she came back with a plain napkin and wiped to table with it. I tried to let her know that it needed a "wet towel" to clean, but she brushed it off that it "had" been wiped already as was just still wet; which wasn't the case. Strike 1 88 Bao Bao. read more

Halfway through eating my soup I noticed this bug floating at the top of my ramen. Disgusting. read more

88 Bao Bao - Asian Fusion Near Me - Merced, California

Happy you have come to Merced!! Have heard about this place already from my hubby who commutes in San Jose. This is exactly what we needed-- a change or maybe add on to whatever is here around. So far we have been happy with the service , the place is clean & the food is super- delicious!! read more