I am writing this review in the moment! You'll tell by the pictures . Here's my honest review and this review is based on delivery. So please note that they food was not hot and so it's possible that it would taste much better freshly hot. The food item I enjoyed most was the grab rangoon, I'd say 4/5! I am very particular and these were pretty good. My boyfriend and I both got the orange chicken. I got white rice and enjoyed it, I'd say 3/5. My boyfriend got fried rice and he did not like it, he gave it 2/5. We also tried the chicken teriyaki boa & the apple cinnamon bao. I'd rate them 2/5. To me they lack flavor. Lastly, we had the ginger chicken dumplings and they were pretty good! Overall, in the words of my boyfriend, "it was coo." In my own words I'd say, "it was alright!" Note: if you are not a fan of ginger you may not like any of it. You can tell that ginger is a staple in a lot of the flavors! read more

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The service was about 45 min. The main entrée which is orange chicken was awful. It was watery had no flavor at all. The rice was also mush. I would never never order this again $17 down the drain. the potstickers were OK and the bao bbq was good but the Korean bao was too spicy. Completely disappointed. I was so looking forward to it. read more

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disgusting!! they served me and my grandmother molded soup dumpkings wouldn't recommend coming here at all. Called and they couldn't care less that we were served molded food they should be ashamed. read more

Wow Bao - Noodles Near Me - Indianapolis, Indiana

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I LOVE bao, and stock up when in Chicago. Now I can, and have them delivered! They were delish. I also added an order of potstickers that were fresh and tasty. Unfortunately not all of the family enjoy Bao, so we included an order of Orange chicken. It was a huge disappointment. The bowl, although large, was 98% sticky rice with a splash of something on top. My daughter likened it to vomit- that unappealing. I was the only one brave enough to taste it. It was bland bland bland. I hope we just got the wrong order because there was nothing orange about it. This was a delivery order. Go for the Bao - it's the bomb. read more

Not bad! We got them delivered so they weren't as fresh as I'd like but the filling on the dumplings and bao's were super yummy! read more

Wow Bao - 8 Pack Dumplings & 6 Pack of Bao - Noodles Near Me - Indianapolis, Indiana

DO NOT ORDER! Like other reviewers, we were shocked at the small portion sizes for the price. We ordered 2 bowls and got about 2 ounces of chicken on a small bed of rice. Each bowl had maybe 2 spoonfuls of chicken, hardly enough to justify the $10 per bowl price. Do yourself a favor and skip trying this place. It's not worth it! The menu images are complete lies. read more

Wow Bao - Teriyaki chicken bowl, with maybe 2 ounces of chicken. $10. Avoid! - Noodles Near Me - Indianapolis, Indiana

The Bao and potstickers were delicious and if you ordered just that, you'd be fine! What was less-than-impressive for me, and many others on this page, were the bowls. When we opened up our order, it looked like they just gave us this tiny cup of just rice? The meat mixture was a tiny scoop on the side of the bowl so you couldn't even see it at first and it was pretty disappointing... especially when all the pics corporate shows are these beautiful loaded bowls with all kinds of green onions and veggies on top. After mixing it in the rice to meat ratio was too great, and you'd just get bites of plain rice... Which was disappointing because the meat stews were all super flavorful! I got the chicken teriyaki and my husband got the spicy kung pao. For $15, it just wasn't worth it to me at all. The Bao were large and fluffy, and I liked that they came with the paper on the bottom to list what flavor they were since my husband and I ordered different ones. But we both loved the spicy mongolian beef and the chicken teriyaki bao. The BBQ Berkshire pork was okay, but we preferred the flavors on the other! This is my first time trying Bao, and all the dough was interesting to me... Maybe a little dry? I'll definitely have to find a local, non-chain bao place to try and update how they really compare! As for the potstickers, they were a teensy tiny bit overcooked, but the filling was good and they were delicious... You can also get 30 of them for $30 so you know where I'll be next time I'm eating my feelings! read more

Wow Bao - Had to scoop the meat up to make a better picture, but there was just a tiny scoop there :( - Noodles Near Me - Indianapolis, Indiana

I believe this is one of their "dark kitchens" that I read about on their site (meaning a restaurant franchises it and only uses the kitchen part to serve- that's why this is delivery only). We ordered bao buns (3 kinds) and pot stickers. They were all good (the bbq was my favorite), but it's definitely over priced for a chain. $15 for 6 bao buns that I don't think they made from scratch. It's fine if you're craving it, but just be ready to pay the extra $. Also potstickers didn't have any sauce, so I dinged them for that. Would have gotten 4 stars, but again it's pricey and it's delivery only. read more

Part of my stay-at-home delivery guilty pleasure list... This place does a few things only, but does them really well. The Chinese dishes are... eh. But the BBQ steamed buns (which are a guilty pleasure I find myself fiending for often), and the potstickers, with gingery tender chicken filling, are AMAZING. They even have an Impossible meat version on the steamed buns, and a vegetarian option on the potstickers! So: Meal? Maybe not. Snack/guilty pleasure? Damn skippy. read more

We ordered the shareable meal for 2 and 5 dumplings. The buns are soggy and mushy. The filling is honestly tasteless and mushy as well. We were supposed to receive 3 different types of bao but only got one (possibly spicy Mongolian?). Received no potstickers with our order. Despite the dumplings looking disgusting, they are also soggy but the flavor wasn't that bad. If you are a texture person DO NOT buy this food. Matter of fact, no one should eat this food. It's honestly inedible. I ate 1 bao and 3 dumplings and my stomach is in knots. Believe the reviews and do not purchase. 2/10 (also I wouldn't go to any "wow bao" because I have heard they are all the same) read more

Wow Bao - 5 Pack Dumplings + wrong dumplings from shareable bundle - Noodles Near Me - Indianapolis, Indiana

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Came up to Gainesville on business and sitting in this hotel hungry. Ordered some food from Wow Bao. My bad that I didn't check Yelp first, like I usually do, because I would've saved some money by not ordering from this place. Positive first, the fried dumplings were pretty good, no dipping sauce included. I've been eating Chinese dumplings 50 years and I've never seen them served without some kind of sauce. The steamed BBQ pork baos were flavorless. BBQ pork with no taste ? It's hard to imagine, but apparently at Wow Bao, flavor isn't important. I ordered the teriyaki chicken bowl. I should've taken a picture because this bowl was so small, no way is that supposed to be dinner. Lucky for me I didn't have to eat much because they supplied no utensils to eat the food. I managed to tear a piece of packaging to use as a pseudo fork. I would have been better off not trying. A small flavorless mess of mystery meat on a small pile of overcooked rice. All in all this was a horrible dinner and I have to say anyone reading this should avoid my mistake and pass by not so Wow Bao. read more

"Wow" bao? The only "wow" I could produce came from the fact that these people could consider this Asian food, when it's clearly a stretch just to call it food. Aside from being far too expensive for the quality you receive, it's obvious that nobody at "Wow Bao" has ever encountered Asian food unless it came in a TV dinner. They do have a working idea of what bao are, but these bao were created by someone who had once walked past a person whose third cousin's college roomie had heard of a fellow who'd glanced at a footnote about bao in Grandma's diary. The only thing gotten right about them is the dough and how to encase the filling, so maybe someone has discovered YouTube. Their teriyaki chicken has no teriyaki. It tastes like it's been marinated in pineapple and had some bell peppers chopped and thrown in, but there is no teriyaki at all. You can add "teriyaki" to the concept of "things someone walked past," I guess. Their Mongolian beef is likewise questionable: you can find a strand of beef or maybe the errant chunk, but for the most part the filling is a salty-savory paste more suited for furniture repair than consumption. "Mongolian?" Genghis Khan would have dope-slapped someone. The teriyaki chicken bowl - again lacking any teriyaki - is maybe two or three tablespoons of chicken-pineapple slurry sneezed over maybe a cup of white rice. But the rice is done fairly well and isn't Minute Rice, although if they're expecting forgiveness at this point, they'll be as disappointed as I was. Potstickers? Hard to screw those up since they're obviously prepackaged and brought in from a third party vendor. They'll taste the same as you get from Walmart or your local grocery store, and given the way the bao have been buggered, you'll find yourself grateful that Wow Bao didn't try making their own. I admit I've been spoiled a bit: I've eaten at Asian restaurants (some of them in Asia!) and I know what bao should be and what teriyaki is. While these bao are technically properly constructed, they're advertised as being something they're not. And by that, I mean "edible." I couldn't finish anything I ordered without being disgusted. They should offer coupons to your local emergency room for stomach pumping. If you're looking for trendy slop that is trying to appeal to hipsters or people who want to appear avant garde or pretentious, this is your place. For actual Asian food, even a place like Panda Express does it far better. read more

Had this for lunch today. The Bao Bun was really good. Ordered the Teriyaki bowl. However the portion of the bowel of rice compared to meat was way off. I was disappointed by that mostly. The flavor of the teriyaki chicken was good...... just not enough. The rice wasn't impressive at all. Glad I had the bun as well otherwise I would still be hungry. I hope they work on the portions for the rice bowls. Would like to try again if this is addressed but Not sure if I'd try again because this disappointment. read more

Grew up eating these in Los Angeles. The price of these compared to size is definitely marked up double the price. A dozen pack of these size buns back home were around $20 and if you upgraded to large ones they cost $30. Have zero clue as to why they are priced so high here, but it is what it is. Taste: 9/10 perfectly cooked, stuffed and seasoned. I probably wouldn't bother ordering again, I can make them myself and three times the batches for the cost I paid for these mini buns. You would think they would advertise the size but they don't. These are the small appetizers, not the meal ones they have during dim sum hours or that you usually can buy on the carts in Los Angeles. read more

Terrible for the price point. If it was cheaper, than I would have been ok. I spent $25 for pot stickers, bao and the chicken teriyaki bowl, before tip. Ate it all in one setting. I was full, bit pricey, for $25 for one meal, should have been great. I was actually surprised that the bao dough itself was decent. The filling quite unimpressed. I tried the bbq pork and mongolian beef. They were quite small. The vege dumplings were ok. Thought it was weird it came with no dumpling sauce, just packets of soy sauce. Definitely cooked from frozen. For the price point and the amount of food, it should have been all homemade. Defiantly was not. Just go buy frozen bao or dumplings at an Asian mart and save yourself a lot of money. I only had hopes of this place because they described themselves as Asian street food, which I lived off for a year m. You can taste some white guy started this company. read more

This was my first time ordering and I hasn't had bao since high school. I think that are are a few bad options when ordering and it could cause someone to not have the best experience. The veggie bao was not good. It tasted really bad. The Kung Pao chicken bowl was 3/4ths rice, but it tasted fresh and was delicious. The bao was still warm when it made to me! read more

Wow Bao - Bao - Noodles Near Me - Indianapolis, Indiana

Wow Bao has opened a new location on the south side and our group of 4 decided it would be a great option for delivery! We ordered 12 bao buns (4 of each meat option), 8 chicken ginger dumplings, a spicy chicken bowl and the orange chicken bowl. Everything was tasty, but it was hard to tell flavor differences between the different baos. There are labeled wrappers on the bottom, but they all sort of tasted the same. The dumplings were good, but cold by the time we got them. Probably better if you eat them immediately. The orange chicken bowl looked strange at first (breading was not on chicken), but tasted good when you had a mixed spoonful! Definitely would try again in store! read more

Man, I don't know about this place. I honestly thought that the bowl I received was a joke of some sort, but then I saw other reviews that complained of the same thing. I had maybe 6 pieces of tiny, brown, flavorless chicken. My bowl was 90% rice, 5% orange chicken sauce, and 5% orange chicken. What? Not good. Not good at all. 0 stars. The bao were pretty good, though... which is the only reason that they got 2 stars. I would definitely order those again. I get the feeling that bao is the specialty of this place, and then they added on some crappy bowls for flair. They're definitely an afterthought. Again, not good. But I'd order the bao again... once I get over my annoyed-ness of the gross, overpriced bowl. read more

We just ordered for the first time and this food was amazing! Everything was fresh and had great flavor. We plan to add this to our take out weekly rotation! read more

I love baos so I'm not surprised how much I enjoyed these. A fair price and they were delivered quickly to my house. Definitely worth trying. read more

Wow Bao - Baos - Noodles Near Me - Indianapolis, Indiana

The food was ok. Too spicy for us especially since there is nothing on the menu that says what is/is not spicy. Didn't get the correct order either. Not on or list of places to order from again. -DoorDash order read more

terrible could not identify taste like 100 year old sauce I think it covered chicken on lumpy and bland rice.

By far the worst Asian restaurant that I've been in. If you don't want to get sick, don't go here. Don't let the description of the menu deceive you. What we ordered is not Chinese food. We ordered teriyaki chicken, spicy chicken, and orange chicken. All were inedible. Not just the flavors and portion was bad but the smell!!! My 3 years old, my husband and I got very sick. read more

I wish I could give it 0 stars. The order was completely incorrect. The potstickers were vegetable instead of chicken, not to mention they were greasy and falling apart. I was supposed to receive a variety of bao, but only received one kind, and it was the incorrect number of them. Despite that, they did taste a little better than the potstickers, but I'm incredibly disappointed. Never ordering from here again. I should have listened to the other reviews. read more

Wow Bao - This is how the potstickers were delivered. Unbelievable. - Noodles Near Me - Indianapolis, Indiana

i really wish i had looked at the reviews before ordering here. i ordered the spicy chicken bowl, bbq pork and spicy beef bao but received 2 coconut custard baos!! i don't like coconut. and the chicken bowl was awful, it had no taste whatsoever i couldn't even finish it. please save your money. read more

Wow Bao - a dumpling on a plate with rice - Noodles Near Me - Indianapolis, Indiana

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I got the orange chicken bowl. The flavor of the chicken was not bad at all but they barely gave me any! And it did not look how they advertised it. They also did not deliver utensils with the order. Some of the rice was mushy as well. If I had more chicken and the rice was cooked perfectly, this would have been better. read more

I have never seen some thing looks so disgusting. It looks as if my sticky buns were just sitting under a fryer for hours. It is so hard it sounds like a rock you can't break it. I spent $10 and I am so mad. read more

Spent $50 on GrubHub for 2 people to eat a sampler size of food. The chicken potstickers which are the size of a chicken nugget are more than $1 each. I am pissed! I watch video after video on Youtube of people eating authentic potstickers in China that cost a dollar for 10. There was barely any meat and sauteed vegetables, the rice was hard, the potstickers had no dipping sauce. A complete rip-off, I want my money back. Just order Noodles and Co., it's not authentic either but they at least give you a decent amount of food for less that tastes better. read more

I thought it was a mistake and gave me child's portion of the teriyaki chicken bowl. It did not look appetizing. I can't believe I spent so much money on this tiny bowl....why not fill the container? I also was not impressed with the bao buns, they were too gummy, like they were not cooked. Ended up giving it to my dog which he sniffed, then walked away. I gave it a two stars for potstickers, which were good. Bottom line: Too pricey for this hot mess. read more

Honestly all I have to say is get the ginger chicken potstickers. I could eat them all day every day. I've never had bao buns before this either and the beef ones were amazing! read more

Very tasty! We ordered a few baos, potstickers, and split a bowl. All was very flavorful and delicious. A few boas were more sweet and others more spicy. A great combination. Delivery was quick and was pleased will the meal. read more

The kung pao chicken bowl I got was a joke. Very little chicken, little flavor, a ton of rice. I didn't finish it. The Bao were fine, but no better than the ones I get frozen at any Asian grocery in my area, and for twice the price. I will not be ordering again. read more

Order through doordash. Was on time and food was hot. The chicken dumplings were good. The chicken and vegetable baos are okay. Will probably wont reorder the bao's, but will go for the dumplings. Priced too high for the bao's. read more

Wow. That was bad. There was no meat in my bowl, and the rice was mushy. The baos were cold...and not like delivery cold, actually not heated cold. A huge disappointment. read more

I ordered from the emerson ave location in beech grove. The bowl's portion size was way too small for what I paid for. The bao balls had no flavor and was undercooked. The pot stickers were undercooked and slimy. They even took a long time to prepare the food for what? Overall would not recommend this restaurant to anyone in the city. Hard pass. read more

Warning! If you google the "Wow Bao" address you'll find this is a dark kitchen location in a Fazoli's Italian Restaurant!!! Probably why the reviews suck so much. I was craving some dumplings and did the research. Buyer beware. The Wow Bao website even has fine print that says all their food is frozen and shipped to dark kitchens nationwide. You are NOT getting freshly made food. Go local instead! read more

This place is just very okay when it comes to taste. Portion size is small for the amount you pay. Overall you're better off hitting up Panda Express or your local wok. read more

Very disappointed with food and service. We made a big order only to have grub hub only delivering two baos. No where to find a phone number to call directly to the store to find out if remaining of order was left behind. We missed reading the reviews on yelp. We know better! We were sooo looking forward to try baos for the first time. read more

GET NEW COOKS THAT KNOW HOW TO COOK ASIAN FOOD!!!!Took first bite and rice was so hard, so i though maybe its just this bite, but noooo...!!! The whole plate was full of hard rice, missing parts from the order, when i connected to the driver, he said thats all the gave him ( not going to blame fully on them, i know some people steal others food) but the food is just awful read more

Teriyaki chicken Bowl and 3 Potstickers. This is the entire thing. There are 7 tiny pieces of chicken there. This shit cost $15 (no bites had been taken here). I ordered through DoorDash but I'm still a customer. Don't skimp on the portions just because I ordered online. And if I didn't get skimped then that price is ridiculous for super basic 7 pieces of chicken and a half cup of rice... also the taste wasn't anything special. Not bad but not great. read more

Wow Bao - Teriyaki Chicken Bowl and 3 Potstickers - Noodles Near Me - Indianapolis, Indiana