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| - The grilled chicken bao, is piri piri chicken (2 small pieces, imagine 2 slices of chicken breast) topped with pickled daikon and carrots, fresh cilantro and cucumber stuffed in a steamed bun. There was some sort of spicy sauce, probably a siracha mayo. Portion was extremely small. The steam bun was a bit smaller than my palm. I don't have big hands. My biggest problem with my order was that the chicken was room temperature, and the bao was COLD. They couldn't have warmed it up?
The hubby's Korean beef bulgogi banh mi was equally disappointing. There was barely any beef bulgogi in the sandwich. The picture is super misleading, there was a lot of filler in the bun, pickled daikon and carrot, cucumber etc. The bulgogi sauce was also too salty. The bun itself was also cold, and didn't have that outer crust crunch. Day old bread? What makes a good banh mi is the crispy outer crust of the bun. They could have at least attempted to hide the fact they were using day old bread by warming it up or toasting it.
The worst dish was the taro fries. Not only were these fries covered in too much five spice powder (to the point where I was using the cardboard box edge to scrape off the excess powder), the fries were DRY. Crunchy outside, hollow inside. Imagine eating a cross between hickory sticks and those veggie straws.
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