Every ghost kitchen restaurant is terrible, this one especially so. I've literally gotten higher quality food from vending machines.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 3
Nakeasha M.
Jeremy and Amanda are amazing wonder people. I go here everyday for lunch my food is always hot and ready with their smiling faces.
Francheska Marie Fuertes Perez
I order dinner from this place. The worst idea ever. The rice was raw, the portions cannot feed a child and their Bao where all the wrong flavors. I hate it! The worst experience in many years.
Food: 1
Francheska Marie Fuertes Perez (Hope)
I order dinner from this place. The worst idea ever. The rice was raw, the portions cannot feed a child and their Bao where all the wrong flavors. I hate it! The worst experience in many years.
Food: 1
Nicole Pavey
Do not waste your money. I have never been so disappointed in food.
Food: 1
Seth M.
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.
Ljisp S.
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.
B Nurse
I got completely wrong order first time never
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Brian R.
"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.
Paldeep Kaur
Do not order from here, ordered steamed dumplings and this is what I got
Horrible...paid $17 for a combo. It was smaller then a kids meal and not even what I ordered, or at least that didn't taste anything like orange chicken.
Mikanna M3
Quite literally the most disgusting and disappointing food I've ever had. Im told this is ran out of a fazolis?
Andrew Tomaschke
DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE.Ordered a bunch of Bao because the delivery app had a higher rating than google. Food arrived cold. 84 degrees as measured by a food thermometer. I could've gotten sick!
Wendi S.
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.
Every ghost kitchen restaurant is terrible, this one especially so. I've literally gotten higher quality food from vending machines.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 3
Jeremy and Amanda are amazing wonder people. I go here everyday for lunch my food is always hot and ready with their smiling faces.
I order dinner from this place. The worst idea ever. The rice was raw, the portions cannot feed a child and their Bao where all the wrong flavors. I hate it! The worst experience in many years.
Food: 1
I order dinner from this place. The worst idea ever. The rice was raw, the portions cannot feed a child and their Bao where all the wrong flavors. I hate it! The worst experience in many years.
Food: 1
Do not waste your money. I have never been so disappointed in food.
Food: 1
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.
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.
I got completely wrong order first time never
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
"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.
Do not order from here, ordered steamed dumplings and this is what I got
Restaurantji Recommends
You can’t get it take out, delivery only
Horrible...paid $17 for a combo. It was smaller then a kids meal and not even what I ordered, or at least that didn't taste anything like orange chicken.
Quite literally the most disgusting and disappointing food I've ever had. Im told this is ran out of a fazolis?
DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE.Ordered a bunch of Bao because the delivery app had a higher rating than google. Food arrived cold. 84 degrees as measured by a food thermometer. I could've gotten sick!
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.