Bao's Kitchen 包园

This place is fantastic. The food is amazing! It’s very authentic, but there are plenty of good options for the American palate as well. Their cumin lamb is well-spiced and so tasty. The stir-fried pork and green chilies is perfect, with springy chilies, tender pork, and some pickled chili peppers on it. I also had a little bit of fish that was deep-fried before being braised in a black bean sauce, which was also delicious. Portions are huge (plates are very large) and filling, for a very reasonable price. They’re very friendly, and the service is phenomenal — I was given a small portion of braised fish on the house, and had a lovely conversation about the death of Chinese dialects. Will definitely be back every time I’ll be in the area!

I wanted to love my food before trying it, because I crave being able to eat delicious Chinese food without driving to Chinatown. Unfortunately I didn’t really find what I was looking for here. I wish them lots of success, the staff seemed very nice and others seem to be enjoying their food from reading their reviews. The scallion pancakes were on the oily side and a little flavorless, the lo mein didn’t have much flavor even with shrimp. The spicy fish filet was definitely spicy and overall pretty salty. Sad to report that I’m not be able to share a more positive review of the food that I tried. I really wanted to tell everyone to come to Wakefield for delicious Chinese food outside of Boston, but unfortunately I am unable to do that.

Awesome food and awesome service! Ben is a fantastic bartender, and the spicy boiled fish is delicious. One of the best meals we’ve had in Wakefield and on the north shore!

We went to the restaurant very first time today as we heard they have authentic Hunan cuisine(湘菜). For those spicy dishes, it’s not just spicy but coming with different flavors. Definitely it gave us layered taste with fresh ingredients. Strongly recommend this restaurant if you’re bored of general Sichuan cuisine and would like to try a different style of spicy food.

I will start with the positive: The soup dumplings and shrimp dumplings were good. If this place were called Dumpling Kitchen and just served those for takeout I'd say go for it. However, we sat inside which on a Friday evening was EMPTY. The manager (?) said that's because they do mostly takeout, but I didn't see much coming or going with deliveries and only one pickup came in while we were there till after 7pm. The large wonton soup was a big bowl of what looked like plain buillion broth with a few scant pieces of scallion thrown in. 6 lonely dumplings floated on top. No mushrooms, carrots, lettuce, nothing to make it tasty or feel like soup. When I questioned the gentleman who attended to us, he didn't seem concerned and didn't ask what we liked or didn't like. It was pretty expensive f