The menu at Tom's BaoBao is small with several different bao flavors that combine historical Chinese recipes with modern innovations and local ingredients:
Juicy Pork: pork, scallion, ginger, Shaoxing wine
Curry Beef: beef, potatoes, carrots, curry
Chicken: chicken, cabbage, fermented bean sauce
Bacon Cheese: spinach, bacon, cheddar cheese
Sweet Bean Paste: black cowpea, Osmanthus flower
Sweet Potato: sweet potato, orange essence
Vegetarian: baby bok choy, shiitake mushroom
Chive Blossom: dough, chives, sea salt, grapeseed (vegetable) oil
Each Tom's BaoBao restaurant also features a signature bao specific to the location.
The Harvard Square menu includes a lobster bao with locally sourced lobster.
The menu changes seasonally.
Drinks served with bao include Oolong tea, which comes from Wuyi Mountain in China where Tom oversaw the harvest; fresh brewed New Harvest Coffee from Pawtucket, RI; soy milk made fresh in Cambridge by Chang Shing Tofu Inc., and seasonal fruit and vegetable juices.
The menu at Tom's BaoBao is small with several different bao flavors that combine historical Chinese recipes with modern innovations and local ingredients:
Juicy Pork: pork, scallion, ginger, Shaoxing wine
Curry Beef: beef, potatoes, carrots, curry
Chicken: chicken, cabbage, fermented bean sauce
Bacon Cheese: spinach, bacon, cheddar cheese
Sweet Bean Paste: black cowpea, Osmanthus flower
Sweet Potato: sweet potato, orange essence
Vegetarian: baby bok choy, shiitake mushroom
Chive Blossom: dough, chives, sea salt, grapeseed (vegetable) oil
Each Tom's BaoBao restaurant also features a signature bao specific to the location. The Harvard Square menu includes a lobster bao with locally sourced lobster. The menu changes seasonally. Drinks served with bao include Oolong tea, which comes from Wuyi Mountain in China where Tom oversaw the harvest; fresh brewed New Harvest Coffee from Pawtucket, RI; soy milk made fresh in Cambridge by Chang Shing Tofu Inc., and seasonal fruit and vegetable juices.
Tom's BaoBao