Jess Eng is a food and culture writer based in New York City. Her work appears in the Washington Post, the New York Times, TASTE, and more. Somewhere in my childhood, between begrudgingly following my ...

A Chinese breakfast staple. Steaming baskets of savoury dumplings, sticky rice, and sweet, fluffy baos… sorry, I’m getting ...

You can tell when a dish has made it into the mainstream by looking it up in the dictionary. There you’ll find entries for sushi, taco and pho. I still have to italicize as a foreign word bao, the ...

Sheng jian bao might be one of the most difficult dumplings to get right. They’re part yeasted bun, part potsticker and a soup dumpling all in one. The best sheng jian bao have a thick, crispy bottom, ...

The arrival of Bao SF brought me such joy! As far as I know, the Mission didn’t have a dedicated dumpling house before now. As we transition back to eating inside restaurants, including some of my ...